NG32A:
Reanalysis: Evaluation and Intercomparison I

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Sean M Davis, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Jan Dominik Keller, Deutscher Wetterdienst Nieder, Offenbach, Germany, Christian Ohlwein, University of Bonn, Meteorological Institute, Bonn, Germany and Masatomo Fujiwara, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Primary Conveners:  Jan Dominik Keller, Deutscher Wetterdienst Nieder, Offenbach, Germany
Co-conveners:  Sean M Davis, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Chemestry and Climate Processes, Boulder, CO, United States; NOAA Boulder, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Christian Ohlwein, University of Bonn, Meteorological Institute, Bonn, Germany and Masatomo Fujiwara, Hokkaido Univ, Sapporo, Japan
OSPA Liaisons:  Sean M Davis, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
The NASA Modern Era Reanalysis for Research and Applications, Version-2 (MERRA-2)
Ron Gelaro, Will McCarty, Andrea Molod, Max Suarez, Lawrence Takacs and Ricardo Todling, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
10:35 AM
 
The Stratosphere in MERRA and MERRA-2
Steven Pawson1, Lawrence Coy2, Krzysztof Wargan2 and Will McCarty1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)SSAI at NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
10:50 AM
 
Intercomparison of an improved 20th Century reanalysis version 2c dataset spanning 1850 to 2012
Gilbert P Compo1,2, Jeffrey S Whitaker2, Prashant D Sardeshmukh1,2, Benjamin S Giese3 and Philip Brohan4, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Texas A&M University, Dept. of Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, (4)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom
11:05 AM
 
Exploring reanalysis application for the purposes of climatological applications at regional scale
Frank Kaspar, Andrea Kaiser-Weiss, Andre Obregon and Michael Borsche, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Climate Monitoring, Offenbach am Main, Germany
11:20 AM
 
Intercomparison of Reanalyses Dynamic Variables in the Stratosphere: Results from the SPARC-Reanalysis Intercomparison Project
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, Sapporo, Japan
11:35 AM
 
Comparing Temperature and Precipitation Extremes Across Multiple Reanalyses and Gridded in Situ Observational Datasets
Markus Donat1, Lisa V. Alexander1, Jana Sillmann2, Simon Wild3, Francis W Zwiers4 and Tanya Lippmann1, (1)University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, Australia, (2)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (3)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (4)University of Victoria, Vancouver, BC, Canada
11:50 AM
 
Evaluating Reanalysis - Independent Observations and Observation Independence
Sabrina Wahl1,2, Christoph Bollmeyer1,2, Christopher Danek1,2, Petra Friederichs1,2, Jan Dominik Keller2,3 and Christian Ohlwein1,2, (1)University of Bonn, Meteorological Institute, Bonn, Germany, (2)Hans Ertel Centre for Weather Research, Climate Monitoring Branch, Bonn, Germany, (3)Deutscher Wetterdienst Nieder, Offenbach, Germany
12:05 PM
 
Arctic System Reanalysis Contrasted with the ERA-Interim Reanalysis
David H Bromwich, Aaron B Wilson and Lesheng Bai, Byrd Polar Rsrch Ctr, Columbus, OH, United States
 
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