MARS

Specifies the analysis date, the forecast base date or observation date.

date=<value>

Valid formats are:

Absolute as YYYY-MM-DD, YYYYMMDD. The day of the year can also be used: YYYY-DDD
Relative as -n ; n is the number of days before today (i.e., -1 = yesterday )
Name of month (e.g. January for Climatology data)
Operational monthly means are retrieved by setting day (DD) to 00.

Examples

date = 20180918/20180919 # The 18th and 19th September 2018

date = 2018-145 # The 145th day in 2018

date = 20180101/to/20180131 # Every day in September 2018

date = -2 # The day before yesterday

For ODB data the date refers to a date column, i.e. the date of the assimilation run.

Dissemination

Specifies the hindcast base date.

date=<value>

For hindcast data, the only value for the parameter DATE (date on which the hindcast is based) supported in dissemination is ALL. Hindcasts are only run on

THURSDAY (00 UTC based ENS run).

Value Note

all

Only all is supported for HINDCAST.

off

For non hindcast data

For STREAM=EFHS and TYPE=EM/ES/TAEM/TAES

Examples

disseminate,

stream = enfh,

number = 1/to/10,

date = all,

use = monthly run thursday/monthly run monday,

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