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  <attribute name="Conventions" value="CF-1.7" />
  <attribute name="Description" value="The Climate Diagnostics Data Base base period mean dataset consists of grand means for each calendar month. The base period spans the period from October 1978 to September 1985. Therefore, seven complete years of monthly data were available. However, the means for many fields were computed using less than seven years of data either because of data unavailability or errorneous fields that were detected during quality control. Please see the &quot;num_yrs&quot; variable for the specific number of means that were used to produce each individual climatology grid" />
  <attribute name="_CoordSysBuilder" value="ucar.nc2.internal.dataset.conv.CF1Convention" />
  <dimension name="time" length="12" isUnlimited="true" />
  <dimension name="plev" length="9" />
  <dimension name="lat" length="73" />
  <dimension name="lon" length="144" />
  <dimension name="nb" length="2" />
  <group name="CFMetadata">
    <attribute name="geospatial_lon_min" value=".0" type="float" />
    <attribute name="geospatial_lat_min" value="-90.0" type="float" />
    <attribute name="geospatial_lon_max" value="357.5" type="float" />
    <attribute name="geospatial_lat_max" value="90.0" type="float" />
    <attribute name="geospatial_lon_units" value="degree_east" />
    <attribute name="geospatial_lat_units" value="degree_north" />
    <attribute name="geospatial_lon_resolution" value="2.5" />
    <attribute name="geospatial_lat_resolution" value="2.5" />
    <attribute name="time_coverage_start" value="1978-11-30T20:58:07Z" />
    <attribute name="time_coverage_end" value="1978-12-31T07:27:11Z" />
    <attribute name="time_coverage_units" value="seconds" />
    <attribute name="time_coverage_resolution" value="239067.0" />
    <attribute name="time_coverage_duration" value="P0Y0M30DT10H29M3.831S" />
  </group>
  <group name="NCISOMetadata">
    <attribute name="metadata_creation" value="2026-05-25" />
    <attribute name="nciso_version" value="2.4.7" />
  </group>
  <variable name="climatology_bounds" shape="time nb" type="double" />
  <variable name="num_yrs" shape="time plev" type="int">
    <attribute name="name" value="num_yrs" />
    <attribute name="long_name" value="Actual number of years used in climatology" />
  </variable>
  <variable name="H_var" shape="time plev lat lon" type="double">
    <attribute name="name" value="H_var" />
    <attribute name="long_name" value="Variance of the geopotential height" />
    <attribute name="units" value="m2" />
    <attribute name="cell_methods" value="time: variance within years time: mean over years" />
  </variable>
  <variable name="time" shape="time" type="double">
    <attribute name="name" value="time" />
    <attribute name="long_name" value="Time" />
    <attribute name="standard_name" value="time" />
    <attribute name="units" value="months since 1978-10-01 00:00:00.0 +0:00" />
    <attribute name="calendar" value="standard" />
    <attribute name="climatology" value="climatology_bounds" />
    <attribute name="_CoordinateAxisType" value="Time" />
  </variable>
  <variable name="plev" shape="plev" type="float">
    <attribute name="name" value="plev" />
    <attribute name="long_name" value="Pressure level" />
    <attribute name="standard_name" value="air_pressure" />
    <attribute name="units" value="mbar" />
    <attribute name="axis" value="Z" />
    <attribute name="positive" value="down" />
    <attribute name="_CoordinateAxisType" value="Pressure" />
    <attribute name="_CoordinateZisPositive" value="down" />
  </variable>
  <variable name="lat" shape="lat" type="float">
    <attribute name="name" value="lat" />
    <attribute name="long_name" value="Latitude" />
    <attribute name="standard_name" value="latitude" />
    <attribute name="units" value="degree_north" />
    <attribute name="valid_range" type="float" value="-90.0 90.0" />
    <attribute name="_CoordinateAxisType" value="Lat" />
  </variable>
  <variable name="lon" shape="lon" type="float">
    <attribute name="name" value="lon" />
    <attribute name="long_name" value="Longitude" />
    <attribute name="standard_name" value="longitude" />
    <attribute name="units" value="degree_east" />
    <attribute name="valid_range" type="float" value="0.0 360.0" />
    <attribute name="_CoordinateAxisType" value="Lon" />
  </variable>
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