Additional Sites

• Environment Canada /Canadian Meteorological Service Global Modeling
• Canadian ensemble forecasts
• Global Modeling Branch NOAA/NCEP
• NCEP Ensemble Products
• Fleet Numerical Modeling: Public Site
• NOAA CDC (contains plotting tools for global data)
• University of New Hampshire AIRMAP and Wind-finding effort
• CIMMS THORPEX

TOSTs

(THORPEX Observing System Tests) are primarily aimed at testing future observing strategies, such a refining measurements from future satellite systems or new delivery techniques.   A Pacific TOST was conducted primarily by US participants during February and March 2003 in conjunction with NOAA's Winter Storm Reconnaissance Program.   The following links deal with this campaign.

• NOAA press release NOAA WEST COAST WINTER STORMS FORECAST PROGRAM TAKES OFF FOR THIRD SEASON
• NASA Langley Research Center press releaseTOST Campaign Begins in Pacific
• NASA Langly Pacific TOST home page
• Langley: THORPEX data sets: web Ordering Tool
• S-HIS THORPEX Experiment page (note this site contains useful links to relevant satellite web sites including AIRS, TERRA,Aqua, and the GOES Rapid Scan Wind Experiment)
• MODIS Airborne Simulator
• NASA Cloud Physics LIDAR
• NOAA's Winter Storm Reconnaissance Program

TReCs

(THORPEX Regional Campaigns) are designed to also test the impact of new observing systems and strategies on operations forecasts.   The 1^st TReC is taking place over the North Atlantic.   This larger effort represents a collaboration between scientists within North America, the European Union and Asia.   Participation is from the research and operational communities.  The following links deal with this Atlatic TReC (ATReC) effort.

News, media reports:

• UK Meteorological Office News Release North Atlantic observing and forecasting experiment
• Britain-USA Article Britain plays leading role in improving accuracy of weather forecasts
• London School of Economics and Political Science article (LSE) to help improve international weather forecasting

Planning documents:

• North Atlantic TREC Contact List
• ATOST/NA-TReC SPECIAL OPERATIONS PERIOD
• Daily tasks for TReC
• Case history directory
• Case history file for TReC
• How to suggest a new case for targeting
• ECMWF web site announcement
• European AMDAR
• Research aircraft availability

WMO/WWRP Information