| Japanese Atmospheric General circulation model for Upper Atmosphere Research (JAGUAR; Watanabe and Miyahara, 2009) | |
|---|---|
| Model top | z ≈150 km |
| Horizonal resolution | T42 (Δx = Δy = 2.8125° ≈300 km) |
| Vertical resolution | L124 (Δz ≈1 km) |
| GW parameterization | Orographic: McFarlane (1987) Non-orographic: Hines (1997) with source from Watanabe (2008) |
| Physical parameterization for the MLT region | Non-LTE and O2/O3 heating, ion drag, chemical heating, dissipation heating, and molecular diffusion |
| Boundary condition | O3: UGAMP (Li and Shine, 1999) SST & sea ice: HadISST (Rayner et al., 2003) |
| PrepBUFR | Aura MLS | TIMED SABER | DMSP SSMIS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Height | ≈0–30 km (1000–1 hPa) | ≈15–90 km (83–0.002 hPa) | ≈15–110 km (100–0.0001 hPa) | ≈30–80 km (10–0.01 hPa) |
| Variable | T, u, v, RH, and Ps | T | T | Brightness T |
| Conventional dataset | Sun-synchronous orbit | Non-sun-synchronous orbit | Dense horisontal distribution | |
| 4D-LETKF (Miyoshi and Yamane, 2007) | |
|---|---|
| Number of ensemble | 50 |
| analysis update | IAU (Bloom et al., 1996) |