Final Technical Report for Collaborative Research: Developing and Implementing Ocean-Atmosphere Reanalyses for Climate Applications (OARCA)
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Springs, MD (United States)
As an important step toward a coupled data assimilation system for generating reanalysis fields needed to assess climate model projections, the Ocean Atmosphere Coupled Reanalysis for Climate Applications (OARCA) project assesses and improves the longest reanalyses currently available of the atmosphere and ocean: the 20th Century Reanalysis Project (20CR) and the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation with sparse observational input (SODAsi) system, respectively. In this project, we make off-line but coordinated improvements in the 20CR and SODAsi datasets, with improvements in one feeding into improvements of the other through an iterative generation of new versions. These datasets now span from the 19th to 21st centuries. We then study the extreme weather and variability from days to decades of the resulting datasets. A total of 24 publications have been produced in this project.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Earth and Environmental Systems Science Division
- Contributing Organization:
- Texas A&M University; United Kingdom Met Office; Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0006966
- OSTI ID:
- 1433384
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-CIRES-6966
- Resource Relation:
- Related Information: go.usa.gov/XTdhttp://portal.nersc.gov/project/20C_Reanalysis/portal.nersc.gov/archive/home/projects/incite11/www/20C_Reanalysis_version_2c/https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds131.2/http://reanalyses.orghttps://reanalyses.org/atmosphere/writ
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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