Description of the upgrade

Cycle 31r2 is a consolidation cycle. This cycle introduces the assimilation of new satellite data: winds from MTSAT (Japanese GEO satellite), and GPS radio occultation data from CHAMP, GRACE and COSMIC.

Implemented: 12 December 2006  

Datasets affected

  • HRES
  • ENS

Resolution

Unchanged

HorizontalVertical


Atmospheric (unchanged)
  • HRES: TL799
  • ENS: TL399
Wave (unchanged)
  • HRES: 0.36 degrees
  • ENS: 0.5 degrees
  • LAW: 0.1 degrees



Atmospheric (unchanged)
  • HRES: L91
  • ENS: L62


Meteorological content

  • passive monitoring of new data

Meteorological impact

  • small impact in the troposphere
  • significant positive impact for lower stratospheric temperature analyses and forecasts

Technical content

  •  introduction the use of new satellite data
  • GPS radio occultation data from CHAMP, GRACE and COSMIC.
  • changes are related to the data representation of ENS fields in the MARS archive.
    • Ensemble mean and standard deviation fields are archived in MARS with 16 bit accuracy
    • Probability forecast fields are stored in MARS with 8 bit accuracy

Model ID and experiment number

  • Atmospheric: 128
  • Ocean wave: 116

E-suite experiment number = 0032

Resources

ECMWF Newsletter: See Newsletter 110

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