NCEP WRF HiResWindow Forecast Page

NCEP's Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) is making daily runs of the WRF versions of the non-hydrostatic, hybrid vertical coordinate mesoscale model (NMM) and the NCAR Advanced Research WRF (ARW). These are "nested" inside of the parent North American Meso (NAM) with initial and boundary conditions from the NAM. Currently, five nested domains are being run. The links below will go to a web page with graphics for the most current run for that domain. This is the current schedule as of 11 September 2007:

0000Z : East/Central U.S., Hawaii

0600Z : West/Central U.S., Puerto Rico

1200Z : East/Central U.S., Hawaii

1800Z : Alaska, Puerto Rico

Click here for a display of the areal coverage of each regional HIRESW domain

Modifications to the HiResWindow runs are described in the EMC Mesoscale Branch's documentation of model changes.

THERE ARE 0 NCEP HURRICANE MODELS RUNNING AT 2009070318; SEE BELOW FOR HIRESW RUN SCHEDULE

IMPORTANT NOTE : Some or all of the HIRESW runs are cancelled in NCEP Operations if the NCEP Hurricane Model is run. As of 9/11/07, this is the production HIRESW configuration when the NCEP hurricane model is running:

  • No hurricane runs : Both large and small NMM and ARW domains are run by NCO
  • One hurricane run : Large domain ARW run cancelled by NCO
  • Two or three hurricane runs : Both Large domain NMM and ARW runs cancelled by NCO
  • Four hurricane runs : All WRF HIRESW cancelled by NCO

    Due to computer resource constraints cancelled HIRESW runs will not be rerun by EMC on the NCEP development computer. Go to the HiResWindow log for the status of the HIRESW runs.

    • East/Central U.S.; cycle = 2009070312

    West/Central U.S.; cycle = 2009070306

    Alaska; cycle = 2009070218

    Hawaii; cycle = 2009070312

    Puerto Rico; cycle = 2009070318

    DISCLAIMER : This web page is not operational and therefore not subject to 24-h monitoring by NCEP's Central Operations staff.

    For more info on the HiResWindow runs, email Eric Rogers at eric.rogers@noaa.gov or Geoff DiMego at geoff.dimego@noaa.gov

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