CFSR

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Period: 1980-2011

Data available: YES

Institution: NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP)
Model: MOM4 ocean, GFDLSea Ice Simulator, GDAS sigma coordinate spectral atmospheric model
Resolution: T382L64, 0.5x0.5 deg
Data assimilated: Atmospheric data, temperature and salinity from the NODC’s World Ocean Database, sea ice concentration
Assimilation method: 3DVAR
Forcing and relaxation used: relaxed to gridded fields of observed SST and SSS
Download Data: http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/data.php?name=access#cfsr
Contact: Yan Xue: yan.xue (at) noaa.gov
References: Saha, S., Moorthi, S., Pan, H. L., Wu, X., Wang, J., Nadiga, S., ... & Reynolds, R. W. (2010). The NCEP climate forecast system reanalysis. /Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society/, /91/(8), 1015-1057.
Information: http://cfs.ncep.noaa.gov/cfsr/