Implementation Date: 18 May 2011
The new cycle includes both meteorological and technical changes. The main technical change is that from this cycle onwards the WMO FM-92 GRIB edition 2 (GRIB-2) is used for the encoding of model-level data.
Observation processing
See the Observation Data Base documentation.
Data assimilation
Chapter 1: Overview
Chapter 2: 4D variational assimilation
Chapter 3: Tangent-linear physics
Chapter 4: Background term
Chapter 5: Observation operators and observation cost function (Jo )
Chapter 6: Background, analysis and forecast errors
Chapter 7: Gravity-wave control
Chapter 8: Diagnostics
Chapter 9: Observation processing
Chapter 10: Observation screening
Chapter 11: Land-surface analysis
Chapter 12: Analysis of sea-ice concentration and sea surface temperature
Chapter 13: Data flow
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Dynamics and numerical procedures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Basic equations and discretization
Chapter 3: Semi-Lagrangian formulation
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Physical processes
Chapter 1: Overview
Chapter 2: Radiation
Chapter 3: Turbulent transport and interactions with the surface
Chapter 4: Subgrid-scale orographic drag
Chapter 5: Non-orographic gravity wave drag
Chapter 6: Convection
Chapter 7: Clouds and large-scale precipitation
Chapter 8: Surface parametrization
Chapter 9: Methane oxidation
Chapter 10: Ozone chemistry parametrization
Chapter 11: Climatological data
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Ensemble Prediction System
Chapter 1: Methodology
Chapter 2: Computational details: initial perturbations
Chapter 3: Computational details: non-linear integrations
References
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Technical and Computational Procedures
Chapter 1: Structure, data flow and standards
Chapter 2: Parallel implementation
Appendix A: Structure, data flow and standards
Appendix B: Message Passing Library (MPL)
Appendix C: The TRANS package
Appendix D: FullPos user guide
Appendix E: FullPos technical guide
Appendix F: Coding standards
Appendix G: The Perforce source code management system user guide
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Wave Model
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2 The kinematic part of the energy balance equation
Chapter 3 Parametrization of source terms and the energy balance in a growing wind sea
Chapter 4 Data assimilation in WAM
Chapter 5 Numerical scheme
Chapter 6 WAM model software package
Chapter 7 Wind wave interaction at ECMWF
Chapter 8 Extreme wave forecasting
Chapter 9 Second-order spectrum
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Meteorological impact
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