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NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION MESSAGE 95-23
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS
0900 AM EDT FRI JULY 7 1995
TO: WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICES
FROM: JOSEPH R. BOCCHIERI
CHIEF... SERVICES EVALUATION BRANCH
SUBJECT: CORRECTION OF AFOS PIL FOR NMC'S HURRICANE MODEL
TEXT PRODUCT
REFERENCE: THE GFDL MULTIPLY-NESTED MOVEABLE MESH HURRICANE
MODEL SYSTEM... TECHNICAL PROCEDURES BULLETIN
NO. 424 BY ROBERT TULEYA... MORRIS BENDER AND
YOSHIO KURIHARA (GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS
LABORATORY NOAA/ERL PRINCETON... NEW JERSEY) AND
STEPHEN LORD (NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL CENTER...
DEVELOPMENT DIVISION... NOAA/NWS... WASHINGTON...
D. C.).
THE QUASI-LAGRANGIAN MODEL WAS REPLACED JUNE 6 BY A NEW
HURRICANE FORECAST MODEL SYSTEM... THE GFDL MULTIPLY-NESTED
MOVEABLE MESH HURRICANE MODEL (GHM) SYSTEM.
THE GHM WILL RUN AT THE REQUEST OF THE NATIONAL HURRICANE
CENTER WITH FORECASTS AVAILABLE AT APPROXIMATELY 5 HOURS AFTER
THE SYNOPTIC TIMES OF 0000 AND 1200 UTC. THE BASIC MODEL
FORECAST FOR EACH STORM IS TRANSMITTED IN THE STANDARD
AUTOMATED TROPICAL CYCLONE FORECAST (ATCF) SYSTEM FORMAT TO
NHC. THE MODEL FORECASTS WILL BE STORED UNDER THE OLD QLM
AFOS PIL... CHGQLM.
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