Japanese Reanalysis for Three Quarters of a Century - COBE (JRA-3Q-COBE)
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| DOI: 10.5065/RM7V-3X70
JMA is currently conducting the Japanese Reanalysis for Three Quarters of a Century (JRA-3Q), which covers the period from September 1947 onward to extend the current period of data coverage and improve the quality of long-term reanalysis. The project involves a sophisticated data assimilation system (based on the operational set-up as of December 2018) incorporating development results from the operational NWP system and sea surface temperature analysis achieved since JRA-55 (based on the operational set-up as of December 2009). New datasets of past observations are also assimilated, including rescued historical observations and reprocessed satellite data supplied by meteorological and satellite centers worldwide. Many of the deficiencies of JRA-55 are alleviated in JRA-3Q, providing a high-quality homogeneous reanalysis dataset that covers the previous 75 years.
In JRA-3Q, the sea surface temperature (SST) specified as the lower boundary condition is the Centennial In Situ Observation-based Estimates of the Variability of SSTs and Marine Meteorological Variables Version 2 (COBE-SST2) with a resolution of 1 degree based on in situ observations until May 1985 and the Merged Satellite and In-Situ Data Global Daily Sea Surface Temperature (MGDSST) with a resolution of 0.25 degree based on satellite observations since June 1985. To enable evaluation of changes in product characteristics following the switch from COBE-SST2 to MGDSST, a sub-product using COBE-SST2 (JRA-3Q-COBE) is also provided for the period from June 1985 to December 1990.
Atmospheric Heating | Atmospheric Ozone | Atmospheric Stability | Brightness Temperature |
Canopy Characteristics | Cloud Amount | Cloud Frequency | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice |
Convergence | Dew Point Temperature | Evaporation | Evapotranspiration |
Geopotential Height | Gravity Wave | Humidity | Hydrostatic Pressure |
Ice Extent | Ice Fraction | Land/Ocean/Ice Mask | Land Use/Land Cover Classification |
Latent Heat Flux | Longwave Radiation | Maximum/Minimum Temperature | Potential Temperature |
Potential Vorticity | Precipitation Amount | Precipitation Rate | Runoff |
Sea Level Pressure | Sensible Heat Flux | Shortwave Radiation | Snow Depth |
Snow Water Equivalent | Soil Moisture/Water Content | Soil Temperature | Streamfunctions |
Surface Pressure | Surface Roughness | Surface Temperature | Surface Winds |
Total Precipitable Water | Upper Air Temperature | Upper Level Winds | Vegetation Species |
Vorticity | Water Vapor | Wind Stress | Wind Stress |