MARS
Used for seasonal forecast related products
method = <value> |
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For a given system or experiment, specifies how the analyses and forecasts were produced. In Seasonal Forecast system 2, method=0 denotes the case when no ocean data assimilation was used to prepare ocean initial conditions; method=1 is the standard case of data assimilation. From Seasonal Forecast System 3, for the standard forecasts (up to month 7), request method=1. For the longer range forecasts (out to month 13), request method=3 (the first 7 months of METHOD=3 data for each extended integration is a simple copy of the corresponding METHOD=1 data).
Example to specify 2 metre temperature from the multi-model seasonal forecast system 5:
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Dissemination
Used for seasonal forecast related products
method = <value> |
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The seasonal forecast is run once a month to 7 months forecast and once a quarter to 13 months.
To distinguish between the 2 methods the key method is used
1 for the monthly 7 months forecast
3 for the 13 months forecast (not available on dissemination)
For the Extended
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