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Nowcasting Mesoscale Phenomena

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Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasting

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Short-range forecasting or nowcasting is based upon the ability of the forecaster to assimilate great quantities of weather data, conceptualize a model of the environment, and extrapolate this forward in time. Frequently this is done just to describe existing conditions, and thus has the term “now-cast” originated. Since the time scales are essentially the same for short-range forecasting and nowcasting (the same processes are used for both), the terms are used here interchangeably.

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  1. NOAA/ERL National Severe Storms Laboratory, 73069, Norman, OK, USA

    Peter S. Ray

  2. Dept. of Meteorology and Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, Florida State University, 32306, Tallahassee, FL, USA

    Peter S. Ray

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McGinley, J. (1986). Nowcasting Mesoscale Phenomena. In: Ray, P.S. (eds) Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasting. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-20-1_28

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