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Publication Details

Title:
NCAR Gust Front Tool V1.0: A system to identify and visualize gust fronts from mesoscale model output
Author(s):
Powers, Jordan G.; Bresch, James F.; Schwartz, Craig S.; Coen, Janice L.; Sobash, Ryan A.
Publication Year:
2020
How to Cite:
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Powers, Jordan G.; Bresch, James F.; Schwartz, Craig S.; Coen, Janice L.; Sobash, Ryan A. 2020. NCAR Gust Front Tool V1.0: A system to identify and visualize gust fronts from mesoscale model output. Boulder, CO: National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://github.com/NCAR/JFSP_Gust_Front_Tool
Abstract:
The project’s output product is a software tool (the “gust front tool”) containing a convective outflow detection algorithm, analysis routines, and plotting capabilities. These are the components that are being provided and maintained as described below. The project output is not a dataset per se, but rather the gust front tool software, input and supporting files, and documentation. All of this material has been provided to the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) and is publicly available as described below. The input used for development was existing numerical weather prediction output from the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model. That input data were not generated or controlled by the project team and were acquired from publicly-accessible sites, but is also described below for completeness.

Keywords:
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; Fire; fire weather forecasting; numerical weather prediction; gust fronts; thunderstorm outflows; ensemble forecasting; High Resolution Rapid Refresh; HRRR; Weather Research and Forecasting model; WRF; Joint Fire Science Program; JFSP; contiguous United States
Related publications:
  • Powers, Jordan G.; Bresch, James F.; Schwartz, Craig S.; Coen, Janice L.; Sobash, Ryan A. Unpublished material. Use of NWP models to identify convective outflows for fire weather forecasting. Joint Fire Science Program Final Report. PROJECT ID: 17-1-05-5. December 2019. https://www.firescience.gov/projects/17-1-05-5/project/17-1-05-5_final_report.pdf
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