NG32A:
Reanalysis: Evaluation and Intercomparison I

Session ID#: 3181

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
300 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Sean M Davis, University of Colorado / CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Christian Ohlwein, University of Bonn, Meteorological Institute, Bonn, Germany and Masatomo Fujiwara, Hokkaido University, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Sapporo, Japan
Primary Convener:  Jan Dominik Keller, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Lindenberg, Germany
Co-conveners:  Sean M Davis, University of Colorado / CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Christian Ohlwein, University of Bonn, Meteorological Institute, Bonn, Germany and Masatomo Fujiwara, Hokkaido Univ, Sapporo, Japan
OSPA Liaison:  Sean M Davis, University of Colorado / CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1910 Data assimilation, integration and fusion [INFORMATICS]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4255 Numerical modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Characterizing Uncertainty

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

NG32A-01
The NASA Modern Era Reanalysis for Research and Applications, Version-2 (MERRA-2) (Invited) (8838)
Ron Gelaro1, Will McCarty1, Andrea Molod2, Max Suarez1, Lawrence Takacs1 and Ricardo Todling1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
NG32A-02
The Stratosphere in MERRA and MERRA-2 (Invited) (10268)
Steven Pawson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, Lawrence Coy, NASA GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, United States, Krzysztof Wargan, SSAI at NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Will McCarty, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
NG32A-03
Intercomparison of an improved 20th Century reanalysis version 2c dataset spanning 1850 to 2012 (Invited) (13108)
Gilbert P Compo, CIRES/University of Colorado and Physical Sciences Laboratory/NOAA, Boulder, United States; NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Jeffrey Whitaker, NOAA PSL, Boulder, United States, Prashant D Sardeshmukh, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States; University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Benjamin S Giese, Texas A&M University, Dept. of Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States and Philip Brohan, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom
NG32A-04
Exploring reanalysis application for the purposes of climatological applications at regional scale (Invited) (6119)
Frank Kaspar, Andrea Kaiser-Weiss, Andre Obregon and Michael Borsche, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Climate Monitoring, Offenbach am Main, Germany
NG32A-05
Intercomparison of Reanalyses Dynamic Variables in the Stratosphere: Results from the SPARC-Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (13351)
Craig S Long1, Li Zhang1 and Masatomo Fujiwara2, (1)NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, Climate Prediction Center, college park, MD, United States, (2)Hokkaido University, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Sapporo, Japan
NG32A-06
Comparing Temperature and Precipitation Extremes Across Multiple Reanalyses and Gridded in Situ Observational Datasets (7475)
Markus Donat, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona, Spain, Lisa Alexander, University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Jana Sillmann, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Simon Wild, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, Francis W Zwiers, University of Victoria, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, Victoria, BC, Canada and Tanya Lippmann, University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, Australia
NG32A-07
Evaluating Reanalysis - Independent Observations and Observation Independence (15692)
Sabrina Wahl1,2, Christoph Bollmeyer1,3, Christopher Danek1,3, Petra Friederichs1,3, Jan Dominik Keller4,5 and Christian Ohlwein1,3, (1)University of Bonn, Meteorological Institute, Bonn, Germany, (2)Hans Ertel Centre for Weather Research, Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics, Bonn, Germany, (3)Hans Ertel Centre for Weather Research, Climate Monitoring Branch, Bonn, Germany, (4)Deutscher Wetterdienst, Lindenberg, Germany, (5)Hans-Ertel-Centre for Weather Research, Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics, Bonn, Germany
NG32A-08
Arctic System Reanalysis Contrasted with the ERA-Interim Reanalysis (31057)
David H Bromwich, Byrd Polar & Climate Rsrch Ctr, Columbus, OH, United States, Aaron B Wilson, The Ohio State University, Extension, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States and Lesheng Bai, Byrd Polar Rsrch Ctr, Columbus, OH, United States
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