[Reanalysis_20cr-notify] Status update for 20th Century Reanalysis version 2 (1871-2008)

Wed Jul 14 20:57:39 GMT 2010

14 July 2010

Dear Colleagues,

Global four-times-daily atmospheric and surface fields spanning 1871 to 
2008 from the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project version 2 dataset are 
now available. They can be obtained in GRIB format via our partners at 
the National Center for Atmospheric Research 
<http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds131.1>, and are also available at 
<http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.20thC_ReanV2.html> in 
netCDF format, courtesy of our partners at the NOAA Earth System 
Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division (PSD), and University of 
Colorado CIRES/Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC). They will also become 
available via our partners at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center 
(NCDC) through the NOAA Operational Model Archive and Distribution 
System (NOMADS) <http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov> in the near future. Beta 
composite plotting tools for 4-times-daily, daily and monthly means are 
now available courtesy of Cathy Smith of NOAA/ESRL/PSD and CU/CIRES/CDC 
at <http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/20thC_Rean/>.

Additionally, pre-generated synoptic maps showing the ensemble mean 
analysis and analysis uncertainty of Sea Level Pressure and 500 hPa 
height over the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere and for Sea 
Level Pressure and 850 hPa zonal wind in the tropics are available at 
<http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/20thC_Rean/hem_images.html>.

Example animations of the Galveston hurricane of 1900 are available 
courtesy of NCAR at 
<http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds131.1/docs/galveston/Galveston1900.avi> 
and for the Science on a Sphere visualization platform courtesy of Cathy 
Smith and Beth Russell at 
<http://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/Atmosphere/reanalysis.html>

A brief description of the project is given below. Please also visit the 
project home page at <http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/20thC_Rean/>. A 
journal article describing the dataset has been submitted to the 
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society at their invitation:

Compo, G.P., J.S. Whitaker, P.D. Sardeshmukh, N. Matsui, R.J. Allan, X. 
Yin, B.E. Gleason, R.S. Vose, G. Rutledge, P. Bessemoulin, S. 
Brönnimann, M. Brunet, R.I. Crouthamel, A.N. Grant, P.Y. Groisman, P.D. 
Jones, M.C. Kruk, A.C. Kruger, G.J. Marshall, M. Maugeri, H.Y. Mok, Ø. 
Nordli, T.F. Ross, R.M. Trigo, X.L. Wang, S.D. Woodruff, S.J. Worley, 
2009: The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project 
<http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/people/gilbert.p.compo/20CRv2_Compoetal2010.pdf>. 
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., submitted. Available online at 
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/people/gilbert.p.compo/20CRv2_Compoetal2010.pdf 

The project is part of the international Atmospheric Circulation 
Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE < http://www.met-acre.org/>) 
initiative which facilitates the recovery of historical instrumental 
surface terrestrial and marine global weather observations to underpin 
reanalyses spanning the last 200-250 years for climate applications and 
impacts needs worldwide.

Please feel free to contact the Project Leads, Gil Compo 
<compo at colorado.edu> and Jeff Whitaker <Jeffrey.S.Whitaker at noaa.gov>, 
with questions.

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The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project

The Project is an effort to produce a reanalysis dataset spanning the 
entire twentieth century (1871-present), assimilating only surface 
observations of synoptic pressure and prescribing monthly sea surface 
temperature and sea ice distribution. The SST and sea ice data are 
courtesy of the UK Met Office Hadley Centre from their HadISST dataset. 
The pressure observation dataset, the International Surface Pressure 
Databank (ISPD), has been assembled through international cooperation 
under the auspices of the ACRE initiative, and working groups of GCOS 
and WCRP.

We would like to thank the NCEP Environmental Modeling Center for the 
use of the Global Forecast System model, our colleagues at NOAA/ESRL/PSD 
and CU/CIRES/CDC for their assistance and support, especially D. Hooper 
and C. Smith for putting the data online, the NOAA Climate Program 
Office for their continuing partnership, the US Department of Energy 
Office of Science Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory 
and Experiment (INCITE) and Office of Biological and Environmental 
programs for computing awards at the National Energy Research Scientific 
Computer Center and the National Center for Computational Sciences at 
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the international organizations and 
groups that have contributed to and are contributing to the continuing 
development of the ISPD:

All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information WDC

Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE)

Australian Bureau of Meteorology

British Antarctic Survey

Danish Meteorological Institute

Deutscher Wetterdienst

EMULATE

Environment Canada

ETH-Zurich

GCOS AOPC/OOPC Working Group on Surface Pressure

GCOS/WCRP Working Group on Observational Data Sets for Reanalyses

Hong Kong Observatory

Instituto Geofisico da Universidade do Porto

International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS)

International Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS)

International Environmental Data Rescue Organization (IEDRO)

Japan Meteorological Agency

Jersey Meteorological Department

KNMI

Météo -France

Météo-France Division of Climate

Meteorological and Hydrological Service, Croatia

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Nicolaus Copernicus University

NIWA

NOAA Climate Database Modernization Program

NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory

NOAA National Climatic Data Center

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction

NOAA Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell U.

NOAA Midwest Regional Climate Center at UIUC

Norwegian Meteorological Institute

Ohio State U. -- Byrd Polar Research Center

Portuguese Meteorological Institute (IM)

Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory

SIGN - Signatures of environmental change in the observations of the 
Geophysical Institutes

South African Weather Service

UK Met Office Hadley Centre

U. of Colorado-CIRES/Climate Diagnostics Center

U. of East Anglia-Climatic Research Unit

U. of Lisbon-Instituto Geofisico do Infante D. Luiz

U. of Milan-Department of Physics

U. Rovira i Virgili-Center on Climate Change

WCRP/GCOS Working Group on Observational Data Sets for Reanalysis

ZAMG

The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project used resources of the National 
Energy Research Scientific Computing Center <http://www.nersc.gov/> and 
of the National Center for Computational Sciences <http://www.nccs.gov/> 
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which are supported by the Office of 
Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. 
DE-AC02-05CH11231 and Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725, respectively.

The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project Members:

Gil Compo, co-Lead Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project, University of 
Colorado, CIRES, Climate Diagnostics Center & NOAA Earth System Research 
Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division

Jeffrey S. Whitaker, co-Lead Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project, NOAA 
Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division

Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, University of Colorado, CIRES, Climate 
Diagnostics Center & NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical 
Sciences Division

Nobuki Matsui, University of Colorado, CIRES, Climate Diagnostics Center 
& NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division

Robert J. Allan, ACRE Project Manager, Hadley Centre, Met Office, United 
Kingdom

Xungang Yin, STG Inc., Asheville, NC

Byron E. Gleason, Jr., NOAA National Climatic Data Center

Russell S. Vose, NOAA National Climatic Data Center

Glenn Rutledge, NOAA National Climatic Data Center

Pierre Bessemoulin, Meteo-France

Stefan Brönnimann, ETH Zurich

Manola Brunet, Centre for Climate Change (C3), Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Richard I. Crouthamel, International Environmental Data Rescue Organization

Andrea N. Grant, ETH Zurich

Pavel Y. Groisman, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research & 
NOAA National Climatic Data Center

Philip D. Jones, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia

Michael Kruk, STG Inc., Asheville, NC

Andries C. Kruger, South African Weather Service

Gareth J. Marshall, British Antarctic Survey

Maurizio Maugeri, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università delgi Studi di Milano

Hing Y. Mok, Hong Kong Observatory

Øyvind Nordli, Norwegian Meteorologisk Institutt

Thomas F. Ross, NOAA Climate Database Modernization Program, National 
Climatic Data Center

Ricardo M. Trigo, Centro de Geofísica da Universidade de Lisboa, IDL, 
University of Lisbon

Xiaolan L. Wang, Environment Canada

Scott D. Woodruff, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical 
Sciences Division

Steven J. Worley, National Center for Atmospheric Research

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Gil Compo, Research Scientist, CIRES
University of Colorado

Mail : CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
NOAA Physical Sciences Division
Earth System Research Laboratory
325 Broadway R/PSD1, Boulder, CO 80305-3328
Email: compo at colorado.edu
Phone: (303) 497-6115 Fax: (303) 497-6449
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/people/gilbert.p.compo
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never
tried anything new." Albert Einstein

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