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15z change - NCEP-RUC to sigma pressure thickness

Posted By: Stan Benjamin
Date: 17-November-10 1719Z

Hello,

A change was made to the operational-NCEP RUC today at 15z to the maximum sigma pressure thickness in the RUC today, changing it from 10 hPa to 15 hPa. This reverses a change made to the NCEP RUC in March-April 2010. The change today makes the RUC model more robust -- there had been intermittent crashes in downslope wind situations since March-April. The same change was made previously to the backup-RUC at ESRL in late October, and to the dev-RUC at ESRL in August.

Differences in output are extremely small. Note: The Rapid Refresh running experimentally now at ESRL and at EMC had no crashes for any of these cases.

Stan Benjamin

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