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VARANAL
Constrained Variational Analysis
Baseline VAP, Evaluation VAP, External VAP, Guest
Primary Derived Measurements
- Advective tendency
- Atmospheric moisture
- Atmospheric pressure
- Atmospheric temperature
- Cloud fraction
- Cloud size
- Cloud top height
- Horizontal wind
- Longwave broadband downwelling irradiance
- Longwave broadband net irradiance
- Longwave broadband upwelling irradiance
- Shortwave broadband total downwelling irradiance
- Shortwave broadband total net irradiance
- Shortwave broadband total upwelling irradiance
- Net broadband total irradiance
- Latent heat flux
- Liquid water path
- Precipitation
- Precipitable water
- Sensible heat flux
- Surface skin temperature
- Soil temperature
- Vertical velocity
Contact
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Shaocheng XieTranslator Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Minghua ZhangScience Sponsor PI Stony Brook University
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References
View all references- Xie et al. "Developing long-term single-column model/cloud system–resolving model forcing data using numerical weather prediction products constrained by surface and top of the atmosphere observations". 2004. 10.1029/2003jd004045.
- Zhang et al. "Objective Analysis of ARM IOP Data: Method and Sensitivity". 2001. 10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<0295:oaoaid>2.0.co;2.
- Zhang et al. "Constrained Variational Analysis of Sounding Data Based on Column-Integrated Budgets of Mass, Heat, Moisture, and Momentum: Approach and Application to ARM Measurements". 1997. 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<1503:cvaosd>2.0.co;2.
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