Forecasting Services
Weather/Forecast Tools
Weather Observations:
- Surface data
- Soundings
- Satellite data
- Radar data
- Wind profilers
Weather Analysis:
- Data communications, storage, processing, display, analysis and weather pattern
Numerical weather predication (Atmospheric Models):
- Using current and past observations to predicate weather in near future
- Equations describe how atmospheric temperature, pressure, winds, and moisture change with time. The models are programmed into the computer.
Prognostic Chart (Prog):
- The final forecast chart representing the atmosphere at a specified future time. A forecaster uses the Prognostic Charts as a guide to predicting the weather. A good forecaster needs to know model limitations: A personalized practical interpretation of model outputs local geographic features.
- The Meteogram is a chart that show how one or more weather variables has changed at a station over a given period of time.
- Vertical Profiles of temperature, wind, and RH
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