Medium/Long Range Models?

[Dave Marshall]

I've been getting more familiar with the various models over the last few months and feel like I have a fairly good grasp on the RUC, GFS, and ETA.

I'm always seeing talk around here of the ECMWF when discussing longer range models beyond 96 hours, but I can't seem to find a good source of anything except pressure graphics for it beyond the short term. Can anyone point me at any good links?

 

[Wes Carter]

You can get one of them right at the source here. Is this the one you were referring to? The wind depiction is basically highlighting where the isobars are close together. I don't care for it either.

 

[Chip Redmond]

You can also get the ECMWF at Unisys HERE

Although its very limited to just 4 outputs.


Chip

 

[Brett Roberts]

Here are a couple other good sources for ECMWF output:

http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/ewall.html (under "Model Extras" on the left-hand side)

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/grbcalc2.html

Both of these update fairly quickly when a new run is coming out, and the second site allows you to make high-res graphics of lots more variables than any other free source I've found.

The College of DuPage site also has the ECMWF, but is much slower to update in my experience.

 

[Chad Cowan]

The best long-range tool that I have found is Euro data from the San Jose State Met page. The hidden gem here that I haven't seen anywhere else on the web is a Euro vs GFS comparison like the image below. This and the GFS ensemble spaghetti maps are absolutely priceless in the 5+ day time frame.

http://www.met.sjsu.edu/weather/ecmwf.html

 

[mikegeukes]

I have a list of ECMWF Model Sites and also have it broken down by forecast hours.
http://models-ecmwf.blogspot.com/

Mike