DANRA: The Kilometer-Scale Danish Regional Atmospheric Reanalysis

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Autori principali: Yang, Xiaohua, Peralta, Carlos, Amstrup, Bjarne, Hintz, Kasper Stener, Thorsen, Søren Borg, Denby, Leif, Christiansen, Simon Kamuk, Schulz, Hauke, Pelt, Sebastian, Schreiner, Mathias
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author Yang, Xiaohua
Peralta, Carlos
Amstrup, Bjarne
Hintz, Kasper Stener
Thorsen, Søren Borg
Denby, Leif
Christiansen, Simon Kamuk
Schulz, Hauke
Pelt, Sebastian
Schreiner, Mathias
author_facet Yang, Xiaohua
Peralta, Carlos
Amstrup, Bjarne
Hintz, Kasper Stener
Thorsen, Søren Borg
Denby, Leif
Christiansen, Simon Kamuk
Schulz, Hauke
Pelt, Sebastian
Schreiner, Mathias
contents The DANish regional atmospheric ReAnalysis (DANRA) is a novel high-resolution (2.5 km) reanalysis dataset covering Denmark and its surrounding regions over a 34-year period (1990-2023). Denmark's complex coastline, with over 400 islands and an extensive 7,400 km coastline, means that most municipalities experience mixed land-sea variability. This complexity requires a regional climate reanalysis that can resolve fine-scale coastal and inland features, as well as their impact on climate variability. DANRA is based on the HARMONIE-AROME Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model and assimilates a comprehensive set of observations, with a particular focus on Denmark. Compared to global reanalyses such as the ECMWF Reanalysis v5 (ERA5), DANRA demonstrates superior performance in representing essential climate variables, including near-surface weather parameters during both extreme and ordinary conditions. We illustrate these improvements in the representation of several extreme weather cases over Denmark, such as the December 1999 hurricane-force storm, the July 2022 national temperature record, and the August 2007 cloudburst in South Jutland. DANRA is made to support climate adaptation, impact modelling, and the training of next-generation data-driven atmospheric forecasting models. DANRA is distributed as Zarr dataset freely accessible from an object store, maximizing its usability for climate adaptation, impact modelling, and data-driven research.
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spellingShingle DANRA: The Kilometer-Scale Danish Regional Atmospheric Reanalysis
Yang, Xiaohua
Peralta, Carlos
Amstrup, Bjarne
Hintz, Kasper Stener
Thorsen, Søren Borg
Denby, Leif
Christiansen, Simon Kamuk
Schulz, Hauke
Pelt, Sebastian
Schreiner, Mathias
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
The DANish regional atmospheric ReAnalysis (DANRA) is a novel high-resolution (2.5 km) reanalysis dataset covering Denmark and its surrounding regions over a 34-year period (1990-2023). Denmark's complex coastline, with over 400 islands and an extensive 7,400 km coastline, means that most municipalities experience mixed land-sea variability. This complexity requires a regional climate reanalysis that can resolve fine-scale coastal and inland features, as well as their impact on climate variability. DANRA is based on the HARMONIE-AROME Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model and assimilates a comprehensive set of observations, with a particular focus on Denmark. Compared to global reanalyses such as the ECMWF Reanalysis v5 (ERA5), DANRA demonstrates superior performance in representing essential climate variables, including near-surface weather parameters during both extreme and ordinary conditions. We illustrate these improvements in the representation of several extreme weather cases over Denmark, such as the December 1999 hurricane-force storm, the July 2022 national temperature record, and the August 2007 cloudburst in South Jutland. DANRA is made to support climate adaptation, impact modelling, and the training of next-generation data-driven atmospheric forecasting models. DANRA is distributed as Zarr dataset freely accessible from an object store, maximizing its usability for climate adaptation, impact modelling, and data-driven research.
title DANRA: The Kilometer-Scale Danish Regional Atmospheric Reanalysis
topic Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04681