Supplemental Global Climatic Data: January

Abstract

The supplemental global distributions of sea-surface temperature, total cloud cover, planetary albedo, and outgoing long-wave radiation for January are presented as an update to all January data previously published (R- 915, R-915/1). All data are presented on a global grid of four degree latitude and five degree longitude, both in the form of tabulated values and machine- analyzed maps. The corresponding zonal and global averages are also given. These data are being used at Rand as a guide for evaluating climate simulations based on the Rand version of the Mintz-Arakawa general circulation model.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0780676

Entities

People

  • C. Schutz
  • W. L. Gates

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate
  • Cloud Cover
  • Clouds
  • Grids
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Meteorology
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Radiation
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Simulations
  • Southern Hemisphere
  • Surface Temperature
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Computer Science.