The WFDEI meteorological forcing data set: WATCH Forcing Data methodology applied to ERA‐Interim reanalysis data

作者：Graham P. Weedon, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Nicolas Bellouin, Sandra Gomes, Martin Best, Pedro Viterbo · 发表于：Water Resources Research · 年份：2014 · DOI：10.1002/2014wr015638 · 被引用次数：1177 · 研究领域：Climate variability and models、Geophysics and Gravity Measurements、Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Abstract The WFDEI meteorological forcing data set has been generated using the same methodology as the widely used WATCH Forcing Data (WFD) by making use of the ERA‐Interim reanalysis data. We discuss the specifics of how changes in the reanalysis and processing have led to improvement over the WFD. We attribute improvements in precipitation and wind speed to the latest reanalysis basis data and improved downward shortwave fluxes to the changes in the aerosol corrections. Covering 1979–2012, the WFDEI will allow more thorough comparisons of hydrological and Earth System model outputs with hydrologically and phenologically relevant satellite products than using the WFD.