NWS Upgrading Computers to match ECMWF forecasting capability

Interesting article, and linked articles, discussing inferiority of the US GFS forecast vs. european ECMWF system.

ECMWF (what you can get publicly), is suprisingly accurate for here for long term often
Someone asked me for a forecast 12 days out for an upcoming event
ECMWF was bang on

good that GFS is going to get an upgrade on horsepower…and more ensemble data input

Interesting article Niko - thanks.

Cheers

:smiley:

MikeyM

NOAA goes ‘live’ with new weather supercomputer today “Hurricane model forecasting improvements will come immediately, thanks to the new 213 teraflop Linux-based systems”. Meanwhile ECMWF has ordered some big new hardware from Cray so the race continues :smiley:

Maybe this is the first visible results of the new system?

BEGINNING TOMORROW WITH THE 8 AM EDT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK...THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER WILL BEGIN INCLUDING INFORMATION ABOUT THE POTENTIAL FOR TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION DURING THE FOLLOWING FIVE DAYS.

-Bob

I think so :smiley: