{"id":9374,"date":"2014-06-02T18:45:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T23:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/?p=9374"},"modified":"2016-10-03T17:53:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:53:43","slug":"ewp-day-1-initial-random-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2014\/06\/02\/ewp-day-1-initial-random-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"EWP &#8211; Day 1 &#8211; Initial Random Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good overview of the products &#8211; even with little sensible weather.<\/p>\n<p>First thought &#8211; will try to &#8220;enhance&#8221; a few color curves to make interrogation easier. I have spent &#8220;lots&#8221; of hours in the WFO setting enhancing color tables &#8211; and I believe these will help.\u00a0 One easy change is to reduce the &#8220;noise&#8221; of the CI product &#8211; e.g. remove values below 40%.\u00a0 This allows you to focus only the storms of interest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/06\/4PNL_GOES-CI_ColorTable_Correction.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9376\" alt=\"4PNL_GOES CI_ColorTable_Correction\" src=\"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/4PNL_GOES-CI_ColorTable_Correction-1024x622.png\" width=\"584\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/06\/4PNL_GOES-CI_ColorTable_Correction-1024x622.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/06\/4PNL_GOES-CI_ColorTable_Correction-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/06\/4PNL_GOES-CI_ColorTable_Correction-768x467.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/06\/4PNL_GOES-CI_ColorTable_Correction-494x300.png 494w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/06\/4PNL_GOES-CI_ColorTable_Correction.png 1484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a>Thought #2 is to combine\/overlay the observed fields (e.g. ThetaE_NearCast) with relevant forcing.\u00a0 For instance, in the image below I used the ThetaE difference with GFS40 850mb moisture convergence.\u00a0 In essence, combine the observed environment with model forcing parameters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/06\/ThetaE_V31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9382\" alt=\"ThetaE_V3\" src=\"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ThetaE_V31-1024x576.png\" width=\"584\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/06\/ThetaE_V31-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/06\/ThetaE_V31-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/06\/ThetaE_V31-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/06\/ThetaE_V31-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/06\/ThetaE_V31.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a>Mike Fowle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good overview of the products &#8211; even with little sensible weather. First thought &#8211; will try to &#8220;enhance&#8221; a few color curves to make interrogation easier. I have spent &#8220;lots&#8221;&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2014\/06\/02\/ewp-day-1-initial-random-thoughts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9374","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13863,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9374\/revisions\/13863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}