The prototype NOAA Aerosol Reanalysis version 1.0: description of the modeling system and its evaluation

Wei, Shih-Wei; Pagowski, Mariusz; da Silva, Arlindo; Lu, Cheng-Hsuan; Huang, Bo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-795-2024

Articles | Volume 17, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-795-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-795-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 2

Model evaluation paper

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31 Jan 2024

Model evaluation paper |

| 31 Jan 2024

The prototype NOAA Aerosol Reanalysis version 1.0: description of the modeling system and its evaluation

Shih-Wei Wei, Mariusz Pagowski, Arlindo da Silva, Cheng-Hsuan Lu, and Bo Huang

Data sets

Sample data for the evaluation of pNARA v1.0 Shih-Wei Wei, Mariusz Pagowski, Arlindo da Silva et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8222945

Observation data for pNARA v1.0 Shih-Wei Wei, Mariusz Pagowski, Arlindo da Silva et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8226441

Model code and software

pNARA v1.0 system (GEFS-Aerosols and JEDI) Shih-Wei Wei, Mariusz Pagowski, Arlindo da Silva et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8226055

Short summary

This study describes the modeling system and the evaluation results for the first prototype version of a global aerosol reanalysis product at NOAA, prototype NOAA Aerosol ReAnalysis version 1.0 (pNARA v1.0). We evaluated pNARA v1.0 against independent datasets and compared it with other reanalyses. We identified deficiencies in the system (both in the forecast model and in the data assimilation system) and the uncertainties that exist in our reanalysis.