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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-13703-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-13703-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
How well do stratospheric reanalyses reproduce high-resolution satellite temperature measurements?
Centre for Space, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Bath, Bath, UK
Neil P. Hindley
Centre for Space, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Bath, Bath, UK
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Reanalyses (RAs) are models which assimilate observations and are widely used as proxies for the true atmospheric state. Here, we resample six leading RAs using the weighting functions of four high-res satellite instruments, allowing a like-for-like comparison. We find that the RAs generally reproduce the satellite data well, except at high altitudes and in the tropics. However, we also find that the RAs more tightly correlate with each other than with observations, even those they assimilate.
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