COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere (CIRA-86)

This directory contains 7 ascii files with the CIRA data in a
self-explanatory format: 

nht.dat  Zonally averaged monthly mean temperature as a function of
         latitude and log-pressure scale height (resolution: 5 degrees
         x 0.25 log-pressure scale heights) for the Northern Hemisphere 

nhw.dat  Zonally averaged monthly mean zonal wind as a function of
         latitude and log-pressure scale height (resolution: 5 degrees
         x 0.25 log-pressure scale heights) for the Northern Hemisphere 

nhz.dat  Zonally averaged monthly mean geopotential height as a function of
         latitude and log-pressure scale height (resolution: 5 degrees
         x 0.25 log-pressure scale heights) for the Northern Hemisphere 

sht.dat  Zonally averaged monthly mean temperature as a function of
         latitude and log-pressure scale height (resolution: 5 degrees
         x 0.25 log-pressure scale heights) for the Southern Hemisphere 

shw.dat  Zonally averaged monthly mean zonal wind as a function of
         latitude and log-pressure scale height (resolution: 5 degrees
         x 0.25 log-pressure scale heights) for the Southern Hemisphere 

shz.dat  Zonally averaged monthly mean geopotential height as a function of
         latitude and log-pressure scale height (resolution: 5 degrees
         x 0.25 log-pressure scale heights) for the Southern Hemisphere 

twp.dat  Zonally averaged monthly mean temperature, wind, and pressure
         as a function of latitude and altitude (10 dregrees x 5 km)
         for the entire globe  

References:

Fleming, E.L., S. Chandra, J.J. Barnett, and M. Corney, Zonal mean
temperature, pressure, zonal wind, and geopotential height as
functions of latitude, COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere:
1986, Part II: Middle Atmosphere Models, Adv. Space Res., Vol. 10,
No. 12, pp. 11-59, 1990. 

Fleming, E.L., S. Chandra, M.R. Schoeberl, and J.J. Barnett, Monthly
mean global climatology of temperature, wind, geopotential height, and
pressure for 0-120 km, NASA Tech. Memo. NASA TM-100697, 85 pp., 1988. 
(reprints available from Eric Fleming fleming@kahuna.gsfc.nasa.gov)
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