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Affected period of the issueDomainDescriptionCause
25th April 2023

CARRA-East

CARRA-West

ASCAT data is missing for the 25th of April 2023. Affected cycles:

  • 2023042500-2023042521
Dataflow related issue
April 2023

CARRA-East

CARRA-West

Glacier albedo data for April 2023 is not available, so we have used data from October 2022 as an estimate. This is expected to have little impact, since the sun is still relatively low on the horizon in April in the affected regions.

Delay of input data delivery
March 2023

CARRA-East

CARRA-West

RO data is missing for the entire month of March 2023. The impact is assumed to be small, thus no rerun is considered necessary.

  • 20230301-20230331
Dataflow related issue
February 2023

CARRA-East

CARRA-West

ASCAT data is missing for the 13th and 14th February 2023. Affected cycles:

  • Both domains: 2023021300-2023021421
Dataflow related issue
January 2023CARRA-West

GEUS stations are missing for the first days of 2023, leading to somewhat fewer observation stations from Greenland. Affected dates:

  • 2023010100-2023010215

December 2022

CARRA-East

CARRA-West

GNSS-RO data has been missing for the first few days of December 2022. Affected dates:

  • CARRA-East: 20221201-20221207
  • CARRA-West: 20221201-20221205
Dataflow related issue
February 2021 - August 2021

CARRA-East

CARRA-West

There is a reduction of AMV observations assimilated of about 50%. Affected days:

  • CARRA-East: 20210701-20210805
  • CARRA-West 20210203-20210805

January 2020CARRA- East

20-50 local observations are missing for two days in 2020 on the CARRA-East domain. Affected dates:  

  • 2020-01-01
  • 2020-01-02

January 2020

(2020-01-05 to 2020-01-17)

CARRA-WestIASI data is not assimilated.

March - April 2019

(2019-03-01  to 2019-04-07)

CARRA-East

CARRA-West

CryoClim data (satellite snow information) is not available.


January 2018 - 2021

(2018-01-01  to present)

CARRA-West

IMO stopped delivering observation data for road-side temperature with starting date Jan 2018 for lack of confidence on the data quality (around 100 stations in total). The impact of these data is estimated to be local.


From 2018-01-14 onwards

CARRA-East

CARRA-West

New buoy type assimilated leading to ~3 times more assimilated observations.


December 2017 - January 2018

CARRA-Ea st

CARRA-Wast 

Lack of microwave radiance data from METOP-A and B. There is a limited impact on upper air parameters, and we have data from NOAA satellites.  Affected cycles:

  • CARRA-East 2017-12-08 00Z to 2018-01-09 03Z
  • CARRA- West 2017-12-08 00Z to 2018-01-02 09Z

June - July 2017

(2017-06-15 to 2017-07-18)

CARRA-East

CARRA-West

CryoClim data (satellite snow information) is not available.


August 2016

CARRA- East

CARRA- West

Some cycles run without IASI assimilation.  Affected cycles:

  • CARRA- East 2016-08-02 15Z to 2016-08-03 03Z and 2016-08-14 18Z to 2016-08-16 00Z
  • CARRA-West 2016-08-03 03Z to 2016-08-03 12Z
Temporary issue fetching IASI data.
April 2015CARRA-E ast

Assimilation of AMSU-B is disabled for the following cycle: CARRA-East 2015-04-25 21Z

Corrupt file
2015 - 2019

CARRA-East

CARRA-West

In the runs either TAC based data or WMO bufr based data have been used for BUOY and SHIP observation data. In a period there have - at least for BUOY data - been only partly overlap and some observations only available in one of the formats. Accordingly, both types should have been used in a period some time after 2014. A big jump in the number of used BUOY data were seen when changing from TAC based BUOY data, only, to WMO bufr based data, only.



September 2014 - January 2015

CARRA-East

CARRA-West

RO data are missing. The impact is limited. This affects the following periods:

  • CARRA-East   2014-11-27 12Z to 2015-01-15 12Z
  • CARRA- West  2014-09-01 00Z to 2014-09-25 12Z
RO data are missing for some periods due to a misconfigured executable
February - March 2014CARRA- East

IASI data are missing for a period in 2014 on the CARRA-East domain. Affected dates:  2014-02-12 to 2014-03-12


March 2010


CARRA- West 

Assimilation of AMV data is disabled for the following date: 2010-03-05

Issues with MARS tape

March 2009


CARRA-East

CARRA-East cycle run without AMV assimilation for the following date: 2009-03-12 09Z

Corrupt file

May 2007


CARRA- East

Assimilation of AMV data is disabled for the following date: 2007-05-11

Issues with MARS tape

March 2002


CARRA- West

Assimilation of AMV data is disabled for the following date: 2002-03-16

Issues with MARS tape

December 2001 - April 2005

(2001-12-03 00Z to 2005-04-26 21Z)

CARRA-East

Minor issue with channel 9 of NOAA-16 AMSU-A. This is not expected to have significant impact on the reanalysis result since the channel peaks relatively close to the model top.

Minor issue with channel 9 of NOAA-16 AMSU-A related to larger than expected analysis increment.

February - December 2001

(2001-02-01 00Z to 2001-12-03 00Z)

CARRA-East

NOAA-16 AMSU-data was not assimilated. The impact of assimilation of this data type is limited, and we already have coverage from the NOAA-15 for this period.

NOAA-16 AMSU-data was not assimilated due to a misconfiguration.
2000 - 2021

CARRA-West

  • Storstrømmen glacier in Eastern Greenland
  • Petermann Glacier in Northwestern Greenland

In the MOD10A1 glacier albedo product there are some spatial gaps without data. One of these gaps is over the Storstrømmen glacier in Eastern Greenland, another is over the Petermann Glacier in Northwestern Greenland. In these gaps average albedo data as a function of altitude are used based on the available data. This has only a small impact on the overall atmospheric reanalysis but entails that the reanalysis dataset should be corrected with better glacier albedo data, if available, before being used for detailed analyses of the surface fluxes or boundary layers above these particular glaciers.


1998-05-03 to 1998-05-14CARRA- West 

Assimilation of AMV data is disabled for the following period

Issues with MARS tape
1997-2005 and 2006-2020

CARRA-East


For the years 1997-2005 there could have been observations from 10-15 more Norwegian stations than usual.

From 2006-2020 only a few stations were excluded. Based on our verification experiences for CARRA data, this is estimated to have only a relatively minor effect on the quality of the surface data over the local area in Norway, and only close to the stations that were left out.

Some local non-GTS surface observations on the Norwegian mainland were left out in the early years of the reanalysis in the CARRA-East domain. By mistake a filter that excludes observations that are no longer observing (as of 2020) was applied to local observations over Norway. Surface GTS observations have been used as normal and are not affected.
1997-2000

CARRA-East

CARRA-West

Channel 4 in the MSU satellite data is not being used in this period. This channel is peaking at around 100 hPa.

Blacklist problem.
1997 - 1999

CARRA-East

CARRA-West

For these three first years climatological average glacier albedo data are used based on data from the period 2000-2006.

The MOD10A1 glacier albedo product is only available since 2000.
1994 -

CARRA-East

CARRA-West

Volcanic aerosols are not included in production after 01. September 1994

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