JRA-55AMIP: Monthly Means and Variances Including Diurnal Statistics

• Main Author: Meteorological Research Institute/Japan Meteorological Agency/Japan
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive 2015
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Vegetation > Vegetation Species; EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Land Use/Land Cover > Land Cover; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Air Quality > Tropospheric Ozone; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Precipitable Water; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Clouds > Cloud Liquid Water/Ice; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Water Vapor; EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Water Equivalent; EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Depth; EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Soils > Soil Temperature; EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Vegetation > Canopy Characteristics; EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Land Temperature > Land Surface Temperature; EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Soils > Soil Moisture/Water Content; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Altitude > Geopotential Height; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Air Temperature; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Surface Air Temperature; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Dew Point Temperature; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Upper Level Winds; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Surface Winds; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Streamfunctions; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Vertical Wind Motion; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Vorticity; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Convergence/Divergence; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Humidity; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Clouds > Cloud Amount/Frequency; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Surface Pressure; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Sea Level Pressure; EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Topography > Surface Roughness; EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Infrared Wavelengths > Brightness Temperature; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Evaporation; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Precipitation Rate; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Precipitation Amount; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Radiation > Heat Flux; EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Heat Budget > Heat Flux; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Gravity Wave; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Radiation > Shortwave Radiation; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Radiation > Longwave Radiation; EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Surface Water > Runoff; EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Evapotranspiration; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5065/d6t72fhn; http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds628.5/

As a subset of the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA-55) project, an experiment using the global atmospheric model of the JRA-55 was conducted by the Meteorological Research Institute of the Japan Meteorological Agency. The experiment, named the JRA-55AMIP, has been carried out by prescribing the same boundary conditions and radiative forcing of JRA-55, including the historical observed sea surface temperature, sea ice concentration, greenhouse gases, etc., with no use of atmospheric observational data. This project is intended to assess systematic errors of the model.