Parallel suite from February 2006

This parallel suite is tested since February 20, 2006.

It contains the following elements (among a few others):

 46 levels
 LREGETA + RW2TLFF
 no more stratiform precipitations in the second outer loop linear models
 Lopez microphysics scheme with 4 variables (liquid, ice, rain and snow)
 phys/dyn interface uses fluxes compatible with the Catry-Geleyn norm
 microphysical adjustment on conservative cloudy variables, after turbulence
 2 band short wave radiation scheme from ECMWF (where it has 6 bands)
 modified sea surface albedo and emissivity for ECMWF radiation scheme
 MODIS winds in assimilation (see Patrick Moll documentation, in French)
 variational quality control
 channel 13 of AMSU-A is assimilated
 modified threshold for SSMI quality control
 NOAA18 is accepted in the code
 observation error standard deviations: AMSU-A channels 11 (0.5 K instead of 0.6), 12 (0.8 K instead of 1.2); 13 (1.2 K)
 ground-based GPS monitored
 Arpège forecasts 57, 63, 69 hours added to the production

A more complete documentation, hopefully in English, will follow.

Link to the documentation about aladin parallel suite