NOUS41 KWBC 311512
AAA
PNSWSH
Public
Information Statement Comment Request:
Amended
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
1112 AM EDT Thu
May 31 2012
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather
Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners, Users and
Employees
From: Mark Tew
Chief, Marine and Coastal Services
Branch
Subject: Amended: Soliciting comments for experimental
graphicast
product: Public comment period deadline
extended to
December 31, 2012
Comment Period
extended to December 31, 2012 to solicit
additional user feedback on the utility of the
Graphicast.
The NWS is
requesting user feedback on an experimental Graphicast
product through December 31, 2012. The National Hurricane
Center’s (NHC)
Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch (TAFB) is
providing an experimental daily Graphicast of
significant marine
weather for its offshore and high seas areas of
responsibility.
The parameters
include:
-Surface (10-m)
winds
-Significant wave
heights
-Primary swell height, period and direction
-Mean Sea Level
Pressure (MSLP) of synoptic scale features
-Fog
-Volcanic ash
-Significant
precipitation
This experimental
product will be generated by TAFB daily at
approximately 0000 Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) and
posted to
the National Hurricane Center website:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/marine_forecasts.shtml
A comprehensive
description of the gridded marine forecast
product is posted at:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutgraphicast.shtml
The catalog entry
in the New and Enhanced Products and Services
Catalog is posted
at:
http://products.weather.gov
Users are
encouraged to provide feedback on this experimental
product by using the brief survey and comment form
online at:
http://www.weather.gov/survey/nws-survey.php?code=tafb-
graphicasts
A link to all NHC
experimental products is also provided at:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutexperimental.shtml
If you have
comments or questions please contact:
Hugh Cobb
Chief, Tropical
Analysis and Forecast Branch
National
Hurricane Center
Hugh.Cobb@noaa.gov
305-229-4454
National Public
Information Statements are online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notif.htm
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