v17.9.0-beta.2 - Pre-release towards SMAP L4_SM Version 5
Pre-release
Pre-release
New/Updated Science Functionality:
- Assimilation when running on cube-sphere tiles.
- Read forcing from cube-sphere grid when running on matching cube-sphere tiles.
- Output of Catchment analysis increments of model prognostics via HISTORY.
- Added FP-5.25 upgrade (30 Jan 2020) to "cross-stream" forcing option.
- Functionality to create regional (non-global) nc4 vegdyn restart file.
- Configuration option to add extra variables into catch restart files (as needed by GCM).
- Allows processing of (assimilation) observations for innovations output without perturbations turned on.
New/Updated Infrastructure:
- Support for SLES 12 in addition to SLES11 (ESMA_env v2.0.2).
- Updated to MAPL v2.0.
- Removed dycore and FMS
- Conforms to GNU compiler (gcc-9.1).
- Post-processing compression (gzip) of landpert restart files (except final time).
- Added LDAS_app/mk_GEOSldasRestarts.F90 (adapted from GCM GridComp's mk_LDASsaRestarts.F90 in preparation for re-tiling changes).
- Fixed output log file name and location.
Bug Fixes and Other Minor Changes:
- Bug fix in update_type=9 (abs(deltaT)>0.)
- Bug fix for local mwRTM and time dimension restart.
- Replaced copy ("cp") with link ("ln") for catparam and mwrtm diagnostic output files.
Still missing:
- Fixes to re-tiling of restart files.
- Covariance inflation.
- Update of CHANGELOG.md.