The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: Configuration and performance of the data assimilation system

DP Dee, SM Uppala, AJ Simmons… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
ERA‐Interim is the latest global atmospheric reanalysis produced by the European Centre
for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). The ERA‐Interim project was conducted …

Oceanic and terrestrial sources of continental precipitation

L Gimeno, A Stohl, RM Trigo, F Dominguez… - Reviews of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The most important sources of atmospheric moisture at the global scale are herein identified,
both oceanic and terrestrial, and a characterization is made of how continental regions are …

The ERA‐40 re‐analysis

SM Uppala, PW Kållberg, AJ Simmons… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
ERA‐40 is a re‐analysis of meteorological observations from September 1957 to August
2002 produced by the European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in …

Low‐frequency variations in surface atmospheric humidity, temperature, and precipitation: Inferences from reanalyses and monthly gridded observational data sets

AJ Simmons, KM Willett, PD Jones… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Evidence is presented of a reduction in relative humidity over low‐latitude and midlatitude
land areas over a period of about 10 years leading up to 2008, based on monthly anomalies …

Variational bias correction of satellite radiance data in the ERA‐Interim reanalysis

DP Dee, S Uppala - … of the Royal Meteorological Society: A …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This article describes the performance of the variational bias correction system for satellite
radiance data in ERA‐Interim, and considers implications for the representation of climate …

Bias and data assimilation

DP Dee - Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
All data assimilation systems are affected by biases, caused by problems with the data, by
approximations in the observation operators used to simulate the data, by limitations of the …

A review of the remote sensing of lower tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy …

V Wulfmeyer, RM Hardesty, DD Turner… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A review of remote sensing technology for lower tropospheric thermodynamic (TD) profiling
is presented with focus on high accuracy and high temporal‐vertical resolution. The …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of global precipitation in reanalyses

MG Bosilovich, J Chen, FR Robertson… - Journal of applied …, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
Evaluation of Global Precipitation in Reanalyses in: Journal of Applied Meteorology and
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The growing impact of satellite observations sensitive to humidity, cloud and precipitation

AJ Geer, F Baordo, N Bormann… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Ten years ago, humidity observations were thought to give little benefit to global weather
forecasts. Nowadays, at the European Centre for Medium‐range Weather Forecasts …

An assessment of precipitation changes over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean since 1989 in contemporary global reanalyses

DH Bromwich, JP Nicolas, AJ Monaghan - Journal of Climate, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study evaluates the temporal variability of the Antarctic surface mass balance,
approximated as precipitation minus evaporation (P− E), and Southern Ocean precipitation …