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Temporal and Spatial coverage
The products are available over two geographical areas with two different temporal coverages:
Atlantic Africa area: 100W to 50E, 47N to 25S
regular longitude-latitude mesh: 0.5x0.5deg
Time period: 2005, 2006, 2007 to be stored
West Africa area: 25W to 25E, 25N to 5S
regular longitude-latitude mesh: 0.25x0.25deg
Time period: May to September 2006
Temporal resolution
4 times daily (4xdaily) products:
Analysis
Times : 0 6 12 18 h
step : 0 h
Forecasting
Times : 12 h
Steps :12, 18, 24, 30, 36 h
For the forecast variables, there are 5 forecast times per day : 0, 6, 12, 18 and 24h corresponding to the 5 forecasting steps (12, 18, 24, 30, 36h) starting at the reference time 12h of the day before.
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