Mesoscale Meteorology "Primer": Training for the Operational Forecaster
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Nuss, Wendell A.
Curry, William T.
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2001
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Mesoscale meteorological processes
and the numerical models designed to analyze
and forecast these processes are currently in use
by the majority of operational forecasters.
Although National Weather Service (NWS)
forecasters typically have an undergraduate or
higher degree in meteorology, forecasters in the
Department of Defense typically do not have
college degrees. Even though they are quite well
trained in synoptic scale processes and
forecasting, there is little or no information
available, at the proper level, to merge their
synoptic skills with the mesoscale processes that
actually affect their daily forecasts. To meet this
need whereby the less-formally educated
forecaster can develop an understanding of
mesoscale processes and their application to
mesoscale model guidance and forecasting, a
Mesoscale Meteorology Primer is being
developed.
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We thank Alan Bol, Joseph Lamos, Douglas Wesley of COMET for help in assembling the first modules and CDR Jeff Best of the Navy s Professional Development Center for support for this project. We also acknowledge that the source of the web page material shown in the figures is from the Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training (COMET) web site at http://www.comet.ucar.edu of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), funded by the National Weather Service with additional funding from the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command. Copyright of UCAR.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.