12/October/2021

An issue with sporadic anomalous values in "2m dewpoint temperature" from Météo-France System8 has been identified. The details can be found in the section "Fixed errors" under the code E9 of our "Known issues" page

29/September/2021

An error has been identified in the "total cloud cover" data from JMA CPS2 forecasting system. The details can be found in the section "Not fixed errors" under the code E8 of our "Known issues" page

It affects all available data for that variable (daily data, monthly data and anomalies) both for real-time forecasts and hindcast dates.

Due to a bug during the data ingestion to the C3S archive the values of this parameter have been divided by 100.

6/July/2021

Changes to operational forecasting systems:

23/May/2021

Changes to operational forecasting systems:

13/May/2021

Changes to operational forecasting systems:


11/Mar/2021

A data gap in MetOffice's GloSea6 forecast data has been reported as "Data gap G5" in C3S Seasonal Forecast known issues

The GloSea6 forecasts initialised on 22 and 23 February were initialised with low Arctic sea ice extents. This resulted from corrupt data used in the derivation of ocean initial conditions. The sea ice largely recovers in these forecasts, but is biased low through the whole 6-month forecast compared to neighbouring days.

Initial sea-ice conditions for different GloSea6 February 2021 start dates:

Evolution of sea-ice fraction forecasts for different GloSea6 February 2021 start dates:


2/Mar/2021

The integration into C3S seasonal forecast multi-system of ECCC forecasting systems, CanCM4i and GEM-NEMO, announced earlier (19th/January/2021) to happen with the release of March 2021 real-time forecasts has been delayed to April 2021.


16/Feb/2021

Changes to operational forecasting systems:


19/Jan/2021

Upcoming changes in the C3S seasonal forecast service planned to be implemented for the release of the March 2021 real-time forecast (13th March at 12GMT):

More details about these planned changes will be soon notified. Please note this is just an early warning about the plans for implementation of those contributions and changes to that schedule are still possible.

14/Dec/2020

With the publication of the December 2020 C3S seasonal forecasts (released on the 13th December at 12UTC) a couple of new additions have been made to the catalogue of graphical products shown at https://climate.copernicus.eu/charts/c3s_seasonal/:


26/Oct/2020

An issue in the CDS infrastructure affecting some seasonal forecast retrievals has been identified. It will be tracked as error (E7b) in the seasonal forecast known issues page.

This error prevents users from getting all available members from CFSv2-v20110310 (NCEP CFSv2) data. This issue affects retrievals done after the release of the October 2020 forecast, which happened at 12UTC on the 13th of October 2020.

It affects all data available in the high-frequency (daily/subdaily) datasets:

Members with start time at 06h,12h and 18h are not being retrieved from the archive by the CDS and just members with start time at 00h are returned.

This is currently under investigation and it will be announced here once the issue has been resolved.

The issue described above has been solved at 16:15UTC on the 26/October/2020. All retrievals should be correct now, and just those retrievals performed between 13/Oct/2020 at 12UTC and 26/Oct/2020 at 16:15UTC have been affected.


13/Oct/2020

With the release of the October 2020 real-time forecast (at 12 UTC on 13th October) some additions will be introduced to the list of available forecasting systems. Specifically:

Additionally, with the release of the November 2020 real-time forecast (at 12 UTC on 13th November), another change of forecasting systems will be included. Specifically:

Details about hindcast dates available can be found here. The complete list of parameters available for each forecasting system can be found here.

13/June/2020

All these changes have been introduced starting from June 2020, and previously produced plots haven't been affected by them.


15/May/2020

12/ May/2020

25/March/2020

11/February/2020

8/January/2020

13/December/2019

2/December/2019

29/November/2019

7/November/2019

11/October/2019

22/August/2019

5/April/2019



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