NOAA North American Mesoscale Forecast System (NAM)

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Description

The North American Mesoscale Forecast System (NAM) is one of the National Centers For Environmental Prediction’s (NCEP) major models for producing weather forecasts. NAM generates multiple grids (or domains) of weather forecasts over the North American continent at various horizontal resolutions. Each grid contains data for dozens of weather parameters, including temperature, precipitation, lightning, and turbulent kinetic energy. NAM uses additional numerical weather models to generate high-resolution forecasts over fixed regions, and occasionally to follow significant weather events like hurricanes.

Update Frequency

Four times daily (0000, 0600, 1200, and 1800 UTC)

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.

Documentation

https://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/emc/pages/numerical_forecast_systems/nam.php, https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/weather-climate-models/north-american-mesoscale

Managed By

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Contact

For any questions regarding data delivery or 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

How to Cite

NOAA North American Mesoscale Forecast System (NAM) was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nam.

Resources on AWS

• Description North American Mesoscale Forecast System (NAM) Data Resource type S3 Bucket Amazon Resource Name (ARN) arn:aws:s3:::noaa-nam-pds AWS Region us-east-1 AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required) aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://noaa-nam-pds/ Explore Browse Bucket
• Description New data notifications for NAM data, only Lambda and SQS protocols allowed Resource type SNS Topic Amazon Resource Name (ARN) arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123901341784:NewNCEPNAMObject AWS Region us-east-1

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