Latest version of NCEP Climate Forecast System Model (CFSv2) has been used for the development of Ensemble prediction system.

The atmospheric component of the model is the NCEP Global Forecast System (GFSv2) coupled to the GFDL Modular Ocean Model version 4p0d [MOM4; Griffies et al. 2004], sea-ice model and land surface model.

More details can be found in Saha et al. 2013 [submitted manuscript] .