Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of UM/GettingInitialData

Timestamp:

03/11/15 11:20:25 (2 years ago)

Author:

willie

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UM/GettingInitialData

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 = Getting Initial Data =
 
-Start dumps, LBC files and ensemble data can be obtained from the Met Office MOOSE database.  This covers the latest five years. Start dumps from earlier periods can be constructed as GRIB files from ECMWF data.
+Start dumps, LBC files and ensemble data can be obtained from the Met Office MASS database.  This covers the latest five years. Start dumps from earlier periods can be constructed as GRIB files from ECMWF data.
 
 To get the data, create a help desk ticket providing the following information,
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  * project name,
  * estimate of the data volume in GB,
- * where in MOOSE the data is located if it is not one of the standard sets below.
+ * where in MASS the data is located if it is not one of the standard sets below.
 
 
 == Getting data from the Met Office ==
-The start dumps are now stored in MOOSE, which can be accessed via MONSooN.
+The start dumps are now stored in MASS, which can be accessed via MONSooN using the MOOSE interface.
 
 To get data for 28/Sep/2011 we would type,
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 Also in the mogreps-g path you need the boundary files: E.g. 20110722_qweg00.oper??.FRAMES.EY.tar.gz.
 
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 == Getting data from ECMWF ==
+The standard data I provide is from ECMWF's operational data. It is a deterministic forecast from the atmospheric model, version 1, analysis. It is not ERA.
+Data prior to X is in GRIB1 format, after that it is GRIB2.  The GRIB start dumps are created by concatenating the following fields:
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+ * skin temperature,
+ * surface pressure,
+ * land-sea mask,
+ * geopotential,
+ * temperature,
+ * specific humidity,
+ * U and V wind velocities
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+In contrast a UM dump contains typically a hundred fields.  So the GRIB start dumps need to be reconfigured.
 
 
-[wiki:WMcGinty W. McGinty], 15 Oct 2015
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+[wiki:WMcGinty W. McGinty], 3 Nov 2015