An assessment of ten ocean reanalyses in the polar regions

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 52, Issue 3-4, 2019, Pages 1613-1650

  Uotila, Petteri ^a   Goosse, Hugues ^b   Haines, Keith ^c   Chevallier, Matthieu ^d   Barthélemy, Antoine ^b   Bricaud, Clément ^e   Carton, Jim ^f   Fučkar, Neven ^g,h   Garric, Gilles ^e   Iovino, Doroteaciro ⁱ   Kauker, Frank ^j   Korhonen, Meri ^k   Lien, Vidar S ^l   Marnela, Marika ^k   Massonnet, François ^b,g   Mignac, Davi ^c   Peterson, K Andrew ^m   Sadikni, Remon ⁿ   Shi, Li ^o   Tietsche, Steffen ^p   Toyoda, Takahiro ^q   Xie, Jiping ^r   Zhang, Zhaoru ^s   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^e MERCATOR OCÉAN   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^j ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^k FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^l INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^m MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^o BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^p EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^q JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^r NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^s SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

more..

Author keywords

Antarctic; Arctic; Oceanography; Reanalyses; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; HYDROGRAPHY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; POLAR REGION; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ORA;

EID: 85047379117     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-018-4242-z     Document Type: Article

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