RETIRED: Year Of Tropical Convection (YOTC) Re-analysis Datasets

Updated: 2019-05-17

The Year of Tropical Convection is a joint project of the WWRP-THORPEX and the WCRP that combines high resolution analysis and forecast data with satellite data and a Tropical Cyclone Satellite Information System. YOTC is a year of coordinated observing, modeling and forecasting of organized tropical convection and its influences on predictability as a contribution to the United Nations Year of Planet Earth to complement the International Polar Year (IPY). This effort is intended to exploit the vast amounts of existing and emerging observations, the expanding computational resources and the development of new, high-resolution modeling frameworks, with the objective of advancing the characterization, diagnosis, modeling, parameterization and prediction of multi-scale convective/dynamic interactions, including the two-way interaction between tropical and extra-tropical weather/climate. This dataset is a of the re-analysis data produced by ECMWF for the YOTC. This data includes all the available pressure levels analysis data and some of the surface data at the highest available resolution, 0.125X0.125 degrees. The data is available in its original format, grib, and it has been converted to NetCDF to facilitate its use. Original collection: ECMWF YOTC web page https://web.archive.org/web/20150208105233/https://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/yotc_od/ ARCCSS collection: http://climate-cms.wikis.unsw.edu.au/YOTC Dataset decommissioned on 13 May 2026 data no longer held at NCI.