WaterMIP E-mail Archive

30.07.2009: WaterMIP: WATCH forcing data available (from Graham to modellers)
In her absence I have been asked by Ingjerd to let you know that the final variables (Rainf & Snowf) have been updated by Workblock 1 members and are now available for 1980-1999 on the WATCH Workblock1 ftp site. Thank you for your patience while we tackled a variety of important issues.

Please note that the README text file has been corrected and updated: the flux forcing variable values (precipitation and radiation) indicate average flux over the time interval FOLLOWING the timestamp (e.g. for 3-hour Rainf the 06:00:00 values cover 06:00:00 to 08:59:59).

WaterMIP will be concerned with GPCC version of the precipitation data rather than the CRU version. For those running models requiring sub-daily forcing data the "Interpolator" code will be made available shortly and we will contact the relevant groups when this happens.