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UAH MSU v5.5 Tlt anomaly
Spencer and Christy (U. of Alabama Huntsville) MSU lower troposphere temperature v5.5
X axis: whole world in 144 2.50° steps, first point at 178.75° W, last point at 178.75° E
Y axis: regular grid with 72 2.50° steps, first point at 88.75° S, last point at 88.75° N

Monthly data available from Jan1979 to May2014 ( 425 months)
Variable Tlt (Temperature anomaly of the lower troposphere) in K
Full metadata. The associated land/sea mask is available for some operations

Get grid points, average area or generate subset
Mask:   add a mask to the list help
Latitude: °N - °N help
Longitude: °E - °E
Boundaries:
Make: average max min set of grid points subset of the field help
Demand at least: % valid points in this region help
Considering: everything land points sea points show/hide more
only land points only sea points
not land points not sea points
help
Units: convert to Celsius leave in K help
helpApply monthly high/low-pass filter
filter
cut-off value months
requiring at least % valid data
helpApply year-on-year high/low-pass filter
filter
cut-off value years
requiring at least % valid data
helpCreate a field with lower time resolution
First fill missing data: ignore, climatology, trend, persistence.
Then apply: -month running mean with direction
Then apply new time scale:
New variable: of Tlt anomaly
Minimum: % valid data
Threshold:
helpCreate a field with lower spatial resolution
Average over blocks of longitude and latitude grid cells
getfieldtype: please ask the administrator to add "Tlt" to the lists in getfieldtype

Construct a statistical forecast model from this field

Compute anomalies
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Compute zonal mean
UAH MSU v5.5 Tlt anomaly is available as a netcdf file (size 16.8125 MB).
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