Upgrade of GEFS and NAEFS (Q2FY2010 - Feb. 16 2010)

• Summary information
• Briefing Presentation (pdf - draft)
• Date changes and downstream dependencies (pdf)

• Statstical results from NCO real time parallel
• STATS since December 10 2009
• STATS for precipitation


• Statstical results from retrospective experiments
• Latest runs include everything(Summer 2008)
• Latest runs include everything(Summer 2007)
• Earlier runs without stochastics(Winter 0708)


• Tropical storms verifications


• Science related issues from early studies (references):
• Increasing horizontal resolutions
• Short prentation (pdf)
• Verify statistics (ensembles)
• Verify statistics (controls)
• Using 8th order horizontal diffusion for T126 resolution
• Short presentation (pdf)
• Verify statistics (controls)
• Stochastic perturbation scheme to account model uncertainty
• Short presentation (pdf)
• Extended forecasts out to 35 days (00UTC only) --- PENDING
• Short presentation (pdf)