Files sent to MBARI for Skill Assessment

The table at right indicates which real-time forecast fields have been run with 2 hourly output cycles, broken up by day and sent to MBARI for skill assessment. The table is decomposed into "stand alone" simulations, nested simulations and ESSE simulations. A capital "X" in a table box indicates that the corresponding netCDF files were sent. An empty table box indicates that the netCDF files have not been sent. A non-existent table box signals that the corresponding type of simulation was not issued in real time (e.g. only August 13 had all three types issued).

The single-day files have names constructed as yyyymmdd_domain_type.nc. In this real-time experiment, only the Monterey Bay domain results were issued, so the domain part of the name is always mb. The type portion of the name indicates whether the simulation was run in "stand alone" mode, nested mode, or in an ESSE ensemble. The codes for each are given in the table at the left. For example, a single-day file for August 14 extracted from a nested simulation would be named 20030814_mb_nst.nc. Currently, only the days after the last assimilation of data for a given simulation are being extracted.

Lastly, the files are transferred to MBARI in the directories DataArchive/ModelData/HOPS/pe_mmmdd, where mmmdd refers to the date that the forecast was orginally issued (e.g. results from a forecast issued on August 7 are transferred to the directory DataArchive/ModelData/HOPS/pe_aug07).