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DOI | 10.1007/s00382-018-4310-4 |
Uncertainties in reanalysis surface wind stress and their relationship with observing systems | |
Wen C.; Kumar A.; Xue Y. | |
发表日期 | 2019 |
ISSN | 0930-7575 |
起始页码 | 3061 |
结束页码 | 3078 |
卷号 | 52期号:2020-05-06 |
英文摘要 | Atmospheric reanalysis surface wind stress (SWS) estimates have been widely used as surface forcings to drive ocean model simulations and ocean reanalyses, and for understanding climate variability. In this study, we quantify uncertainty in SWS products from six reanalyses, with five from the third generation reanalysis (CFSR, MERRA-1, MERRA-2, JRA-55, ERA-Interim) and one from the first generation reanalysis (R2). Our goals are to (1) characterize uncertainties in monthly mean reanalysis SWS estimates, (2) investigate relationship between the spatial and temporal variations of uncertainties and changes in numbers of observed surface wind data and (3) examine consistency of SWS estimates across different generation of reanalysis products. The six reanalysis SWS estimates broadly agree on the global pattern but differ considerably in magnitude. Compared with TAO SWS estimates, R2 and MERRA-1 significantly underestimate SWS speed over the central Pacific Ocean, while MERRA-2 overestimates easterly wind stress over the north western Pacific. On interannual time scale, high consistency among the reanalyses is located in mid-to-high latitudes, while large uncertainty is found in tropical oceans. All six reanalyses exhibit a similar pattern of wind response to ENSO, but differ significantly in the strength. Compared with TAO estimates, MERRA-2, JRA-55 and ERA-Interim capture the evolution and amplitude of wind anomaly associated with ENSO reasonably well, while CFSR is the outlier which underestimates the peak wind anomaly by more than 35%. Our analysis highlights the importance of observed surface wind data in constraining the reanalysis SWS. It is found that the time variations of the spread among the six reanalyses follows closely to changes in the input of ocean surface winds from satellite scatteometers in all the three tropical oceans. In the tropical Pacific, the accuracy of reanalysis SWS is also linked to the return number of TAO/TRITON winds. The correlation between R2 and the third generation reanalysis products display a clear TAO signature, while the third generation reanalysis products are in a closer agreement with each other. © 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. |
语种 | 英语 |
scopus关键词 | accuracy assessment; climate variation; observational method; spatiotemporal analysis; surface wind; uncertainty analysis; wind stress; Pacific Ocean; Pacific Ocean (Central); Pacific Ocean (Tropical); Pacific Ocean (West) |
来源期刊 | Climate Dynamics
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/146483 |
作者单位 | Climate Prediction Center, NCEP/NWS/NOAA, 5830 University Research Court, Camp Springs, College Park, MD 20740, United States; Innovim, Greenbelt, MD, United States |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wen C.,Kumar A.,Xue Y.. Uncertainties in reanalysis surface wind stress and their relationship with observing systems[J],2019,52(2020-05-06). |
APA | Wen C.,Kumar A.,&Xue Y..(2019).Uncertainties in reanalysis surface wind stress and their relationship with observing systems.Climate Dynamics,52(2020-05-06). |
MLA | Wen C.,et al."Uncertainties in reanalysis surface wind stress and their relationship with observing systems".Climate Dynamics 52.2020-05-06(2019). |
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