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SCRIBE marine
Jacques Marcoux, MSC, Montreal, QC, Canada; and J. Mclean, M. Schäffer, and R. Verret
The Canadian Meteorological Centre has developed a system called SCRIBE that can generate a suite a forecast products from NWP model outputs and statisticaly post-processed weather element guidance. The SCRIBE system has been expanded to handle all marine forecasts under the responsibility of the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC). The SCRIBE/marine product generator has been made compliant to the Standard Operating Procedures of the MSC. SCRIBE/marine is using the same framework as the public counterpart with a set of rules specific to the marine milieu, putting emphasis on wind and wave forecasting. The content of the SCRIBE matrices have been revised to incorporate guidance more suitable to the marine environment especially with regards to wind and waves. An algorithm has been developed to produce first guess sea state for region outside of the wave model domain and some studies have been done to improve wind guidance. SCRIBE/marine is based on an open architecture framework where external models, such as a wave model, can be launched from SCRIBE data and the output of which can be ingested back into SCRIBE. The SCRIBE interface has been modified to include all the relevant parameters related to marine forecasts. In addition, new functionality has been added to allow forecasters to manipulate the weather elements either with the regular SCRIBE graphical user interface or with a code editor based interface. The functionality of SCRIBE/marine will be presented at the oral presentation and examples of marine forecast products will be shown.
Session 7, European and Other International Applications (RO0M 613/614)
Tuesday, 13 January 2004, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Room 613/614
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