An assessment of oceanic variability in the NCEP climate forecast system reanalysis

• Published in: Climate dynamics Vol. 37; no. 11-12; pp. 2511 - 2539
• Main Authors: Xue, Yan, Huang, Boyin, Hu, Zeng-Zhen, Kumar, Arun, Wen, Caihong, Behringer, David, Nadiga, Sudhir
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.12.2011; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Climate; Climate change; Climate system; Climate variability; Climatology; Climatology. Bioclimatology. Climate change; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Earth, ocean, space; El Nino; Environmental aspects; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; Geophysics. Techniques, methods, instrumentation and models; Geophysics/Geodesy; Meteorology; Ocean circulation; Ocean temperature; Ocean-atmosphere interaction; Oceanography; Precipitation variability; River flow; Runoff; Sea ice; Sensible heat; Simulation; Southern Oscillation; Streams; Trade winds; Tropical environments; Weather forecasting; United States; IS, Equatorial Pacific; ISW, Indian Ocean; AS, Tropical Atlantic; IS, Tropical Pacific; ISW, Tropical Indian Ocean; Wind Stress; Indian Ocean Dipole; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation; Mixed Layer Depth; Initialization; Measurement in situ; three-dimensional models; Variational calculus; Oceanographic survey; Reanalysis; Climate models; Data assimilation; Climate forecast

At the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), a reanalysis of the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice and land over the period 1979–2009, referred to as the climate forecast system reanalysis (CFSR), was recently completed. The oceanic component of CFSR includes many advances: (a) the MOM4 oce...