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NOAA OLR
References
official web page https://www.psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.interp_OLR.html
Climate Explorer URLclimexp.knmi.nl/select.cgi?noaa_olr
Climate Explorer filenameNOAAData/olr.mon.mean.nc
Variable
nameolr
unitsW/m^2
long_nameOLR monthly means
Netcdf global metadata
titleMonthly means of OLR from interpolated OLR dataset
descriptionData is interpolated in time and space from NOAA twice-daily OLR values and averaged to once daily (from which means are calculated)
platformObservation
ConventionsCF-1.2
Referenceswww.psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.interp_OLR.html
referenceswww.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.interp_OLR.html
CitationLiebmann and Smith: June 2006: Description of a Complete (Interpolated) Outgoing Longwave Radiation Dataset. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77, 1275-1277
dataset_titleNOAA Interpolated Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR)
sourceftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov precip/noaa..
date_modified12 Feb 2019
historyCreated from daily OLR files obtained at NCEP and further processed. Stored in netCDF in 1996. Last update 10/2003
Converted to chunked, deflated non-packed NetCDF4 2020/05
Converted to chunked, deflated non-packed NetCDF4 2020/08
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