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Forecast Models

Bufkit Data now available for select sites around the Sioux Falls CWA.
Unfamiliar with Bufkit?? Check out an explanation of the program.

Forecasts based on latest model output issued by the National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)

Mesoscale Models
- RUC - Graphics from
- RUC Cloud Forecasts from RAP/UCAR
- SPC Composite (Java)

Short Range Models
- ETA/GFS/NGM - Graphics from NCEP
- GFS - Graphics from
  - COLA/IGES - available to 72 hours
- ETA - Graphics from
  - Environmental Modeling Center - available to 84 hours
  - COLA/IGES - available to 48 hours
- NGM
- UKMET - available to 72 hours
- ETA/NGM/AVN comparison from UW Madison
- ETA Meteograms/Time-Height Sections
- Regional Scale GEM from Environment Canada

Long Range Models
- GFS
- ECMWF
- NOGAPS
- Global Scale GEM from Environment Canada

Ensemble Forecasts
- NCEP Ensemble from Environmental Modeling Center
- NCEP SREF Ensembles from Environmental Modeling Center
- NCEP Ensemble from CDC homepage
- Canadian Ensemble
- Navy (FNMOC) Ensembles

Model Guidance/Other Tabular Products

Point Forecast Matrices (PFM) - tabular forecasts for specific points within the NWS Sioux Falls CWA, produced by the local forecasters (text format)
- How to decode the PFM
Model Output Statistics (MOS) from NOAA/MDL
Note: Defaulted to retrieve output for FSD/HON/SUX. For additional sites-hold CTRL key while selecting sites from list before clicking Submit button.

NGM MOS: (Interpret) Remainder of the Country	ETA MOS: (Interpret) Remainder of the Country
AVN MOS: (Interpret) Remainder of the Country	MRF MOS: (Interpret) Remainder of the Country
Hourly LAMP Guidance Remainder of the Country	ALL: (AVN/ETA/MRF/NGM) Remainder of the Country

Other NOAA/MDL Products
- LAMP Graphics
  - Analysis Images
  - QPF Forecast Images

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/fsd/models.htm


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