GFS clueless on Ivan

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GFS clueless on Ivan

#1 Postby x-y-no » Sun Sep 05, 2004 12:06 pm

Each successive run loses him faster ... the 12Z run barely even initializes him, and he's gone in less than 24 hours ...

More evidence (as if we needed it) that the GFS has trouble with the tropics.
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#2 Postby CourierPR » Sun Sep 05, 2004 12:11 pm

Good For Spit. Edited for content by the writer.
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#3 Postby Stormsfury » Sun Sep 05, 2004 12:18 pm

The GFS is about as good as the initializations in that region ... there's simply no data in that part of the world, so of course, it doesn't have a clue that Ivan is now a powerhouse cane ...

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#4 Postby x-y-no » Sun Sep 05, 2004 12:24 pm

Stormsfury wrote:The GFS is about as good as the initializations in that region ... there's simply no data in that part of the world, so of course, it doesn't have a clue that Ivan is now a powerhouse cane ...

SF


Yeah ... why is that? Can we say "lack of funding"?

I bet we could get a pretty rich data set in that area for about 1/1000 the cost of that spiffy but useless missile defense system we're building. :grrr:
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