Met Office Assimilated Data References

Some pointers to additional information about the Met Office Assimilated Data

The Assimilation System

The Principal References for the Met Office assimilation scheme is:

A.C. Lorenc, S.P. Ballard, R.S. Bell, N.B. Ingleby, P.L.F. Andrews, D.M. Barker, J.R. Bray, A.M. Clayton, T. Dalby, D. Li, T.J. Payne and F.W. Saunders, The Met. Office Global three-dimensional variational data assimilation scheme. Q.J.R.Meteorol.Soc., 126, No.570, PartB, pp 2991, Oct. 2000
Swinbank, R., O'Neill, A A Stratosphere-Troposphere Data Assimilation System. Mon. Weather Rev.,122, 686-702, 1994

Additional background information can be found in the following papers:

Bell, R.S., Lorenc, A.C., Macpherson, B. and Swinbank, R. The Analysis Correction data assimilation scheme. Unified Model Documentation Paper no. 30.
Cullen, M.J.P. Introduction to the Unified forecast/climate model. Unified Model Documentation Paper no. 1.
Cullen, M.J.P., Davies,T., and Mawson, M.H. Conservative finite difference schemes for a unified forecast/climate model. Unified Model Documentation Paper no. 10.
Lorenc, A.C., Bell, R.S. and Macpherson, B. The Meteorological Office Analysis Correction data assimilation scheme. Q.J.R.Meteorol.Soc. 117, 59-89, 1991

Papers using the Assimilated Data

Carr, E. S., R. S. Harwood, P. W. Mote, G. E. Peckham, R. A. Suttie, W. A. Lahoz, A. O'Neill, L. Froidevaux, R. F. Jarnot, W. G. Read, J. W. Waters, and R. Swinbank, Tropical stratospheric water vapor measured by the microwave limb sounder (MLS), Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 691-694, 1995.
Chen, P., J. R. Holton, A. O'Neill, and R. Swinbank, Isentropic mass exchange between the tropics and extratropics in the stratosphere, J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 3006-2018, 1994.
Chen, P., J. R. Holton, A. O'Neill, and R. Swinbank, Quasi-horizontal transport and mixing in the Antarctic stratosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 99,16851-61866, 1994.
Lahoz, W. A., E. S. O'Neill, R. S. Harwood, L. Froidevaux, W. G. Read, J. W. Waters, J. B. Kumer, J. L. Mergenthaler, A. E. Roche, G. E. Peckham, and R. Swinbank, Three-dimensional evolution of water vapor distributions in the Northern Hemisphere stratosphere as observed by the MLS, J. Atmos. Sci., 20, 2914-2930, 1994.
Manney, G. L., R. W. Zurek, A. O'Neill, R. Swinbank, On the motion of air through the stratospheric polar vortex, J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 2973-2994, 1994.
Manney, G. L., R. W. Zurek, A. O'Neill, R. Swinbank, J. B. Kumer, J. L. Mergenthaler, and A. E. Roche, Stratospheric warmings during February and March 1993, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 813-816, 1994.
Manney, G. L., L. Froidevaux, J. W. Waters, R. W. Zurek, W. G. Read, L. S. Elson, J. B. Kumer, J. L. Mergenthaler, A. E. Roche, A. O'Neill, R. S. Harwood, I. MacKenzie, and R. Swinbank, Chemical depletion of ozone in the Arctic lower stratosphere during winter 1992-93, Nature, 370, 429-434, 1994.
O'Neill, A., W. L. Grose, V. D. Pope, H. Maclean, and R. Swinbank, Evolution of the stratosphere during northern winter 1991/92 as diagnosed from U.K. Meteorological Office analyses, J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 2800-2817, 1994.
Pierce, R. B., W. L. Grose, J. M. Russell III, A. F. Tuck, R. Swinbank, and A. O'Neill, Spring dehydration in the Antarctic stratospheric vortex observed by HALOE, J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 2931-2941, 1994.
Pierce, R. B., T. D. Fairlie, W. L. Grose, R. Swinbank, and A. O'Neill, Mixing processes within the polar night jet, J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 2957-2972, 1994.
Sutton, R. T., H. Maclean, R. Swinbank, A. O'Neill, and F. W. Taylor, High-resolution stratospheric tracer Fields estimated from satellite observations using Lagrangian trajectory calculations, J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 2995-3005, 1994.
Swinbank, R., and A. O'Neill, Quasi-biennial and semi-annual oscillations in equatorial wind fields constructed by data assimilation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 2099-2102, 1994.

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