Rongqian Yang

TL;DR: The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) was completed for the 31-yr period from 1979 to 2009, in January 2010 as mentioned in this paper, which was designed and executed as a global, high-resolution coupled atmosphere-ocean-land surface-sea ice system to provide the best estimate of the state of these coupled domains over this period.

TL;DR: The second version of the NCEP Climate Forecast System (CFSv2) was made operational at the National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) in 2011 as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a quantitative analysis of soil moisture contents produced as part of a global offline simulation experiment was conducted, in which a number of land surface models were driven with the same atmospheric forcing fields, showing that the degree to which model-simulated soil moisture variables differ from each other and these differences extend beyond those associated with model-specific layer thicknesses or soil texture.

TL;DR: The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) was initially completed over the 31-year period from 1979 to 2009 and has been extended to March 2011.