The SPARC intercomparison of middle-atmosphere climatologies

William Randel; Petra Udelhofen; Eric Fleming; Marvin Geller; Mel Gelman; Kevin Hamilton; David Karoly; Dave Ortland; Steve Pawson; Richard Swinbank; Fei Wu; Mark Baldwin; Marie Lise Chanin; Philippe Keckhut; Karin Labitzke; Ellis Remsberg; Adrian Simmons; Dong Wu

doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0986:TSIOMC>2.0.CO;2

The SPARC intercomparison of middle-atmosphere climatologies

William Randel
, Petra Udelhofen
, Eric Fleming
, Marvin Geller
, Mel Gelman
, Kevin Hamilton
, David Karoly
, Dave Ortland
, Steve Pawson
, Richard Swinbank
, Fei Wu
, Mark Baldwin
, Marie Lise Chanin
, Philippe Keckhut
, Karin Labitzke
, Ellis Remsberg
, Adrian Simmons
, Dong Wu

National Center for Atmospheric Research
Stony Brook University
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Natl. Centers Environ. Prediction
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
University of Oklahoma
NorthWest Research Associates, Inc.
Met Office
CNRS
Free University of Berlin
NASA Langley Research Center
Eur. Ctr. Medium-Range Weather Forec
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

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An updated assessment of uncertainties in "observed" climatological winds and temperatures in the middle atmosphere (over altitudes ∼10-80 km) is provided by detailed intercomparisons of contemporary and historic datasets. These datasets include global meteorological analyses and assimilations, climatologies derived from research satellite measurements, historical reference atmosphere circulation statistics, rocketsonde wind and temperature data, and lidar temperature measurements. The comparisons focus on a few basic circulation statistics (temperatures and zonal winds), with special attention given to tropical variability. Notable differences are found between analyses for temperatures near the tropical tropopause and polar lower stratosphere, temperatures near the global stratopause, and zonal winds throughout the Tropics. Comparisons of historical reference atmosphere and rocketsonde temperatures with more recent global analyses show the influence of decadal-scale cooling of the stratosphere and mesosphere. Detailed comparisons of the tropical semiannual oscillation (SAO) and quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) show large differences in amplitude between analyses; recent data assimilation schemes show the best agreement with equatorial radiosonde, rocket, and satellite data.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	986-1003
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journal of Climate
Volume	17
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0986:TSIOMC>2.0.CO;2
State	Published - Mar 1 2004

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Randel, W., Udelhofen, P., Fleming, E., Geller, M., Gelman, M., Hamilton, K., Karoly, D., Ortland, D., Pawson, S., Swinbank, R., Wu, F., Baldwin, M., Chanin, M. L., Keckhut, P., Labitzke, K., Remsberg, E., Simmons, A., & Wu, D. (2004). The SPARC intercomparison of middle-atmosphere climatologies. Journal of Climate, 17(5), 986-1003. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0986:TSIOMC>2.0.CO;2

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