UMRBPP Surface: NCEP Stage IV 4 KM GRIB Data Set
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/35.006

Summary
The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) is a component of the
Climate Prediction Center (CPC). A prototype, real-time, hourly, multi-sensor
National Preciptation Analysis (NPA) has been developed at NCEP in cooperation
with the Office of Hydrology (OH). This analysis merges two data sources that
are currently being collected in real-time by OH and NCEP. Hourly digital
precipitation (HDP) radar estimates are created by the WSR-88D Radar Product
Generator on a 131 X 131 4-km grid centered over each radar site. Data
analysis routines, including a bias correction of the radar estimates using
rain gage data, have been adapted by NCEP on a national 4-km grid from
algorithms developed by OH and executed regionally at NWS River Forecast
Centers (RFC). This data set contains the NCEP 4 KM GRIB Data including
multi-sensor analysis (gage and unbiased radar), gage-only analysis, radar
estimate, and radar estimate after bias removal. Depending on the time period
selected, all four types may or may not be available. This data set is
provided as is and was not quality controlled by UCAR/JOSS.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 35.006

Citation
 Katz, S. 2006. UMRBPP Surface: NCEP Stage IV 4 KM GRIB Data Set. Version 1.0.
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/35.006 Accessed 23 Apr 2024.

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Acknowledgement
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please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * UMRBPP: Upper Missouri River Basin Pilot Project
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/UMRBPP

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: daily
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Surface

Platforms
 * Weather Stations

Instruments
 * Doppler Radar
 * NEXt Generation RADar (NEXRAD)
 * Radar
 * Rain Gauges

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

Documentation
 * katz_stage4_readme.txt [12 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/410862C4/katz_stage4_readme.txt

Related links
 * superceded_by: 21.049: NCEP/EMC 4KM Gridded Data (GRIB) Multi-Sensor Analysis (MUL) <-2001
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/21.049
 * homepage: UMRBPP EOL Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/umrbpp

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 1999-04-05 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 1999-05-05 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 50.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 28.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -115.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -80.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: Sidney Katz <sid.katz@noaa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/189

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/35.006?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/35.006?format=isotc211