Re: GFS forecast snowfall?

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• Subject: Re: GFS forecast snowfall?
• From: Pat Fitzpatrick <fitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:40:44 -0600 (CST)

Please forgive a novice question, but the following email caught my
attention.....

I'm looking for a way to get the exact same GFS files and WAVEWATCH
files available from NCEP's ftp machine (same format, not thinned grids).
Is the CONDUIT a way to do that?

Pat Fitzpatrick

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Robert Mullenax wrote:

>
> Does anyone know if the GFS Global 1x1 (the one available via FTP or
> CONDUIT) contains
> forecast snowfall amounts?   I have looked through all the params and don't
> believe I see it,
> but maybe I missed something?
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
> Robert Mullenax
> Weather Systems Administrator
> Universal Weather and Aviation
>
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Robert,

The 1x1 degree grids contain the "water equiv of accumulated snow 
depth" rather than a converted depth of snow. You will find this in the
GEMPAK parameters as "SWEM".

An inventofy of the GFS files is available at:
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/gfs/


Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 10:10, Robert Mullenax wrote:
> Does anyone know if the GFS Global 1x1 (the one available via FTP or
> CONDUIT) contains
> forecast snowfall amounts?   I have looked through all the params and don't
> believe I see it,
> but maybe I missed something?
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert
> 
> Robert Mullenax
> Weather Systems Administrator
> Universal Weather and Aviation

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