This list describes the status of some feedback and requests put forward by users during the User Voice Corner feedback session at the ECMWF UEF meeting held in June 2019 (this update on actions was delayed by COVID). Items are included here mainly to provide some useful clarification and/or an update where significant progress has already been made. Many more items are being worked on or considered for future action. References are made below to cycle 47r1; this new IFS model version went live live on June 30th 2020. This update was delayed by the COVID outbreak. ECMWF is also working on feedback provided at UEF 2020, the intention is to provide a web page describing progress on those items early in 2021.
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Although this will not satisfy all requests, ECWMF has recently introduced a web-product-based CDF-intercomparison tool for weekly mean 2m temperature and weekly total precipitation, to see how handling by successive extended range forecasts compares, for a user-selected (clickable) site. We have also revised the extended range charts, adding more geographical areas and now providing forecasts out to 6 weeks ahead rather than 4.
- Can we have more cluster-style products?
ECMWF has now moved from experimental to operational status a number of regime-related products, for both medium and extended ranges. These effectively cluster output according to standard regimes (such ad NAO+) and display the output in new and innovative ways.
- ecCharts is still slow!
ECWMF made some structural changes to ECMWF released a major new version of ecCharts, focused on this particular problem, and whilst performance is still not perfect it seems that the number of users complaining has diminished as a result.