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General Forecasting
Forecasting Tools
Weather Briefings
Forecasting Techniques
Upper Air Analysis
100
Forecasting Offices and Research Teams fall under this category of Forecasting Sectors.
What is the Government Sector?
100
This is typically abbreviated as NWP, using forecast models to understand the behavior of the atmosphere.
What is Numerical Weather Prediction?
100
This is the order of operations in regards to discussion the different time frames within a weather briefing
What is Past, then Present, then Future?
100
This is the process by which most forecasts should be created.
What is the Forecast Funnel?
100
Temperature and Density are _______ with height in most cases.
What is decreasing?
200
This is the period of time in which a forecaster can submit a forecast with 45% confidence.
What is 24 hours?
200
When looking at MOS, this column describes the precipitation over a short time frame
What is the P06 (Probability of Precip Column)
200
This is the section during which a forecaster discusses weather observations using METAR/Station analysis
What is Current Local Analysis?
200
This scale analysis looks at hemispheric weather patterns in relation to your forecast
What is the Planetary Scale?
200
This forecasting product provides a graphical analysis of the upper levels of the atmosphere.
What is a Skew-T diagram?
300
This is the least accurate of the discussed Forecasting Methods.
What is Persistence Forecasting?
300
This numerical model runs on Spectral Gridpoint Architecture.
What is the GFS?
300
This type of observation is generally overlooked by forecasters, despite it's incredible importance to a weather briefing.
What are Manual Observations/Photographs?
300
Lake Effect Snow falls within this scale category.
What is the Mesoscale Analysis?
300
This mb level is the 2nd highest level typically measured in the atmosphere.
What is the 500 mb level?
400
This is typically used to describe precipitation chances for a forecast.
What is Probability of Precipitation (PoP)?
400
This numerical model has a cutoff time of 1 hr.
What is the RAP?
400
This phase of the briefing is comprised of analyses such as jet stream alignment and fronts
What is the Synoptic Analysis?
400
This scale analysis incorporates advection analysis and Rossby Waves.
What is Synoptic Scale Analysis?
400
This force is partially responsible for geostrophic flow in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing perpendicular and to the right of the wind.
What is the Coriolis Force?
500
This Forecasting Method is used when utilizing tools such as the Farmers Almanac.
What is Analog Forecasting?
500
On MOS, this column signifies the height of cloud bases in the atmosphere for a given time frame.
What is the CIG Column (Ceiling height categorical column)?
500
This part of the weather briefing should be overlooked unless there is little going on in the atmosphere, due to it's low confidence levels.
What is the 3-5 Day Outlook.
500
The Local (Mico) Scale analysis has this distance of area coverage.
What is 1 km?
500
This entrance region of a Jet Streak is associated with sinking air from aloft and warmer temperatures.
What is the Left Entrance Region?