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source
- CIRES; NOAA; DOE
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data type
- Global atmospheric reanalysis
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spatial domain
- Global
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spatial resolution
- T254 (approximately 75 km at the equator)
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temporal coverage
- 20CRv3.SI is available for years 1836-1980 and 20CRv3.MO is available for years 1981-2015
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time step
- 3h; Daily; Monthly
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data format
- NetCDF
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comments
- NCEP Global Spectral Model atmosphere coupled to Noah land surface model (single snow layer). Assimilates only surface observations of synoptic pressure and boundary conditions of pentad sea surface temperature and monthly sea ice concentration and time-varying solar, volcanic, and carbon dioxide radiative forcings are prescribed. More information is provided by Slivinski et al. (2019)