CW3E Forecasts

Atmospheric River Forecast Products

Deterministic Forecast Maps

Click on an image to view forecast maps of integrated water vapor (IWV), integrated water vapor transport (IVT), and time integrated water vapor transport (TIVT) from the NCEP GFS, NAM, or West-WRF at various lead times and various domains.

	GFS and NAM			West-WRF
IWV
IVT
TIVT

Ensemble Forecast Products

CW3E Landfall Tool			IVT Plumes
IVT Thumbnails		Ensemble Probabiliy		IVT Spaghetti Plots

Vertical Cross Sections

West-WRF Forecasts

West-WRF is a regional weather prediction system run at CW3E. Click on an image to see the full suite of West-WRF forecasts.

IVT	IWV	Precipitation	Jet Level Winds	Freezing Level	Meteograms

NCEP Forecast Models

Click an image to see various forecasts on multiple domains from the NCEP GFS and NAM.

Jet Level Winds	Absolute Vorticity	850-hPa Temperature	Precipitation

Precipitation Forecasts

Precipitation forecasts are available from the GFS and WPC at various accumulation periods, as well as 3-hourly precipitation from the West-WRF. A long range outlook produced using historical data is available to determine the odds of reaching normal water year precipitation totals.

WPC Precipitation	GFS Precipitation	Odds of Reaching Normal Precipitation

Forecast Verification

AR Landfall MET/MODE Verification Tool: Various gridded forecasts of AR objects and precipitation are compared to observations using MODE.

Forecasted	Object Verification	Model Analysis