An Introduction to the Global Circulation of the Atmosphere David A. Randall Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University Revised January 2023, revisions ongoing

  

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Additional Resources

Data on Pressure Surfaces

Data files in NetCDF format (use ncdump to look up the internal variable names):

• U01487.nc - surface geopotential (time-independent)

• Monthly files for the year 2000

  • z,t,q,w

    jan U57570.nc	feb U57571.nc	mar U57572.nc	apr U57573.nc
    may U57574.nc	jun U57575.nc	jul U57576.nc	aug U57577.nc
    sep U57578.nc	oct U57579.nc	nov U57580.nc	dec U57581.nc

  • u,v

    jan U60362.nc	feb U60363.nc	mar U60364.nc	apr U60365.nc
    may U60366.nc	jun U60367.nc	jul U60368.nc	aug U60369.nc
    sep U60370.nc	oct U60371.nc	nov U60372.nc	dec U60373.nc

  • sfc press

    jan U89976.nc	feb U89977.nc	mar U89978.nc	apr U89979.nc
    may U89980.nc	jun U89981.nc	jul U89982.nc	aug U89983.nc
    sep U89984.nc	oct U89985.nc	nov U89986.nc	dec U89987.nc

Data on Isentropic Surfaces

ERA-Interim data. Please contact Kelley Branson if you have problems obtaining the files below.

• January 1, 2013 0GMT data only
  ei.oper.an.pt.regn128sc.2013010100.nc - potential vorticity, montgomery potential, etc.
  ei.oper.an.pt.regn128uv.2013010100.nc - zonal and meridional winds

• era-interim.tar.gz - 6-hourly records for all of January 2013

ERA40

ERA40-based atlas of the general circulation may be found here: ERA40_PRS19.pdf
This file is 73MB