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- From: p00181@psilink.com (Jim Moser)
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- Subject: Hello
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 05:34:42 GMT
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- I'm a line forecaster for NWS in New Orleans and am new to Internet/Usenet.
- Just wondering if this is the primary hangout for meteorological types
- on the net? I'm your typical middle age WASP who was originally with
- NESS (National Environmental Satellite Service) and then several years
- ago when the Satellite Field Service Stations went by the wayside, I got
- a position with the NWS.
-
- I attempt to do some modest research(?) with my computer to try and
- keep brain-rot from settling in. Some of the discussions about meso-
- models were interesting. In a few years, possibly with the coming of
- AWIPS (Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System) we will have a
- regional model in place at field sites. Field forecasters are so highly
- dependent on the NMC weather prediction models and yet we understand so
- little about their inner workings. Possibly, in a few years, we will be
- able to tinker with a regional model and get a better grasp on how
- various parameterizations affect the final result. We would
- also get a feel for how tightly controlled the various aspects of the
- NWP process have to be in order to obtain realistic results. However, a
- comment by Edward Lorenz (MIT) several years back has a rather damping
- effect on the future of NWP. "The average person, seeing that we can
- predict the tides pretty well a few months ahead would say, why can't we
- do the same thing with the atmosphere? It's just a different system, the
- laws are about as complicated. But I realized that any physical system
- that behaved nonperiodically would be unpredictable."
-
- Pardon me for rambling on! I'm looking forward to reading your
- discussions in the future and keeping up with what's going on in the
- research community. Adios for now. Jim
-