EC-Earth 3.3.3.2 Release notes
==============================

EC-Earth 3.3.3.2 has been released. It is the latest minor release aimed at
CMIP6 experiments. It adds support for several CMIP experiments and comes with
several bug fixes. Here is the full list of improvements:


UPDATED CONFIGURATIONS
----------------------

* EC-Earth3
  - Add support for CovidMIP experiments (#847)

* EC-Earth3-AerChem
  - Fix TM5 PMx diagnostic above the surface (#877)

* EC-Earth3-Veg, EC-Earth3-CC
  - LPJG bug fix for 1pctCO2 and A4xCO2 simulations (#938)

* EC-Earth3-CC
  - Updates for C4MIP project (#908)

* NEMO Standalone
  - Add ERA5 forcing option (#931)
  - Allow for ocean nudging (surface restoring) at ORCA025 (#925)
  - Update default values of surface restoring, forcing, and 3D
    nudging at ORCA025 (#974)


OUTPUT
------

* **Important** Change in output-control-files directory structure
* Add support for additional CMIP6 experiments (LUMIP, RFMIP, DynvarMIP and
  CovidMIP)
* Add fixed fields: stflf, orog and areacell
* Add two sets of output for RCM forcing
* Requires ece2cmor3 v1.8
  https://github.com/EC-Earth/ece2cmor3/releases/tag/v1.8.0


TECHNICAL
---------

* Facilitate restarting runs that crash while writing restarts (#406)
* Add LUCIA-Lite tool for improved diagnostic of OASIS coupling (#913)

* PLATFORMS
  - Fix gribex definition path for ECMWF platform, allowing to read old
    ICMCL files (#912, affects PRIMAVERA configurations)

* TEST SUITE
  This release has been technically validated by running a set of
  short experiments. The list of configurations tested is available on
  the portal: https://dev.ec-earth.org/issues/991