Abstract: AbstractIn the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2) system the land is forced by replacing the model-generated precipitation with observed precipitation before it reaches the ...

Abstract: AbstractThe Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, version 2 (MERRA-2), features several major advances from the original MERRA reanalysis, including the use, outside of high latitudes, of ...

Abstract: AbstractThe MERRA-2 atmospheric reanalysis product provides global, 1-hourly estimates of land surface conditions for 1980?present at ~50-km resolution. MERRA-2 uses observations-based precipitation to force the land (unlike ...