- Transition period will extend between 2016-10-20 and 2016-11-16.
Nevertheless, the timeliness of the former product won't be ensured from 2016-10-20.
New product: GLOBAL_ANALYSIS_FORECAST_PHY_001_024
This product replaces the former GLOBAL_ANALYSIS_FORECAST_PHYS_001_002:
- Better account for oceanic observations measured by satellites and in situ thanks to a major upgrade of the system (modelisation and assimilation method), new initialisation and the use of a new set of sea ice observation.
- Interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere will be better represented: global mean elevation of the ocean surface due to the warming of the ocean and a more accurate surface mass (rain) exchanges will be taken care of.
- Archived time series replayed and available for the time period [01/01/2007; ongoing] against [01/01/2013; ongoing] now.
- Extension on the forecast temporal coverage from +7 days to +10 days
- Accuracy improved for many of the parameters that make up forecast.
- Provision of hourly datasets instead of 2 hourly
Documentation update:
Product User Manual and Quality Information Document updated.
Update of scripts:
Please, if you were using scripts to download, you should update them.
For Direct download mechanism: you could rely on the "view script" button, from the catalogue online, to update your command from the 20th of October (see
FAQ#6).
For FTP mechanism you could rely on the url provided from the catalogue online access, to update your command from the 20th of October.
Complementary information:
Former product name GLOBAL_ANALYSIS_FORECAST_PHYS_001_002 is replaced by GLOBAL_ANALYSIS_FORECAST_PHY_001_024
Former dataset names:
global-analysis-forecast-phys-001-002
global-analysis-forecast-phys-001-002-2hourly-t-u-v-ssh
should be replaced by:
global-analysis-forecast-phy-001-024
global-analysis-forecast-phy-001-024-hourly-t-u-v-ssh
