Experimental Use of Gridded NGM Output at WSFO Lubbock, Texas: An Initial Report

摘要

Since April, 1991, the Weather Service Forecast Office (WSFO) in Lubbock has had access to selected gridded model output from the National Meteorological Centers Nested Grid Model (NGM). The report: (1) provides some background information about how the data are obtained at Lubbock; (2) presents a short description of the software used to manipulate the information; (3) briefly discusses two cases where the third period of the zone forecast was updated over a fairly small area, based to a large extent on interpretation of fields obtained from the grid point output; and (4) presents a short discussion of the use of model grid point data in the upcoming Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System era.