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The atmospheric initial conditions are generated with the IFS code at ECMWF using the FULLPOS system which is a physical interpolation that takes into account the model definitions. The initial conditions are currently generated from ERA-Interim and ERA40, while the surface parameters are replaced in some ICs with the ERA-Land analysis. The ERA-Land analysis is forced by bias-corrected input and represent the surface variables more accurate than ERA-Interim. The members are generated using singular vectors (SV-Pert) or with random perturbations of the SST (SST-Pert). At BSC, the initial conditions are available in the following folder: /esarchive/releases/ic/atmos/[resol]/[exp]/
Scripts can be retrieved from
git clone https://earth.bsc.es/gitlab/cp/ifs_initial_forcing.git
ID | ANALYSIS | GRID | FIRST | LAST | INTERVAL (MONTH) | MEMBERS | METHOD |
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b07n | ERA-Interim | T159L62 | 19600201 | 20110801 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | SV-Pert |
b0nq | ERA-Interim | T159L62 | 20130201 | 20141101 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | SV-Pert |
b0p4 | ERA-Interim | T159L62 | 19800201 | 20151031 | 02,05,06,08,10,11 | fc0 - fc19 | SV-Pert |
b0qa | ERA-Interim + ERA-Land analysis | T159L62 | 19790201 | 20151101 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | SST-Pert |
b0q8 | ERA40 | T159L62 | 19600201 | 19781101 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | SST-Pert |
b0q9 | ERA-Interim | T159L62 | 19790201 | 20170501 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | SST-Pert |
b0rf | ERA-Interim | T159L62 | 20170801 | 20171101 | 08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | SST pert |
b0so | ERA-Interim | T159L62 | 20180201 | 20181101 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc29 | SST pert |
ID | COMPONENT | GRID | FIRST | LAST | INTERVAL (MONTH) | MEMBERS | METHOD |
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b0p6 | ERA-Interim | T255L91 | 19800201 | 20151101 | 02,06,10 | fc0 - fc19 | SV-Pert |
b0oo | ERA-Interim | T255L91 | 19800201 | 20140201 | 02 | fc0 - fc9 | SV-Pert |
b0p2 | ERA-Interim | T255L91 | 20150201 | 20150201 | 02 | fc0 - fc99 | SV-Pert |
b0p9 | ERA-Interim | T255L91 | 19800101 | 20100101 | 01 | fc0 - fc9 | SV-Pert |
b0pc | ERA-Interim | T255L91 | 20150101 | 20150101 | 01 | fc0 - fc99 | SV-Pert |
b0ga | ERA-Interim | T255L62 | 19790801 | 20101101 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | NOT IN ESNAS? |
i05e | ERA-Interim + ERA-Land analysis | T255L91 | 19930501 | 20091101 | 05,11 | fc0 - fc9 | SV-Pert |
i070 | ERA-Interim + ERA-Land analysis forced by WFDEI | T255L91 | 19930501 | 20091101 | 05,11 | fc0 - fc9 | SV-Pert |
b0io | ERA-Interim | T255L91 | 19930501 | 20091101 | 05,11 | fc0 - fc9 | SV-Pert |
b0q0 | ERA-Interim + ERA-Land analysis | T255L91 | 19790201 | 20171101 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | 3D T-Pert (SST-Pert on ECFS) |
a1tz | ERA-Interim + ERA-Land analysis | T255L91 | 19790201 | 20181101 | 01,02,05,08,11 | fc0 | no pert (must use auto-ecearth3) |
b0q3 | ERA-Interim | T255L91 | 19790201 | 20151101 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | 3D T-Pert (SST-Pert on ECFS) |
b0q5 | ERA40 | T255L91 | 19600201 | 19781101 | 11 | fc0 - fc9 | 3D T-Pert (SST-Pert on ECFS) |
b0rt | ERA-Interim | T255L91 | 20160201 | 20171101 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | 3D T-Pert |
b0ro | ERA-Interim + ERA-Land analysis | T255L91 | 20180201 | 20181101 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | SST-Pert |
official_repro | AMIP | T255L91 | 19500101 | 19500101 | — | fc0 - fc4 | 3D T-Pert |
a2k7 | ERA5 | T255L91 | 19790101 | 20191101 | 01,02,05,08,11 | fc0 | no pert (must use auto-ecearth3) |
ID | COMPONENT | GRID | FIRST | LAST | INTERVAL (MONTH) | MEMBERS | METHOD |
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b0it | ERA-Interim | T511L91 | 19920501 | 20091101 | 05,11 | fc0 - fc9 | SV-Pert |
prim | ERA-Interim + ERA-Land climatology (1981-2010) | T511L91 | 19500101 | 19500101 | 01 | fc0 | SV-Pert |
i05f | ERA-Interim + ERA-Land analysis | T511L91 | 19930501 | 20091101 | 05,11 | fc0 - fc9 | SV-Pert |
b0q2 | ERA-Interim + ERA-Land analysis | T511L91 | 19790201 | 20171101 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | 3D T-Pert |
a1uc | ERA-Interim + ERA-Land analysis | T511L91 | 19790201 | 20171101 | 01,02,05,08,11 | fc0 | no pert (must use auto-ecearth3) |
b0q4 | ERA-Interim | T511L91 | 19790201 | 20151101 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | SST-Pert / 3D T-Pert |
b0q6 | ERA40 | T511L91 | 19600201 | 19781101 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | SST-Pert (empty files on /esarchive) |
b0r3 | ERA-Interim | T511L91 | 20160201 | 20171101 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | 3D T-Pert |
b0rp | ERA-Interim + ERA-Land analysis | T511L91 | 20180201 | 20181101 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | SST Pert |
b0ru | ERA-Interim | T511L91 | 20160201 | 20171101 | 02,05,08,11 | fc0 - fc9 | SST Pert |
a2y7 | ERA5 | T255L91 | 19790101 | 20191101 | 01,02,05,08,11 | fc0 | no pert (must use auto-ecearth3) |
ID | COMPONENT | GRID | FIRST | LAST | INTERVAL (MONTH) | MEMBERS | METHOD |
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b0pr | ERA-Interim | T1279L91 | 20050101 | 20060101 | 01 | fc0 |
Add here any needs on initial conditions:
1) ERA-Land conditions are only available until 20160831.
2) ERA-Land conditions are only available after 1980, conditions prior to this date can not be produced currently.
There is additional information produced for the EC-Earth CP Working Group (CPWG)
https://dev.ec-earth.org/projects/ecearth3/wiki/Ocean_initial_conditions_for_climate_predictions
https://dev.ec-earth.org/projects/ecearth3/wiki/Sea_ice_initial_conditions_for_climate_predictions