Experimental setup

Overview

Two suites are used: a control (au-aa427) and a trial run without IASI observations (au-aa???). Both suites are based on APS2 ACCESS-G Rose suite, au-aa068 at r1316.

• Resolution: N512L70
  

• PFM resolutions: N108/N216
  

• Observation types used,

obsgroup	platform	note
screen	METAR (?), SYNOP
as	AMDAR's, AIREP's, TEMP, WIND, wind profilers
atovs	NOAA-15 (check????), NOAA18, NOAA19, MetOp-A, MetOp-B
airs	Aqua
iasi	MetOp-A and MetOp-B (check????)
cris	Suomi-NPP
atms	Suomi-NPP
mtsatcsr	MTSAT-2
amv	GOES-E, GOES-W, Aqua/MODIS, MTSAT-2, METEOSAT-7, METEOSAT-8, METEOSAT-9, METEOSAT-10	???? need to duble-check ???? For more details see here
surface	SYNOP, METAR, ????
gpsro	GRACE-A, COSMIC-1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, C/NOFS, GRAS-A, GRAS-B
scat	ASCAT

Note 1.

• Experiment period: 00Z 1 August 2015 until 18Z 31 October 2015

• Spin-up period: 00Z 18 July 2015 until 18Z 31 July 2015

• Forecast lengths: 12-hour steps up to 5 days

• Analysis frequency: 00Z and 12Z

• Fields to output: T, q, u, v, Z, MSLP

• Levels: 1000, 950, 900, 850, 800, 700, 600, 500, 400, 300, 250, 200, 150, 100, 70, 50, 30, 20, 10, 7, 5, 3, 2, 1 hPa

• Aditional statistics:
  1. ???? need to turn on SatRad NetCDF writefiles for o-b statistics
  2. ???? need to turn on o-a statistics from VAR

Preparing configuration

Following summarises OPS control file versions used by UKMO (from collab wiki).

Stationlist

Time period	Version
20150717 18Z - 20150720 18Z	v396
20150721 00Z - 20150810 18Z	v397
20150811 00Z - 20150914 18Z	v398
20150915 00Z - 20151019 18Z	v400
20151020 00Z - 20151031 18Z	v401

Used the latest version, v408. Some of the changes are,

MTSATClear_stlist.nl - since the names, 'DayStart?' and 'DayEnd?' are not valid in OPS30.0.0 I commented out the lines; Q. What would be the effect????

Screen stationlist

Time period	Version
20150717 18Z - 20150720 18Z	v126
20150721 00Z - 20150810 18Z	v127
20150811 00Z - 20150914 18Z	v128
20150915 00Z - 20151019 18Z	v129
20151020 00Z - 20151031 18Z	v130

SatRad coeffs

Time period	Version
20150717 18Z - 20150820 18Z	v109
20150821 00Z - 20150823 18Z	v110
20150824 00Z - 20150921 18Z	v111
20150922 00Z - 20151004 18Z	v112
20151005 00Z - 20151020 18Z	v113
20151021 00Z - 20151031 18Z	v114

RTTOV7 coeffs

Time period	Version
20150717 18Z - 20150820 18Z	v40
20150821 00Z - 20150823 18Z	v41
20150824 00Z - 20151031 18Z	v42

MetDB Elements

Version	Note
v101	bom/common/aps2.r00 is derived from this
v102	Added MVIRIClear_ESACSR.elements, changes for GPSRO TPD
v103	Fix typo in ATMS elements file
v106	Corrected GPSRO elements for TPD

• There is a typo in ATMS_ATMS.elements - see v103/ATMS_ATMS.elements

Scatwind coeffs

Time period	version used
20150717 18Z - 20150908 18Z	v24
20150909 00Z - present	v25

Satwind coeffs

version used	note
20150717 18Z - 20151031 18Z	v19

Sonde coeffs

Time period	version used
for a long time	v3

GPSRO coeffs

Time period	version used
latest version	v14

rose-suite.conf

Change CONF_START and CONF_STOP

set_ops_stationlist.ksh

ToDo Use stationlist file from au-aa094 as a starting point. You may need to copy stationlist files from Jasmin mirror to ~access/da as the files may need modification

set_ops_screen_stationlist.ksh

set_ops_control_files.ksh

set_ops_bias_files.ksh

Summary of versions of various OPS control files to be used =

OPS controlfile type	20150717 18Z - 20150720 18Z	2015072 - 20151031 18Z	???? - ????
Stationlist	v397
Screen stationlist
SatRad coeffs
RTTOV7 coeffs
MetDB Elements
Scatwind coeffs
Satwind coeffs
Sonde coeffs
GPSRO coeffs

ODB and OPS versions

ODB_VERSION is odb30.0.2 OPS version is 30.0.0

Preparing Bufr files

Bufr files copied: 20150718 00Z till 20151031 18Z

Archiving

• Model forecast files are archived to ????

• SatRad writefiles are archived to ????

Luke-warm start

• start dump (iau-start-dump) from 20150717 12Z

• analysis increment (an_inc) from 20150717 18Z

• soil moisture (an_smc) from 20150717 18Z

• bgerr (bgerr.new) from 20150717 18Z

• all the warm-running files are from pre-operational APS2 ACCESS-G, saneg.

Spin-up run

• Only control suite does the spin-up as the same warm-cycling files will be fed to the trial suite

• The spin-up starts from 20150717 18Z and finishes 20150731 18Z

• Then the bias coefficients are updated.

• The suite restarts from 20150801 00Z and finishes 20151031 18Z