Global Parallel Experiment Change Log

Experiment Name:  Scheduled June 2000 Implementation

When Who What
2000/06/01/06 Iredell Parallel discontinued.
2000/05/15/06 Wu Use NOAA-11 SBUV for ozone as well as NOAA-14. Upper-air guess copied from operations.
2000/05/12/06 Treadon Previous fix of ozone analysis problem is insufficient. Remove SST predictor.
2000/05/11/12 Treadon Ozone analysis problem is discovered over Antarctica where there is no SBUV data. Total ozone is going too low. Add height adjustment to SST predictor.
2000/05/05/00 Iredell Corrected bug in MRFX forecast that reverted snow and sea ice back to climatology after 24 hours. The GDAS was not affected.
2000/05/04/06 Pan Corrected bug in the deep convection that had prevented the deepest cloud from being formed. This fix may improve Brazilian precipitation.
2000/05/01/06 Iredell,Moorthi,Hou,
Saha,Kistler,Liu
Isolated points are removed in the reduced grid land-sea mask. Reduced grid stand-alone surface cycling used. New albedo climatology used. Aerosols included over land in shortwave radiation. Tropical storm relocation is activated.
2000/04/12/12 Iredell New reduced grid terrain files used. The GDAS guess forecast also uses the reduced grid. The MRF now runs with daily surface cycling with the SST anomaly efolded away on a 90-day time scale.
2000/04/10/18 Iredell New surface file version 200004. The MRF now runs with a reduced grid.
2000/04/06/00 Pan A correction was made to the new convection scheme. The entrainment in a cloud parcel is now limited to a doubling of the original size.
2000/03/30/00 Iredell Reduced grid still not correct; parallel reverted back to full grid.
2000/03/29/12 Iredell Parallel resurrected. Problem in analysis bias correction coefficients is corrected. Problem in gravity wave drag is stabilized. Orographic and physics forcings are spectrally filtered. MRF forecast is now done on a reduced grid.
2000/03/26/18 Iredell Parallel died. People are working on the problem.
2000/03/24/12 Treadon There's still a problem in the analysis code. Added bandaid to enable analysis to converge until better solution can be found.
2000/03/24/12 Yang Found and corrected error in observation distribution. Two major analysis fixes in one day!
2000/03/24/12 Derber Found error in bias correction cycling. Error has been fixed and parallel is recopied from operations and restarted (on a Friday afternoon, of course).
2000/03/23/00 Treadon Undid some of yesterday's fix that wasn't working right.
2000/03/22/12 Treadon Fixed analysis bug in using observations near the poles.
2000/03/21/00 Iredell Changed to new terrain and installed improvements to gravity wave drag and deep convection. Postponed implementation of reduced grid.
2000/03/17/00 Treadon Corrected observation distribution algorithm in the SSI.
2000/03/16/06 Iredell Begin parallel run with observation and analysis changes only.

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