As a forecaster, I’m most accustomed to pulse severe conditions, and I work in an area where there tends to be abundant cloud cover. So being able to find boundaries is really helpful. So I decided to review some of the low-level cumulus fields in OCTANE and looking how accurate they are compared to current derived GOES East winds. From what I sampled, they were within 5 degrees of OCTANE.

Now zooming out, we see that there will be an area of confluence in the wind field based on the low-level cu field. Further aloft, you can see some of the diffluence along the warm conveyor belt. Sometimes, wind barbs are really useful tools to assessing an environment, and I think a similar function in OCTANE could be useful for mesoanalysis.

Kadic