Ben:
In CUAHSI HIS, we are thinking that a good "coverage" of hydrologic
fluxes from the
atmosphere could be obtained from the NCEP North American Reanalysis.
More info is at http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/rreanl/
It seems like the data are all stored in one of your sister institutions
in Boulder.
Could you please help us to interpret what the data available are?
The data are in Grib/Grads format. We have invested a lot of effort in
working
with netCDF and I don't want Jon Goodall or others in our CUAHSI
community
having to tussle with Grib/Grads. We have another other data formats
already
with GIS, point observations and remote sensing to consider.
Would it be possible to translate these reanalysis data layers into
netCDF format?
David