Sentences with phrase «weather models»

Standard weather models predict the strength and arrival times of storms and weather fronts in a given region.

Multiple road weather models are currently used around the world, but only few studies are made where the results from different models are compared together.

I'm only thinking climate here, I feel I have a better grasp on weather models.

The authors speak of new, higher - resolution weather models that use horizontal grids.

If short - term weather models make mistakes, it may seem reasonable to assume that a model projecting into the next century is ridiculous.

These are quite different from the questions you ask with weather models.

Only recently have some computer weather models begun to use dust data gathered by satellite imagery that captures dust's sweep toward the west coast.

Traditionally, governments have been the ones to build and run weather models.

They use «ensemble» modeling — which takes an average of many different weather models.

Researchers used a popular weather model to gauge the wind for better predictions of its clean energy power.

Using virtual experimental tools, students can examine weather patterns and manipulate weather models to help them to understand how they affect variables at the pond.

Do weather models handle these differently or not at all?

That is certainly true now, because we are using weather models to try to predict climate.

These climate models are NOT the same as weather models, I might add, which is one of the lies spun by many climate skeptics to try to inject uncertainty into the debate.

One of the world's largest ocean circulation systems may not be as stable as today's weather models predict, according to a new study.

How are we supposed to listen to climate scientists and weather models making predictions 10 - 100 years from now when we can't get the weather tomorrow right?

JMA is Japan Meteorological Agency data, GISTEMP is the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies data, HadCrut4 is the Met Office data, UAH is a satellite - based record maintained by the University of Alabama Huntsville (more on that below), NCDC is the NOAA data, and NCEP / NCAR is a reanalysis of weather model data from the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Researchers begin to tackle the technical obstacles to incorporate observations from space into weather models

«Consequently, global «water vapor winds» are estimated from the movement of these features and used in numerical weather models to improve long - range forecasts,» Chesters said.

Recent weather model forecasts are suggesting that we may have to keep an eye on the central Pacific — not only the east Pacific — for re-curving storms this autumn (which is not something I can recall having happened before).

Contours are rainfall totals from the Canadian Precipitation Analysis, which combines weather model output with station measurements to estimate regional precipitation amounts.

Meanwhile, sophisticated new weather models — such as one based on sea surface temperatures, developed by researchers at Florida State University — are bringing remarkable improvements in hurricane prediction.

So he resigned his post and set about reworking a sophisticated weather model into a long - term climate projection.

It was also the warmest winter on record across the Arctic, says the National Snow and Ice Data Center, which reported that large areas recorded their «warmest conditions in 67 years of weather model data, including the northern half of the Greenland ice sheet.»

These are weather models which have the real world observations assimilated into the solution to provide a «best guess» of the evolution of weather over time (although pre-satellite era estimates (before 1979) are less accurate).

A «reanalysis» is a climate, ocean or weather model simulation of the past that incorporates data from historical observations.

Our sophisticated weather models allow us to provide snow forecasts for the top, middle and bottom ski stations of Kicking Horse.

These simulations combined weather models, fossil fuel and nuclear emissions data, a global fire emissions database, and a terrestrial biosphere model (modeling the amount of carbon that is released from soils and vegetation).

These include the primary surface temperature thermometer records (NASA GISS, NOAA, and HadCRUT); satellite measurements of the lower troposphere temperature processed by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and the University of Alabama - Huntsville (UAH); and 5 major reanalysis datasets which incorporate station data, aircraft data, satellite data, radiosonde data, buoy and ship measurements, and meteorological weather modeling.

Recent weather model trends have increased the chances of the first, shore - hugging scenario.

One gigantic irony in all this is that the National Weather Service decided to disregard its brand - new very expensive supercomputer - driven weather modeling system, which actually was just about dead - on perfect in predicting the storm's more easterly track.

«I had been watching several weather models for several days which had been indicating this area would have an environment capable of supporting supercells, the type of storm responsible for tornadoes,» he says.

Fortunately the European ECMWF weather models accurately forecasted Sandy's storm track 8 to 9 days in advance due to a better understanding of atmospheric blocking (in this case the high pressure south of Greenland) and the effects of the jet stream.

And sure enough, even the short - term weather models predicted an easy mild winter — except for a small group of scientists who are not watching for El Nino, or La Nina for answers.

Other data sources were investigated, including the new Berkeley land - ocean temperature data, the MERRA weather model reanalysis, and satellite radiometer datasets from AIRS and AVHRR.

I like Cliff Mass, et al, and their «micro-meso» - scale weather models.