The experience with JRA-55 is awlful. I was stuck in this for a long time and finally found that some of the data is corupted...Anyway, here are some tips for using JRA-55. (JRA-55 is sucdessor of JRA-25, the latter is widely used in the literature. JRA-55 improves the assimilation strategies and ...
NCEP FNL (Final analysis) does not belong to Reanalysis data. It's an operationanl analysis data, generated by assimilating observations into global forecast system within each forecast period. Then what's reanalysis? make analysis for the past years with a frozen global analysis sy ...
BEFORE: It's quite straightforward to use GFS FNL as initial and boudanry conditions for WRF runs (For US regions, one could use NARR, which is higher in resolutions). The most advantage of FNL is that the data is stored in time-sorted formats. For each of those files, it contains alll the var ...