18.02.2013 Views

NCEP/HPC - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

NCEP/HPC - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

NCEP/HPC - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

Alaska <strong>Medium</strong> <strong>Range</strong><br />

• Developments thus far (cont):<br />

– The <strong>HPC</strong> <strong>for</strong>ecast will then be compared to the mode of the PDF, and the<br />

grids will be adjusted towards the <strong>HPC</strong> <strong>for</strong>ecast if there is a difference.<br />

Disseminated<br />

<strong>NCEP</strong> PDF<br />

<strong>HPC</strong><br />

Mode<br />

NAEFS<br />

Mode<br />

NAEFS PDF<br />

Human Influence<br />

on Forecast<br />

– Alaska will be the first Region to receive medium range grids from <strong>HPC</strong><br />

that include probabilistic bounds <strong>for</strong> meteorological variables<br />

– <strong>HPC</strong> hopes to use a similar method <strong>for</strong> introducing a sense of “what’s<br />

meteorologically possible” into the NDFD over the lower 48 states

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!