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- conversion to required GRIB2 format is a challenge, specially from NetCDF for example
- fixed reforecast production
- numerous S2S parameters
Ideas for improvement next time:
- conversion tools could be shared among the centres (using NetCDF)
- even within one organisation links to other projects and sharing of tools are important (KMA, BoM, CMA..)
- conversion tools from ECMWF should be shared
- new tools always welcomed (e.g. to convert to required accumulated sums since the forecast start)
Q2 What are the biggest challenges in the current production phase to ensure long-term minimal effort operations? How could the data archive centres support you more in that role?
Challenges:
- conversion scripts upgrade following model's upgrades
- sometimes even preventing to continue contribution to archive
- => official project support stressing its importance is helpful to find resources inside organisation
- sometimes even preventing to continue contribution to archive
- any operational issue can impact products for archives (which has not highest priorities)
- fixed forecast computation is big job after each model upgrade (CPU, storage..)
- TIGGE high resolution is really needed?
- who is using it? (limited domain with high res?)
- some stats could help to understand if it is used
- who is using it? (limited domain with high res?)
Q3 How could we improve cooperation between data providers and archiving centres (how to communicate/automate tasks/implement checking tools/test/implement model upgrades etc)?
User survey summary
User survey summary - preliminary findings summarising examples of comments from the user survey (only issues not acknowledgements)
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