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Home — Field: NOAA/UMD OLR

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NOAA/UMD OLR
more information OLR-Monthly CDR Product Ver02Rev07
X axis: whole world in 144 2.50° steps, first point at 1.25° E, last point at 358.75° 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 Aug2023 ( 536 months) , time refers to the reference time

Variable olr (NOAA Climate Data Record of Monthly Mean Upward Longwave Flux at Top of the Atmosphere) in W m-2
Full metadata.

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
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 OLR
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 "olr" to the lists in getfieldtype

Construct a statistical forecast model from this field

Compute anomalies
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Compute zonal mean
Please consider downloading this field from the authoritative site.
If you really want to get it here, NOAA/UMD OLR is available as a netcdf file (size 21.2341 MB).
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