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This is a description of EFAS version 4.4. For an overview of other EFAS releases, please see: EFAS versioning system

Summary

EFAS v4.4 introduces  minor minor changes to the system, as well as some general bug fixes. Here is a summary of the main changes: 

  • Reporting Points update: 
    • 20-year return period points have been added (purple points) 
  • Dynamic
    • The dynamic reporting points algorithm has been
  • refactored
    • completely rewritten following the discussions with DISS and the JRC. The new algorithm has clear goals and is simpler and well understood. 
    • Reporting points thresholds have been
  • reviewed
    • updated to be more coherent and in line with the notification rules 
    • A new Probability persistence layer has been added, allowing users to better understand how reporting points are created 
    • Minor changes in the overview table in the reporting points pop-up window
  • ERIC Change (Calum to add)
  • CDS new functionalities (Ellie to add)
  • Calibration of post-processing station - models performed for all stations fulfilling requirements. An additional 398 stations are now post-processed. 
  • Significant updates to our CEMS-Flood documentation; introducing our new ‘CEMS-Flood Service User Guide’, which includes information on data access, data catalog/structure/formats, guides on how to work with CEMS-Floods data, and more. Please note the new the new web address of the EFAS the EFAS and GLoFASGloFAS wikis has changed to : https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/CEMS/CEMS-Flood  

Technical details

Release date2022-06-21 12UTC
In test suite

2022-03-23 12UTC

EFAS internal release

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Archiving of data

ECFS, MARS, CDS

Climatology1991-01-01 - to near real-time
Horizontal projectionETRS89 Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area Coordinate Reference System (ETRS-LAEA)
Horizontal resolution5 x 5 km
Temporal resolution6-hourly for medium range-monthly products, 24-hourly for seasonal

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