Meteo-France verification and validation of E-suites
These documentations are mainly in French but with also an English summary or in Annex an English (shorter) version.
- Report of the 4th 2007 e-suite (higher horizontal resolution, supplementary vertical levels, variational correction of the model bias, assimilation of AMSCAT data ..) : the e-suite and the operational suites have been compared from 06 October 2007 to 05 February 2008. The objective and subjective validations concludes to the superiority of the e-suite for every reference, every physical field and every verification domain.
- Report of the technical E-suite (CY32T0, new observations) started on May 30, 2007. This suite became operational on September 05, 2007. The objective and subjective verification of this e-suite leads to a better behaviour than the operational version of Arpege and Aladin models.
- Report of the technical E-suite, based on CY31T1 started the 16 March 2007. No change in the operational models have been made. The E-suite was running on the NEC SX8and the operational model on the VPP5000. The comparison of the scores of this E-suite and the operational version of Arpege shows completely neutral results.
- Report of the technical E-suite based on CY31T1 started on January 26, 2007. This suite became operational on February 26, 2007.
- Report on the validation of the 3rd 2006 E-suite : CY31T1_op1 + SLHD + new schemes for mountain drag and lift, radiation, sedimentation, .... This suite shows very interesting properties but its perfomances are clearly worse than those of the operational version for very rapid zonal flows. It didn’t come operational.
- Report on the validation of the 2006 second E-suite (suite 2006_2) : CY30T1_op2 + SSMI, ground GPS, 20 channels AIRS, profiler profiles, cycling of sigmab, .. This suite became operational on September 19, 2006
- Report on the validation of the 2006 first E-suite (suite 2006_1) : CY30T1_op1 + new physics + NOAA18 + SATOB. This suite bacame operational on June 22, 2006
Documentation on MF E-suites
- The second 2008 E-suite is running from mid-July 2008 (only on OLIVE for the time being): technical memorandum and scientific description of this suite cy33t1.
- First 2008 E-suite : technical memorandum and scientific description of this suite cy33t0_op1; it was switched on July 1st, 2008.
- Autumn 2007 E-suite scientific description : this E-suite was switched on February 6th, 2008.
- June to September 2007 E-suite scientific description and technical memorandum of this suite : cy32t0_op1; this suite was switched on September 05, 2007.
- Summer 2006 E-suite scientific description and technical memorandum of this suite cy30t1_op2; this suite was switched on September 19th, 2006.
- First 2006 E-suite : technical memorandum of this suite cy30t1_op1; this suite was switched on June 22nd, 2006.