Arctic Ocean Precipitation From Atmospheric Reanalyses and Comparisons With North Pole Drifting Station Records

• Main Authors: Barrett, AP, Stroeve, JC, Serreze, MC
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2020
• Subjects: Precipitation; Arctic; Reanalysis; Arctic Ocean; North Pole; Merra; Russian North; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10095045/1/2019JC015709.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10095045/

We evaluate fields of Arctic Ocean precipitation from six atmospheric reanalyses: NASA MERRA, NASA MERRA2, NOAA CFSR/CFSv2, ECMWF ERA‐Interim, ECMWF ERA5, and JMAO JRA55. The study is motivated by recognition that precipitation fields from reanalyses can serve as the key input into snow on sea ice a...