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ECMWF Operational Orography Data

Orography files for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts's (ECMWF) operational forecast model. Archived data are on the 1.125 and 2.5 degree regular longitude-latitude grids, N80 (full) Gaussian grid and Spectral (T106) grid. These files are updated each time the model orography is changed. For the Operational data (March 1994-present day) there are orography files for the following dates: 1 March 1994, 4 April 1995, 8 September 1996, 10 December 1996, 1 April 1998 and 12 October 1999. The orography for the ERA-15 project was constant so only the start date orography is stored here: i.e. for 1 Jan 1979. The spectral orography file only contains the orography data (surface geopotential). Depending on the age and grid type, the remaining files contain some of the constant fields: Geopotential (at the surface, orography), Standard deviation of orography, Anisotropy of subgrid scale orography, Angle of subgrid scale orography, Slope of subgrid scale orography, Land/Sea mask, EW component of sub-grid scale orographic variance, NScomponent of sub-grid scale orographic variance, NWSE component of sub-grid scale orographic variance, NESW component of sub-grid scale orographic variance.

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Date (Publication)
2012-05-25T15:09:16
Date (Creation)
2012-05-25T15:09:16
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/76c8a9f9c14545fc4fb11e4aceb148e5
Identifier
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 76c8a9f9c14545fc4fb11e4aceb148e5
Author
  European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) - author
Custodian
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - custodian
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Distributor
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - distributor
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Principal investigator
  European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) - principal_investigator
pointofContact
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - point_of_contact
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Publisher
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - publisher
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Maintenance and update frequency
daily Daily
Update scope
dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • ECMWF
  • operational
  • forecast
  • analysis
  • surface
  • model
  • Orography Data
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
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Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/ecmwf_op_agreement.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under academic use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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grid Grid
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1994-03-01T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are GRIB-1 formatted ()

Distributor
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - Data Center Contact
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
Data extracted from European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) MARS system and transfered to BADC daily, 10 days in arrears of production.
File identifier
76c8a9f9c14545fc4fb11e4aceb148e5 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
Parent identifier
ECMWF operational analysis: Assimilated Data c46248046f6ce34fc7660a36d9b10a71
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-05-09T02:03:13
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
atmospheric conditions

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