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JCSDA Announces the Fifth Public Release of Skylab

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The JCSDA is pleased to announce the release of Skylab 5.0!

JCSDA SkyLab 5.0 is the fifth roll-up release that provides integrated Earth System Data Assimilation capability via a unified end-to-end ecosystem including a single code build, workflow, data store, and diagnostics dashboard. Initial capabilities are demonstrated for the following components: atmosphere, ocean, sea-ice, soil moisture, snow, aerosols, and composition. The diagnostics dashboard is available at https://skylab.jcsda.org 

The main SkyLab upgrades for release 5.0 include:

  • Atmosphere-land experiment:

    • CRTM v3.0 use as observation operator for satellite radiances

    • Addition of monitoring for SSMIS, COWVR and TEMPEST

  • Trace gas experiment:

    • CO and NO2 3DVar assimilation from TropOMI NO2 tropospheric columns, TropOMI CO total columns and MOPITT CO total columns observations. 

  • Software infrastructure 

  • Support is extended to the following system requirements:

    • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Single Node AMI (RedHat 8)

    • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Parallel Cluster (Ubuntu 20.04)

    • NASA Discover (gnu & intel)

    • NOAA Mississippi State University Orion (gnu & intel)

    • NOAA University of Wisconsin S4 (gnu & intel)

    • NCAR Cheyenne (gnu & intel)

SkyLab has been developed by the JCSDA with contributions from its Partner Agencies in NOAA, NASA, the US Air Force, and the US Navy.

To read more about the release, links to the code, release notes and tutorials, visit www.jcsda.org/jediskylab