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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!sundog.arc.nasa.gov!westphal
- From: westphal@sundog.arc.nasa.gov (Doug Westphal)
- Subject: STOP Re: mesoscale forecast model
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.165209.9290@news.arc.nasa.gov>
- Originator: westphal@sundog.arc.nasa.gov
- Sender: usenet@news.arc.nasa.gov
- Organization: NASA Ames Atmospheric Science Group
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:52:09 GMT
- Lines: 43
-
- Oh boy, here we go again: uninformed people making broad generalizations
- about topics or models which they aren't sufficiently familar with,
- causing the completely uninformed public to become confused. Great.
- Below are two examples of this kind of subjective commentary.
- None of their arguments are substantiated, nor can they be in this forum.
-
- >>
- >>From hbrooks@uiatma.atmos.uiuc.edu:
- >>
- >>The best mesoscale model around now is the The Penn State/NCAR model,
- >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>MM4. It beats the life out of the second most common model, CSU-RAMS.
- >>
- >>Harold Brooks hbrooks@uiatma.atmos.uiuc.edu
- >>National Severe Storms Laboratory/CIMMS (Norman, OK)
-
-
- >>From: stvjas@meteor.wisc.edu (Stephen Jascourt)
- >>
- >>I have heard various rave reviews about the MM4, but my experience seeing the
- >>output of people using it (I haven't used it myself) is that it is filled with
- >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>problems, worst being that it smooths the heck out of *everything* in the
- >>horizontal, so you are left only with features that are strongly forced,
- >> < blah, blah, blah >
- >>Stephen Jascourt stvjas@meteor.wisc.edu
-
-
- The original posting and responses were reasonable and I would hope that
- the poster will now thoroughly research the different models before
- choosing which is best for him or her; but don't do it over Usenet.
-
- Dave Blanchard then says:
-
- >>Harold,
- >>
- >>That's a pretty strong statement. Could you elaborate on why you believe
- >>PSU/NCAR (MM4?) outperforms RAMS?
-
- Noooooooo!!! The question of which is the 'best' model cannot be
- decided with a Gallup opinion poll or on Usenet. Let's not continue
- this, okay? The whole thing should be decided in an entirely different way:
- IN THE PEER-REVIEWED LITERATURE.
-