The ERA5 global reanalysis

被引:17488
作者
Hersbach, Hans [1 ]
Bell, Bill [1 ]
Berrisford, Paul [1 ]
Hirahara, Shoji [2 ]
Horanyi, Andras [1 ]
Munoz-Sabater, Joaquin [1 ]
Nicolas, Julien [1 ]
Peubey, Carole [1 ]
Radu, Raluca [1 ]
Schepers, Dinand [1 ]
Simmons, Adrian [1 ]
Soci, Cornel [1 ]
Abdalla, Saleh [1 ]
Abellan, Xavier [1 ]
Balsamo, Gianpaolo [1 ]
Bechtold, Peter [1 ]
Biavati, Gionata [1 ]
Bidlot, Jean [1 ]
Bonavita, Massimo [1 ]
De Chiara, Giovanna [1 ]
Dahlgren, Per [3 ]
Dee, Dick [1 ]
Diamantakis, Michail [1 ]
Dragani, Rossana [1 ]
Flemming, Johannes [1 ]
Forbes, Richard [1 ]
Fuentes, Manuel [1 ]
Geer, Alan [1 ]
Haimberger, Leo [4 ]
Healy, Sean [1 ]
Hogan, Robin J. [1 ]
Holm, Elias [1 ]
Janiskova, Marta [1 ]
Keeley, Sarah [1 ]
Laloyaux, Patrick [1 ]
Lopez, Philippe [1 ]
Lupu, Cristina [1 ]
Radnoti, Gabor [1 ]
de Rosnay, Patricia [1 ]
Rozum, Iryna [1 ]
Vamborg, Freja [1 ]
Villaume, Sebastien [1 ]
Thepaut, Jean-Noel [1 ]
机构
[1] European Ctr Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, Berks, England
[2] Japan Meteorol Agcy, Tokyo, Japan
[3] Norwegian Meteorol Inst, Oslo, Norway
[4] Univ Wien, Dept Meteorol & Geophys, Vienna, Austria
关键词
climate reanalysis; Copernicus Climate Change Service; data assimilation; ERA5; historical observations; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ECMWF MODEL; DATA ASSIMILATION; SOUTHERN-HEMISPHERE; INTERIM REANALYSIS; RADIATIVE-TRANSFER; BIAS CORRECTION; QUALITY-CONTROL; RADIANCE DATA; CLIMATE;
D O I
10.1002/qj.3803
中图分类号
P4 [大气科学(气象学)];
学科分类号
0706 ; 070601 ;
摘要
Within the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF is producing the ERA5 reanalysis which, once completed, will embody a detailed record of the global atmosphere, land surface and ocean waves from 1950 onwards. This new reanalysis replaces the ERA-Interim reanalysis (spanning 1979 onwards) which was started in 2006. ERA5 is based on the Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) Cy41r2 which was operational in 2016. ERA5 thus benefits from a decade of developments in model physics, core dynamics and data assimilation. In addition to a significantly enhanced horizontal resolution of 31 km, compared to 80 km for ERA-Interim, ERA5 has hourly output throughout, and an uncertainty estimate from an ensemble (3-hourly at half the horizontal resolution). This paper describes the general set-up of ERA5, as well as a basic evaluation of characteristics and performance, with a focus on the dataset from 1979 onwards which is currently publicly available. Re-forecasts from ERA5 analyses show a gain of up to one day in skill with respect to ERA-Interim. Comparison with radiosonde and PILOT data prior to assimilation shows an improved fit for temperature, wind and humidity in the troposphere, but not the stratosphere. A comparison with independent buoy data shows a much improved fit for ocean wave height. The uncertainty estimate reflects the evolution of the observing systems used in ERA5. The enhanced temporal and spatial resolution allows for a detailed evolution of weather systems. For precipitation, global-mean correlation with monthly-mean GPCP data is increased from 67% to 77%. In general, low-frequency variability is found to be well represented and from 10 hPa downwards general patterns of anomalies in temperature match those from the ERA-Interim, MERRA-2 and JRA-55 reanalyses.
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页码:1999 / 2049
页数:51
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