noaa’s model production suite
DESCRIPTION
NOAA’s Model Production Suite. Oceans HYCOM WaveWatch III. Forecast. NOS – OFS Great Lakes Northern Gulf of Mexico Bays Chesapeake Tampa Delaware. Climate Forecast System. Hurricane GFDL HWRF. Coupled. GFS MOM4 NOAH Sea Ice. ~2B Obs/Day. Satellites + Radar 99.9%. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Air Quality
WRF NMM/ARWWorkstation WRF
WRF: ARW, NMMETA, RSM GFS, Canadian Global Model
Regional NAMWRF NMM
North American Ensemble Forecast System
Hurricane GFDLHWRF
GlobalForecastSystem
Dispersion
ARL/HYSPLIT
Forecast
Severe Weather
Rapid Refreshfor Aviation
Climate ForecastSystem
Short-RangeEnsemble Forecast
NOAA’s Model Production Suite
GFS MOM4NOAH Sea Ice
NOAH Land Surface Model
Coupled
Global DataAssimilation
OceansHYCOM
WaveWatch III
NAM/CMAQ
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Regi
onal
DA
Satellites + Radar99.9%
~2B Obs/Day
NOS – OFSGreat Lakes
Northern Gulf of Mexico
Bays• Chesapeake• Tampa • Delaware
SpaceWeather
ENLIL
Regi
onal
DA
• July 2012 was another warmer- and drier-than-average month (warmest and 28th driest July on record, based on data back to 1895) when weather conditions are averaged across the country.
• Nationally, the moderate-to-exceptional (D1-D4) drought footprint increased to about 53 percent of the country during July while the percentage in the abnormally dry to exceptional drought category generally held steady at about 71 percent.
• About 19 percent of the country was in the worst drought categories (D3-D4, extreme to exceptional drought), more than double the percentage from June.
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Drought Spreads in U.S.
Est. rainfall totals6/23-27