MERRA Turns 30

31DEC2008 has just been produced by the reanalysis system. This extends the MERRA Mainstream to 30 Years. 2008 is still being checked for quality, but should be posted online at the MDISC within a week or so.

At approximately 1 year per six weeks, 2009 should be produced by the end of February. MERRA production will make a transition then, where we expect data to be released monthly. The production is delayed from real time to allow ingest of the most complete observations, but also to quality check the data files.