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- new model configurations (as exploratory options) are coming online
- i/o issues are also important to us
- performance may be better optimized if we use multples of 16 levels
- (advice has been updated: sufficient if number of levels is a multiple of 8)
- ensemble strategies may present new challenges. Would like some assistance in optimization
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- single biggest challenge is orographic downscaling
- interest in common datasets for verification/validation
- Phil Rasch (pnl.gov), will provide CERES-EBAF-Surface dataset to land team
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