Assessing reanalysis data for understanding rainfall climatology and variability over Central Equatorial Africa

Increasing extent and intensity of thunderstorms observed over the Congo Basin from 1982 to 2016

(2018) Ajay Raghavendra et al.   ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

Rainfall over the African continent from the 19th through the 21st century

(2018) Sharon E. Nicholson et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

A process-based assessment of CMIP5 rainfall in the Congo Basin: the September-November rainy season

(2018) A. Creese et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

New rainfall data sets for the Congo Basin and surrounding regions.

(2018) S. E. Nicholson et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Examining the role of unusually warm Indo-Pacific sea surface temperatures in recent African droughts

(2018) C. Funk et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Sensitivity of atmospheric CO2 growth rate to observed changes in terrestrial water storage

(2018) Vincent Humphrey et al.   NATURE

Land Surface Precipitation in MERRA-2

(2017) Rolf H. Reichle et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Assessment of MERRA-2 Land Surface Hydrology Estimates

(2017) Rolf H. Reichle et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)

(2017) Ronald Gelaro et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Reanalyses and Observations: What’s the Difference?

(2016) Wendy S. Parker   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Possible causes of the Central Equatorial African long-term drought

(2016) Wenjian Hua et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Opportunities for hydrologic research in the Congo Basin

(2016) Douglas Alsdorf et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Using qflux to constrain modeled Congo Basin rainfall in the CMIP5 ensemble

(2016) A. Creese et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Evaluation of historical and future simulations of precipitation and temperature in central Africa from CMIP5 climate models

(2016) Noel R. Aloysius et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Recent observed and simulated changes in precipitation over Africa

(2015) Ross I. Maidment et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The JRA-55 Reanalysis: General Specifications and Basic Characteristics

(2015) Shinya KOBAYASHI et al.   JOURNAL OF THE METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Satellite-based rainfall data reveal a recent drying trend in central equatorial Africa

(2014) Jeremy E. Diem et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Widespread decline of Congo rainforest greenness in the past decade

(2014) Liming Zhou et al.   NATURE

Evaluation of Global Monsoon Precipitation Changes based on Five Reanalysis Datasets

(2013) Renping Lin et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2

(2013) Suranjana Saha et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Evaluation of Precipitation Estimation Accuracy in Reanalyses, Satellite Products, and an Ensemble Method for Regions in Australia and South and East Asia

(2013) Jorge L. Peña-Arancibia et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Response of African humid tropical forests to recent rainfall anomalies

(2013) S. Asefi-Najafabady et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Congo Basin rainfall climatology: can we believe the climate models?

(2013) R. Washington et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

GPCC's new land surface precipitation climatology based on quality-controlled in situ data and its role in quantifying the global water cycle

(2013) Udo Schneider et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

A Two-Century Precipitation Dataset for the Continent of Africa

(2012) Sharon E. Nicholson et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

How well do reanalyses represent the southern African precipitation?

(2012) Qiong Zhang et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

The Hydrological Cycle in Three State-of-the-Art Reanalyses: Intercomparison and Performance Analysis

(2012) Christof Lorenz et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Spatial reconstruction of semi-quantitative precipitation fields over Africa during the nineteenth century from documentary evidence and gauge data

(2012) Sharon E. Nicholson et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

A westward extension of the warm pool leads to a westward extension of the Walker circulation, drying eastern Africa

(2011) A. Park Williams et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Atmospheric water vapor transport and recycling in Equatorial Central Africa through NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data

(2011) Wilfried M. Pokam et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Atmospheric Moisture Transports from Ocean to Land and Global Energy Flows in Reanalyses

(2011) Kevin E. Trenberth et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Global Energy and Water Budgets in MERRA

(2011) Michael G. Bosilovich et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

An Assessment of Precipitation Changes over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean since 1989 in Contemporary Global Reanalyses*

(2011) David H. Bromwich et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project

(2011) G. P. Compo et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system

(2011) D. P. Dee et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis

(2010) Suranjana Saha et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

A revised picture of the structure of the “monsoon” and land ITCZ over West Africa

(2009) Sharon E. Nicholson   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Global Bathymetry and Elevation Data at 30 Arc Seconds Resolution: SRTM30_PLUS

(2009) J. J. Becker et al.   MARINE GEODESY

MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets

(2009) Mark A. Friedl et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Evaluation of Global Precipitation in Reanalyses

(2008) Michael G. Bosilovich et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE