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DOI | 10.1029/2018JD030083 |
Inconsistent Wind Speed Trends in Current Twentieth Century Reanalyses | |
Wohland, Jan1,2; Omrani, Nour-Eddine3,4; Witthaut, Dirk1,2; Keenlyside, Noel S.3,4 | |
2019-02-27 | |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
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ISSN | 2169-897X |
EISSN | 2169-8996 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 124期号:4页码:1931-1940 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Germany; Norway |
英文摘要 | Reanalysis data underpin much research in atmospheric and related sciences. While most reanalysis only cover the last couple of decades, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (20CR) and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ERA20C and CERA20C) also developed reanalyses for the entire twentieth century that theoretically allow investigation of multidecadal variability. However, the approaches adopted to handle the massively evolving number of observations can cause spurious signals. Here we focus on wind speeds, as its assimilation is a key difference among these two products. We show that ERA20C and CERA20C feature significant trends in the North Atlantic and North Pacific wind speeds of up to 3m/s per century. We show that there is a good relation between the trends in the reanalysis and assimilated wind speeds. In contrast, 20CR and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts free model run ERA20CM do not show positive trends in the same regions. As a consequence, conclusions drawn from any single twentieth century reanalysis should be treated cautiously in particular in sectors with a strong wind dependency (e.g., wind energy). Plain Language Summary Many areas of human activity are directly influenced by the climate, and an enhanced understanding of its variability is hence beneficial for the society. We need long-term climate data sets in order to quantify and understand climate variability better. As of today, there are two centers that provide gridded climate data sets for the last century (so called twentieth century reanalysis). Deriving these data sets is intricate because the number and quality of observations has changed dramatically during the period of interest. In our study, we show that the data sets disagree strongly with respect to long-term wind speed trends. As the climate system is highly coupled, other climatic variables are likely also affected. We analyze the underlying observational data, and we can show that the upward trends in one data set also exist in the observations. Furthermore, we can rule out that the model itself created the trends. By comparison with earlier studies, we argue that the trends are likely spurious (i.e., not real) but some uncertainty remains. We recommend that climate impact assessments should be based on data from both centers. In future research projects, attempts must be made to resolve the strong discrepancy between the data sets. |
英文关键词 | wind reanalysis spurious trend discrepancy ERA20C 20CR |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000461856300003 |
WOS关键词 | NEAR-SURFACE WIND ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; ELECTRICITY ; OSCILLATION ; VARIABILITY ; INCREASE ; IMPACT ; POWER ; WAVE |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/32043 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Forschungszentrum Julich, Inst Energy & Climate Res Syst Anal & Technol Eva, Julich, Germany; 2.Univ Cologne, Inst Theoret Phys, Cologne, Germany; 3.Univ Bergen, Inst Geophys, Bergen, Norway; 4.Univ Bergen, Bjerknes Ctr Climate Res, Bergen, Norway |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wohland, Jan,Omrani, Nour-Eddine,Witthaut, Dirk,et al. Inconsistent Wind Speed Trends in Current Twentieth Century Reanalyses[J]. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES,2019,124(4):1931-1940. |
APA | Wohland, Jan,Omrani, Nour-Eddine,Witthaut, Dirk,&Keenlyside, Noel S..(2019).Inconsistent Wind Speed Trends in Current Twentieth Century Reanalyses.JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES,124(4),1931-1940. |
MLA | Wohland, Jan,et al."Inconsistent Wind Speed Trends in Current Twentieth Century Reanalyses".JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES 124.4(2019):1931-1940. |
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