Priority Cases
Case #1: 20150105: Midwest (~00-17 UTC)
Case #2: 20150125-27: Northeast US (~06 UTC 26 - 06 UTC 27 Jan 2015)
Case #3: 20160122-24: Northeast US
Case #4: 20150322: Midwest (~06-21 UTC)
Other potential cases:
SBU runs:
1 km
15 min output
first 6-12 hours considered spin-up (tossed)
24-30-h forecasts
No DA
Ensemble members created through different initial conditions, physics parameterzations, also have used NARR and CFSR for BCs (analyses, rather than forecasts)
WPC uses:
Stage IV, CoCoRaHs, COOP sites, Metars, and HADS (http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hads/WhatIsHADS.html) observations
National snowfall analysis, http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/, the point of contact is Greg Fall (gregory.Fall@noaa.gov)
Possible data to pull
Initialization data
GFS
NAM
RAP
HRRR
Point data
NDAS prepbufr files
RAP prepbufr files
Gridded data
Stage II?
CPC?
CCPA?
Stage IV
MRMS
ERA Interim?
NOHRSC? (new snowfall analysis)
NCEP radar mosaic data?
Cloud analyses? WWMCA?