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.