5.2. Model Applications

5.2.1. Climate

MODE: CESM and GPCP Asian Monsoon Precipitation

Grid-Stat: CESM and GFS Analysis CONUS Temp

5.2.2. Convection Allowing Models

High resolution model configurations (1-4km) usually producing forecasts between 0-3 days (also referred to as limited area models, stand-alone regional, and short range weather applications)

Grid-Stat: Surrogate Severe and Practically Perfect Probabilistic Evaluation

MODE: Hail Verification

Ensemble-Stat: Ensemble Statistics using Obs Uncertainty

Grid-Stat: Surrogate Severe and Practically Perfect Evaluation

Point2Grid: Calculate Practically Perfect Probabilities

Surrogate Severe Calculation: PCPCombine, EnsembleStat, and RegridDataPlane

5.2.3. Cryosphere

The frozen part of the earth system modeling framework (also referred to as sea-ice)

Grid-Stat and MODE: Sea Ice Validation

5.2.4. Medium Range

Lower resolution model configuration (>4km) usually producing forecasts out to 7-14 days (also referred to as global models)

Grid-Stat: Compute Anomaly Correlation using Climatology

Grid-Stat: Standard Verification of Surface Fields

Point-Stat: Standard Verification of Global Upper Air

Point-Stat: Standard Verification for CONUS Surface

Multi_Tool: Feature Relative by Init

Multi_Tool: Feature Relative by Lead using User-Defined Fields

Multi_Tool: Feature Relative by Lead (with lead groupings)

5.2.5. Precipitation

Any fields that can be defined as precipitation, including rain, snow, and other precipitation types

Grid-Stat: 24-hour QPF Use Case

Grid-Stat: 6hr QPF in NetCDF format

MTD: Build Revision Series to Evaluate Forecast Consistency

MTD: 6hr QPF Use Case

Grid-Stat: 6hr QPF in GEMPAK format

Grid-Stat: 6hr PQPF Probability Verification

Ensemble-Stat: Basic Post-Processing only

5.2.6. Subseasonal to Seasonal

Subseasonal-to-Seasonal model configurations; Lower resolution model configurations (>4km) usually producing forecasts out beyond 14 days and up 1 year

Grid-Stat and Series-Analysis: BMKG APIK Seasonal Forecast

5.2.7. Space Weather

Upper atmosphere and geospace model configurations

GenVxMask: Solar Altitude

Grid-Stat: Analysis validation

5.2.8. Tropical Cyclone and Extra Tropical Cyclone

Any field that is associated with Tropical Cyclone and Extra-tropical Cyclones

TCRMW: Hurricane Gonzalo

Cyclone Plotter: From TC-Pairs Output

Track and Intensity Plotter: Generate mean, median and box plots