Friday, November 13, 2009

Status and overlapping data

There was some scheduled downtime this week, and that slowed production, but December 2007 will be complete sometime this evening. 2007 data files are undergoing evaluation and should be released to the DISC next week, with 29 years of data available online.

Production on the first two streams continued an extra two years of data, giving three years of overlapping analyses for 1989-1991 and 1998-2000. The data at the end of the run should be much better spun up than that near the initialization, so those data are also going to be released at the DISC. Our evaluation of the overlaps and transition between data streams will be posted in time, as will documentation of the overlaps.

2 comments:

Andrew Dessler said...

I just discovered this blog. This is very useful, so I want to encourage you to keep posting info about the MERRA.

Michael Bosilovich said...

Thanks for saying so. The tricky part is with meteorology or climatology, because it isn't reviewed. I try to take time and double check figs and interpretation. Still, I would encourage anyone to reproduce and reinterpret any of the analysis here.