On November 6th, a GOES Assessment meeting in Silver Spring, MD, provided some rich sources of new data and research results. Case studies of the application of GOES soundings in severe weather forecasting have been added to the Forecast Products Development Team (FPDT) home soundings web page:
http://orbit7i.nesdis.noaa.gov:8080/temp.html
The exact address of the case studies is:
http://orbit7i.nesdis.noaa.gov:8080/casestudy1.html
And the FPDT home pages are:
http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/ora/fpdt1/index.html
http://orbit7i.nesdis.noaa.gov:8080/goes.html
Slides from a Scientific Services Division presentation at this assessment meeting on use of GOES 9 data in the western region are posted on the NWS Western Region web site at:
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/wrhq/satellite/evaluation/goeseval97/
The National Centers for Environmental Prediction have been running a new ETA Model (32 km/45 levels) since October 28th, 1997. Changes to the shallow convection scheme resulted in poor rain/no rain threat scores. Now that the shallow convection scheme has been returned to its original state, the model is producing better threat scores. Depending on further testing, the new ETA-32 could become operational in December 1997 or January 1998.
NDBC stopped mailing hard copies of the weekly status report of the buoy network in July . However, the status reports and maintenance updates are available on the net at: http://seaboard.ndbc.noaa.gov/stations.shtml.
