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Keywords

  • isotope reanalysis
  • spectral nudging
  • Arctic oscillation

Index Terms

  • Global Change: Climate variability
  • Atmospheric Processes: Global climate models
  • Hydrology: Hydrometeorology
  • Atmospheric Processes: Data assimilation
  • Biogeosciences: Data sets
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Abstract

Historical isotope simulation using Reanalysis atmospheric data

K. Yoshimura

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, California, USA

Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

M. Kanamitsu

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, California, USA

D. Noone

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA

T. Oki

Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

In this paper we present a multidecadal and global three-dimensional stable water isotope data set. This is accomplished by incorporating processes of the stable water isotopes into an atmospheric general circulation model and by applying a spectral nudging technique toward Reanalysis dynamical fields. Unlike the global model simulations forced only by sea surface temperature (SST), the dynamical fields used in the simulation are never far from observation because the spectral nudging technique constrains large-scale atmospheric circulation to that of observation, and therefore the simulated isotopic fields are reasonably accurate over the entire globe for daily to interannual time scales. As a case in point, it is revealed that the current approach reproduces the Arctic Oscillation much more correctly than the simulations forced only by SST, and consequently, the monthly isotopic variability better matches observations over midlatitudes to high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere, especially Europe. This method is of great use in providing information in regions where in situ isotope observations are not available. Such information is required for a variety of biogeochemical, hydrological, and paleoclimate studies and as boundary and initial conditions for regional isotopic simulations.

Received 5 March 2008; accepted 20 July 2008; published 8 October 2008.

Citation: Yoshimura, K., M. Kanamitsu, D. Noone, and T. Oki (2008), Historical isotope simulation using Reanalysis atmospheric data, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D19108, doi:10.1029/2008JD010074.

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