Scientific Theme: Advanced Modeling and Observing Systems

NOAA Operation Model
NOAA Optimally Interpolated SST
Theme report: Climate System Variability
MILESTONE PSD07.2:
Finish ingesting a new data set, NCEP's North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR), which is
much higher in resolution (vertically as well as horizontally) than any of CDC's previous data sets,
in a CF-compliant NetCDF format.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR PSD07.2:
The NARR data set was extended through the end of 2006. It is an ongoing data set for NCEP, so ―finishing‖ it is
not good terminology. Further updates are planned on a space-available basis. The Lambert Conformal Conic
projection has proven to be an additional complication, but the CF metadata standard has provisions for handling it.
MILESTONE PSD07.3:
Continue developing and maintaining the CIRES/NOAA website dedicated to real-time
predictions of tropical convection variations associated with the MJO and their remote impacts.
Display various experimental and operational ensemble predictions in a uniform format to enable
inter-comparisons and skill evaluation.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR PSD07.3:
The goal of the MJO experimental prediction project is to access and compare MJO forecasts, and to analyze the
effects of MJO events on tropical and mid-latitude weather forecasts. An article describing the project‘s
accomplishments was published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society in April 2006. The project
website (http://www.www.cdc.noaa.gov/MJO/) continues to be maintained and developed.
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