Observations and reanalyses
An update on atmospheric ice estimates from satellite observations and reanalyses
... between observations and reanalyses regarding the seasonal movement of atmospheric ...the reanalyses disagree with GPM and DARDAR in eastern North ...
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Moisture transport in observations and reanalyses as a proxy for snow accumulation in East Antarctica
... from reanalyses reflect modifications to the ob- servation system in addition to changes in the ...between observations and reanalyses as artefacts of the data ...to observations or one ...
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Temperature and precipitation extremes in century-long gridded observations, reanalyses, and atmospheric model simulations
... independent observations-based data sets covering 1901 – 2010 for long-term changes and interannual variability in daily scale temperature and precipitation ...gridded observations and reanalyses ...
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The GEWEX Water Vapor Assessment archive of water vapour products from satellite observations and reanalyses
... discontinuous observations with model state fields to reinitialize atmospheric forecasts and produce spatially and temporally continuous state ...major reanalyses assimilate a large diversity of data from ...
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Assessment of Atmospheric Reanalyses with Independent Observations in the Weddell Sea, the Antarctic
... the reanalyses. This provides a rare opportunity to validate the reanalyses in the otherwise datasparse region of Antarctica against independent ...The reanalyses differ in performance. However, all ...
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Polar clouds and radiation in satellite observations, reanalyses, and climate models
... radiation observations derived by satellite remote sensing (2007–2010) to evaluate simulated clouds and radiation over both polar ice sheets and oceans in state-of-the-art atmospheric reanalyses ...
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Intercomparison of temperature trends in IPCC CMIP5 simulations with observations, reanalyses and CMIP3 models
... radiosonde observations indicate ...the reanalyses is in very good agreement with the radiosonde observations in both the stratosphere (100–30 hPa) and troposphere (850–300 hPa), but the ...
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Snow on the Ross Ice Shelf: comparison of reanalyses and observations from automatic weather stations
... 5 Conclusions This study develops an event-based analysis of ADG snow accumulation records from nine AWS located around the Ross Ice Shelf, and compares the observations to precipita- tion from ERA-Interim and ...
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Weather and climate in the Amundsen sea embayment, West Antartica : observations, reanalyses and high resolution modelling
... than observations from a network of four AWS within the ...AWS observations during strong wind events indicates they are likely to be orographic, ...resolution reanalyses are unable to accurately ...
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Status of High Latitude Precipitation Estimates from Observations and Reanalyses
... Figure 2. Maps of annual and seasonal rain, mixed-phase, snow, and total precipitation frequencies calculated using four years of CloudSat observations poleward of 55°N. The first row displays the annual ...
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Assessing the impact of observations on ocean forecasts and reanalyses: Part 2, Regional applications
... radar observations of surface velocities on alongshore transport ...super observations as necessary), gridded SSH and T/S profiles from ...SSH observations are not assimilated within 50 km of the ...
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Building long term and high spatio temporal resolution precipitation and air temperature reanalyses by mixing local observations and global atmospheric reanalyses: the ANATEM model
... Today, characterising the multi-scale variability of climate variables would appear to be important (if not mandatory) in order to put future climate projections into perspective. Numerous studies worldwide have ...
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Validation of eight atmospheric reanalyses in the Antarctic Peninsula region
... With respect to specific humidity profiles, none of the reanalyses was clearly better than the others. The total RMSE was smallest in JRA-55, but it was also practically on an equal level in MERRA, NCEP-CFSR, ...
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Representation of solar tides in the stratosphere and lower mesosphere in state-of-the-art reanalyses and in satellite observations
... the reanalyses increases with altitude and is fairly large in the lower mesosphere where few actual observations are assim- ilated, leaving the reanalysis fields dependent on the tides simulated in the ...
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Ocean reanalyses
... Ocean reanalyses are becoming increasingly available and useful, and may eventually attract a similar applications base as atmospheric ...that reanalyses may represent interior ocean basin circulations well ...
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Evaluation of snow depth and snow cover over the Tibetan Plateau in global reanalyses using in situ and satellite remote sensing observations
... situ observations or satellite snow cover or precipitation are more capable of representing the shallow, transient snowpack over the TP ...among reanalyses for snow depth. Considering the family of ...
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An Investigation Of Severe Weather Environments In Atmospheric Reanalyses
... the reanalyses, there were some subtle differences in both the positioning and magnitude of the jet between RUC-2 ...other reanalyses, was absent for ...to observations, NARR may have had the best ...
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Eurasian snow depth in long-term climate reanalyses
... the reanalyses are then compared to the station ...in reanalyses. Snow observations were performed at 08:00 local time, which is different than any of the available reanal- ysis ...
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Comparison of the long-term trends in stratospheric dynamics of four reanalyses
... The major problems in the understanding and validating temperature and wind changes in the stratosphere and lower mesosphere are the uncertainties and homogeneity of obser- vational datasets. The longest observational ...
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The reliability of Antarctic tropospheric pressure and temperature in the latest global reanalyses
... pressure observations over the Bellingshausen Sea in spring ...contemporary reanalyses, it is apparent from the range of estimated SMB trends found by Bromwich et ...
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