The SOO/STRC site is maintained to better serve the science and training needs of the National Weather Service Science Operations Officers, and to reflect the changing direction of the National SOO/STRC Program. I am still in the protracted process of migrating the old site and updating content so be patient. Be very, very patient. Nonetheless, should you find something incomplete, outdated, missing, or just plain offensive, do not hesitate to bring it to the attention of the SOO Science and Training Resource Coordinator.
| SOO/STRC Mission: To support the NWS Science Operations Officers (SOOs) by facilitating the use of new science and training technologies in the WFOs. |
 It's Official: SOO STRC WRF Environmental Modeling System |
The National Weather Service's (NWS) SOO Science and Training Resource Center (STRC) Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Environmental Modeling System (EMS) is a complete, full-physics, numerical weather prediction (NWP) package, that incorporates dynamical cores from both the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Advanced Research WRF (ARW) and the National Center for Environmental Predictions' (NCEP) Non-hydrostatic Mesoscale Model (NMM-WRF) packages into a single end-to-end forecasting system. Nearly all the capability of the individual NCEP and NCAR releases has been retained within the STRC EMS; however, installation, configuration, and running of the NCEP and NCAR versions has been greatly simplified to encourage its use by NWS forecast offices and the university community. No compilers are necessary as statically-linked x32 and x64 binaries are provided for both distributed and shared memory Linux systems. The SOO/STRC WRF EMS is easy to run on most linux workstations; it should possible for those with limited modeling experience to have the package installed and running in less than 1 hour.
| Now available: Webcast on The NCEP NAM-WRF Model |
This Webcast on The NCEP North American Mesoscale (NAM) Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model contains background information about WRF in general and especially the NAM-WRF which is in the field evaluation period now, scheduled for implementation to replace the currently operational NAM-Eta in mid-June. It is approximately 90 minutes long.
NWS staff can receive credit by accessing the module via the NOAA LMS and passing the final quiz that resides there.
After the evaluation period, when final details are known and forecast lessons from the evaluation period have been learned, a revised webcast will be made. That revised webcast will be released more widely via the COMET MetEd Website as well.
| Return Engagement: Real-time Precipitation Type Forecasts |
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