Comments from potential users are wanted. CDAS is being rerun. A change in buffer table caused the GOES not to be used. Problems with March 1997-December 1997 reanalyses were found which will require a rerun of the affected months. The problem is with the inclusion of too much Indian station data.
More details are available.
Problems with aircraft winds used for 1976-1978 were discovered and the rerun was completed Jan 8, 1997. The aircraft data were transposed E-W which reduced the anomaly correlation by 5 points in a 5 day forecast. The effect of this bad jet-level data should be less severe in the lower troposphere. This web site will have the updated data after an examination and the Phoenix AMS meeting. Things are not perfect . . .