# Presentation: 388073

## Design and Execution of the 30-year NCEP CFSRR

**With Input from**
**Stephen Lord, Mark Iredell, Shrinivas Moorthi, **
**David Behringer, Ken Mitchell, Bob Kistler, **
**Jack Woollen, Huug van den Dool, Catherine Thiaw and many others**

**Design and Execution of the 30-year NCEP CFS****RR**

**Updated : 15 Jan 2008**

** ****T382L64 Global ****R****eanalysis ****and ****T126L64 Seasonal ****R****eforecast Project****(1979-2008)**

## CFSRR Advisory Board Members

***Chair: Jeff Anderson (NCAR) ***
***Saki Uppala (ECMWF)***
*** ******Gabriel Lau (GFDL/NOAA)***
***Eric Wood (U Princeton)***
*** ******Gil Compo (CDC/NOAA)***
*** ******Mark Serreze (U Colorado)***
***Rick Rosen (CPO/NOAA)***
***Huug van den Dool (CPC/NCEP)***
***Jim Carton (U Maryland)***
***Lars Peter Riishojgaard  (JCSDA/NCEP)***

## Two essential components:

**For a new Climate Forecast System (CFS) implementation**** **
**Two essential components:**
**A new Reanalysis of the atmosphere, ocean, seaice and land over the 31-year period (1979-2009) is required to provide consistent initial conditions for:**
**A complete Reforecast of the new CFS over the 28-year period (1982-2009), in order to provide stable calibration and skill estimates of the new system, for operational seasonal prediction at NCEP**

## For a new CFS implementation (contd)

**For a new CFS implementation (contd)**
**Analysis Systems :****	****Operational ****	****GDAS:****	****	****	****	****	****Atmospheric (GADAS)-GSI****	****	****	****	****	****Ocean-ice (GODAS) and****	****	****	****	****	****Land (GLDAS)**
**2****. ****Atmospheric Model :****	****Operational GFS**
**3. Ocean Model :****	****	****New MOM4 Ocean**
**4.****	****Land Model :****	****	****Operational Noah Land Model**
**5.****	****Sea Ice Model:****	****	****New Sea Ice Model**

## An upgrade to the coupled atmosphere-ocean-seaice-land 

**An upgrade to the coupled atmosphere-ocean-seaice-land **
**NCEP Climate Forecast System (CFS) is being planned for 2010. **
**This upgrade involves changes to all components of the CFS, namely:**
**improvements to the data assimilation of the atmosphere with the new NCEP Gridded Statistical Interpolation Scheme (GSI) and major improvements to the physics and dynamics of operational NCEP Global Forecast System (GFS)**
**improvements to the data assimilation of the ocean and ice with the NCEP Global Ocean Data Assimilation System, (GODAS) and a new GFDL MOM4 Ocean Model**
**improvements to the data assimilation of the land with the NCEP Global Land Data Assimilation System, (GLDAS) and a new NCEP Noah Land**** ****model**

## For a new CFS implementation (contd)

**For a new CFS implementation (contd)**
**An atmosphere at high horizontal resolution (spectral T382, ~38 km) and high vertical resolution (64 sigma-pressure hybrid levels) **
**An interactive ocean with 40 levels in the vertical, to a depth of 4737 m, and high horizontal resolution of 0.25 degree at the tropics, tapering to a global resolution of 0.5 degree northwards and southwards of 10N and 10S respectively**
**An interactive sea-ice model**
**An interactive land model with 4 soil levels**

## There are three main differences with the earlier two NCEP Global Reanalysis efforts:

**There are three main differences with the earlier two NCEP Global Reanalysis efforts:**
**Much higher horizontal and vertical resolution (T382L64) of the atmosphere (earlier efforts were made with T62L28 resolution)**
** ****The guess forecast will be generated from a coupled  atmosphere – ocean – seaice - land system**
** ****Radiance measurements from the historical satellites will be assimilated in this Reanalysis**
**To conduct a Reanalysis with the atmosphere, ocean, seaice and land coupled to each other will be a novelty, and will hopefully address important issues, such as the correlations between sea surface temperatures and precipitation in the global tropics, etc****.**

## Hybrid vertical coordinate (sigma-pressure)

**Noah Land Model : 4 soil levels. Improved treatment of snow and frozen soil**
**Sea Ice Model : Fractional ice cover and depth allowed**
**Sub grid scale mountain blocking **
**Reduced vertical diffusion**
**RRTM long wave radiation**
**ESMF (3.0) **

**UPGRADES TO THE ATMOSHERIC MODEL**

## Enthalpy

**AER RRTM Shortwave Radiation**
**New Aerosol Treatment**
**Inclusion of historical CO2, solar cycle and volcanic aerosols**

**UPGRADES TO THE ATMOSHERIC MODEL**

## 6 Simultaneous Streams 

Jan 1979 – Dec 1985		7 years
Nov 1985 – Feb 1989		3  years
Jan 1989 – Feb 1994		5 years
Jan 1994 – Dec 1998		5 years
Apr 1998 – Dec 2004		6 years
Apr 2004 – Dec 2009		5 years 
        Overlap for ocean and land spin ups
Reanalysis to cover 31 years (1979-2009)

**Jan 1979 – Dec 1985****	****	****7 years**
**Nov 1985 – Feb 1989****	****	****3 **** ****years**
**Jan 1989 – Feb 1994****	****	****5 years**
**Jan 1994 – Dec 1998****	****	****5 years**
**Apr 1998 – Dec 2004****	****	****6 years**
**Apr 2004 – Dec 2009****	****	****5 years **
**        ****Overlap for ocean and land spin ups**
**Reanalysis to cover 31 years (1979-2009)**

## 5-day T126L64 coupled forecast ( GFS + MOM4 + Noah )

**12Z GSI**

**18Z GSI**

**0Z GSI**

**9-hr coupled T382L64 forecast guess** **(****GFS ****+ ****MOM4 ****+ ****Noah****)**

**12Z GODAS**

-  **0Z GLDAS**

**5-day T126L64 coupled forecast ( ****GFS ****+ ****MOM4 ****+ ****Noah ****)**

**6Z GSI**

**ONE DAY OF REANALYSIS**

**18Z GODAS**

**0Z GODAS**

**6Z GODAS**

**1 Jan 0Z**

**2 Jan 0Z**

**3 Jan 0Z**

**4 Jan 0Z**

**5 Jan 0Z**

##  Atmospheric T382L64 (GSI) Analysis at 0,6,12 and 18Z, using radiance data from satellites, as well as all conventional data

-  **Atmospheric T382L64 (GSI) Analysis at 0,6,12 and 18Z, using radiance data from satellites, as well as all conventional data**
** ****Ocean and Sea Ice Analysis (GODAS) at 0,6,12 and 18Z**
-  **From each of the 4 cycles, a 9-hour coupled guess forecast (GFS at T382L64) is made with hourly coupling to the ocean (MOM4 at 1/4****o**** equatorial, 1/2****o ****global)**
-   **Land (GLDAS) Analysis using observed precipitation with Noah Land Model at 0Z**
-   **Coupled 5-day forecast from initial conditions from every 0Z cycle, will be made with the T126L64 GFS with hourly coupling to the ocean (MOM4 at 1/4****o**** equatorial, 1/2****o ****global) for sanity check.**

**ONE DAY OF REANALYSIS**

## T382L64 CFS REANALYSIS AND 5-day T126L64 FORECASTS

|  | IBM Power 5 |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Approximately 7 days of T382L64 Reanalysis, including a 5-day T126L64 forecast every cycle, for each of the 6 simultaneous streams | 40 CFSR days in 1 calendar day 
with 82 nodes
Will take 1 calendar year 
to complete 34 years
(on HAZE upgrade) |  |
| Total Disk Space  | 104 TB |  |
| Total Mass Store (HPSS) Space | 1.5 PB |  |

**T382L64 CFS REANALYSIS AND 5-day T126L64 FORECASTS**

## Collaborators

**NOAA/CPC is actively involved in the ****monitoring**** of the Reanalysis**
**NOAA/NCDC is actively involved in the design of the ****data distribution**** of the Reanalysis**

## 37 Pressure (hPa) Levels: pgb, egy and diab (atmosphere)

**1000 975 950 925 900 875 850 825 800 775 750 700 650 600 550 500 450 400 350 300 250 225 200 175 150 125 100 70 50 30 20 10 7 5 3 2 1**
**40 Levels (depth in meters): ocn (ocean)**
**4478 3972 3483 3016 2579 2174 1807 1479 1193 949 747 584 459 366 303 262 238 225 215 205 195 185 175 165 155 145 135 125 115105 95 85 75 65 55 45 35 25 15 5**
**16 Isentropic Levels (K): ipv**
**270 280 290 300 310 320 330 350 400 450 550 650 850 1000 1250 1500**

## Moorthi, Nov 2007

|  | CDAS (R1) | GFS AM (OPR) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vertical coordinate | Sigma | Sigma/pressure |
| Spectral resolution | T62 | T382 |
| Horizontal resolution | ~210 km | ~35 km |
| Vertical layers | 28  | 64  |
| Top level pressure | ~3 hPa | 0.266 hPa |
| Layers above 100 hPa | ~7 | ~24 |
| Layers below 850 hPa | ~6 | ~13 |
| Lowest layer thickness | ~40 m | ~20 m |
| Analysis scheme | SSI | GSI |
| Satellite data | NESDIS temperature retrievals | Radiances |

##       DATA STUDIES

**We have made 20 data impact studies (using T62L64 atmospheric-only data assimilation system)**
**We have tested SSU, ERS winds, JMA reprocessed cloud track winds, and PAOBS**
**We have tested the new Reynolds’ 1⁄4 degree SST for the GODAS**
**We have tested the new 0.5 degree global CPC precipitation product for the GLDAS**
**We have updated snow and sea ice**
**We have collected tropical storm information from ERA40 and from our own archive**
**We have done several satellite radiance bias spin up experiments and are continuing to do them**

## MONITORING

**Monitoring Web site has been built **
**The CPC team has done an outstanding job of monitoring the:**
**Stratosphere**
**Troposphere**
**Surface**
**Ocean**
**EMC monitoring of data usage and verification of the 5-day short range forecasts is also underway**

## OPR

## CFSR

## OPR

**OPR**

## CFSR

**CFSR**

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## 5 day scores in CFSRR are better in NH than in SH in 1979.

**5 day scores in CFSRR are better in NH than in SH in 1979.**

## Increasing satellite data in later years have made the scores in NH and SH more comparable

**Increasing satellite data in later years have made the scores in NH and SH more comparable**

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## A QBO Problem

**10 hPa ZONAL WIND RAWINDSONDE  AT SINGAPORE OBS (****red****), ANALYSIS (****green****) GUESS (****blue****)**

## After changes to the background error covariances

**10 hPa ZONAL WIND RAWINDSONDE OBS AT SINGAPORE (****red****), ANALYSIS (****green****) GUESS (****blue****)**

## SOME PROBLEMS FACED DURING THE SPIN UP PHASE OF CFSR

- MANY BUG FIXES IN CODES AND SCRIPTS
- ADEQUATE COMPUTER RESOURCES NOT RECEIVED UNTIL JULY 1.
- ADEQUATE FUNDING NOT RECEIVED UNTIL JULY 1.
- DUE TO THIS, CFSR DELIVERY DATE HAS SLIPPED
- A QUARTER OF THE PROJECT IS DONE

## THE HUMAN FACE OF CFSR

**CPC/EMC MONITORING**

**Suru Saha**
**Xingren Wu**
**Jiande Wang**
**Patrick Tripp**
**Sudhir Nadiga**

**Diane Stokes**
**Hui-ya Chuang**
**Mark Iredell**
**Jesse Meng**
**Ken Mitchell**
**Russ Treadon**
**Daryl Kliest**
**Glenn White**
**Yu-Tai Hou**
**Steve Lord**
**Helin Wei**
**Bob Grumbine**
**George Gayno**
**Jun Wang**
**Paul van Delst**

**Hua-Lu Pan**
**Shrinivas Moorthi**
**Bob Kistler**
**Jack Woollen**
**Haixia Liu**
**Dave Behringer**

## CPC/EMC SCIENTISTS MONITORING CFSR

## Issues

- Integrated Earth System Analysis
- Aerosol is in the plan for the operational data assimilation system and will be available at the next CFSRR
- CO2 changes are already built in the current CFS Reanalysis
- 20-century type of CMIP runs indicates that the CFS in the CFSRR system is capable of responding to the CO2 changes
- How can we accelerate the future CFSRR?
- Data assimilation – combine satellite radiance usage with the earth system modeling to address atmosphere, ocean, land, ice, and biosphere
- Improving both weather and climate signals in the fully coupled models
- Resource needed to do both

## 	Email : cfs@noaa.gov

- 	Email : _[cfs@noaa.gov](mailto:cfs@noaa.gov)_
- 	Website : _[http://cfs.ncep.noaa.gov](http://cfs.ncep.noaa.gov/)_