Evaluations of reanalyses[PE3]

[PE3-39] GCOS Reference Upper Air Network (GRUAN) and its value for reanalysis evaluation

*Masatomo Fujiwara¹, Fabio Madonna^2,3, Ruud Dirksen⁴, Peter Thorne⁵, Working Group on GRUAN⁶ (1. Hokkaido University, 2. Università di Salerno, 3. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Metodologie per l’Analisi Ambientale (CNR-IMAA), 4. Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) , 5. Maynooth University, 6. GCOS)

Keywords:reference observations, upper-air observations, observing network, evaluation and validation