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ArticleGeophysical research letters2021

On Assessing ERA5 and MERRA2 Representations of Cold-Air Outbreaks Across the Gulf Stream.

C Seethala, Paquita Zuidema, James Edson, Michael Brunke, Gao Chen, Xiang-Yu Li, David Painemal, Claire Robinson, Taylor Shingler, Michael Shook and 6 more

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Article in Geophysical research letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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16 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.

C SeethalaRosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5518-7744
Paquita ZuidemaRosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4719-372X
James EdsonWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8777-031X
Michael BrunkeDepartment of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Gao ChenScience Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, USA.
Xiang-Yu LiPacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
David PainemalScience Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1281-4672
Claire RobinsonScience Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, USA.
Taylor ShinglerNASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA.
Michael ShookNASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2659-484X
Armin SorooshianDepartment of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2243-2264
Lee ThornhillNASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8920-4346
Florian TornowEarth Institute, Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA.
Hailong WangPacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1994-4402
Xubin ZengDepartment of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Luke ZiembaNASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4787-2688
Langley Research Center · USUniversity of Arizona · USPacific Northwest National Laboratory · USScience Systems and Applications (United States) · USUniversity of Miami · USGoddard Institute for Space Studies · USWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution · US

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Shared Services Center NASA 80NSSC19K0390
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The warm Gulf Stream sea surface temperatures strongly impact the evolution of winter clouds behind atmospheric cold fronts. Such cloud evolution remains challenging to model. The Gulf Stream is too wide within the ERA5 and MERRA2 reanalyses, affecting the turbulent surface fluxes. Known problems within the ERA5 boundary layer (too-dry and too-cool with too strong westerlies), ascertained primarily from ACTIVATE 2020 campaign aircraft dropsondes and secondarily from older buoy measurements, reinforce surface flux biases. In contrast, MERRA2 winter surface winds and air-sea temperature/humidity differences are slightly too weak, producing surface fluxes that are too low. Reanalyses boundary layer heights in the strongly forced winter cold-air-outbreak regime are realistic, whereas late-summer quiescent stable boundary layers are too shallow. Nevertheless, the reanalysis biases are small, and reanalyses adequately support their use for initializing higher-resolution cloud process modeling studies of cold-air outbreaks.

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PMID34776556
PMCPMC8587624
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