Evaluation of the Oceanic Component of the NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis

• 作 者: YanXue[1]BoyinHuang[2]Zeng-ZhenHu[1]ArunKumar[1]CaihongWen[2]DavidBehringer[3]WanqiuWang[1]PingpingXie[1]
• 机 构: Climate Prediction Center, NCEP/NOAA, Maryland, U.S.A
• 出 处: 青藏高原与邻近地区天气气候及其全球影响学术研讨会
• 发表日期: 2011年期

　　At National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), a reanalysis of the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice and land over 1979-2009 has been recently completed as the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR).The oceanic component of the CFSR includes many advances: (a) the MOM4 ocean model with an interactive sea-ice, (b) a 6 hour coupled model forecast as the first guess, (c) inclusion of the mean climatological river runoff, and (d) high spatial (0.5° by 0.5°) and temporal (hourly) model output.The primary use of the CFSR is to provide initial conditions for a reforecast of the new operational Climate Forecast System (CFS.v2) over 1979-2009 for seasonal climate forecast.Since the CFSR will be used by many in initializing/validating ocean models and climate research, here we intend to inform the user community about the salient features in the CFSR ocean component.