A 50‐year high‐resolution atmospheric reanalysis over France with the Safran system

The assessment of regional climate change requires the development of reference long‐term retrospective meteorological datasets. This article presents an 8‐km‐resolution atmospheric reanalysis over France performed with the the Safran‐gauge‐based analysis system for the period 1958–2008. Climatological features of the Safran 50‐year analysis—long‐term mean values, inter‐annual and seasonal variability—are first presented for all computed...