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

By R. Gelaro, W. McCarty, Max J. Suárez, Ricardo Todling, A. Molod, L. Takacs, C. Randles, Anton Darmenov, M. Bosilovich, Rolf H. Reichle and 21 more. Journal of Climate, 2017

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Coupling between the terrestrial carbon and water cycles—a review (2019, background): “…(Entekhabi et al 2010, Kerr et al 2010, Dorigo et al 2017), and model estimates of soil moisture down to 2 m are also available from a wide range of land–surface models, global hydrological models and atmospheric reanalyses (Rodell et al 2004, Dee et al 2011, Beck et al 2017, Gelaro et al 2017).”
Reduced global warming from CMIP6 projections when weighting models by performance and independence (2020, methodology): “To represent historical observations in tas and psl, we use two reanalysis products: ERA5 (C3S, 2017) and MERRA-2 (GMAO, 2015a,b; Gelaro et al., 2017).”
September 2019 Antarctic Sudden Stratospheric Warming: Quasi‐6‐Day Wave Burst and Ionospheric Effects (2019, background): “The polar temperature at95 10 hPa, obtained from the MERRA-2 reanalysis (Gelaro et al., 2017), shows a rapid in-96 crease from 207.7 K on 5 September to 258.5 K on 11 September 2019 (∆T=50.8 K/week)97 –4– manuscript submitted to Geophysical Research Letters (Figure 1a).”
An Overview of the Atmospheric Component of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (2019, methodology): “Our evaluation uses the Modern‐Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA‐2; Gelaro et al., 2017), the Japanese Meteorological Agency's 25‐year Reanalysis (Onogi et al.”
Flash drought development and cascading impacts associated with the 2010 Russian heatwave (2020, methodology): “Data from the Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA2; Gelaro et al 2017) were used to provide land surface variables for analysis of the flash drought and heatwave event across southwestern Russia with a spatial resolution of 0.5◦x 0.625◦.”
Anthropogenic drivers of 2013–2017 trends in summer surface ozone in China (2018, methodology): “Meteorological data from the NASA MERRA-2 reanalysis (23) with 0.”
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Investigation of near-global daytime boundary layer height using high-resolution radiosondes: First results and comparison with ERA-5, MERRA-2, JRA-55, and NCEP-2 reanalyses (2021, neutral): “…system version 2 (NCEP-2), provide a rich ensemble of climate data products (Saha et al., 2014; Hersbach et al., 2020; Kobayashi et al., 2015; Gelaro et al., 2017), but are sensitive to both empirical parameterizations and the diagnostic method chosen, while verification by direct…”
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Attribution of the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane during 2010–2018 by inverse analysis of GOSAT observations (2020, methodology): “The simulation is conducted at 4◦× 5◦ horizontal resolution with 47 vertical layers (∼ 30 layers in the troposphere) and is driven by 2009–2018 MERRA-2 meteorological fields (Gelaro et al., 2017) from the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO).”