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• Linkage to operational meteorology / NCEP Centers

• Involve operational (NWS) meteorologists (NAME SWG; NAME Forecast Centers)

• Invite personnel (e.g. postdocs) from Mexican SMN to work with HPC forecasters and EMC data assimilation experts during NAME 2004.

• Involve EMC personnel (e.g. physical parameterization experts) in NAME Modeling-Obs Teams to identify specific needs in MRF, ETA and WRF models.

(2) Quantifyable Goals

• Develop year-by-year performance metrics that are directly relevant to NCEP Centers (HPC, CPC). (More later)

• Goals must be explicit and "up front"– accountability.

- Short term goal: diurnal/daily timescales

- Long term goal: monthly/seasonal time scales

IMPROVING THE NCEP-NAME LINKAGE

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