20th Century Reanalysis fields for November and December 2010 are being regenerated due to a misspecification of the sea surface temperature fields. The re-run is supported by the US Department of Energy Office of Science.

20th Century Reanalysis

Publications that use the data

  • Allan, R., P. Brohan, G.P. Compo, R. Stone, J. Luterbacher, and S. Bronnimman, 2011: The International Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) initiative. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 92, 1421-1425. doi: 10.1175/2011BAMS3218.1.
  • Baird, M.E., J.D. Everett, and I.M. Suthers, 2011: Analysis of southeast Australian zooplankton observations of 1938-1942 using synoptic oceanographic conditions. Deep Sea Res. II, 58:699-711 doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.06.002.
  • Barbero, R., and V. Moron, 2011: Seasonal to decadal modulation of the impact of El Nino-Southern Oscillation on New Caledonia (SW Pacific) rainfall (1950-2010). J. Geophys. Res., 116, D23111, doi:10.1029/2011JD016577.
  • Barriopedro D., E.M. Fischer, Luterbacher J., Trigo R.M., and R. García-Herrera, 2011: The Hot Summer of 2010: Redrawing the Temperature Record Map of Europe, Science, published online 17 March 2011, DOI:10.1126/science.1201224.
  • Blunden, J., D. S. Arndt, and M. O. Baringer, Eds., 2011: State of the Climate in 2010. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 92, S1-S236. doi:10.1175/1520-0477-92.6.S1.
  • Brönnimann, S., G.P. Compo, R. Spadin, R. Allan, and W. Adam, 2011: Early ship-based upper-air data and comparison with the Twentieth Century Reanalysis. Clim. Past, 7, 265-276, doi:10.5194/cp-7-265-2011.
  • Brönnimann, S., and G.P. Compo, 2011: Ozone highs and associated flow features in the first half of the twentieth century in different data sets.Meteorol. Zeit., 21, 49-59, doi:10.1127/0941-2948/2012/0284.
  • Brönnimann, S., T. Griesser, and A. Stickler, 2010: A gridded monthly upper-air data set from 1918 to 1957. Cli. Dyn., 38, 475-493, doi:10.1007/s00382-010-0940-x.
  • Brönnimann, S., A.N. Grant, G.P. Compo, T. Ewen, T. Griesser, A. M. Fischer, M. Schraner, and A. Stickler, 2012: A multi-data set comparison of the vertical structure of temperature variability and change over the Arctic during the past 100 years.Cli. Dyn., in press, doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1291-6.
  • Brönnimann, S., O. Martius, H. von Waldow, C. Welker, J. Luterbacher, G.P. Compo, P.D. Sardeshmukh, and T. Usbeck, 2012: Extreme winds at northern mid-latitudes since 1871. Meteorol. Zeit., 21, 13-27, doi: 10.1127/0941-2948/2012/0337.
  • Brönnimann, S., A. Stickler, T. Griesser, A. M. Fischer, A. Grant, T. Ewen, T. Zhou, M. Schraner, E. Rozanov, and T. Peter, 2009: Variability of large-scale atmospheric circulation indices for the Northern Hemisphere during the past 100 years. Meteorol. Z., 18, 379-396, doi:10.1127/0941-2948/2009/0389 .
  • Bye, J., K. Fraedrich, E. Kirk, S. Schubert, and X. Zhu, 2011: Random walk lengths of about 30 years in global climate, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L05806, doi:10.1029/2010GL046333.
  • Carton, J.A., H.F. Seidel, and B.S. Giese, 2012: Detecting historical ocean climate variability, J. Geophys. Res., 117, C02023, doi:10.1029/2011JC007401.
  • Chelliah, M., W. Ebisuzaki, S. Weaver, and A. Kumar, 2011: Evaluating the tropospheric variability in National Centers for Environmental Prediction's climate forecast system reanalysis, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D17107, doi:10.1029/2011JD015707.
  • Chernokulsky, A., and I.I. Mokhov, 2012: Climatology of Total Cloudiness in the Arctic: An Intercomparison of Observations and Reanalyses. Advances in Meteorol., 2012, Article ID 542093, doi:10.1155/2012/542093.
  • Chowdary, J. S., S.-P. Xie, H. Tokinaga, Y. M. Okumura, H. Kubota, N. Johnson, and X.-T. Zheng, 2012: Interdecadal Variations in ENSO Teleconnection to the Indo-Western Pacific for 1870-2007*. J. Climate, 25, 1722-1744. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00070.1.
  • Compo, G.P., J.S. Whitaker, P.D. Sardeshmukh, N. Matsui, R.J. Allan, X. Yin, B.E. Gleason, R.S. Vose, G. Rutledge, P. Bessemoulin, S. Brönnimann, M. Brunet, R.I. Crouthamel, A.N. Grant, P.Y. Groisman, P.D. Jones, M. Kruk, A.C. Kruger, G.J. Marshall, M. Maugeri, H.Y. Mok, Ř. Nordli, T.F. Ross, R.M. Trigo, X.L. Wang, S.D. Woodruff, and S.J. Worley, 2011: The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project. Quarterly J. Roy. Met. Soc., 137, 1-28, doi: 10.1002/qj.776.
  • Cook, B.I., R. Seager, and R.L. Miller, 2010: Atmospheric circulation anomalies during two persistent north american droughts: 1932-1939 and 1948-1957. Clim. Dyn., 36, 2339-2355. doi: 10.1007/s00382-010-0807-1.
  • Cook, B.I.,R. Seager, and R.L. Miller, 2011: On the causes and dynamics of the early twentieth century North American pluvial. J. Climate, 24, 5043-5060, doi:10.1175/2011JCLI4201.1.
  • de Bruin, H. and H. Van den Dool, 2010: De storm van 1894: Een ramp voor Scheveningen, en een test case voor moderne meteorologen.Zenit, August, 316-320.
  • Dole, R., M. Hoerling, J. Perlwitz, J. Eischeid, P. Pegion, T. Zhang, X.-W. Quan, T. Xu, and D. Murray, 2011: Was there a basis for anticipating the 2010 Russian heat wave? Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L06702, doi:10.1029/2010GL046582.
  • Donat, M. G., D. Renggli,S. Wild, L. V. Alexander, G. C. Leckebusch, and U. Ulbrich (2011), Reanalysis suggests long-term upward trends in European storminess since 1871, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L14703, doi:10.1029/2011GL047995.
  • Emanuel, K., 2010: Tropical Cyclone Activity Downscaled from NOAA-CIRES Reanalysis, 1908-1958. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., Vol. 2, Art. #1, 12 pp., doi:10.3894/JAMES.2010.2.1.
  • Fairchild, I. J. and A. Baker, 2012: References, in Speleothem Science: From Process to Past Environments, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444361094.refs.
  • Feng, M., C. Böning, A. Biastoch, E. Behrens, E. Weller, and Y. Masumoto, 2011: The reversal of the multi-decadal trends of the equatorial Pacific easterly winds, and the Indonesian Throughflow and Leeuwin Current transports, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L11604, doi:10.1029/2011GL047291.
  • Ferguson, C. R. and G. Villarini, 2012: Detecting inhomogeneities in the Twentieth Century Reanalysis over the central United States, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D05123 doi:10.1029/2011JD016988.
  • Gastineau, G., F.D'Andrea, C. Frankignoul, 2012: Atmospheric response to the North Atlantic Ocean variability on seasonal to decadal time scales, Cli. Dyn., in press, doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1333-0.
  • Giese, B.S., G.P. Compo, N.C. Slowey, P.D. Sardeshmukh, J.A. Carton, S. Ray, and J.S. Whitaker, 2010:The 1918/1919 El Nińo. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91, 177-183, doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2903.
  • Giese, B.S., and S. Ray, 2011: El Nińo variability in simple ocean data assimilation (SODA) 1871-2008. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans., 116, C02024, doi:10.1029/2010JC006695.
  • Grunseich, G., B. Subrahmanyam, V.S.N. Murty, and B.S. Giese, 2011: Sea surface salinity variability during the Indian Ocean Dipole and ENSO events in the tropical Indian Ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 116, C11013, doi:10.1029/2011JC007456.
  • Hakkinen, S., P.B. Rhines, and D.L. Worthen, 2011: Atmospheric blocking and Atlantic multidecadal ocean variability. Science, 334, 655-569, doi:10.1126/science.1205683.
  • Hanna, E., P. Huybrechts, J. Cappelen, K. Steffen, R.C. Bales, E. Burgess, J. McConnell, J.P. Steffensen, M. Van den Broeke, L. Wake, G. Bigg, M. Griffiths, and D. Savas, 2011: Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance 1870 to 2010 based on Twentieth Century Reanalysis, and links with global climate forcing. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D24121, doi:10.1029/2011JD016387.
  • Hao, Z., J. Zheng, Q. Ge, W.C. Wang WC, 2011: Historical analogues of the 2008 extreme snow event over Central and Southern China. Clim. Res., 50, 161-170, doi: 10.3354/cr01052.
  • Hoerling, M., J. Eischeid, J. Perlwitz, X. Quan, T. Zhang, and P. Pegion, 2012: On the Increased Frequency of Mediterranean Drought. J. Climate, 25, 2146-2161. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00296.1.
  • Ionita, M., G. Lohmann, R. Rimbu, S. Chelcea, and M. Dima, 2012: Interannual to decadal summer drought variability over Europe and its relationship to global sea surface temperature . Cli. Dyn., 38, 363-377, doi:10.1007/s00382-011-1028-y.
  • Ionita, M., G. Lohmann, N. Rimbu, and S. Chelcea, 2012: Interannual Variability of Rhine River Streamflow and its Relationship with Large-Scale Anomaly Patterns in Spring and Autumn. J. Hydrometeor, 13, 172-188, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-11-063.1.
  • Klotzbach, P. J., 2011: A simplified Atlantic basin seasonal hurricane prediction scheme from 1 August, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L16710, doi:10.1029/2011GL048603.
  • Lavers, D. A., R. P. Allan, E. F. Wood, G. Villarini, D. J. Brayshaw and A. J. Wade, 2011: Winter floods in Britain are connected to atmospheric rivers. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L23803, doi: 10.1029/2011GL049783.
  • Lee, S.-K., W. Park, E. van Sebille, M. O. Baringer, C. Wang, D. B. Enfield, S. Yeager, and B. P. Kirtman, 2011: What Caused the Significant Increase in Atlantic Ocean Heat Content Since the mid-20th Century? Geophys. Rese. Lett., 38, L17607, doi:10.1029/2011GL048856.
  • Lehner, F., C.C. Raible, D. Hofer, and T.F. Stocker, 2011: The freshwater balance of polar regions in transient simulations from 1500 to 2100 AD using a comprehensive coupled climate model . Cli. Dyn., in press.
  • Lovejoy, S., and D. Schertzer, 2010: Towards a new synthesis for atmospheric dynamics: Space-time cascades, Atmos. Res., 96, 1-52, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.01.004.
  • Lovejoy, S., J. Pinel, D. Schertzer, 2012: The Global space-time Cascade structure of precipitation: satellites, gridded gauges and reanalyses, Advances in Water Resources, in press, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.03.024.
  • Li, Y., and N.-C. Lau, 2012: Impact of ENSO on the Atmospheric Variability over the North Atlantic in Late Winter-Role of Transient Eddies. J. Climate,, 25, 320-342, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00037.1
  • Luo, F., S. Li, and T. Furevik, 2011: The connection between the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and the Indian Summer Monsoon in Bergen Climate Model Version 2.0, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D19117, doi:10.1029/2011JD015848.
  • Moore, G.W.K., J.L. Semple and G. Hoyland, 2011: Global Warming, El Nińo, and High-Impact Storms at Extreme Altitude: Historical Trends and Consequences for Mountaineers, J. Appli. Meteor. Climatol., 50, 2197-2208, doi: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-023.1.
  • Nigam, S., B. Guan, and A.Ruiz-Barradas, 2011: Key role of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation in 20th century drought and wet periods over the Great Plains, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L16713, doi:10.1029/2011GL048650.
  • Oliver, E., and K. Thompson, 2012: A reconstruction of Madden-Julian Oscillation variability from 1905 to 2008,J. Climate, 25, 1996-2019, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00154.1.
  • Ouzeau, G., J. Cattiaux, H. Douville, A. Ribes, and D. Saint-Martin, 2011: European cold winter 2009-2010: How unusual in the instrumental record and how reproducible in the ARPEGE-Climat model? Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L11706, doi:10.1029/2011GL047667.
  • Parker, D. E., 2011: Recent land surface air temperature trends assessed using the 20th Century Reanalysis. J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2011JD016438, in press.
  • Pegion, K., and P.D. Sardeshmukh, 2011: Prospects for improving subseasonal predictions. Mon. Wea. Rev., in press, doi:10.1175/MWR-D-11-00004.1.
  • Pohl, B., and N. Fauchereau, 2012: The Southern Annular Mode seen through weather regimes. J. Climate, in press, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00160.1
  • Rasmussen, Kristen L., Robert A. Houze, 2011: Orogenic Convection in Subtropical South America as Seen by the TRMM Satellite. Mon. Wea. Rev., 139, 2399-2420. doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-10-05006.1
  • Rimbu, N. and G. Lohmann, 2011: Winter and summer blocking variability in the North Atlantic region - evidence from long-term observational and proxy data from southwestern Greenland. Clim. Past, 7, 543-555, doi:10.5194/cp-7-543-2011.
  • Seager, R. and N. Naik, 2012: A mechanisms-based approach to detecting recent anthropogenic hydroclimate change. J. Climate, 25, 236-261, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00056.
  • Smith, J. A., M. L. Baeck, A. A. Ntelekos, G. Villarini, and M. Steiner, 2011: Extreme rainfall and flooding from orographic thunderstorms in the central Appalachians. Water Resour. Res., 47, W04514, doi:10.1029/2010WR010190.
  • Soon, W., K. Dutta, D. R. Legates, V. Velasco, W. Zhang, 2011: Variation in surface air temperature of China during the 20th century, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Physics, 87, 2331-2344, doi: 10.1016/j.jastp.2011.07.007.
  • Schwalm, C. R., C. A. Williams, and K. Schaefer, 2011: Carbon consequences of global hydrologic change, 1948-2009, J. Geophys. Res., 116, G03042, doi:10.1029/2011JG001674.
  • Stachnik, J. P., and C. Schumacher, 2011: A comparison of the Hadley circulation in modern reanalyses, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D22102, doi:10.1029/2011JD016677.
  • Stickler, A. and S. Brönnimann, 2011: Significant bias of the NCEP/NCAR and twentieth-century reanalyses relative to pilot balloon observations over the West African Monsoon region (1940-1957). Quarterly J. Roy. Met. Soc., in press, doi: 10.1002/qj.854.
  • Swart, N.C., and J.C. Fyfe, 2011: Ocean carbon uptake and storage influenced by wind biases in global climate models. Nature Climate Change,2, 47-52, doi:10.1038/nclimate1288,
  • Tardif, J.C., M.P. Girardin, and F. Conciatori, 2011: Light rings as bioindicators of climate change in Interior North America, Global and Planetary Change, 79, 134-144, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.09.001.
  • Trenberth, K. E., J. T. Fasullo, and J. Mackaro, 2011: Atmospheric moisture transports from ocean to land and global energy flows in reanalyses. J. Climate, 24, 4907-4924. doi: 10.1175/2011JCLI4171.1.
  • Truchelut, R. E., and R. E. Hart, 2011: Quantifying the possible existence of undocumented Atlantic warm-core cyclones in NOAA/CIRES 20th Century Reanalysis Data. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L08811, doi:10.1029/2011GL046756.
  • van den Besselaar, E. J. M., M. R. Haylock, G. van der Schrier, and A. M. G. Klein Tank, 2011: A European daily high-resolution observational gridded data set of sea level pressure, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D11110, doi:10.1029/2010JD015468.
  • Vicente-Serrano, S. M., J. I. López-Moreno, L. Gimeno, R. Nieto, E. Morán-Tejeda, J. Lorenzo-Lacruz, S. Beguería, and C. Azorin-Molina, 2011: A multiscalar global evaluation of the impact of ENSO on droughts, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D20109, doi:10.1029/2011JD016039.
  • Vose, R. S., S. Applequist, M. J. Menne, C. N. Williams Jr., and P. Thorne. 2012: An intercomparison of temperature trends in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network and recent atmospheric reanalyses. Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L10703, doi:10.1029/2012GL051387.
  • Wang, S.-Y., R.R. Gillies, and T. Reichler, 2011: Multi-decadal drought cycles in the Great Basin recorded by the Great Salt Lake: Modulation from a transition-phase teleconnection. J. Climate,in press, doi: 10.1175/2011JCLI4225.1
  • Webb, J. D. C., 2011: Violent thunderstorms in the Thames Valley and south Midlands in early June 1910. Weather, 66, 153-155. doi: 10.1002/wea.799.
  • Whitaker, J.S., G.P. Compo, and J.-N. Thepaut, 2009: A comparison of variational and ensemble-based data assimilation systems for reanalysis of sparse observations. Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 1991-1999.
  • Wöhrnschimmel, H. P. Tay, H. von Waldow, H. Hung, Y.-F. Li, M. MacLeod, and K. Hungerbuhler, 2012: Comparative assessment of the global fate of alpha and beta-Hexachlorocyclohexane before and after Phase-Out. Environ. Sci. Technolo., 46, 2047-2054, doi:10.1021/es203109q.
  • Wood, K. R., and J.E. Overland, 2010: Early 20th century Arctic warming in retrospect, Int. J. of Climatol., 30, 1269-1279, doi: 10.1002/joc.1973.
  • Wu, L., W. Cai, L. Zhang, H. Nakamura, A. Timmerman, T. Joyce, M.J. McPhaden, M. Alexander, B. Qiu, M. Visbeck, P. Chang, and B. Giese, 2012: Enhanced warming over the global subtropical western boundary currents. Nature Climate Change, 2, 161-166, doi:10.1038/nclimate1353.
  • Xu, J., and A.M. Powell, 2011: Uncertainty estimation of the global temperature trends for multiple radiosondes, reanalyses, and CMIP3/IPCC climate model simulations. Theor. and Applied Climatol. in press, doi:10.1007/s00704-011-0548-z.
  • Zhang, X.J., L.Y. Jin, C.Z. Chen, D.S. Guan, and M.Z. Li, 2011: Internannual and interdecadal variations in the North Atlantic Oscillation spatial shift.Chinese Sci. Bull., 56, 2621-2627. doi:10.1007/s11434-011-4607-8.
  • Zhang, L., A. Kumar, and W. Wang, 2012: Influence of changes in observations on precipitation: A case study for the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR), J. Geophys. Res., 117, D08105, doi:10.1029/2011JD017347.
  • Zhao, P., S. Yang, H. Wang, and Q. Zhang, 2011: Interdecadal relationships between the Asian-Pacific Oscillation and summer climate anomalies over Asian, North Pacific and North America during recent 100 years. J. Climate, in press. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00054.
  • Zhou, X.J., P. Zhao, G. Liu, T.J. Zhou, 2011: Characteristics of decadal-centennial-scale changes in East Asian summer monsoon circulation and precipitation during the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age and in the present day. Chinese. Sci. Bull., 56, 3003-3011. doi:10.1007/s11434-011-4651-4.
  • Zib, B.J., X. Dong, B. Xi, A. Kennedy, 2012: Evaluation and Intercomparison of Cloud Fraction and Radiative Fluxes in Recent Reanalyses over the Arctic Using BSRN Surface Observations. J. Climate, 25, 2291-2305. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00147.1.