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Re: NCEP North American Reanalysis

Hi David,
I'm going to forward your message to our support staff who can provide more information about our GRIB to netCDF decoders. But, in the meantime, the Climate Diagnostic Center makes NCEP Reanalysis data available in netCDF form. If I understand it correctly you can access their data via complete file transfers such as FTP or you can get at portions of the data via client server protocols such as OPeNDAP and GDS. 

<http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/reanalysis/>
Hopefully that will get you started while we get you the decoder information in case you wish to go that route. 

-- Ben
--On Thursday, September 30, 2004 8:18 AM -0500 David Maidment <address@hidden> wrote: 



Ben:

In CUAHSI HIS, we are thinking that a good "coverage" of hydrologic
fluxes from the
atmosphere could be obtained from the NCEP North American Reanalysis.
More info is at http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/rreanl/

It seems like the data are all stored in one of your sister institutions
in Boulder.

Could you please help us to interpret what the data available are?

The data are in Grib/Grads format.   We have invested a lot of effort in
working
with netCDF and I don't want Jon Goodall or others in our CUAHSI
community
having to tussle with Grib/Grads.   We have another other data formats
already
with GIS, point observations and remote sensing to consider.

Would it be possible to translate these reanalysis data layers into
netCDF format?

David