{"id":16646,"date":"2019-05-09T16:14:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T21:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/?p=16646"},"modified":"2019-05-13T12:16:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T17:16:28","slug":"four-views-of-tpw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2019\/05\/09\/four-views-of-tpw\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Views of TPW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After making some adjustments to the color scaling, we&#8217;re able to mix model and analysis products of TPW.\u00a0 \u00a0The GOM was mostly clear, while clouds covered most of the land.\u00a0 A very moist airmass was onshore, the Hammond LA GPS site measured 2.25&#8243; of TPW.<\/p>\n<p>The GFS and HRRR forecasts both indicated this maximum.\u00a0 The All-Sky LAP also did well, although it&#8217;s field is a reflection of the good GFS forecast.\u00a0 The Merged TPW did not generate these very large purple values (&gt; 2&#8243; of TPW) except in a very small area.\u00a0 The polar orbiter TPW retrievals used in Merged TPW must not have sampled these large values to advect in.\u00a0 The operational blended TPW (which relies heavily on GPS sites for the analysis over land) also showed a maximum.\u00a0 This points to the possibility that including the surface GPS network into Merged TPW and All-Sky LAP might be a way to increase the precision of these analyses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16651\" style=\"width: 1172px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16651\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/009_mask.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1172\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/009_mask.png 1172w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/009_mask-900x561.png 900w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/009_mask-768x479.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/009_mask-600x374.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cloud Mask from CIRA Merged TPW (blue = clear; yellow = cloudy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16647\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16647\" style=\"width: 1422px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16647\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/009_4panel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1422\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/009_4panel.png 1422w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/009_4panel-900x487.png 900w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/009_4panel-768x416.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/009_4panel-600x325.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four Views of TPW along the Gulf Coast at 19 UTC 09 May 2019: Upper Left: CIRA Merged TPW: Upper Right: All-Sky LAP. Lower Left: GFS 6 hour forecast @ 18 Z, Lower Right: HRRR 1 hour forecast @ 19 Z.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Analyses and forecasts all agreed well on the drier air over the central GOM.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>JohnF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After making some adjustments to the color scaling, we&#8217;re able to mix model and analysis products of TPW.\u00a0 \u00a0The GOM was mostly clear, while clouds covered most of the land.\u00a0&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2019\/05\/09\/four-views-of-tpw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,46],"class_list":["post-16646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-all-sky-lap","tag-tpw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16656,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646\/revisions\/16656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}