TY - RPRT
AU - Gianpaolo Balsamo
AU - C. Albergel
AU - Anton Beljaars
AU - Souhail Boussetta
AU - E. Brun
AU - Hannah Cloke
AU - D.P. Dee
AU - Emanuel Dutra
AU - Florian Pappenberger
AU - Patricia de Rosnay
AU - J.M. Sabater
AU - Tim Stockdale
AU - Frédéric Vitart
AB - This report describes ERA-Interim/Land, a global land-surface data set covering the period 1979-2010. ERA-Interim/Land is the result of a land-surface model simulation using HTESSEL, with meteorological forcing from ERA-Interim and precipitation adjustments based on GPCP v2.1. ERA-Interim/Land preserves closure of the water balance and is therefore more suitable for climate applications than the land surface parameters included in the original ERA-Interim data set. We compare with ground-based and remote sensing observations to assess the quality of ERA-Interim/Land, in particular for estimates of soil moisture, snow depth, surface albedo and turbulent latent and sensible fluxes at the surface and river discharges. Impacts of using the new land-surface initial condition in forecasts have been verified in deterministic and probabilistic configurations (up to monthly and seasonal ranges) of the Integrated Forecasting System at ECMWF.
BT - ERA Report Series
C1 - Research
CY - Shinfield Park, Reading
DA - 09/2012
LA - eng
M1 - 13
N2 - This report describes ERA-Interim/Land, a global land-surface data set covering the period 1979-2010. ERA-Interim/Land is the result of a land-surface model simulation using HTESSEL, with meteorological forcing from ERA-Interim and precipitation adjustments based on GPCP v2.1. ERA-Interim/Land preserves closure of the water balance and is therefore more suitable for climate applications than the land surface parameters included in the original ERA-Interim data set. We compare with ground-based and remote sensing observations to assess the quality of ERA-Interim/Land, in particular for estimates of soil moisture, snow depth, surface albedo and turbulent latent and sensible fluxes at the surface and river discharges. Impacts of using the new land-surface initial condition in forecasts have been verified in deterministic and probabilistic configurations (up to monthly and seasonal ranges) of the Integrated Forecasting System at ECMWF.
PB - ECMWF
PP - Shinfield Park, Reading
PY - 2012
EP - 25
T2 - ERA Report Series
T3 - ERA Report
TI - ERA-Interim/Land: A global land-surface reanalysis based on ERA-Interim meteorological forcing
ER -