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2012-02-14 01:18:08 - How to get long range forecasts from NCEP
Go to: http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/
Select: GFS logo
Under U.S.-No America select: "View more model forcasts"
This takes you to "Model Analyses and Guidance" page.
Select: "Model Guidance"
Select an area (for SOL WR leg 4 select "Asia"
Select a Model Type (start with "GFS")
This will load page with "Available Model Cycles"
For surface winds select "10m_wind_precip"
That will load a box of colums with projected winds from 3 hours out to 384 hours out. Select any and a chart of the projected Wx for that day and hour will load. This can be saved as a gif file. From the chart page you can return to the Available Model Cycles page to select another time in the furture.
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2012-02-17 15:29:59 - Re: How to get long range forecasts from NCEP
Very helpful - thanks Jack...

Be interested to look at some of the other models implied in your post - they can often be helpful when trying to predict how later winds will change from the current forecast
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2012-02-17 18:47:21 - Re: How to get long range forecasts from NCEP
Are these published earlier than NOAA's grib file runs?

Saildocs is also a good way of getting long range forecast.

If you send the following to queryATsaildocs.com...
Subject: anything you want
Body: send GFS:40N,61S,40E,140W|1,1|0,6..336|PRMSL,WIND

... you get the grib file for the specified area and timeframe in return.

You can also subscribe...
Subject: anything
Body: sub GFS:40N,61S,40E,140W|1,1|0,6..384|PRMSL,WIND days=0 time=23:00 interval=6

... and you get this sent to you 5 min after each time interval starting from 23z tonight. (Saildocs runs subscriptions 5 min after every 1/2 hour and the full 384h run is normally finished by then).

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