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The North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) is an experimental multi-model seasonal forecasting system consisting of coupled models from US modeling centers including NOAA/NCEP, NOAA/GFDL, NCAR, NASA, and Canada's ECCC.
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The need for the development of NMME operational predictive capability was recommended in US National Academies report "Assessment of Intraseasonal to Interannual Climate Prediction and Predictability". Indeed, the national effort is required to meet the specific tailored regional prediction and decision support needs of a large community. The multi-model ensemble approach has proven extremely effective at quantifying prediction uncertainty due to uncertainty in model formulation, and has proven to produce better prediction quality (on average) than any single model ensemble. This multi-model approach is the basis for several international collaborative prediction research efforts, including an operational European system. There are numerous examples o[...]
Overview
The North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) is an experimental multi-model seasonal forecasting system consisting of coupled models from US modeling centers including NOAA/NCEP, NOAA/GFDL, NCAR, NASA, and Canada's ECCC.
The need for the development of NMME operational predictive capability was recommended in US National Academies report "Assessment of Intraseasonal to Interannual Climate Prediction and Predictability". Indeed, the national effort is required to meet the specific tailored regional prediction and decision support needs of a large community. The multi-model ensemble approach has proven extremely effective at quantifying prediction uncertainty due to uncertainty in model formulation, and has proven to produce better prediction quality (on average) than any single model ensemble. This multi-model approach is the basis for several international collaborative prediction research efforts, including an operational European system. There are numerous examples of how this multi-model ensemble approach yields superior forecasts compared to any single model.
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- Description
- North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME)
- Resource type
- S3 bucket
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:s3:::noaa-nmme-pds
- AWS region
- us-east-1
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://noaa-nmme-pds/
- Description
- New data notifications for NMME, only Lambda and SQS protocols allowed)
- Resource type
- SNS topic
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123901341784:NewNMMEObject
- AWS region
- us-east-1
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For any issues with the NMME data, please submit an issue at https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/nwscwi/forms/issue-form-nmme.php . For any general questions regarding the NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) Program, email the NODD Team at nodd@noaa.gov .
We also seek to identify case studies on how NOAA data is being used and will be featuring those stories in joint publications and in upcoming events. If you are interested in seeing your story highlighted, please share it with the NODD team by emailing nodd@noaa.gov
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NOAA North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nmme .
License
NOAA data disseminated through NODD are open to the public and can be used as desired.
NOAA makes data openly available to ensure maximum use of our data, and to spur and encourage exploration and innovation throughout the industry. NOAA requests attribution for the use or dissemination of unaltered NOAA data. However, it is not permissible to state or imply endorsement by or affiliation with NOAA. If you modify NOAA data, you may not state or imply that it is original, unaltered NOAA data.
When using the NMME data, please cite the BAMS article describing the project (Kirtman et al. 2014) and in the acknowledgements please note that the NMME project and data dissemination is supported by NOAA, NSF, NASA and DOE. Please also acknowledge the help of NCEP, IRI and NCAR personnel in creating, updating and maintaining the NMME archive. Thank you.
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