Talk:Global Forecast System

Latest comment: 5 years ago by R. S. Shaw in topic Is the FIM more accurate or not?

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...one of the five predominant synoptic scale medium-range models in general use

A touch Amerocentric / Eurocentric, perchance? E.g. Japan, Australia ... Gergyl (talk) 06:33, 7 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

  • Agreed. I added more major models as listed in Ensemble forecasting, but it would still be nice to find a citation to verify that the list of models represents scientific consensus. MarkWarren (talk) 18:54, 31 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

Proper name - should be capitalized edit

A quick Google search makes it plain, this is a proper name and should remain capitalized as-is:

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=LCAZWqL6D-2jggfXl6igDw&q=global+forecast+system&oq=global+forecast+system&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l10.648.2657.0.2761.23.13.0.9.9.0.122.1039.12j1.13.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..1.22.1123.0..0i131k1j0i10k1.0.Rsdum1mUznY

Famartin (talk) 07:52, 25 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

Is the FIM more accurate or not? edit

... the FIM proved to be slower and not appreciably more accurate than the GFS. Initial testing of the FV3 showed promise, ...

I find this confusing - not sure whether the FIM seems to be a significant improvement, or whether it's just slower and slightly more accurate.

OliverEvans96 (talk) 13:07, 2 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

What is confusing about "not appreciably more accurate than the GFS"? --R. S. Shaw (talk) 19:38, 9 July 2018 (UTC)Reply