Evaluation of the ozone fields in NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis

Journal of Climate

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 2961-2988

  Wargan, Krzysztof ^a,b   Labow, Gordon ^a   Frith, Stacey ^a   Pawson, Steven ^b   Livesey, Nathaniel ^c   Partyka, Gary ^a  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ozone; Reanalysis data

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NASA; QUALITY CONTROL; SATELLITES; STATISTICS; TROPOSPHERE;

DATA ASSIMILATION; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENTS; REANALYSIS; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; STANDARD DEVIATION;

OZONE;

DATA ASSIMILATION; EOS; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; NOAA SATELLITE; OZONE; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE DATA; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 85017132187     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0699.1     Document Type: Article

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