The Office of Meteorology recently approved for implementation a number of recommendations reviewed by The Committee on Analysis and Forecast Techniques (CAFTI) at their April and May meetings. Each Item below is followed by a web site with a draft Technical Procedures Bulletin that further describes the impending changes.
New TAF stations for Papua New Guinea added to the Family of Services include: AYBK, AYHK, AYKV, AYMO, AYTK, and AYVN.
Two AWOS stations in North Carolina changed their three letter identifiers:
| 37W to HRJ | Erwin, North Carolina |
| W44 to HBI | Asheboro, North Carolina |
A new AWOS station on the Domestic Data Service of FOS: 99M-Moorhead, Minn.
In case you have missed Boros Konon's ASOS updates on ASOS additions, here is a list of June commissionings:
| 6R6 | Dryden, TX |
| CCR | Concord, CA |
| CDW | Caldwell, NJ |
| CQT | Los Angeles/Downtown - USC, CA |
| CRE | North Myrtle Beach, SC |
| GDP | Pine Springs, TX |
| MKK | Kaunakakai, HI |
| P58 | Port Hope, MI |
| PASC | Deadhorse, AK |
| SMQ | Somerville, NJ |
Boris also provided the following new U.S./Canada Metar/SA Stations Added to FOS since 1/1/99:
| 3B6 | EUGENE ISLAND 330C, LA |
| 6R6 | DRYDEN, TX |
| AEG | ALBUQUERQUE/DOUBLE EAGLE, NM |
| AKH | GASTONIA, NC |
| AKR | AKRON/FULTON, OH |
| CQT | LOS ANGELES/DOWNTOWN - USC, CA |
| EQY | MONROE, NC |
| HWO | HOLLYWOOD/PERRY, FL |
| MRN | MORGANTON, NC |
| MWK | MOUNT AIRY, NC |
| MWT | MOUNT IDA, AR |
| OKB | OCEANSIDE, CA |
| OVS | BOSCOBEL, WI |
| PDC | PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, WI |
| PSF | PITTSFIELD, MA |
| PTW | POTTSTOWN, PA |
| RUE | RUSSELLVILLE, AR |
| SAW | GWINN, MI |
| SMQ | SOMERVILLE, NJ |
| SRC | SEARCY, AR |
| SRN | SOUTH MARSH ISLAND 268, LA |
| UZA | ROCK HILL, SC |
| VDI | VIDALIA, GA |
| VTA | NEWARK, OH |
| VWU | WASKISH, MN |
| XBK | BRATTS LAKE, SAS |
| XCH | CHETICAMP, NS |
| XDE | DELINE CS, NWT |
| XEC | EDMONTON MUNI CR10, ALB |
| XEG | EDMONTON INTL CS, ALB |
| XHF | HIGH FALLS CS, QUE |
| XJM | JEAN MARIE, NWT |
| XKT | KENTVILLE, NS |
| XMY | MALAY FALLS, NS |
| XXX | CLUFF LAKE, SAS |
| YLK | LUTSEL KE, NWT |
A list serve discussion of weather software including Digital Atmosphere, Weather Graphix, Sharp, RAOB, Global Tracks and others is available for subscription by sending an e-mail with subscribe in the body of the message to wx-software-info@listhost.net.
Several locations on the web offer near real time verification of NWS model output as well as QPF and temperature forecasts. Http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/model2.html offers MRF verification for the previous week including sea level pressure, 850 mb temperatures, 500 mb heights. The same site offers comparable statistics for the ECMWF model runs. In addition there are links from this page to Northern Illinois University's model verification for many other model runs including the Eta, NGM, AVN, MRF and NOGAPS.
The Hydrometeorological Prediction Center Verification page monitors 24 hour QPF Threat Scores for the eta model as well as temperature and precipitation medium range forecasts. You can poimnt to this from the previous HPC page or directly by pointing to http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/hpcverif.html.
A recent western region technical attachment (No. 99-10) compares Meso Eta forecasts for Reno Nevada with ASOS observations for the period of early April through mid-August 1997. The 10 km Meso Eta produced a noticeable negative bias in the forecasts. You can read the entire attachment at http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/wrhq/99TAs/9910/index.html.
South Dakota State University has designed a "smart psychrometric calculator" for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Engineers using Java applets. You simply enter different known values (Temperature, wet bulb etc.) To calculate what you do not know (RH, dew point, etc.). This resource is a valuable tool for meteorologists as well as engineers. Point to the page (complete with examples) at: http://v5.sdsu.edu/testcenter/javaapplets/psychro/index.html.
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