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— Field: TAO air temp
Field
TAO air temp
TAO air temperature, heavily interpolated
X axis: irregular grid of 19 points at 137.00 143.00 147.00 154.00 156.00 158.00 161.00 165.00 167.00 170.00 180.00 190.00 205.00 213.00 220.00 228.00 235.00 250.00 265.00
Y axis: irregular grid of 10 points at -8.00 -5.00 -2.00 0.00 2.00 4.00 5.00 7.00 8.00 9.00
Monthly data available from Jan1980 to Sep2023 ( 525 months)
Variable Ta (Air temperature) in Celsius
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Latitude:
°N -
°N
Longitude:
°E -
°E
Boundaries:
halfway grid points
interpolated
Make:
average
max
min
set of grid points
subset of the field
Demand at least:
% valid points in this region
Apply monthly high/low-pass filter
high-pass
low-pass
running-mean
1st order LOESS
2nd order LOESS
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requiring at least
% valid data
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low-pass
running-mean
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requiring at least
% valid data
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First fill missing data:
ignore,
climatology,
trend,
persistence.
Then apply:
-month running mean with direction
backward
centred
forward
Then apply new time scale:
keep same time scale
annual (Jul-Jun)
annual (Jan-Dec)
biannual
seasonal
New variable:
mean
sd
sum
sum above
sum below
number
min
time of min
max
time of max
first time
last time
of air temp
Minimum:
% valid data
Threshold:
no cut
less than
greater than
Celsius
percentile
normal 1971-2000
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Average over blocks of
longitude and
latitude grid cells
Construct a statistical forecast model from this field
Compute anomalies
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Compute zonal mean
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want to get it here, TAO air temp is available as a
netcdf file
(size 0.250123 MB).
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