De 12Z zou als het goed is de vernieuwde versie van ECM moeten zijn, met hogere resolutie. Volgens de website:
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Ze hebben trouwens op de valreep ook het sneeuwprobleem aangepakt:
The planned implementation date of the increased horizontal resolution forecasting system, IFS cycle 36r1, in operations is confirmed as Tuesday 26 January 2010.
The first run with the new cycle on 26 January will be the 06 UTC analysis and forecast in the Boundary Condition project, followed by the 12 UTC main forecast.
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Ze hebben trouwens op de valreep ook het sneeuwprobleem aangepakt:
22 January 2010
The following corrections to the handling of land surface parameters have been implemented this week in the IFS cycle 36r1 e-suite.
* The NESDIS satellite snow cover product was found not to be assimilated in the snow analysis and it has been re-activated.
* The snow density update in the presence of fresh snow has been corrected. In general this reduces the snow density resulting also in the reduction of the increments of snow water equivalent.
* The MODIS-based monthly albedo was corrected to be updated daily as intended. An error in the handling of invariant fields was preventing the correct updating, with the albedo being kept constant in subsequent analysis cycles.
The above fixes are expected to improve the snow evolution especially around the snow-line and to provide a consistent seasonally-varying albedo climatology in snow-free conditions.