Wayne Higgins

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 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 North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) project as mentioned in this paper uses the NCEP Eta model and its Data Assimilation System (at 32-km-45-layer resolution with 3-hourly output) to capture regional hydrological cycle, the diurnal cycle and other important features of weather and climate variability.

TL;DR: This paper reviewed recent progress in the understanding of the American monsoon systems and identified some of the future challenges that remain to improve warm season climate prediction, including new insights into moisture transport processes, description of the structure and variability of the South American low level jet, and resolution of the diurnal cycle of precipitation in the core monsoon regions.

TL;DR: The Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) is an important source of predictability at the subseasonal time scale as discussed by the authors, and it has been extensively studied in the literature.