netcdf files/g/d314000/monthly/pres_monthly_1948-2008.nc {
  dimensions:
    longitude = 360;
    latitude = 180;
    z = 1;
    time = UNLIMITED;   // (732 currently)
  variables:
    float longitude(longitude=360);
      :units = "degrees_east";
      :point_spacing = "even";
      :modulo = " ";

    float latitude(latitude=180);
      :units = "degrees_north";
      :point_spacing = "even";

    float z(z=1);
      :units = "level";
      :positive = "up";

    float time(time=732);
      :units = "months since 1948-01-01 00:00:00";
      :time_origin = "01-JAN-1948:00:00:00";

    float pres(time=732, z=1, latitude=180, longitude=360);
      :source = "Reanalysis 6-hourly surface pressure interpolated to 1.0deg with account for elevation changes";
      :name = "pres";
      :title = "monthly average surface pressure";
      :date = "01/01/48";
      :time = "00:00";
      :long_name = "Surface pressure";
      :units = "Pa";
      :missing_value = 2.0E20f; // float
      :_FillValue = 2.0E20f; // float
      :valid_min = 49753.18f; // float
      :valid_max = 106670.38f; // float

  // global attributes:
  :history = "Tue Nov 23 14:43:42 EST 2010: created by JS using convert2alma.sh";
  :title = "Princeton University Hydroclimatology Group Bias Corrected 59-yr (1948-2006) Meteorological Forcing Dataset";
  :institution = "Princeton University";
  :contact = "Justin Sheffield (justin@princeton.edu)";
  :source = "Forcings are a hybrid of NCEP/NCAR reanalysis and observations";
  :comment = "This is an update to the original version reported in Sheffield et al., J. Climate (2006). Updates include: i) extension to 2006; ii) improved sampling procedure for correction of rain day statistics; iii) use of latest versions of CRU, SRB and TRMM products; iv) improved consistency between specific and relative humidity and air temperature. See Sheffield et al., J. Climate (2006) for details of the observations used and the bias correction and downscaling methodology.";
}