A256-01
Overview of the SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) during 2013-2020
Thursday, 17 December 2020: 07:00
Virtual
Masatomo Fujiwara, Hokkaido University, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Sapporo, Japan, Gloria L Manney, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc, Socorro, NM, United States, Lesley J Gray, Oxford University, Department of Physics, AOPP, Oxford, United Kingdom, Jonathon S. Wright, Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China, James Anstey, Environment Canada, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria, Canada, Thomas Birner, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Meteorological Institute, Munich, Germany, Sean M Davis, Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Edwin P Gerber, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY, United States, Lynn Harvey, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Michaela Imelda Hegglin, Unversity of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Cameron R Homeyer, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, John Andrew Knox, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, Kirstin Krüger, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Alyn Lambert, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Craig S Long, NOAA Science Center, College Park, MD, United States, Patrick Martineau, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan, Beatriz Monge-Sanz, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Michelle L Santee, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, Susann Tegtmeier, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada, Simon Henri Chabrillat, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, Gilbert P Compo, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Wesley Ebisuzaki, NCEP, Camp Springs, MD, United States, Yayoi Harada, Meteorological Research Institute / Japan Meteorological Agency, Ibaraki, Japan, Chiaki Kobayashi, Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, Kazutoshi Onogi, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan, Krzysztof Wargan, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jeffrey Whitaker, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Rossana Dragani, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom
Abstract:
The Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) project is one of the four core projects of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). Researchers interested in SPARC use global atmospheric reanalysis products to understand a wide range of processes and variability in the atmosphere, to validate chemistry climate models, and to investigate and identify climate change. The SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) was initiated in 2011 and officially started in 2013 to conduct a coordinated intercomparison of all major global atmospheric reanalysis data sets. The S-RIP has been aiming at writing up an assessment report in the SPARC report series (to be published by the end of 2020) (1) on overall quality of temperature, winds, ozone, and water vapor data, (2) on more process- and region-oriented evaluation of the Brewer–Dobson circulation, extratropical stratosphere-troposphere coupling, extratropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, the tropical tropopause layer, the quasi-biennial oscillation, polar processes, and the upper stratosphere and lower mesosphere, and (3) with a coordinated description of the reanalysis systems. We also have an inter-journal special issue on "The SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP)" in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) and Earth System Science Data (ESSD). In the presentation, we will discuss key findings and recommendations as well as the evaluation of this first phase of the S-RIP activity.
