{"id":3415,"date":"2018-10-11T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/?page_id=3415"},"modified":"2023-11-27T12:48:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T12:48:41","slug":"datasets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/intranet\/for-students\/phd-information-hub\/datasets\/","title":{"rendered":"Datasets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/intranet\/for-students\/phd-information-hub\/\"><strong>Back to PhD Hub<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP)<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Information:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Provides a consistent analysis of global precipitation from an integration of various satellite data sets over land and ocean and a gauge analysis over land.&#8221; This is a merged product on a 2.5-degree global grid from 1979 to present. Some of the more recent data may be interim, this is identified by a flag in the netCDF.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esrl.noaa.gov\/psd\/data\/gridded\/data.gpcp.html\">More here<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Acknowledgements:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>GPCP Precipitation data provided by the NOAA\/OAR\/ESRL PSD, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their Web site at https:\/\/www.esrl.noaa.gov\/psd\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">References:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adler, R. F., G. J. Huffman, A. Chang, R. Ferraro, P. Xie, J. Janowiak, B. Rudolf, U. Schneider, S. Curtis, D. Bolvin, A. Gruber, J. Susskind, P. Arkin, and E. Nelkin, 2003: The version 2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) monthly precipitation analysis (1979-present). <em>J. Hydrometeor<\/em>, <strong>4(6), 1147-1167<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Adler, R. F., G. Gu, and G. Huffman, 2012. Estimating Climatological Bias Errors for the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP). Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology,<strong> 51<\/strong>, <strong>84-99<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Adler et al., 2016. An Update (Version 2.3) of the GPCP Monthly Analysis. (in Preparation). Huffman, G.J., R.F. Adler, P. Arkin, A. Chang, R. Ferraro, A. Gruber, J. Janowiak, A. McNab, B. Rudolf, U. Schneider, 1997: The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Combined Precipitation Dataset. <em>Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.<\/em>, <strong>78(1)<\/strong>, <strong>5-20<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Huffman, G. J., R. F. Adler, D. T. Bolvin, and G. Gu (2009): Improving the global precipitation record: GPCP Version 2.1, <em>Geophys. Res. Lett.<\/em>, <strong>36<\/strong>, <strong>L17808<\/strong>, doi:10.1029\/2009GL040000<\/li>\n<li>Schneider, Udo; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Meyer-Christoffer, Anja; Rudolf, Bruno; Ziese, Markus (2015a): GPCC Full Data Reanalysis Version 7.0 at 0.5\u00b0: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historic Data. DOI: 10.5676\/DWD_GPCC\/FD_M_V7_050.<\/li>\n<li>Schneider, Udo; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Meyer-Christoffer, Anja; Rudolf, Bruno; Ziese, Markus (2015b): GPCC Monitoring Product: Near Real-Time Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges based on SYNOP and CLIMAT data. DOI: 10.5676\/DWD_GPCC\/MP_M_V5_100<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>HadISST Global SST and Sea Ice<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Information:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>HadISST is the Met Office Hadley Centre&#8217;s sea ice and sea surface temperature (SST) data set. It is a combination of monthly globally-complete fields of SST and sea ice concentration on a 1-degree grid from 1870 to present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/hadobs\/hadisst\/\">More here<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">References:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/hadobs\/hadisst\/HadISST_paper.pdf\">Rayner, N. A.; Parker, D. E.; Horton, E. B.; Folland, C. K.; Alexander, L. V.; Rowell, D. P.; Kent, E. C.; Kaplan, A. (2003)\u00a0Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century J. Geophys. Res.Vol. 108, No. D14, 4407 10.1029\/2002JD002670\u00a0 (pdf ~9Mb)<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>ERA-Interim<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Information:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The European Re-Analysis Interim data (ERA-interim). A global atmospheric reanalysis dataset from 1979 to present. Approximately 80 km (T255 spectral) resolution on 60 levels up to 0.1 hPa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecmwf.int\/en\/forecasts\/datasets\/archive-datasets\/reanalysis-datasets\/era-interim\">More here<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">References:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dee. D. P., S. M. Uppala, A. J. Simmons, P. Berrisford, P. Poli, S. Kobayashi, U. Andrae, M. A. Balmaseda, G. Balsamo, P. Bauer, P. Bechtold, A. C. M. Beljaars, L. van de Berg, J. Bidlot, N. Bormann, C. Delsol, R. Dragani, M. Fuentes, A. J. Geer, L. Haimberger, S. B. Healy, H. Hersbach, E. V. H\u00f3lm, L. Isaksen, P. K\u00e5llberg, M. K\u00f6hler, M. Matricardi, A. P. McNally, B. M. Monge-Sanz, J.-J. Morcrette, B.-K. Park, C. Peubey, P. de Rosnay, C. Tavolato, J.-N Th\u00e9paut, F. Vitart, 2011: The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system. Quart. J. Roy. Met Soc., <strong>137<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>553-597<\/strong>. doi:<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/qj.828\">10.1002\/qj.828<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"gs_rs\">Berrisford, P., Dee, D., Poli, P., Brugge, R., Fielding, K., Fuentes, M., Kallberg, P., Kobayashi,\u00a0S., Uppala, S. and Simmons, A., (2011)\u00a0The ERA-Interim archive,\u00a0version 2.0. ERA report\u00a0series. 1. Technical Report. ECMWF <strong>pp23<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h3>NOAA-CIRES 20th Century Reanalysis<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Information:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration-Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (NOAA-CIRES) 20th Century Reanalysis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esrl.noaa.gov\/psd\/data\/20thC_Rean\/\">More here<\/a>]<\/p>\n<h3>Global Historical Climatology Network<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) is an integrated database of climate summaries from land surface stations across the globe that have been subjected to a common suite of quality assurance reviews. The data are obtained from more than 20 sources. 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