[Cosmic_announce] Updated New Inversion Software BUFR Test Files - Feedback Needed

[Harald Anlauf]

Hi Doug,

did you coordinate the period of test data with anyone?

Since this period in 2015 differs from the previous test data set,
that implies additional work (at least to me) and also makes it
difficult to compare to the previous set.

Also, is there a description of what to expect from the new test files?
Do they still "feature" the stronger smoothing leading to increased
vertical correlations?

Cheers,
Harald


On Friday 15 January 2016 10:58:54 dhunt wrote:
> Dear Weather Center Users:
> 
> Updated BUFR test files from our new inversion software for part of June
> 2015 are
> available for testing by weather centers on the CDAAC web
> site:
> 
> ftp://cdaac-www.cosmic.ucar.edu/newroam_BUFR_v2/
> 
> These files use our new inversion software (newroam) but are designed
> to have error characteristics that are even more similar to the existing
> profiles
> than the last set of test files.  Thus we do not anticipate any problems
> when they
> are assimilated by the weather centers.  We plan on upgrading our real
> time data processing suite to use this new software soon, but we want
> to give weather centers the opportunity to test these data first. We
> would appreciate feedback from the Weather Centers as soon as
> possible.
> 
> Cheers,
> The CDAAC Team.
> 
> On 11/20/14 4:03 PM, Maggie Sleziak wrote:
> > Dear Weather Center Users:
> > 
> > 
> > BUFR test files from our new inversion software for May, June and July
> > 2014 are available for testing by weather centers on the CDAAC web
> > site:
> > 
> > ftp://cdaac-www.cosmic.ucar.edu/newroam_BUFR/
> > 
> >  These new files have similar error characteristics compared to
> > 
> > existing bfrPrf files, so we do not anticipate any problems when they
> > are assimilated by the weather centers.  We plan on upgrading our real
> > time data processing suite to use this new software soon, but we want
> > to give weather centers the opportunity to test these data first. We
> > would appreciate feedback from the Weather Centers as soon as possible.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > The CDAAC Team.

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