HiresW HREF Upgrade

 Available online: https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=1215

This 20-minute lesson presents upgraded versions of the two NWP models used as High Resolution Window (HiresW), the Weather Research and Forecasting-Advanced Research WRF (WRF-ARW) and the Non-Hydrostatic Multiscale Model on the B-grid (NMMB). Domains include the CONtinental US (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico. The CONUS runs of the NMMB and WRF-ARW became part of a new High Resolution Ensemble Forecast (HREF) system in 2015, the first of its kind produced at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction. To familiarize the operational forecaster with the HREF, products from a surrogate ensemble system (the Storm Scale Ensemble of Opportunity from NCEP's Storm Prediction Center) with a similar configuration are used in a 2014 severe weather case study from upstate New York.

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Language(s): English

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