NOAA Air Resources Laboratory

Chesapeake Bay RAMS Forecast Model

Details on the RAMS model run by NOAA ARL
Information on current RAMS configuration
Interact with the RAMS data in READY

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: The RAMS dataset will be terminated in late autumn/early winter 2003. For details see: RAMS Notice

RAMS 4 km Grid

 Current 4km grid domain

Model Fields Model Forecast Hour Animations
Mean Sea-level Pressure 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 GIF Movie Java Movie
10m Winds / Temperature 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 GIF Movie Java Movie
1628m Winds / Temperature 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 GIF Movie Java Movie
1h Precip 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 GIF Movie Java Movie
1628m Vertical Motion 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 GIF Movie Java Movie
PBL Total Kinetic Energy 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 GIF Movie Java Movie
2m RH 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 GIF Movie Java Movie
10m Wind direction and speed 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 GIF Movie Java Movie


RAMS 16 km Grid

 Current 16km grid domain

Model Fields Model Forecast Hour Animations
10m Winds / MSLP 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 GIF Movie Java Movie
1628m Winds / Temperatures 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 GIF Movie Java Movie
1h Precip 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 GIF Movie Java Movie
1628m Vertical Motion 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 GIF Movie Java Movie
10m Wind direction and speed 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 GIF Movie Java Movie
2m RH 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 GIF Movie Java Movie

NOTE: GIF animations requre browsers capable of displaying animated GIF images (Netscape 3.0+ or Internet Explorer 3.0+), and JavaScript animations require Netscape 3.0+ or IE 4.0+.
Gridded data
Current RAMS forecast GRIB files for the 4 and 16 km grids are available on our anonymous ftp server (gus.arlhq.noaa.gov/pub/forecasts/cbrams/grib/), where

RAMFCG.grb (16 km grid; 1.6 Mb)
RAMFFG.grb (4 km grid; 2.5 Mb)

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