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Fundacion Entropika High Resolution Monthly Means of Atmospheric Variables over the Amazon Basin (1972-2009) version 1.0
This dataset holds the high resolution (0.5 x 0.5 deg; 8 vertical levels) monthly means of 5 atmospheric variables (air temperature, pressure, water vapour pressure, vertical velocity and horizontal wind speed) over the Amazon Basin for the period 1972 to 2009 (version 1.0). This data is public and citable (DOI: 10.5285/2dfce039-cd71-43b3-bed4-98978e78f1bb).
It was constructed using the predictive capabilities of Time-Delayed Neural Networks (TDNN) method. Thirty years of monthly averages of current climate data (1971-2000) of the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis dataset were used to train the TDNNs, which were then validated on the next 10 years (2001-2010). Once validated, the downscaling model was fed with the higher resolution CRU TS3.1 data and SRTM-1km elevation data (thereby obtaining the higher resolution dataset).
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- Date (Publication)
- 2013-08-22T03:53:03
- Date (Creation)
- 2013-08-22T03:53:03
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 242816b6bbc51d6db03afd9d5f5d2857
- Identifier
- doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/2dfce039-cd71-43b3-bed4-98978e78f1bb
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- notPlanned Not planned
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- dataset Dataset
- Keywords
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- Fundacion Entropika
- Amazon
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1972-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2009-12-31T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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The files are ASCII however these are structured in the ArcINFO format with the file extension .asc (i.e. the files can be read immediately in ArcGIS.
Please see details of the File Format and units under "Docs".
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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FE Amazon metadata directory
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- OnLine resource
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T. Lafon, C. Cox, R.Beale, J. Fowler and N. Crook, 2013: Downscaling tropospheric observations of the Amazon basin using Artificial Neural Networks, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D20, doi: 10.1029/2009JD012481
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Fundacion Entropika website
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FE Amazon v1.0 File Format Explained
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- dataset Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Compressed data files were submitted to the BADC in August 2013. Data files were extracted and archived at the BADC. Compressed files were also renamed to follow the BADC file name convention. The metadata was submitted as a text file to the BADC and archived in the doc directory. A DOI was issued for version 1.0.
- File identifier
- 242816b6bbc51d6db03afd9d5f5d2857 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- Fundacion Entropika High Resolution Monthly Means of Atmospheric Variables over the Amazon Basin 34126fea1952697be8d2a5a7e08b23d6
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- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-16T03:00:39
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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