Articles | Volume 8, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-1-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-1-2016
15 Jan 2016
 | 15 Jan 2016

The GRENE-TEA model intercomparison project (GTMIP) Stage 1 forcing data set

T. Sueyoshi, K. Saito, S. Miyazaki, J. Mori, T. Ise, H. Arakida, R. Suzuki, A. Sato, Y. Iijima, H. Yabuki, H. Ikawa, T. Ohta, A. Kotani, T. Hajima, H. Sato, T. Yamazaki, and A. Sugimoto

Data sets

The GRENE-TEA Model Intercomparison Project (GTMIP) stage 1 forcing dataset Tetsuo Sueyoshi, Kazuyuki Saito, Shin Miyazaki, Junko Mori, Takeshi Ise, Hazuki Arakida, Rikie Suzuki, Atsushi Sato, Yoshihiro Iijima, Hironori Yabuki, Hiroki Ikawa, Takeshi Ohta, Ayumi Kotani, Tomohiro Hajima, Hisashi Sato, Takeshi Yamazaki, Atsuko Sugimoto https://doi.org/10.17592/001.2015093001

Short summary
This paper describes the construction of a forcing data set for land surface models (LSMs) with eight meteorological variables for the 35-year period from 1979 to 2013. The data set is intended for use in a model intercomparison (MIP) study, called GTMIP. In order to prepare a set of site-fitted forcing data for LSMs with realistic yet continuous entries, four observational sites were selected to construct a blended data set using both global reanalysis and observational data.