The ERA5 global reanalysis: Preliminary extension to 1950

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• Journal Title:
  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
• Personal Author:
  Bell, Bill ; Hersbach, Hans ; Simmons, Adrian ; Berrisford, Paul ; Dahlgren, Per ; Horányi, András ; Muñoz‐Sabater, Joaquín ; Nicolas, Julien ; Radu, Raluca ; Schepers, Dinand ; Soci, Cornel ; Villaume, Sebastien ; Bidlot, Jean‐Raymond ; Haimberger, Leo ; Woollen, Jack ; Buontempo, Carlo ; Thépaut, Jean‐Noël
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NWS (National Weather Service) ; NCEP (National Centers for Environmental Prediction)
• Description:
  TheextensionoftheERA5reanalysisbackto1950supplementsthepreviously publishedsegmentcovering1979tothepresent.Itfeaturestheassimilationofadditionalconventionalobservations,aswellasimproveduseofearlysatellite data.Thenumberofobservationsassimilatedincreasesfrom53,000perdayin early1950to570,000perdaybytheendof1978.Accordingly,thequalityofthereanalysis improves throughout the period, generally joining seamlessly with thesegmentcovering1979tothepresent.Thefidelityoftheextensionisillus- tratedbytheaccuratedepictionoftheNorthSeastormof1953,andtheeventsleading to the first discovery of sudden stratospheric warmings in 1952. Time
• Keywords:
  Atmospheric Science
• Source:
  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 147(741), 4186-4227
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4174
• ISSN:
  0035-9009 ; 1477-870X
• Format:
  PDF
• Publisher:
  Wiley
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC BY-NC-ND
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3ef00299fbf0b3010b18c0e4a04a005cbfd44d5025b4925318791e15ad43f3db
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  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/52589/noaa_52589_DS1.pdf
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