Model Performance

30 December:  Time conventions on models

10 January 2002:  Time Conventions on models (Follow -up from 30 December 2001)

11 January 2002:  LAPS model performance with cold pools:  What data go into LAPS?

17 January 2002:  Low thicknesses on DIFACS charts

18 January 2002:  LAPS performance at upper level cooling , Times on Prog charts

24 January 2002:  Monsoon trough / Quikscat question
                            Ensuing discussion on numerical forecasts of mid-level tropical steering flow

4 February 2002:  Model levels and horizontal resolution:

1 March 2002:  LAPS/meso_LAPS low-level winds underforecast

22 July 2002: 1000-500hPa thickness for Saturday night 20th July 12Z

04August 2002: rain from 400-300 hPa cloud in GASP

6 September 2002:   Middle level uplift  simulated by the NWP products

19 September 2002:  spurious low-level moisture last weekend in all the models

19 September 2002:  Helpful model guidance, availabililty of model precipitable water fields, apparently spurious negative correlations between temperature and pressure change in meso-laps