Meso Eta-12 Parallel Testing

• Began 26 August 2001

• http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/mmbpll/etapll12/

• Differences

  • 12 km / 60 levels
  • Use of NOAA-16 radiances with new 3DVAR
  • Turbulent mixing of cloud condensate
  • Double iterations in MSLP

• Differences added 11 October 2001

  • New gridscale cloud+precip scheme
  • Updated precip assimilation