The Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA-55)


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IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION

Name The Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA-55)
Metadata Identifier JRA5520240221120009-DIAS20221121113753-en

CONTACT

CONTACT on DATASET

Name Numerical Prediction Division, Information Infrastructure Department
Organization Japan Meteorological Agency
Address 3-6-9 Toranomon, Minato City, Tokyo, 105-8431, Japan
E-mail jra@met.kishou.go.jp

CONTACT on PROJECT

Data Integration and Analysis System

Name DIAS Office
Organization Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Address 3173-25, Showa-Cho, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, 236-0001, Japan
E-mail dias-office@diasjp.net

DOCUMENT AUTHOR

Name Numerical Prediction Division, Information Infrastructure Department
Organization Japan Meteorological Agency

DATASET CREATOR

Name Numerical Prediction Division, Information Infrastructure Department
Organization Japan Meteorological Agency

DATE OF THIS DOCUMENT

2024-02-21

DATE OF DATASET

  • publication : 2013-10-01

DATASET OVERVIEW

Abstract

Reanalysis of long-term records of past observations with a state-of-the-art numerical analysis and weather prediction (NWP) system aims at producing a high quality, honogeneous data set for climate variables such as temperature and precipitation.

The Japan Meteorological Agency has conducted the second reanalysis project named the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA-55) using a more sophisticated NWP system, which is based on the operational system as of December 2009, and newly prepared past observations. The reanalysis period has been extended covering the period from 1958 to 2012. JRA-55 is a data set that aims at reproducing the climate change over the past half century more accurately.

Topic Category(ISO19139)

  • climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Temporal Extent

Begin Date 1958-01-01
End Date 2024-02-02

Geographic Bounding Box

North bound latitude 90
West bound longitude -180
Eastbound longitude 180
South bound latitude -90

Grid

Dimension Name Dimension Size (slice number of the dimension) Resolution Unit
row 288 1.25 (deg)
column 145 1.25 (deg)
vertical 37 1-50 (hPa)

Keywords

Keywords on Dataset

Keyword Type Keyword Keyword thesaurus Name
theme Atmosphere GCMD_science
theme Aircraft, Balloons/Rockets, Earth Observation Satellites, In Situ Land-based Platforms, In Situ Ocean-based Platforms, Models > , Navigation Platforms GCMD_platform
theme Climate, Weather GEOSS

Keywords on Project

Data Integration and Analysis System
Keyword Type Keyword Keyword thesaurus Name
theme DIAS > Data Integration and Analysis System No_Dictionary

Online Resource

Distribution Information

name version specification
GRIB 1

DATA PROCESSING

Data Processing (1)

General Explanation of the data producer's knowledge about the lineage of a dataset

In the report released on 2 October 2018, JMA announced that a part of the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA-55) product was missing, of which values were set to zero.

Those missing data has been replaced with corrected data. (2018-10-15)

Data Processing (2)

General Explanation of the data producer's knowledge about the lineage of a dataset

It was recently found that a part of the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis

(JRA-55) product was missing, of which values were set to zero. Those

missing data are as follows. Product : fcst_surf125 (1.25-degree two-dimensional instantaneous diagnostic fields)

Period : from 4 June 2018 onward

Parameters : pressure reduced to MSL, total cloud cover, high cloud cover, medium cloud cover, and low cloud cover

The above mentioned product will be replaced with corrected data shortly,

which will be announced separately on the JRA-55 website. In the meantime,

users are advised to refrain from using those data. (2018-10-02)

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The datasets used for this study are provided from the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA-55) project carried out by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

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REFERENCES

Kobayashi, S., Y. Ota, H. Harada, A. Ebita, M. Moriya, H. Onoda, K. Onogi, H. Kamahori, C. Kobayashi, H. Endo, K. Miyaoka, and K. Takahashi, 2015: The JRA-55 Reanalysis: General Specifications and Basic Characteristics, J. Met. Soc. Japan, 93, 5-48, doi: 10.2151/jmsj.2015-001.

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