Stratospheric Forecasts: Middle East
(stopped 26 February 2004)

All Forecasts are valid at 12:00 UT on the day in question

• An NCEP GFS  forecast job runs at ~03:20 EST, 05:20 EST each day, acquiring these forecasts from NASA GSFC as a failsafe to the additional NCEP GFS run outlined below.

• The NOGAPS forecast job runs twice daily runs at  ~08:00 EST and ~20:00 EST, utilizing the NOGAPS 0Z and 12Z forecast update cycles, respectively. You can keep track of today's MWFM-NOGAPS forecast runs by checking the logfile.

• NCEP GFS  forecast jobs now run at ~01:00 EST and 13:00 EST  each day, acquiring the 0Z and 12Z initialized forecast cycles of the NCEP GFS model directly from NCEP . In particular these new forecasts also use an entirely different axis-scaling and color scale, and are provided for now for test assessment in response to user comments for improvements in existing plots. Use with caution for now. Instruction on them are to be found here and should be read.

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