Status Sept 27

Just a quick post on current jobs and activities.

The validation runs for Jan-Jul and Jul-Oct 2004, Jan and Jul 2006, Jul and Aug 1987 are complete. Jan and Jul 2001 are going, and should wrap up next week. For the next two weeks a summary of the results will be pulled together.

For production, the system will run in three data streams. Each stream will be spun up for two years at a coarse (2 degrees resolution) then the native MERRA resolution for 1 year. The streams will each start at January of 1979, 1989 and 1998.


Presently, the coarse (2 degree) runs are complete and the native (1/2 degree) spin up runs have started. They are all either completed January or into February. Each stream is producing around 10 days/day when the computers are up. With reasonable up time, they should reach the nominal beginning of production by early November.