artist wrote:clfenwi wrote:oh ok thanks. do you know which models have the recon data put in them?
South Texas Storms wrote:Again, I may be behind the times on this point and this answer is low confidence compared to just about any other answer I give.I'm pretty sure that none of the global models ingest recon data as they don't have the resolution to properly handle it. I'm doing a bit of crash research on the latest implementations of the GFDL and HWRF to check the accuracy of my answer to your original question.
once recon has been in there, there is a center location that they can now feed it, thus it helps with the models. That is what I meant by my statement. True, there are upper air obs from other flights, but recon can give an accurate fix for initialization. i don't know but do they not also feed the strength, etc. into them as well?
Yeah, recon helps the NHC establish the best track position. For models that get spoon-fed the position/intensity of the storm (such as the BAM suite and SHIPS), the position given is from best track. (Intensity is similarly derived from recon, when available.)
I had interpreted the question a bit differently from the way you meant. I thought you were asking about raw observations being fed directly to the model. From what I've come across so far, there is a plan to have the parallel (experimental) HWRF ingest Doppler radar data directly from recon. Not clear whether that's actually a go for this season, however.