EAS270 Web sites for Assignment 2

Meteocentre (Montreal) -- to display NWP products including Meteograms for Cdn cities
MSC Forecasters' informal discussion (courtesy of PRAIRIE AND ARCTIC STORM PREDICTION CENTRE, Edmonton and Winnipeg)
NCEP Extended forecast discussion
Weather radar display (Weather Network)
Vizaweb MSC prog (updated earliest; 3hr steps to 48 hr; username=vizaweb, password=vizaweb)

Atmospheric Soundings via U. Wyoming.
U. Ohio OSU Weather. For US & Canadian soundings select "Upper Air." This site also offers beautiful animations of the GOES images, and much else.
Atmospheric Soundings (via NCAR/UCAR; + hodograph)
Archive of soundings (select by WMO station identifier, e.g. 71119; use FSL format to cut and paste into a file suitable for RAOB under Windows; use NetCDF format for file suitable for input to McIDAS)
Soundings with rapid choice of Skew T/Stuve/Text/Hodograph

Very fast and flexible access to many models (College of DuPage, NexLab)
Canadian Products (GEM model)
- Environment Canada Analyses and Forecasts
- EC Ensemble forecast
- Nav Canada weather codes and symbols (ie. definition of symbols used on CMC charts)
- Weather symbols chart from Weather Graphics WeatherSymbols.gif (or as much larger file including other information, wxchart.pdf)
USA's NCEP products (GFS, NAM/Wrf)
- NAM surface analysis
- GFS (to 16 days) and NAM (to 3.5 days) forecasts
- Access to several US weather models, including RUC, NAM, GFS from TwisterData.com
- NAM meteograms for specific locations (Edmntn Int'l 711230, Stony Pln 711190)
- Rapid Refresh (13 km, every 3 hr to 24 hr)
- NCEP model graphics
- NAM/Wrf via Unisys
- Unisys site for graphical weather information (includes progs from many models)
- Weather map (with fronts)
84-hour Forecast for North America (CRAS45NA assimilates GOES sounder water vapor and clouds; exchange 12 for 00 to get f/cst initialized at 00Z)
UK Meteorol. Office (UKMET model)
- via Indiana State U (12 hr fctst and beyond - no analysis)
- via U.Wyoming. Select Region: North America (note: this site allows selection of regions all over the world). Numerous meteorol. fields can be selected, including the horizontal divergence.
European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF)
- ECMWF (range 72 hours and longer)
- ECMWF

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