Northern Hemisphere Cyclone Locations and Characteristics from NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Data  View Catalog Page Entry ID
NSIDC-0423
Summary
This data set comprises a 50-year record of daily extratropical cyclone statistics computed for the Northern Hemisphere. Cyclone locations and characteristics were obtained by applying the updated Serreze (1997) algorithm to daily Sea Level Pressure (SLP) data at six-hour intervals (Serreze and Barrett 2008). The SLP source data are part of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Reanalysis data set, an assimilation of various atmospheric data collected by a wide variety of sensors within a global weather model. The parameters included in this data set are the position and central pressure of each cyclone, the distance the center of the cyclone traveled, whether the observation represents a cyclogenesis or cyclolysis event, and the local Laplacian of SLP and Sea Level Pressure Tendency (SLPT) at each cyclone center. The total volume of this data set is approximately 150 megabytes. Data are provided in tab-delimited ASCII text format and are available via FTP.
Geographic Coverage
Spatial Coordinates:
N: 90°
S: 0°
E: 180°
W: -180°
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: Serreze, Mark.
Dataset Title: Northern Hemisphere Cyclone Locations and Characteristics from NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Data
Dataset Release Date: 2009-11-19
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0423.html
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1958-01-01
Stop Date: 2008-12-31
Data Resolution
Temporal Resolution: 06:00:00
Location Keywords
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
- OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN
Science Keywords
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Phenomena Cyclones
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Phenomena Storms
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Pressure Anticyclones/Cyclones
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Pressure Differential Pressure
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Pressure Pressure Tendency
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Pressure Sea Level Pressure
Ancillary Keywords
- Arctic
- Arctic Ocean
- Cyclogenesis
- Cyclolysis
- Cyclones
- Laplacian Pressure
- NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Data
- NSIDC DAAC
- NSIDC > National Snow and Ice Data Center
- Pressure
- Pressure Tendency
- Sea Level Pressure
- Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Platform
- DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
- MODELS
- NOAA-4 National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-4
- SATELLITES
Instrument
- ALTIMETERS
- AWS Automated Weather System
- BAROMETERS
- CEILOMETERS
- DRIFTING BUOYS
- DRY BULB THERMOMETERS
- HIRS High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
- HUMIDITY SENSORS
- HYGROMETERS
- MSU Microwave Sounding Unit
- PRESSURE SENSORS
- RADAR Radio Detection and Ranging
- RADIOSONDES
- RAIN GAUGES
- RAWINSONDES
- SIRS Satellite Infrared Spectrometer
- SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE
- SOUNDERS
- SSM/I Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
- SSU Stratospheric Sounding Unit
- TEMPERATURE SENSORS
- THERMOMETERS
- VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
- VTPR Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer
- WAVE HEIGHT GAUGES
- WET BULB THERMOMETERS
- XBT Expendable Bathythermographs
Data Set Progress
complete
Originating Center
NSIDC_DAAC
Data Center
NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 150 MB
Distribution Format: ASCII Text
Personnel
Mark C. Serreze
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: serreze@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
NSIDC User Services
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: 1 303 492-6199 x
Fax: 1 303 492-2468 x
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
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Arctic Cyclone Track Data Set, 1966-1993
Reference
Armstrong, R. L., and M. J. Brodzik. 1995. An Earth-Gridded SSM/I Data Set for Cryospheric Studies and Global Change Monitoring. Advances in Space Research 16: 155-63.
Kalnay, E., M. Kanamitsu, R. Kistler, W. Collins, D. Deaven, L. Gandin, M. Iredell, S. Saha, G. White, J. Woollen, Y. Zhu, A. Leetmaa, R. Reynolds, M. Chelliah, W. Ebisuzaki, W. Higgins, J. Janowiak, K. Mo, C. Ropelewski, J. Wang, R. Jenne, and D. Joseph. 1996. The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77, 437471.
Kistler, R., E. Kalnay, W. Collins, S. Saha, G. White, J. Woollen, M. Chelliah, W. Ebisuzaki, M. Kanamitsu, V. Kousky, H. van den Dool, R. Jenne, and M. Fiorino. 2001. The NCEP-NCAR 50-Year Reanalysis: Monthly Means CD-ROM and Documentation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 82, 247-268. doi: 10.1175/1520-0477(2001)082<0247:TNNYRM>2.3.CO;2.
Krasnopolsky, V. M., L. C. Breaker, and W. H. Gemmill. 1995. A Neural Network as a Nonlinear Transfer Function Model for Retrieving Surface Wind Speeds from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager. Journal of Geophysical Research, 100(C6), 11,03311,045. PDF
Serreze, M. C., and A. P. Barrett. 2008. The Summer Cyclone Maximum over the Central Arctic Ocean. Journal of Climate, 21, 10481065. doi: 10.1175/2007JCLI1810.1.
Serreze, M. C., A. H. Lynch, and M. P. Clark. 2001. The Arctic Frontal Zone as Seen in the NCEPNCAR Reanalysis. Journal of Climate, 14, 15501567. doi: <1550:TAFZAS>2.0.CO;2.
Serreze, M. C., F. Carse, R. G. Barry, and J. C. Rogers. 1997. Icelandic Low Cyclone Activity: Climatological Features, Linkages with the NAO, and Relationships with Recent Changes in the Northern Hemisphere Circulation. Journal of Climate, 10, 453464. doi: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<0453:ILCACF>2.0.CO;2.
Serreze, M. C. 1995. Climatological Aspects of Cyclone Development and Decay in the Arctic..ATMOSPHERIC-OCEAN 33 (1), 1-23. PDF
Tsukernik, M., D. N. Kindig, and M. C. Serreze. 2007. Characteristics of Winter Cyclone Activity in the Northern North Atlantic: Insights from Observations and Regional Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research 112(d3): D03101, doi:10.1029/2006JD007184.
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2009-11-19
Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-08-28
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