// GMAO MERRA

The Global Modeling and Assimilation Office's (GMAO) Modern Era-Retrospective Analysis for Research and Analysis (MERRA) is a NASA reanalysis using a modern satellite data and the Goddard Earth Observing System Data Assimilation System Version 5 (GEOS-5). The Project focuses on historical analyses of the hydrological cycle on a broad range of weather and climate time scales and places the NASA EOS suite of observations in a climate context. CDS provides access to GMAO's reanalysis data through the ESGF data node for the purpose of comparing reanalysis data with IPCC CMIP5 Climate Model data.

Spatial Coverage: Global
Temporal Coverage: 1979 - present, monthly
Data Resolution: 0.5° x 0.67°

For more information, see the GMAO MERRA page.

Data Access:

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MERRA (GDS)