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To:
From:
Michael McNeil
Email:
Weatherlawyer@gmail.com
Subject: Model data
Comments:
Your North Pacific sea level forecasts are in my top 3 "go to" sites in the world. Can you please tell me how much work goes into their preparation?
You state that the funding only allows you minimal interference with the raw data, can you give me some idea how the charts are prepared (and hopefully tell me how they will never be "improved".)
I am fairly serious about that last bit, I am sure perfecting you model with improvements and refinements will spoil it for me. I was looking through your archive hoping to find something along the lines of the reanalysis project stored on your servers. Not that I wan't them reworked so much as re-presented.
If you have stored previous forecasts they will prove a valuable commodity one day. I won't tell you what I am doing with them for fear you will consider me a crank. Thanks for allowing us access to your stuff.
Mike.
