Abstract:
ECMWF : ERA-40 Atlas : Surface climatologies : Evaporation minus precipitation, Latitude-Longitude, Annual mean http://www.ecmwf.int/research/era/ERA-40/ERA-40_Atlas/docs/section_... ... The web-version of the ERA-40 Atlas includes all the material in the printed version of the Atlas; ERA-40 Report Series No. 19. The Atlas contains surface and column-integrated fields, and upper-air fields derived on pressure levels, on isentropic levels and on the 2 pvu potential-vorticity level from values on the models native hybrid levels. Also included are the invariant fields used in the data-assimilation system. The climate of the period 1979 - 2001 is presented for the four seasons, the annual average and the interannual variability. These products are based on the ERA-40 monthly/ diurnal averages together with six-hourly analysis and forecast fields. A selection of time series, showing for example the quasi-biennial oscillation of stratospheric winds, is presented for the full period 1958 - 2001. Summary Provided By: ECMWF : ERA-40 Atlas
Latitude Resolution:
2.5 degrees
Longitude Resolution:
2.5 degrees
Horizontal Resolution Range:
100 km - < 250 km or approximately 1 degree - < 2.5 degrees
ERA-40 Project Report Series No. 19 Kållberg, P., P. Berrisford, B. Hoskins, A. Simmmons, S. Uppala, S. Lamy-Thépaut and R. Hine: ERA-40 Atlas. [Note: Large PDF file: 68.3 MB; Revised version posted 19.01.2006] June 2005
Uppala, S.M., Kållberg, P.W., Simmons, A.J., Andrae, U., ... da Costa Bechtold, V., Fiorino, M., Gibson, J.K., Haseler, J., Hernandez, A., Kelly, G.A., Li, X., Onogi, K., Saarinen, S., Sokka, N., Allan, R.P., Andersson, E., Arpe, K., Balmaseda, M.A., Beljaars, A.C.M., van de Berg, L., Bidlot, J., Bormann, N., Caires, S., Chevallier, F., Dethof, A., Dragosavac, M., Fisher, M., Fuentes, M., Hagemann, S., Hólm, E., Hoskins, B.J., Isaksen, L., Janssen, P.A.E.M., Jenne, R., McNally, A.P., Mahfouf, J.-F., Morcrette, J.-J., Rayner, N.A., Saunders, R.W., Simon, P., Sterl, A., Trenberth, K.E., Untch, A., Vasiljevic, D., Viterbo, P., and Woollen, J. 2005: The ERA-40 re-analysis. Quart. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 131, 2961-3012.doi:10.1256/qj.04.176