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

Free, Melissa; Sun, Bomin; Yoo, Hye Lim

doi:10.1175/jcli-d-15-0637.1

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

2016
By Free, Melissa ; Sun, Bomin ; Yoo, Hye Lim
Source: Journal of Climate, 29(6), 2015-2021

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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.
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Journal of Climate, 29(6), 2015-2021
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