Impact of observations from Arctic drifting buoys on the reanalysis of surface fields

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Inoue, Jun ^a   Enomoto, Takeshi ^a   Miyoshi, Takemasa ^b   Yamane, Shozo ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC ICE; BUOY DATA; DATA SETS; DRIFTING BUOYS; PROGNOSTIC VARIABLES; REANALYSIS; SURFACE FIELD; SURFACE PRESSURES; SURFACE VARIABLES;

OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

BUOYS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BUOY SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 67449142977     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037380     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Bromwich, D. H., and S.-H. Wang (2005), Evaluation of the NCEP-NCAR and ECMWF 15- and 40-yr reanalyses using rawinsonde data from two independent Arctic field experiments, Mon. Weather Rev., 133, 3562-3578.
2. Bromwich, D. H., R. L. Fogt, K. I. Hodges, and J. E. Walsh (2007), A tropospheric assessment of the ERA-40, NCEP, and JRA-25 global re-analyses in the polar regions, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D10111, doi:10.1029/ 2006JD007859.
3. Enomoto, T., A. Kuwano-Yoshida, N. Komori, and W. Ohfachi (2008), Description of AFES 2: Improvements for high-resolution and coupled simulations, in High Resolution Numerical Modelling of the Atmosphere and Ocean, edited by K. Hamilton and W. Ohfachi, chap. 5, pp. 77-97, Springer, New York.
4. Fan, X., J. E. Walsh, and J. R. Krieger (2008), A one-year experimental Arctic reanalysis and comparisons with ERA-40 and NCEP/NCAR reanalyses, Geophys. Res. Lett, 35, L19811, doi:10.1029/2008GL035110.
5. Hunt, B. R., E. J. Kostelich, and I. Szunyogh (2007), Efficient data assimilation for spatiotemporal chaos: A local ensemble transform Kalman filter, Physica D, 230, 112-126.
6. Inoue, J., and T. Kikuchi (2007), Outflow of summertime Arctic sea ice observed by ice drifting buoys and its linkage with ice reduction and atmospheric circulation patterns, J. Meteorol. Soc. Jpn., 85, 881-887.
7. Kalnay, E., et al. (1996), The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 77, 437-471.
8. Kanamitsu, M., W. Ebisuzaki, J. Woollen, S.-K. Yang, J. J. Hnilo, M. Fiorino, and G. L. Potter (2002), NCEP-DOE AMIP-II reanalysis (R-2), Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 83, 1631-1643.
9. Miyoshi, T., and S. Yamane (2007), Local ensemble transform Kalman filtering with an AGCM at a T159/L48 resolution, Mon. Weather Rev., 135, 3841-3861.
10. Miyoshi, T., S. Yamane, and T. Enomoto (2007a), The AFES-LETKF experimental ensemble reanalysis: ALERA, Sci. Online Lett. Atmos., 3, 45-48.
11. Miyoshi, T., S. Yamane, and T. Enomoto (2007b), Localizing the error covariance by physical distances within a local ensemble transform Kalman filter (LETKF), Sci. Online Lett. Atmos., 3, 89-92.
12. Ohfachi, W., H. Nakamura, M. K. Yoshioka, T. Enomoto, K. Tanaka, X. Peng, S. Yamane, T. Nishimura, Y. Kurihara, and K. Ninomiya (2004), 10-km mesh meso-scale resolving simulations of the global atmosphere on the Earth Simulator: Preliminary outcomes of AFES (AGCM for the Earth Simulator), J. Earth Simulator, 1, 8-34.
13. Onogi, K., et al. (2007), The JRA-25 reanalysis, J. Meteorol. Soc. Jpn., 85, 369-432.
14. Rigor, I. G., R. L. Colony, and S. Martin (2000), Variations in surface air temperature in the Arctic from 1979-1997, J. Clim., 13, 896-914.
15. Rigor, I. G., J. M. Wallace, and R. L. Colony (2002), Response of sea-ice to the Arctic Oscillation, J. Clim., 15, 2648-2663.
16. Uppala, S. M., et al. (2005), The ERA-40 re-analysis, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 137, 2961-3012.
17. Walsh, J. E., W. L. Chapman, and T. L. Shy (1996), Recent decrease of sea level pressure in the central Arctic, J. Clim., 9, 480-486.