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- From: pmh2962@tamsun.tamu.edu (Pat Hayes)
- Subject: "Survey says: ..." ( was STOP Re: mesoscale forecast model)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.012032.16381@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Organization: Meteorology, TAMU, CS, TX
- References: <1992Nov16.165209.9290@news.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:20:32 GMT
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- Doug Westphal writes:
- >Oh boy, here we go again: uninformed people making broad generalizations
- >>>
- >>>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
- >
- >>>From: stvjas@meteor.wisc.edu (Stephen Jascourt)
- >>>I have heard various rave reviews about the MM4, but my experience seeing the
- >>>utput 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
- >>>Stephen Jascourt stvjas@meteor.wisc.edu
- >
- >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.
- --------------------
- Howdy!
- I think the original poster did NOT ask which model was
- "the best" (right, Grant?). He asked for general info and
- folks' opinions on the performance of models being run today.
- Unfortunately, some of us take stuff like this personally,
- it seems. Oh, well. I'm sure nobody meant to say:
- "those bozos at U-Magicland have a model so crappy it can't
- advect itself out of a paper bag." True, a few of us could be
- more "professional" or/and "courteous" and qualify every single
- sentence we type (like I seem to do) so as to appear non-
- critical of someone's personal project.
- Maybe the problem is: something Stephen would have said
- to Grant over the phone may not be appropriate to send to
- a zillion news drops. Or -- maybe it is -- maybe this is a
- messy form of "peer-review"? I think Harold was getting at
- this, later. I think this is an awesome medium for dialog
- and we shouldn't declare things taboo too quickly. Thanks!
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