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The following news article has been posted by the CISL Research Data Archive at NCAR:

"NCAR Global Climate Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation (CFDDA) Hourly 40 km Reanalysis"

NCAR RDA announces the debut of The NCAR Global Climate Four-Dimensional Data
Assimilation (CFDDA) Hourly 40 km Reanalysis, a 21-year climatography.

The NCAR Global Climate Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation (CFDDA) Hourly 40 km
Reanalysis was developed in 2009-2010 by the Research Applications Laboratory
[https://www.ral.ucar.edu/] (RAL) to provide the most accurate boundary layer
wind estimates available at that time. CFDDA used 28 sigma levels, with 19
between the surface and 700 hPa, a four-fold improvement over the contemporary
NWP models. The dataset spans 21 years, 1985-2005, providing hourly atmospheric
parameters, including winds, on 28 vertical levels on a global 40 km grid.

The full CFDDA dataset is now available for public download through the CFDDA
ds604.0 Main Page [http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds604.0/#!description].

Read more about the unique properties about this data set
[http://ncarrda.blogspot.com/2015/04/cfdda-global-hourly-40-km-resolution.html]
on the NCAR RDA Blog [http://ncarrda.blogspot.com/].