The Atmospheric Hydrologic Cycle over the Southern Ocean and Antarctica from Operational Numerical Analyses
The Atmospheric Hydrologic Cycle over the Southern Ocean and Antarctica from Operational Numerical Analyses
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通过数值分析了解南大洋和南极洲的大气水文循环
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1995
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M. V. Woert
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D. Bromwich;F. Robasky;R. Cullather;M. V. Woert
Abstract Moisture budget calculations for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean (40°–72deg;S) are performed using operational numerical analyses from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the National Meteorological Center (NMC), and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (ABM). The analyses are intetcompared for an 8-yr period from 1985 to 1992 and are evaluated against representative rawinsonde sites, which are considered accurate depictions of moisture transport at these sites. The comparisons to East Antarctic rawinsondes and those from Macquarie Island show the ECMWF analyses to be superior in reproducing sounding values at each level. While results are highly variable depending on the station location, agreement of the ECMWF analyses to zonally averaged sounding moisture flux values along the East Antarctic coast is very close. The zonally averaged annual meridional moisture flux, for example, is within as little as 0.03 g kg−1 m s−1, or 2% at the surface. This is particularly go...