andrew42

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   by andrew42 8y ago

   No, the European model (ECMWF IFS) is not open source, and they don't even release most of the operational forecast data that they produce to the general public. As far as I know the UK and others don't either.
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   by andrew42 8y ago

   (Disclaimer: I don't work in operational modeling) NOAA just upgraded last year to a system that hits 8.4 petaflops, which is about the same as the European system, and the Japanese and UK systems are fairly similar. More computing pow
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   by andrew42 8y ago

   If you want to set up and use the WRF model linked in the submission to generate your own forecasts, you can follow this tutorial: http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/OnLineTutorial/index.php For all but the most extreme