Kingtse C. Mo

TL;DR: The NCEP/NCAR 40-yr reanalysis uses a frozen state-of-the-art global data assimilation system and a database as complete as possible, except that the horizontal resolution is T62 (about 210 km) as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The second phase of the NLDAS-2 research partnership is presented in this article, where four land surface models (Noah, Variable Infiltration Capacity, Sacramento Soil Moisture Accounting, and Mosaic) are executed over the conterminous U.S. (CONUS) in real-time and retrospective modes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used time series of outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) fields and various gridded reanalysis products to identify and describe periods with abundant and deficient rainfall over South America during summer.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of the Great Plains low-level jet (LLJ) on summertime precipitation and moisture transport over the central United States is examined in observations and in assimilated datasets recently produced by the NCEP/NCAR and the NASA/DAO.

TL;DR: For example, this article found that ocean surface temperatures together with changes in greenhouse gases did not induce a substantial reduction in summertime precipitation over the central Great Plains during 2012, but such an extreme drought event was still a rare occurrence within the spread of 2012 climate model simulations.