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Technical Implementation Notice 11-47,
Amended
National Weather Service Headquarters
1045 AM EST Wed Jan 18
2012
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees
From: Timothy McClung
Chief, Science Plans Branch
Office of Science and Technology
Subject: Amended: Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS)
Changes: Effective February 14, 2012
Amended to reschedule
the implementation for Tuesday, February 14, 2012 and to add specific mention
that the increased run time of the Global Ensemble will result in a delay of
the associated Global Wave Ensemble products.
On or about Tuesday, February 14, 2012,
beginning with the 1200 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) run, the NCEP Global
Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) will be updated.
The upgrade in the GEFS
production suite includes:
1. Running the latest Global
Forecast System (GFS) model with improved physics scheme GFS v9.1.0 to replace
the currently used GFS v8.0
2. Increasing the horizontal
resolution from T190 (about 70km) to T254 (about 50-55km) for the first 192
hours (8days) of model integration
3. Increasing vertical
resolution from 28 levels to 42 levels for 0-384 hours (0-16 days) forecasts
4. Improving the ensemble
initialization method by inflating the initial perturbations between Earth’s
surface and 500mb.
5. Optimizing the stochastic
Total Tendency Perturbation (STTP) scheme, implemented in February 2010, to
represent model related uncertainty by adjusting its parameters to match the
increased model resolution
Due to the increase in model
resolution and limitations in computational resources, the delivery of some
GEFS products will be delayed. Files for the early hours (06h forecast) will
experience virtually no delay. Files for the longer forecast hours may be
subject to a delay of up to 20 minutes depending on the lead time. This change was
announced earlier this year in a Public Information Statement. The delivery
times of the GFS and North American Ensemble Forecast System (NAEFS) products
will not be affected. The delivery times of the associated Global Wave Ensemble
will be affected by this change in the GEFS. The Global Wave Ensemble products
will be available roughly
There will be several changes
in the GEFS product data files affecting files with names pgrba/pgrbb. The GEFS products disseminated over
NOAAPORT will not change in format or content. The GEFS products disseminated via the NWS and NCEP servers will have
some changes in content. A small increase in the GRIB product data volumes is
expected due to these changes. These products are available at the following
locations:
NCEP server: http://www.ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/data/nccf/com/gens/prod/gefs.YYYYMMDD/xx
or
ftp://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/gens/prod/gefs.YYYYMMDD/xx , where YYYYMMDD is the date and xx is the model cycle
NWS server:
ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/ST.opnl/MT.ensg_CY.xx/RD.YYYYMMDD
Specific sub-directories and
filenames on these servers will be given for each product change below.
Product
Additions:
1. Sunshine Duration (SUNSD) will be added
to the following GEFS output files for all forecast hours.
NCEP server:
pgrb2b/ge???.tHHz.pgrb2bf*
pgrb2blr/ge???.tHHz.pgrb2bf*.2
NWS server:
PT.grid_DF.gr2_RE.low/fh.xxxx_pa.membr*_tl.press_gr.onedeg
PT.grid_DF.gr2_RE.low/fh.xxxx_pa.membr*_tl.press_gr.2p5deg
2. Model surface (terrain) height will be added to the 204h forecast file
to reflect its change after the model truncation at 192h. Note that the surface
height in the 00h forecast files (such as ge???.tHHz.pgrbaf00)
is the terrain height used in the model integration before the truncation at
192h.
NCEP server:
pgrb2a/ge???.tHHz.pgrb2af204
pgrb2alr/ge???.tHHz.pgrb2af204.2
NWS server:
PT.grid_DF.gr2_RE.high/fh.0204_pa.membr*_tl.press_gr.onedeg
PT.grid_DF.gr2_RE.high/fh.0204_pa.membr*_tl.press_gr.2p5deg
Product
Removals:
Several parameters were mistakenly added to
the 192 hour GEFS products during a recent GFS upgrade. They will be removed with this
implementation. The parameters include:
1.12-hr Total Precipitation accumulation
for the 180-192 hr period
2. 12-hr Precipitation category fields,
which include categorical snow, ice pellets, freezing rain and rain, for the
180-192 hr period.
Changes 1 and 2 will affect the following
files:
NCEP server:
pgrb2a/ge???.tHHz.pgrb2af192
pgrb2alr/ge???.tHHz.pgrb2af192.2
NWS server:
PT.grid_DF.gr2_RE.high/fh.0192_pa.membr*_tl.press_gr.onedeg
PT.grid_DF.gr2_RE.high/fh.0192_pa.membr*_tl.press_gr.2p5deg
3. 12-hr convective precipitation fields
for the 180-192 hr period
4. 12-hr averaged pressure fields at
low/mid/high cloud bottom over the 180-192 hr period
Changes 3 and 4 affect the following files:
NCEP server:
pgrb2b/ge???.tHHz.pgrb2bf192
pgrb2blr/ge???.tHHz.pgrb2bf192.2
NWS server:
PT.grid_DF.gr2_RE.low/fh.0192_pa.membr*_tl.press_gr.2p5deg
Fixes
affecting inclusion of certain parameters:
Some diagnostic and anomaly fields have
occasionally been missing due to timing issues between post processing jobs.
The missing fields include 500 MB 5-wave geopotential height and its anomaly, and 500 and 1000mb geopotential height anomaly. These fields will now consistently be available in the
following files:
NCEP server:
pgrb2b/ge???.tHHz.pgrb2bf*
pgrb2blr/ge???.tHHz.pgrb2bf*.2
NWS server:
PT.grid_DF.gr2_RE.low/fh.xxxx_pa.membr*_tl.press_gr.onedeg
PT.grid_DF.gr2_RE.low/fh.xxxx_pa.membr*_tl.press_gr.2p5deg
A consistent parallel feed of data will
become available on the
NCEP server once the model is running in
parallel on the NCEP
Central Computing System by early
December. The parallel data will be available via the following URLs:
http://www.ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/data/nccf/com/gens/para
or
ftp://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/gens/para
Test data are also available at:
ftp://ftp.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/gc_wmb/
Specific information regarding the
scientific implementation can be found at:
http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/gmb/yzhu/html/imp/201109_imp.html
http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/gmb/yzhu/imp/i201109/Q4_FY11_GEFS_Science_v4.pdf
NCEP encourages all users to ensure their
decoders are flexible and are able to adequately handle changes in content
order, parameter fields changing order, changes in the scaling factor component
within the Product Definition Section of the GRIB files and also any volume
changes which may be forthcoming. These elements may change with future NCEP
model implementations. NCEP will make every attempt to alert users to these
changes prior to any implementation.
For questions regarding these changes,
please contact:
Dingchen Hou
NCEP/EMC Global Modeling Branch
Phone: 301-763-8000 x7015
For questions regarding the dataflow
aspects of this dataset, please contact:
NCEP/NCO Dataflow Team
301-763-8000 x7198
ncep.list.pmb-dataflow@noaa.gov
NWS National Technical Implementation
Notices are online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notif.htm
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