Description of the upgrade
The list of important changes introduced on this occasion includes:
- a new coupling of the physics with the dynamics;
- a new optimal interpolation analysis of soil moisture and temperature, using the analysis of screen-level temperature and humidity introduced in March;
- US profilers and dropsonde data are used; radiosonde temperatures are bias corrected using information carried out in the TEMP message; ship winds are assigned to a height consistent with the information reported in WMO tables; ship humidity data are blacklisted;
- waves slope and wind stress formulations are improved in the oceanic wave package
Resolution
Unchanged
Resources
ECMWF Newsletter: An article "A revised land-surface analysis scheme in the Integrated Forecasting System" from the ECMWF Newsletter No.88