Category Archives: NWP Models (NCEP)

Tropical Activity in the East Pacific

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Jorel Torres

It is that time of year again! The time of year where tropical storms, hurricanes initiate and permeate through the Atlantic and the East Pacific Oceans. Currently, a few to note are tropical depression Greg, Tropical Storm Irwin and Hurricane … Continue reading →

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Transverse bands on February 8, 2013

Posted on February 14, 2013 by dbikos

Transverse bands were observed between approximately 1400-1700 UTC in the vicinity of Buffalo, NY in the GOES water vapor imagery (from the CIMSS satellite blog): http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/130208_g13_wv_east_coast_storm_anim.gif and also in the GOES IR imagery: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/templates/loop_directory.asp?data_folder=training/visit/loops/8feb13_BUF_ir&image_width=1020&image_height=900 Note the orientation of the transverse … Continue reading →

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Some Great Knowledge, Papers, and Training Materials That You May Have Missed

Posted on May 1, 2008 by admin

Jeff Braun Below are some links to, or copies of, some perhaps lesser known meteorological training materials.  Many of these have been born out of Aviation Weather programs either here in the USA through the military Air Force Weather Agency … Continue reading →

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QPF Bombs and Getting the Most Out of Your Model

Posted on March 27, 2008 by admin

J. Braun Above is an example of two model forecast runs (12 hours apart).  The main difference comes when looking at the QPF amounts generated over ERN ND and NWRN MN between the two model runs.  The later model run on the right is able to transport more moisture to the … Continue reading →

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Highlights from the Dec. 11-12, 2007 “Review of the NCEP Production Suite” Conference

Posted on March 19, 2008 by admin

J. Braun Not to diminish the importance of the entire two day conference, this is just a “good parts,” slightly abridged review and link(s) to information concerning the NWP models from NCEP that we can use. “Progress on Future NCEP … Continue reading →

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