Inter-reanalysis studies
This page provides a sampling of recent research on reanalysis comparisons.*
Antarctic | Arctic | Circulation | Diabatic Heating | Fluxes | Hydrologic Cycle | Precipitation | Temperature
30 year comparison between Antarctic stations (temperature, heights, and surface pressure) and 2nd and 3rd generation reanalyses - Bracegirdle, Thomas J., Gareth J. Marshall, 2012: The Reliability of Antarctic Tropospheric Pressure and Temperature in the Latest Global Reanalyses. J. Climate, 25, 7138–7146. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00685.1
Arctic temperatures and trends over the 20th century in reanalyses, reconstructions, and upper-air observations are compared in Brönnimann, S., A.N. Grant, G.P. Compo,T. Ewen, T. Griesser, A.M. Fischer, M. Schraner, and A. Stickler, 2012: A multi-data set comparison of the vertical structure of temperature variability and change over the Arctic during the past 100 years. Cli. Dyn., 39, 1577-1598, doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1291-6. Discussion Page
Several reanalysis datasets are compared with satellite observations of Arctic clouds in Alexander Chernokulsky and Igor I. Mokhov, “Climatology of Total Cloudiness in the Arctic: An Intercomparison of Observations and Reanalyses,” Advances in Meteorology, vol. 2012, Article ID 542093, 15 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/542093. Discussion Page
The Arctic cloud fraction and radiative fluxes of several reanalyses are compared with Baseline Surface Radiation Network observations in Zib, B.J., X. Dong, B. Xi, A. Kennedy, 2012: Evaluation and Intercomparison of Cloud Fraction and Radiative Fluxes in Recent Reanalyses over the Arctic Using BSRN Surface Observations. J. Climate, 25, 2291-2305. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00147.1
Interannual Variability of the Atmospheric Angular Momentum in 2nd and 3rd generation reanalyses - Paek, Houk, Huei-Ping Huang, 2012: A Comparison of interannual variability in atmospheric angular momentum and length-of-day using multiple reanalysis datasets, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D20102, doi:10.1029/2012JD018105. Discussion Page
Comparing CFSR and other reanalyses in the troposphere - Chelliah, M., W. Ebisuzaki, S. Weaver, and A. Kumar, 2011: Evaluating the tropospheric variability in National Centers for Environmental Prediction's climate forecast system reanalysis, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D17107, doi:10.1029/2011JD015707. Discussion Page
Comparing trends in sea level pressure from ERA-Interim, ERA-40, CFSR, NCEP-NCAR, MERRA, and 20CR - L'Heureux, M.L., S. Lee, and B. Lyon, 2013: Recent multidecadal strengthening of the Walker circulation across the tropical Pacific, Nature Clim Change, doi: 10.1038/nclimate1840. Discussion Page
3rd generation reanalyses compared with some observations - Jian Ling and Chidong Zhang, Diabatic Heating Profiles in Recent Global Reanalyses (doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00384.1)
The Arctic cloud fraction and radiative fluxes of several reanalyses are compared with Baseline Surface Radiation Network observations in Zib, B.J., X. Dong, B. Xi, A. Kennedy, 2012: Evaluation and Intercomparison of Cloud Fraction and Radiative Fluxes in Recent Reanalyses over the Arctic Using BSRN Surface Observations. J. Climate, 25, 2291-2305. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00147.1
Southern African precipitation in ERA-40, ERA-interim, JRA-25, MERRA, CFSR, NCEP-R1, NCEP-R2 and 20CRv2 are compared in Zhang, Q., H. Körnich and K. Holmgren, 2012: How well do reanalyses represent the southern African precipitation? Clim. Dyn., in press (doi: 10.1007/s00382-012-1423-z). Discussion Page
Arctic temperatures and trends over the 20th century in reanalyses, reconstructions, and upper-air observations are compared in Brönnimann, S., A.N. Grant, G.P. Compo,T. Ewen, T. Griesser, A.M. Fischer, M. Schraner, and A. Stickler, 2012: A multi-data set comparison of the vertical structure of temperature variability and change over the Arctic during the past 100 years. Cli. Dyn., 39, 1577-1598, doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1291-6. Discussion Page
Temperature trends over the continental United States for the period 1979 to 2008 compared to observations - Vose, R. S., S. Applequist, M. J. Menne, C. N. Williams Jr., and P. Thorne. 2012: An intercomparison of temperature trends in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network and recent atmospheric reanalyses. Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L10703. (doi:10.1029/2012GL051387) Discussion Page
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