Enabling Reanalysis Research Using the Collaborative Reanalysis Technical Environment (CREATE)

This paper summarizes the CREATE project. The primary goals of CREATE are to serve the CMIP and reanalysis science community with easy access to the major atmospheric and ocean reanalysis products to facilitate comparison and to aid in the evaluation of the various reanalysis efforts operating today. One of the primary benefits of using CREATE for accessing reanalysis data is the time saved in the processing. For most reanalysis datasets, accessing many variables from the original site and reformatting the data for a consistent workflow requires a time commitment on the order of weeks. Using CREATE to access the data reduces the time required to prepare the data for analysis to a few hours. CREATE is closely coupled to reanalysis. org and is coordinated with the WCRP TIRA team. © 2018 American Meteorological Society.