LIS 6.0 Documentation
New Features in LIS6.0 Public:
- Requires ESMF 3.1.0rp3.
- Modules have been restructured to streamline public and private interfaces.
- Allows mosaicing of different forcings concurrently (e.g. GDAS global + NLDAS over CONUS + SALDAS over South America, etc.).
- Allows multiple overlays of different supplemental forcings (e.g. GDAS overlaid with NLDAS, AGRMET, STAGEIV).
- Allows concurrent instances of data assimilation.
- Includes a highly configurable I/O interface (allows unit conversions, temporal averaging, model-independent support for binary, Grib1 and NETCDF).
- New sources for data assimilation (using NASA and NESDIS retrievals of AMSRE soil moisture).
- Support for real time GVF data from NESDIS and MODIS.
- Upscaling by averaging algorithm.
- Support for UTM map projection.
- Support for computational halos.
A more detailed list of subsequent updates and bug fixes is found in the file "RELEASE_NOTES.txt" that accompanies a software release.