The following is a description of GloFAS v4.4, available as fully operational GloFAS from XX September 2025.
For an overview of other GloFAS releases, please see: GloFAS versioning system.
Summary
GloFAS v4.4 introduces several minor changes to the system, including:
- AIFS... description of forcings, linking to documentation in ECMWF. Input from Nicola Martin
- Descriptions of new reporting points and AIFS flood probability layers. In EFAS Reporting Points, remember to explain the overlapping WB dots (due to ordering) input from Juan Pereira Colonese
This upgrade of GloFAS has no impacts on the GloFAS modelling results.
Technical details
| Pre-release date (available onstage platform) |
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|---|---|
| Release date | 2025-09-XX |
| In test suite | n/a |
| GloFAS internal number | 005 |
| Archiving of data | ECFS, MARS, CDS |
| Reference climatology (for thresholds/ anomalies) | 1979-01-01 to 2022-12-31 |
| GloFAS Historical | 1979-01-01 to near present |
| Reforecasts | from 2003-03-27 to real time |
| Horizontal projection | EPSG4326 |
| Horizontal resolution | 0.05 x 0.05° |
| Temporal resolution | Daily |