Weather and Climate Forecasts and Analyses at MHPCC

In Hawaii, where weather and climate variations are strongly affected by the steep island topography, there is a clear and acknowledged need for improved weather and climate forecasts at increased spatial resolution. The Hawaii Weather, Climate,Modeling Ohana (HWCMO) was therefore formed at the Maui High Performance Computing Center in 1997 to establish an experimental weather/climate mesoscale modeling effort for near real-time support to the local National Weather service (NWS), decision makers in federal and state agencies, and local researchers. This operational mesoscale forecasting effort is currently providing on an almost regular schedule, daily forecast products {http://www.mhpcc.edu/ wswx/), using 5 nodesof the MHPCC multi-node IBM SP2 cluster.