Comparison between Total Cloud Cover in Four Reanalysis Products and Cloud Measured by Visual Observations at US Weather Stations

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• Journal Title:
  Journal of Climate
• Personal Author:
  Free, Melissa ; Sun, Bomin ; Yoo, Hye Lim
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; STAR (Center for Satellite Applications and Research) ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; ARL (Air Resources Laboratory) ; CPO (Climate Program Office)
• Description:
  A homogeneity-adjusted dataset of total cloud cover from weather stations in the contiguous United States is compared with cloud cover in four state-of-the-art global reanalysis products: the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis from NCEP, the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications from NASA, ERA-Interim from ECMWF, and the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis Project from the Japan Meteorological Agency. The reanalysis products examined in this study generally show much lower cloud amount than visual weather station data, and this underestimation appears to be generally consistent with their overestimation of downward surface shortwave fluxes when compared with surface radiation data from the Surface Radiation Network.
• Keywords:
  Atm/Ocean Structure/ Phenomena Cloud Cover Geographic Location/Entity Models And Modeling North America Observational Techniques And Algorithms Reanalysis Data Surface Observations
• Source:
  Journal of Climate, 29(6), 2015-2021
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-15-0637.1
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Rights Information:
  Other
• Compliance:
  Submitted
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  urn:sha256:b0b553aad4c0243db62bbd2261ebf0b1a0d44ed9fb2ae8e1a9a88562c8bc14c9
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  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/41060/noaa_41060_DS1.pdf
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