[1] Surface solar radiation plays a crucial role in surface energy and water budgets, and it is also an important forcing for land hydrological models. In this study, the downward surface solar radiation (DSSR) from two satellite products, the Fengyun-2C satellite (FY-2C) and the Fast Longwave and Shortwave Radiative Fluxes project (FLASHFlux), and two reanalysis datasets, NCEP-DOE and ERA-Inte...

[1] Trends in the position of the DJF Austral jet have been analyzed for multimodel ensemble simulations of a subset of highand low-top models for the periods 1960–2000, 2000–2050, and 2050–2098 under the CMIP5 historical, RCP4.5, and RCP8.5 scenarios. Comparison with ERA-Interim, CFSR and the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis shows that the DJF and annual mean jet positions in CMIP5 models are equatorward ...

The damages from climatic extremes have dramatically increased in the last decades in Europe, as likely outcomes of climate change: floods, droughts, heat waves and hailstorms have brought local as well as widespread damages to farmers, industry, infrastructures and society, to insurance and reinsurance companies; in this work we deal with the hailstorm hazard. The NCEP-NCAR Reanalysis (2.5 by ...

The onset processes of the zonally asymmetric anomalies of convection and sea surface temperature (SST) over the tropical Indian Ocean are investigated with considering seasonal evolution, and interannual variability, of the large-scale convection anomalies in the Asian summer monsoon, using outgoing longwave radiation (OLR), SST, and NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data. This asymmetric pattern of the co...

The low-frequency time variations of the Northern Hemisphere 500-hPa heights have been investigated using the orthogonal rotated principal component analysis applied to the data provided by the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis for the period 1958-1998. The major modes for the climate in the Euro-Atlantic sector are described in detail. Their relations with the 11 climatic elements in the Czech Republic are...

a Cloud Physics and Severe Weather Research Section, Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada b I.M. Systems Group, USA c NOAA/NWS/NCEP, USA d RPN, CMC, Environment Canada, Dorval, Quebec, Canada e Meteorolooieches lnstitut, University of Bonn, Auf dem Hügel 20, 53121 Bonn, Germany f Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China g NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA h Rad...