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North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) Personal Briefing Page
Scott C. Handel NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC
Why A Personal Briefing Page?
Serves as a compliment to the JOSS NAME catalog: http://www.joss.ucar.edu/catalog/name/
Ideal for coordinated conference calls
Convenient “one-stop shop” for a myriad of forecast tools and products tailored to the Tier I and Tier II regions
Designed for forecasters operating under strict time constraints
Convenient Access to JOSS Page
Expandable Menu
Items Numbered for Easy Reference
Items Grouped Into Convenient Sub-Categories
Menu Features
Overview of Monitoring
Satellite
Lightning
Radar
Precipitation
Sfc Temperature
Upper Air
Climate Variability
Includes Visible, IR and Water Vapor Images from SMN and NOAA tailored to the Tier I region
Includes real-time displays from the National Lightning Detection Network
Includes images from a number of sites in the Tier I region
Includes real-time monitoring on a number of time scales
Includes soundings and meteograms both within and upstream from the Tier I region
Includes measures of climate variability such as MJO and ENSO
Includes time series plots of temperature and dewpoint
DroughtIncludes the latest Drought Monitor from the National Drought Mitigation Center
GDASIncludes precip and wind maps derived from the global data assimilation system
EDASIncludes representations of current conditions derived from the ETA data assimilation system
EDAS 3 hrly animation of moisture flux
EDAS 3 hrly Animation of Precipitation
Overview of Predictions
Days 1-3
Days 6-14
Days 3-7
Monthly
Seasonal
Includes surface and upper air official and model forecasts and discussions from various centers including SMN, HPC, TPC, SPC, EMC, and NWS WFO offices in the Tier I region.
Includes CPC precipitation and temperature calibrated model tools which contain the Tier I region in its entirety
Includes QPF and medium range forecasts and discussion from HPC
Includes CPC’s official monthly and seasonal temperature and precipitation forecasts
Overview of Verifications
Included to provide measures of skill of the various tools, models, and outlooks available to the forecaster
Overview of Reference
Features a useful glossary of commonly used acronyms
Includes links to agency homepages
Summary/Future Plans
Not an “official” page. Each forecaster has their own unique methodology which may or may not include this briefing sequence
Solicitation of feedback from the NAME forecasters themselves
Further coordination with JOSS NAME catalog for a full compliment of products
Reference
Location of JOSS NAME Catalog:
Location of NAME Briefing Sequence:
http://www.joss.ucar.edu/name/catalog/
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/NAME/NAME.html