Status May 14

All three MERRA streams have been running, and past their respective first month. We have started evaluating the first months, so far no surprises. The evaluation is not yet completed. The vertically integrated budget diagnostics are fully incorporated in this version, and the online file specification document should be updated soon. The budgets are complete and deep into the terms of the equations, owing to the thoroughness of Larry Takacs and Max Suarez. We'll try to post some more information on this soon.

We still are only getting 8 days per day throughput. A planned upgrade to the computing system should improve I/O, and is expected to help regain the throughput.