Web-based Reanalysis Intercomparison Tools (WRIT) for analysis and comparison of reanalyses and other datasets

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1671-1678

  Smith, Catherine A ^a   Compo, Gilbert P ^a   Hooper, Don K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WEBSITES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL LAND SURFACE; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; INTERCOMPARISONS; MODEL FORECASTS; REANALYSIS; TIME-PERIODS; UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84920567778     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00192.1     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Adler, R. F., and Coauthors, 2003: The Version 2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Precipitation Analysis (1979-present). J. Hydrometeor., 4, 1147-1167, doi:10.1175/1525-7541(2003)0042.0.CO;2.
2. Allan, R., and T. Ansell, 2006: A new globally complete monthly historical gridded mean sea level pressure dataset (HadSLP2): 1850-2004. J. Climate, 19, 5816-5842, doi:10.1175/JCLI3937.1.
3. Chen, M., P. Xie, J. E. Janowiak, and P. A. Arkin, 2002: Global land precipitation: A 50-yr monthly analysis based on gauge observations. J. Hydrometeor., 3, 249-266, doi:10.1175/1525-7541(2002)0032.0.CO;2.
4. Compo, G. P., and Coauthors, 2011: The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 137, 1-28, doi:10.1002/qj.776.
5. Dee, D. P., and Coauthors, 2011: The ERA-Interim reanalysis: Configuration and performance of the data assimilation system. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 137, 553-597, doi:10.1002/qj.828.
6. Fan, Y., and H. van den Dool, 2008: A global monthly land surface air temperature analysis for 1948-present. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D01103.
7. Harris, I., P. D. Jones, T. J. Osborn, and D. H. Lister, 2013: Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations-the CRU TS3.10 Dataset. Int. J. Climatol., 34, 623-642.
8. Kalnay, E., and Coauthors, 1996: The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 437-470, doi:10.1175/1520-0477(1996)0772.0.CO;2.
9. Kanamitsu, M., W. Ebisuzaki, J. Woollen, S.-K. Yanwhag, J. J. Hnilo, M. Fiorino, and G. L. Potter, 2002: NCEP-DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis (R-2). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 83, 1631-1643, doi:10.1175/BAMS-83-11-1631.
10. NCAR, 2014: The NCAR Command Language (Version 6.2.1). UCAR/NCAR/CISL/VETS, http://dx.doi. org/10.5065/D6WD3XH5.
11. Noone, D., and I. Simmonds, 1999: A three-dimensional spherical trajectory algorithm. Research Activities in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modelling, Report No. 28, WMO/TD-No. 942, H. Ritchie, Ed., WMO, 3.26-3.27.
12. Rayner, N. A., D. E. Parker, E. B. Horton, C. K. Folland, L. V. Alexander, D. P. Rowell, E. C. Kent, and A. Kaplan, 2003: Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century. J. Geophys. Res., 108, 4407, doi:10.1029/2002JD002670.
13. Rienecker, M. M., and Coauthors, 2011: MERRA: NASA's Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications. J. Climate, 24, 3624-3648, doi:10.1175/ JCLI-D-11-00015.1.
14. Sahcxa, S., and Coauthors, 2010: The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91, 1015-1057, doi:10.1175/2010BAMS3001.1.
15. Secretariat of WMO, 2010: Manual on WMO Information System. Commission for Basic Systems Extraordinary Session (CBS-Ext. 10), WMO CBS Committee, DOC4.3(1).
16. Tokinaga, H., and S.-P. Xie, 2011: Wave and Anemom-eter-based Sea-surface Wind (WASWind) for climate change analysis. J. Climate, 24, 267-285, doi:10.1175/2010JCLI3789.1.
17. Willmott, C. J., and K. Matsuura, 1995: Smart interpolation of annually averaged air temperature in the United States. J. Appl. Meteor., 34, 2577-2586, doi:10.1175/1520-0450(1995)0342.0.CO;2.