LISF Public Release 7.8.0
LISF_public_release_7.8.0
Source code
This release includes commits 9010bf92d5b8bccdd97ee2a330b30a16fc888c95 committed on 24 Jan 2023 through 51a2c9fc72e69575edbebd7bb0d5bfadf055b0cd committed on 8 Jun 2026 on branch support/lisf-public-7.8 as reported by:
git log 'support/lisf-public-7.8' '^v7.5.4-public'
Download: LISF_public_release_7.8.0
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LISF Installation Guide: pdf
LDT Users Guide: pdf
LIS Users Guide: pdf
LVT Users Guide: pdf
Release notes (full list)
General Release notes
- Update LIS Public Testcase Walkthrough
LDT Release notes
- Add Snow and Ice Products (SNIP) subsystem
- Add Weather Satellite Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) runmode
- Support Weather Satellite Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) soil moisture retrievals and CDF generation
- Support processing US Navy ESPC-D data in USAFSI
- Support processing AquaCrop parameters
- Support processing HYMAP levee, node lat, node lon, runoff bias, urban drain outlet, and land grid area parameters
- Support ensemble mode for RAPID
- Support operational enhanced SMAP (SMAP_E_OPL) soil moisture retrievals
- Fix reporting check for prior 12z analysis in USAFSI
- Fix slope values along coastal areas for MERIT 1K
- Fix unnecessary memory allocation and logs in MERRA-2 metforcing
- Implement additional sampling strategy for ensemble restart generation to address speckling issues in medium range forecasts
- Rewrite HDF5 subset reader for L1B files
- Fix errors raised by Cray compilers
- Fix errors raised by GNU compilers
- Address warnings raised by Intel compilers
- Set default NetCDF deflate level to 1
LIS Release notes
- Add HyMAP3 router
- Add AquaCrop v7.2 crop model
- Add SnowModel version April-2021 — for newer versions, contact Glen Liston: glen.liston@colostate.edu
- Support processing Snow and Ice Products (SNIP) analysis
- Support data assimilation of SWOT water level observations
- Support data assimilation of Weather Satellite Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) soil moisture
- Support processing Met Office Global and Regional Ensemble Prediction System - global ensemble (MOGREPS-G) forecasts
- Add forecast runmode for NoahMP401 and Openwater
- Add GALWEM radiation reader
- Add support for IMERG V8 in AGRMET metforcing
- Add ParFlow coupling for Noah and NoahMP
- Add NoahMP groundwater coupling through NUOPC Cap
- Support PotEvap_tavg from NoahMP401
- Support RAPID ensemble mode
- Update Bratseth tuning software
- Add inverse exponential correlation function option
- Add runoff bias correction capability, and remove evapotranspiration from LIS output reader
- Change to support WIGOS in autotuning
- Correct writing 1-D lat/lon values into output file
- Correct writing 1-D lat/lon values into routing output file
- Fix to avoid repeat precip analysis 15 min after start
- Increase number of screen-level observations used in analysis
- Update bookends for surface pressure in AGRMET code
- Update IMERG version to V07C
- Fix slope values along coastal areas for MERIT 1K
- Fix errors raised by Cray compilers
- Fix errors raised by GNU compilers
- Address warnings raised by Intel compilers
- Set default NetCDF deflate level to 1
- Update S2S
- Address issue that 7.7.1 occasionally failed to load s2spost processed daily files for temporal aggregation on HPC-11.
- Resolve all “Future Warnings” messages.
- Update the NMME file checker to detect slices that are empty, undefined, or consists entirely of unrealistic values.
- Add HydroSCS as an observational dataset.
- Introduce an option to apply lapse rate and aspect ratio corrections to meteorological forecasts.
- Split the bcsd processing into seven modular internal functions: _mf_regridding, _mf_biascorr, _mf_temporal_disaggr, _pr_regridding, _pr_biascorr, _pr_temporal_disaggr, and _combine_forcings.
- Relocate the S2Srun Class to main/experiment_setup.py, move s2s_app/walltime.py, hcast_module.py (from s2s_app/s2s_hcast.py) and s2s_app/s2s_api.py to main/.
- Introduce a new module s2s_app/s2s_hydrosfs.py.
- Add the capability to significantly reduce file sizes by packing data using variable-specific scale_factor and add_offset attributes.
- Reduce LISDA and FCST wall-clock times by implementing domain decomposition across 23 hydrologic basins, followed by a final grid-stitching process.
- Set proper HPC-11 modules in test_ghis2s.sh
- Fix HPC-11 modulepath in shared/utils.py and main/experiment.py.
- Increase robustness of load_ncdata by adding a loop to ensure all files are ready to be loaded with checks.
- Increase walltime in s2smetric to 2h.
- GHI-S2S software is now presented as “ghis2s” Python package
- New master script: s2s_run.py Python script replaced the s2s_run.sh bash script
- s2s_preprocess_hcast.sh was replaced with a Python script – s2s_hcast.py that uses the S2Srun Class in s2s_run.py
- Added a python module walltimes.py to compute walltimes of individual jobs for both SLURM and Cylc workflow management systems
- Parallelized bcsd, s2spost, s2smetrics and s2splots scripts reducing walltime by approximately 80%
- Reorganized, refactored and in some cases rewrote bcsd, s2spost and s2smterics scripts
- Removed few redundant parameters from the main config file
- Removed symbolic links as much as possible, and reorganize the intermediate steps in BCSD
- Removed excessive writing of intermediate files in S2SMETRICS entirely
- Forcings variable names were made consistent across BCSD steps
- Integrated Cylc workflow management software in compliant with the 16WS’s GHI-repos software
- Provides a coupler (ghis2s_program.py) for 16WS’s GHI-repos and associated shell script for stand alone execution of ghis2s_program.py
- Implemented a centralized logging system - an unified logging system that generates auto-updating master log files during forecast operations
- Updated BCSD scripts to process finer resolution global grids (10km and 5km) while maintaining operational constraints of 6-hour walltime and 250GB memory limits.
- added GEOSv3 forecast reader to BCSD in addition to CFSv2
- Sub-X: added weekly files and metrics
- Fault tolerance enhancements : more input file checkers and touched FAILED job files for job failures
LVT Release notes
- Add SNIPpost runmode
- Support processing SMAP L2 NRT soil moisture retrieval product
- Support processing PotEvap_tavg from NoahMP401
- Fix IMERG reader to support any order of data comparison
- Fix floating invalid error when computing daily statistics with missing hourly data
- Fix errors raised by Cray compilers
- Fix errors raised by GNU compilers
- Address warnings raised by Intel compilers
- Set default NetCDF deflate level to 1
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