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Monthly global gridded 3D reconstructions based on upper-air and surface data, 1918-2000

Description: Monthly gridded reconstruction of temperature, geopotential height, u- and v-wind at five levels (850, 700, 500, 300, 200, 100 hPa) based on calibrating, for each grid column, a statistical model using upper-air and surface data surrounding that column against ERA40. After 1957, the file contains the calibration.
Reference: Brönnimann, S., T. Griesser, and A. Stickler (2012) A gridded monthly upper-air data set from 1918 to 1957. Climate Dynamics, 38, 475-493.
Origin: Statistical reconstruction.
Structure: One file with all variables, levels, and grid cells.
Data type: netcdf
Expected size: 1 GB

Historical Data Collection
PALAEO_RA_HISTDATA

Description​: Digitized historical weather and phenological observation records collected worldwide, which will be used for assimilation into the global weather model ECHAM6
​Origin​: digitized books, manuscripts, logbooks, diaries from public and private archives worldwide, collected and treated by project participants.
​Structure​: includes thousands of records, listed in an Archive Inventory.
​Data types​: PDF, JPG for scanned copies, CSV for digitized data, TXT, DOC for metadata, logs and additional supporting information
​Expected size: ​2 TB.

Global Model Simulation Data
PALAEO_RA_SIMDATA

Description: ​Atmosphere and ocean simulation data
Origin: ​global simulations of atmosphere and ocean during the period of 1421-2015 with the ECHAM6 model, performed by project participants
​Data Types: ​NetCDF for data files; CSV, TXT, ODT for metadata, logs and additional supporting information.
Expected size:​ 100 TB

Code
​Reference:​ PALAEO_RA_CODE

​Description:​ Codes and scripts for treatment of data
​Origin:​ Developed by project participants
​Data Types: ​Shell, Python, R, etc. scripts; Fortran/C/etc. code​
Expected size: ​10 GB

Reanalysis
PALAEO_RA_REANALYSIS

​Description:​ Reanalysis data based on ECHAM6 simulations
​Origin:​ Developed by project participants from PALAEO_RA_HISTDATA​
Data Types: ​NetCDF for data files
​Expected size: ​1 TB

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