| Summary: | The YOTC is a unique experiment that includes terrestrial and satellite observations, high-resolution modeling. YOTC is intended to advance the characterisation, diagnosis, modelling, parameterization and prediction of multi-scale convective/dynamic interactions, including the two-way interaction between tropical and extra-tropical weather/climate. The combination of multiple sources, high-resolution and the lenght of the experiment make this dataset a unique tool for studies dealing with tropical cyclones and convection. YOTC represents the effort of many international operational and accademic groups The Year of Tropical Convection is a joint project of the WWRP-THORPEX and the WCRP that combines high resolution analysis and forecast data with satellite data and a Tropical Cyclone Satellite Information System. YOTC is a year of coordinated observing, modeling and forecasting of organized tropical convection and its influences on predictability as a contribution to the United Nations Year of Planet Earth to complement the International Polar Year (IPY). This effort is intended to exploit the vast amounts of existing and emerging observations, the expanding computational resources and the development of new, high-resolution modeling frameworks, with the objective of advancing the characterization, diagnosis, modeling, parameterization and prediction of multi-scale convective/dynamic interactions, including the two-way interaction between tropical and extra-tropical weather/climate. This dataset is a of the re-analysis data produced by ECMWF for the YOTC. This data includes all the available pressure levels analysis data and some of the surface data at the highest available resolution, 0.125X0.125 degrees. The data is available in its original format, grib, and it has been converted to NetCDF to facilitate its use. Original collection: ECMWF YOTC web page http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/yotc_od/ ARCCSS collection: http://climate-cms.unsw.wikispaces.net/YOTC
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