Overview of Current TC Forecast Guidance Available to NWS - Richard Pasch
Posted by CypressTX on 6/22/2010, 8:01 am
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This is a great Power Point presentation from April of this year by NHC's Pasch.  He details not only what they use but their strengths/weaknesses - very good to help understand them a bit better.  He doesn't mention NOGAPS or Canadian, except to say they have not been used much by NHC.

He has this to say in his concluding remarks (slide #40)


-Operational TC track forecasting has advanced substantially over the past couple of decades, mainly due to advances in dynamical guidance

-Generally, a multi-model consensus provides more skillful guidance for track prediction than an individual model ensemble, although the latter may become more useful at 6 & 7 days

-Operational TC intensity forecasting has shown little improvement and NHC's dynamical models for forecasting intensity change have not advanced much over the past several years

-Global models have some skill in predicting TC genesis and may provide the basis for extending operational genesis forecasts from 2 to 5 days
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