Data Services

Gridded data

CPC Global Daily Maximum Temperature and Minimum Temperature from the GTS

• Spatial resolution: 0.5 degree x 0.5 degree global grids
• Temporal resolution: daily, 1979 - present
• Format: NetCDF

NOAA's Precipitation Reconstruction over Land (PREC/L)

• Spatial resolution: 0.5 degree x 0.5 degree, 1.0 degree x 1.0 degree, and 2.5 degree x 2.5 degree global grids
• Temporal resolution: monthly, 1948 - present
• Format: NetCDF

CMORPH Global Daily Precipitation

• Spatial resolution: 0.25 degree x 0.25 degree global grids
• Temporal resolution: daily, 1998 - 2019 and 2019 - present
• Format: binary

NOAA Interpolated Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR)

• Spatial resolution: 2.5 degree x 2.5 degree global grids
• Temporal resolution: daily and monthly, June 1974 - present
• Format: NetCDF

Analysis

CPC Global Unified Gauge-Based Analysis of Daily Precipitation

• Spatial resolution: 0.5 degree x 0.5 degree global grids
• Temporal resolution: daily, 1979 - present
• Format: NetCDF

NOAA Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature V5 (ERSSTv5)

• Spatial resolution: 2.0 degree x 2.0 degree global grids
• Temporal resolution: monthly, 1854 - present
• Format: NetCDF

NOAA High-Resolution Blended Analysis of Daily SST and Ice

• Variable: Sea Surface Temperature and Ice
• Spatial resolution: 0.25 degree x 0.25 degree global grids
• Temporal resolution: daily, September 1981 - present
• Format: NetCDF

CPC Soil Moisture

• Spatial resolution: 0.5 degree x 0.5 degree global grids
• Temporal resolution: monthly, 1948 - present
• Format: NetCDF

NCEP Daily Global Analyses

• Variables: Zonal and meridional wind, Air temperature, Geopotential height, Relative humidity, Sea level pressure, Tropopause pressure, Tropopause temperature, and Precipitable water
• Spatial resolution: 2.5 degree x 2.5 degree global grids
• Temporal resolution: daily, 1979 - present
• Pressure levels: surface, 1000 mb, 850 mb, 700 mb, 500 mb, 400 mb, 300 mb, 250 mb, 200 mb, 150 mb, 100 mb, 70 mb, 50 mb (except for relative humidity - surface and 1000-300 mb, and geopotential height - no surface data)
• Format: NetCDF

NCEP Global Data Assimilation System Data (GDAS)

Reanalysis

NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1

• Variable: 2m air temperature
• Spatial resolution: 2.5 degree x 2.5 degree global grids
• Temporal resolution: 4-time daily and daily, 1948 - present
• Format: NetCDF

NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1 - Several variables at multiple pressure levels

• Variables: Temperature (air), Geopotential height (hgt), Vertical velocity (omega), Relative humidity (rhum), Specific humidity (shum), Zonal wind (uwnd), and Meridional wind (vwnd)
• Spatial resolution: 2.5 degree x 2.5 degree global grids
• Temporal resolution: 4-time daily and daily, 1948 - present
• Levels: 17 levels (1000 mb, 925 mb, 850 mb, 700 mb, 600 mb, 500 mb, 400 mb, 300 mb, 250 mb, 200 mb, 150 mb, 100 mb, 70 mb, 50 mb, 30 mb, 20 mb, 10 mb) and some variables have less (omega - to 100mb and relative humidity and specific humidity - to 300mb)
• Format: NetCDF

NCEP/DOE Reanalysis 2 - Several variables at surface level

• Variables: 2m air temperature, Surface ice concentration, Surface pressure, 2m specific humidity, 2m maximum temperature, 2m minimum temperature, Surface skin temperature, 0-10cm and 10-200cm soil moisture, Temperature of 0-10cm and 10-200cm layer, 10m zonal wind, 10m meridional wind, Surface water equivalent of snow depth
• Spatial resolution: 2.5 degree x 2.5 degree global grids
• Temporal resolution: 4-time daily, daily, 1979 - present
• Format: NetCDF

NCEP/DOE Reanalysis 2 - Several variables at multiple pressure levels

• Variables: Temperature (air), Geopotential height (hgt), Vertical velocity (omega), Relative humidity (rhum), Zonal wind (uwnd), and Meridional wind (vwnd)
• Spatial resolution: 2.5 degree x 2.5 degree global grids
• Temporal resolution: 4-time daily and daily, 1979 - present
• Levels: 17 levels (1000 mb, 925 mb, 850 mb, 700 mb, 600 mb, 500 mb, 400 mb, 300 mb, 250 mb, 200 mb, 150 mb, 100 mb, 70 mb, 50 mb, 30 mb, 20 mb, 10 mb)
• Format: NetCDF

NCEP/DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis (Reanalysis-2)

• Variables: Surface water runoff, Convective precipitation rate, Downward and upward longwave radiation (surface and NTAT), Downward and upward solar radiation flux (surface and NTAT), Ground heat flux, Latent and sensible heat net flux, Potential evaporation rate, Precipitation rate, Pressure at high/middle/low cloud bottom and cloud top, Total cloud cover, Momentum flux (zonal and meridional), Gravity wave stress (zonal and meridional), Land sea mask, and Surface height (orography)
• Spatial resolution: 2.5 degree x 2.5 degree global grids
• Temporal resolution: 6-hour and daily accumulation, 1979 - present
• Format: NetCDF

Forecast data

NCEP Global Forecasts System (GFS)

• NCEP GEFS products inventory
• Selected GFS parameters in GIS format

NCEP Climate Forecast System (CFS)

North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME)

• Variables: Standard anomalies and skills for Sea Surface Temperature, 2m air temperature, and Precipitation
• Global models: CFSv2, CanCM4i, GEM-NEMO, GFDL, NASA, NCAR-CCSM4, and ensemble mean
• Temporal resolution: monthly and seasonal
• Format: binary

North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME)

• Variables: Sea Surface Temperature, 2m air temperature, and Precipitation
• Global models: CFSv2, CanCM4i, GEM-NEMO, GFDL, NASA, NCAR-CCSM4, and ensemble mean
• Temporal resolution: monthly and seasonal
• Format: CPT

Hindcast data

North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME)

• Variables: Sea Surface Temperature, 2m air temperature, and Precipitation
• Global models: CFSv2, CanCM4i, GEM-NEMO, GFDL, NASA, NCAR-CCSM4, and ensemble mean
• Temporal resolution: monthly and seasonal, 1991 - 2020
• Format: CPT