NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Data, Water Vapor

Dataset Availability

1948-01-01T00:00:00Z–2024-12-16T18:00:00Z

Dataset Provider

NCEP

Earth Engine Snippet

ee.ImageCollection("NCEP_RE/surface_wv")

Cadence

6 Hours

Tags

atmosphere climate geophysical ncep noaa reanalysis vapor

precipitable

Description

The NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Project is a joint project between the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP, formerly "NMC") and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The goal of this joint effort is to produce new atmospheric analyses using historical data as well as to produce analyses of the current atmospheric state (Climate Data Assimilation System, CDAS). The NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1 project is using a state-of-the-art analysis/forecast system to perform data assimilation using past data from 1948 to the present. The data have 6-hour temporal resolution (0000, 0600, 1200, and 1800 UTC) and 2.5 degree spatial resolution.

Bands

Resolution
278300 meters

Bands

Name	Units	Min	Max	Description
pr_wtr	kg/m^2	-8.2*	89.8*	Total column water vapor

* estimated min or max value

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

There are no restrictions on the use of these datasets.

Citations

Citations:

• Kalnay et al., 1996, The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 437-471. doi:10.1175/1520-0477(1996)0770437:TNYRP\2.0.CO;2.

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Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.ImageCollection('NCEP_RE/surface_wv')
                  .filter(ee.Filter.date('2018-08-01', '2018-08-15'));
var totalColumnWaterVapor = dataset.select('pr_wtr');
var totalColumnWaterVaporVis = {
  min: 0.0,
  max: 60.0,
  palette: ['0000ff', '00ffff', '008000', 'ffff00', 'ff0000'],
};
Map.setCenter(-158.2, 2.81, 2);
Map.addLayer(
    totalColumnWaterVapor, totalColumnWaterVaporVis,
    'Total Column Water Vapor');

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NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Data, Water Vapor

The NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Project is a joint project between the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP, formerly "NMC") and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The goal of this joint effort is to produce new atmospheric analyses using historical data as well as to produce analyses of the current …

NCEP_RE/surface_wv, atmosphere,climate,geophysical,ncep,noaa,reanalysis,vapor

1948-01-01T00:00:00Z/2024-12-16T18:00:00Z

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