North American Mesoscale Model Verification on January 26-27...
The North American Mesoscale Model (NAM) is a high resolution
model courtesy of the National Center for Environmental
Prediction. Another very common and referenced name for the
model is the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF). They
are the same model and run out to 84 hours. The purpose of the
model is to run a higher resolution determining mesoscale
features that often cannot be picked up by the global models due
to their larger scale. The NAM can be run on an 80km resolution
with a broad view of the United States, or 40km which allows the
viewer to zoom in on a localized region to put up on mesoscale
features. Also a very high resolution form of the NAM exists
using a 12km parametric and can zoom into different states. The
model is released four times a day at 0z, 6z, 12z, and 18z. Keep
in mind that time is zulu or more commonly known as greenwich
mean time. Computer models are critical to forecasting the
weather as they use parametri