North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) Personal Briefing Page

Scott C. Handel NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC

Why A Personal Briefing Page?

Serves as a compliment to the JOSS NAME catalog: http://www.joss.ucar.edu/catalog/name/

Ideal for coordinated conference calls

Convenient “one-stop shop” for a myriad of forecast tools and products tailored to the Tier I and Tier II regions

Designed for forecasters operating under strict time constraints

Convenient Access to JOSS Page

Expandable Menu

Items Numbered for Easy Reference

Items Grouped Into Convenient Sub-Categories

Menu Features

Overview of Monitoring

Satellite

Lightning

Radar

Precipitation

Sfc Temperature

Upper Air

Climate Variability

Includes Visible, IR and Water Vapor Images from SMN and NOAA tailored to the Tier I region

Includes real-time displays from the National Lightning Detection Network

Includes images from a number of sites in the Tier I region

Includes real-time monitoring on a number of time scales

Includes soundings and meteograms both within and upstream from the Tier I region

Includes measures of climate variability such as MJO and ENSO

Includes time series plots of temperature and dewpoint

DroughtIncludes the latest Drought Monitor from the National Drought Mitigation Center

GDASIncludes precip and wind maps derived from the global data assimilation system

EDASIncludes representations of current conditions derived from the ETA data assimilation system

EDAS 3 hrly animation of moisture flux

EDAS 3 hrly Animation of Precipitation

Overview of Predictions

Days 1-3

Days 6-14

Days 3-7

Monthly

Seasonal

Includes surface and upper air official and model forecasts and discussions from various centers including SMN, HPC, TPC, SPC, EMC, and NWS WFO offices in the Tier I region.

Includes CPC precipitation and temperature calibrated model tools which contain the Tier I region in its entirety

Includes QPF and medium range forecasts and discussion from HPC

Includes CPC’s official monthly and seasonal temperature and precipitation forecasts

Overview of Verifications

Included to provide measures of skill of the various tools, models, and outlooks available to the forecaster

Overview of Reference

Features a useful glossary of commonly used acronyms

Includes links to agency homepages

Summary/Future Plans

Not an “official” page. Each forecaster has their own unique methodology which may or may not include this briefing sequence

Solicitation of feedback from the NAME forecasters themselves

Further coordination with JOSS NAME catalog for a full compliment of products

Reference

Location of JOSS NAME Catalog:

Location of NAME Briefing Sequence:

http://www.joss.ucar.edu/name/catalog/

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/NAME/NAME.html