Agri
weather Bulletin is developed by Agro Climate Research
Centre, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University using Weather
Research Forecast (WRF) model's Advanced Research Weather
(ARW) core. The Forecast model is being developed as
a collaborative effort among the National Centre for
Atmospheric Research's Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology(MMM)
Division, Boulder, Collarado, USA. The version of the
model is WRFV3.1 released during 2009 and
for further details please vis.
The model has two domains with horizontal resolution
of 15 km & 5 km for Mother and nested domain respectively.
The Global Forecast System (GFS) data from National
Centre for Environment Prediction is used for developing
four days forecast cycle exclusively for the use by
farmers of Tamil Nadu. At present the model is run on
experimental basis. For graphical forecasts, please
use the left hand side menu links and for quantitative
forecast use the day links below. The centre acknowledges
with thanks for the technical inputs of Dr.R.Sivasamy
and Mrs. Divya Rajkumar
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