An assessment of precipitation changes over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean since 1989 in contemporary global reanalyses

• Published in: Journal of Climate
• Other Authors: Bromwich, David (author), Nicolas, Julien (author), Monaghan, Andrew (author)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2011
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Merra; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/collections/OSGC-000-000-003-483; https://doi.org/10.1175/2011JCLI4074.1

This study evaluates the temporal variability of the Antarctic surface mass balance, approximated as precipitation-minus-evaporation (P-E), and Southern Ocean precipitation in five global reanalyses (NCEP-2, JRA-25, ERA-Interim, MERRA and CFSR) during 1989-2009. Reanalyses are known to be prone to s...