Collaborative REAnalysis Technical Environment Intercomparison Project (CREATE-IP)

Description

The Collaborative REAnalysis Technical Environment (CREATE) is a NASA Climate Model Data Services (CDS) project to collect all available global reanalysis data into one centralized location on NASA's NCCS Advanced Data Analytics Platform (ADAPT), standardizing data formats, providing analytic capabilities, visualization analysis capabilities, and overall improved access to multiple reanalysis datasets.  The CREATE project encompasses two efforts - CREATE-IP and CREATE-V.

CREATE-IP is the project that collects and formats the reanalyses data.  The list of variables currently available in CREATE-IP is growing over time so please check back frequently.

CREATE-IP is distributed by the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF). The Earth System Grid Federation (https://esgf.llnl.gov/) is a collaboration of international institutions that maintains the infrastructure to manage and disseminate the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) and related MIP datasets.

The CREATE project contains seven global reanalyses (CFSR, ERA-Interim, JRA-25, JRA-55, MERRA, MERRA-2, 20CRv2c). Selected variables at model levels are standardized in the CMIP format and maintained. Four of the reanalyses are updated bi-monthly; MERRA and JRA-25 have ended and are superseded by the newer models MERRA-2 and JRA-55, respectively. 20CRv2c ended in 2010.

Local host (English)

Data is available on NCI at:

Project: https://my.nci.org.au/mancini/project/qu79/join 

Path: /g/data/qu79/replicas/CREATE-IP/

(For an older product see also /g/data/qv56/replicas/ana4MIPs)

Access information (English)

Preferred Citations:

CREATE

Acknowledgement: Support for the Collaborative REAnalysis Technical Environment (CREATE) project is provided by the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Earth Science Division; the NASA High-End Computing (HEC) Program through the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) at Goddard Space Flight Center.

Citation:   Enabling Reanalysis Research Using the Collaborative Reanalysis Technical Environment (CREATE) DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0174.1

MERRA

Acknowledgement: MERRA was developed by the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office and supported by the NASA Modeling, Analysis and Prediction Program. Source data files can be acquired from the Goddard Earth Science Data Information Services Center (GES DISC)

Citation:  MERRA: NASA's Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications

20CR

Acknowledgement:  Papers using the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project dataset are requested to include the following text in their acknowledgments: "Support for the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project dataset is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (DOE INCITE) program, and Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), and by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Program Office."

Citation: DOI: The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project doi:10.1002/qj.776

CFSR

Acknowledgement:  The dataset used for this study is provided from the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) project carried out by the Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)

Citation:  Saha, Suranjana, et. al., 2010: The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis.  Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91(8), 1015-1057 

ERA-Interim

Acknowledgement:  ERA-Interim data provided courtesy ECMWF.

Citation:  Dee, D. P., Uppala, S. M., Simmons, A. J., Berrisford, P., Poli, P., Kobayashi, S., Andrae, U., Balmaseda, M. A., Balsamo, G., Bauer, P., Bechtold, P., Beljaars, A. C. M., van de Berg, L., Bidlot, J., Bormann, N., Delsol, C., Dragani, R., Fuentes, M., Geer, A. J., Haimberger, L., Healy, S. B., Hersbach, H., Hólm, E. V., Isaksen, L., Kållberg, P., Köhler, M., Matricardi, M., McNally, A. P., Monge-Sanz, B. M., Morcrette, J.-J., Park, B.-K., Peubey, C., de Rosnay, P., Tavolato, C., Thépaut, J.-N. and Vitart, F. (2011), The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system. Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 137: 553–597. doi: 10.1002/qj.828

Terms of Use:  ECMWF Terms of Use

JRA-25

Acknowledgement: The dataset used for this study is provided from the Japanese 25-year Reanalysis (JRA-25), a cooperative research project carried out by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI).  

Citation: Onogi, K., J. Tsutsui, H. Koide, M. Sakamoto, S. Kobayashi, H. Hatsushika, T. Matsumoto, N. Yamazaki, H. Kamahori, K. Takahashi, S. Kadokura, K. Wada, K. Kato, R. Oyama, T. Ose, N. Mannoji, and R. Taira, 2007: The JRA-25 reanalysis. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 85, 369-432.

JRA-55

Acknowledgement: The dataset used for this study is provided from the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA-55) project carried out by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

Citation: Kobayashi, S., Y. Ota, Y. Harada, A. Ebita, M. Moriya, H. Onoda, K. Onogi, H. Kamahori, C. Kobayashi, H. Endo, K. Miyaoka, and K. Takahashi, 2015: The JRA-55 Reanalysis: general specifications and basic characteristics. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 93, 5-48. doi: 10.2151/jmsj.2015-001.

CLIVAR/GSOP ORA Ensemble

Acknowledgement: Funding for this came from the NASA Science Mission Directorate's Physical Oceanography Program

Citation:  Balmaseda,M.A., F. Hernandez, F., A. Storto, M.D. Palmer, O. Alves, L. Shi, G.C. Smith, T. Toyoda, M. Valdivieso, B. Barnier, D. Behringer, T. Boyer, Y-S. Chang, G.A. Chepurin, N. Ferry, G. Forget, Y. Fujii, S. Good, S. Guinehut, K. Haines, Y. Ishikawa, S. Keeley, A. Köhl, T. Lee, M.J. Martin, S. Masina, S. Masuda, B. Meyssignac, K. Mogensen, L. Parent, K.A. Peterson, Y.M. Tang, Y. Yin, G. Vernieres, X. Wang, J. Waters, R. Wedd, O. Wang, Y. Xue, M. Chevallier, J-F. Lemieux, F. Dupont, T. Kuragano, M. Kamachi, T. Awaji, A. Caltabiano, K. Wilmer-Becker, and F. Gaillard, 2015: The ocean reanalysis Intercomparison project (ORA-IP). Journal of Operational Oceanography, 8, 80-97, DOI:10.1080/1755876X.2015.1022329. June 2015.

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