INSPECT-2 Forecast Page update Sunday Evening May 16, 2004

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We have returned to the site for sampling this week. The NRL model predicts dust in the area starting sometime tomorrow and through Tuesday. Sampling will begin tomorrow morning and continue for selected periods through Wednesday. The gridpoint forecast for the period follows. Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low near 35. North northwest wind between 8 and 16 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Monday: Mostly cloudy, with a high around 51. Breezy, with a southwest wind 13 to 16 mph increasing to between 22 and 25 mph. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph. Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 36. Breezy, with a southwest wind between 16 and 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Tuesday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 62. Breezy, with a southwest wind between 17 and 23 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 31. Breezy, with a west southwest wind around 23 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 62. Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low near 32. Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high around 64. Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 34. Friday: Partly cloudy, with a high around 65.

Current Weather

Current At Storm Peak Lab

MAPS	SOUNDINGS	SATELLITE	OTHER
300 mb	Riverton	IR	Radar:  Front Range
500 mb	Grand Junction	Vis GOES-10:  RIW DEN	Web cam:  Wyoming list Steamboat
700 mb	Denver	CIRA Loops	Web cam:  KCNC News 4 Denver
Surface NREL current	(UWyo web page)	NOAA – Aeronomy Satellite Imagery Terra Tracks	Web cam:  (a) Univ Michigan list (b) regional list

Weather Forecasting

University	NCAR	NWS	Aviation
WRF Realtime RAMS Forecast RAMS Interactive Forecasts Univ Illinois	NCAR RAP Modeling page NCAR - MM5	National Forecast Map Forecast Office, Denver-Boulder Western Region Interactive Forecast Map	Aviation Weather (ADDS)

Aerosol Forecasting

FLEXPART Model

NRL Monterrey Aerosol Web Page

Storm Peak Lab aerosol

Back to Physical and Chemical Impacts on the Ice Nucleating Properties of Atmospheric Particles in Springtime or Paul’s main page

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