MPAS reference configuration

JCSDA Skylab reference configuration

Cycling 3D-Var with MPAS at 120 km

Six-hourly analyses through July 2026 with ten microwave and conventional datasets. Most cycles run only far enough to hand over to the next; the 00Z cycles launch a ten-day forecast that is scored and published.

2 July 2026, 00Z3 August 2026, 00Z
00Z: ten-day forecast, scored and published 06Z, 12Z, 18Z: six-hour forecast to carry the cycle

The reference experiment on the Skylab feature/long_fc_00+weatherbench_ref_additions branch, including the model defaults, covariance settings, observation filters, scoring settings and task sizes it inherits. Describes the configuration, not a record of a run.