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1. Brief  description:

Some coastal grid points may display unrealistic Tmax values. All of  the spurious Tmax points are flagged as being ocean points based on the POAMA*'s land-sea mask.

2. Recommendation:

To eliminate the spurious values, use Tmax  over land points only,  based on POAMA's land-sea mask .

* POAMA stands for Predictive Ocean Atmosphere Model for Australia.


Problem with sea-ice cover in CMA re-forecast

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real-time data. Fixed 31st March 2016
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1. Brief  description:

The sea-ice cover data in the CMA re-forecasts is incorrect in the ECMWF S2S database. CMA confirmed that there was a problem in their data processing procedure which main effect was to have sea-ice values equal to 0 or 1 instead of covering the range 0 to 1.

The correct data was replaced in the ECMWF S2S database on 31st March 2016.

2. Recommendation:

For users that have downloaded CMA's sea-ice cover reforecast prior to 31st March 2016, we recommend to download it again.


Problem with initial conditions CMA real-time data in January 2015 and 2016
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1. Brief  description:

CMA has informed us that the real-time forecast for 2nd to 5th January 2015 and 2016 had an issue with the initial fields used. They have corrected the initial conditions and re-run those dates. We are validating the dataset before replacing them in the ECMWF S2S database.This same problem occurred for the near real-time forecasts of 2 to 5 January 2015 and 2016

2. Recommendation:

We recommend not to download the CMA sea-ice cover re-forecast (all dates) or near real-time forecast (periods in Jan 2nd to 5th January 2015 and 2016) until the correct data has been fully uploaded in the ECMWF S2S data server. There will be an announcement when the problem has been fixed.

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