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wxman007
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Re: Question About Forecasting Models
      Tue Jun 22 2004 09:26 AM

Good question Allison....

The reason why is that they all run on the same computer, (or computers) and you can't really run them concurrently...so you have to arrange them so that forecasters in the field get the data they need as quickly as possible.

The base runs of the models are set up off of the rawinsondes (weather balloon) launches at 00z and 12z. That data is critical to the models, so they have to run at those times. Then the models are sorted by 2 criteria a) which one is needed most by forecasters and b) which ones run the fastest. The Eta is the primary US short range model, and is used by every forecaster in the country, so it goes first (after the RUC, which a fine-scale model that runs every hour and only out to 12 hrs...it doesn't take long). Then the old NGM (shaking my head), then the AVN/MRF.GFS suite. The GFDL and other hurricane models have to run after the GFS because they use it for the basis of their forecast.

I hope this answers your question...at least a bit....they CAN'T run at the same time, so they have to be prioritized.

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* Question About Forecasting Models Allison Tue Jun 22 2004 09:26 AM
. * * Re: Question About Forecasting Models wxman007   Tue Jun 22 2004 09:26 AM
. * * Re: Question About Forecasting Models Allison   Tue Jun 22 2004 05:50 PM
. * * Re: Question About Forecasting Models wxman007   Tue Jun 22 2004 10:19 PM
. * * Re: Question About Forecasting Models Ed DunhamAdministrator   Fri Jun 18 2004 09:20 PM
. * * Re: Question About Forecasting Models LI Phil   Mon Jun 21 2004 05:28 PM

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