Mesoscale Parallel Experiment Log for " North American WRF-NMM run with various physics and/or analysis changes

Mesoscale Parallel Experiment Log

Experiment: NAM Fall 2008 Change Package (NCO real-time Parallel)
Parallel Slot: NAMX
Control Slot: Ops NAM
Start date of parallel experiment: 00Z 2008/10/01
End date of parallel experiment: 06Z 2008/12/16
Experiment changes log
Background links
Evaluation of parallel results: Daily forecast maps vs Ops NAM (00z, 12z cycles only); Daily forecast maps vs Ops NAM, GFS (all cycles); Alaska Parallel DGEX vs ops DGEX; CONUS Parallel DGEX vs ops DGEX; Daily forecast stats; NAM Parallel and ops NAM 500 mb Height Forecasts vs GDAS analysis; Ops NAM, parallel NAM Analysis Increments / Observations; Ops NAM vs Pll NAM Verification of precipitation and against rawinsondes / surface data (10/29/08-12/04/08); Ops NAM vs Pll NAM Verification of precipitation and against rawinsondes / surface data (10/01/08-10/28/08); Ops DGEX vs Pll DGEX Verification of precipitation and against rawinsondes / surface data (11/03/08-12/04/08); Ops DGEX vs Pll DGEX Verification of precipitation and against rawinsondes / surface data (10/02/08-10/28/08); Ctl NAM vs Pll NAM Verification of precipitation and against rawinsondes / surface data (02/26/07-03/31/07)