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Significant Contribution of Mesoscale Overturning to Tropical Mass and Energy Transport Revealed by the ERA5 Reanalysis
Author(s) -
Chen Xingchao,
Pauluis Olivier M.,
Leung L. Ruby,
Zhang Fuqing
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2019gl085333
Subject(s) - mesoscale meteorology , climatology , energy transport , environmental science , outgoing longwave radiation , tropics , atmospheric sciences , geology , meteorology , geography , convection , physics , engineering physics , fishery , biology
Key Points The multiscale atmospheric overturning in the ERA5 and ERA‐Interim global reanalyses is compared using isentropic analysis Observed outgoing longwave radiation suggests that the mesoscale overturning in the tropics is better captured by ERA5 than ERA‐Interim Mesoscale overturning plays a comparable role to large‐scale overturning in vertical mass and energy transport over the tropics