Evaluation of tropospheric ozone reanalyses with independent ozonesonde observations in East Asia

Geoscience Letters

Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

Table 1 Seven reanalysis datasets used in this study

	Source	Available period	Used data period		Native resolution		References
	Source	Available period	Spatial/vertical/seasonal distributions and Taylor diagram	Long-term trend	Horizontal (lat * lon)	Vertical level	References
ERA5	ECMWF	1979.01–present	2003.01–2012.12	2003.01–2017.12	0.25° × 0.25°	L37	Hersbach et al. 2019
MACCRA		2003.01–2012.12		2003.01–2012.12	0.75° × 0.75°	L22	Inness et al. 2013
CAMSRA		2003.01–2018.12		2003.01–2017.12	0.75° × 0.75°	L25	Inness et al. 2019
CFSR	NCEP	1979.01–2010.12	2003.01–2010.12	2003.01–2010.12	0.5° × 0.5°	L37	Saha et al. 2010
JRA-55	JMA	1958.01–present	2003.01–2012.12	2003.01–2017.12	0.5° × 0.5°	L60	Kobayashi et al. 2015
MERRA2	NASA	1980.01–2018.06	2003.01–2012.12	2003.01–2017.12	0.5° × 0.625°	L42	Gelaro et al. 2017
TCR-2	JAMSTEC	2005.01–2017.12	2005.01–2012.12	2005.01–2017.12	1.1° × 1.1°	L27	Miyazaki et al. 2019, 2020 Kanaya et al. 2019