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Post by Derek Mallia on Oct 3, 2013 20:45:40 GMT
Interesting, people are now selling WRF runs... hazardnotifications.com/I figured it would be a matter of time before people started doing this  |
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Post by Sara Ganetis on Oct 3, 2013 21:23:17 GMT
So I refused to believe that they would charge $5 for just a standard 3km WRF 12-h forecast. Luckily I read that they assimilate Level-2 radar data, satellite, and surface obs which seems pretty cool. But still...
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Post by Derek Mallia on Oct 3, 2013 22:15:03 GMT
I mean its a really smart idea from a business side. It was something I toyed around with before going to graduate school, but yea then I go into grad school and that was the end of that dream . Storm chasers are going to go nuts over any advantage they can gain. Not to mention most are non-meteorologist don't realize better model resolution doesn't equal better convective forecasts. A potentially better idea would be to run some type of model ensemble, granted that would probably require a significant amount of startup money. Would at least need a $40-60k computer to run a high res (~4 km res) operational WRF model as an ensemble (you could either tweak the physics in each ensemble or run each WRF off each GEFS ensemble member). Anyways, just a pipe dream for now... |
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