Does the Senate really need to confirm 1,200 executive branch jobs? By Brad Plumer By Brad Plumer July 16, 2013 Follow @bradplumer The Senate has been bickering all day over how to confirm President Obama's nominees for various executive-branch positions.
The climate calculated by the GCM is used as input at the edges of the RCM for factors such as temperature and wind. RCMs can then resolve the local impacts given small scale information about orography (land height) and land use, giving weather and climate information at resolutions as fine as 50 or 25km.
An example of a forecast product from the GFS, in this case a 96-hour forecast of 850 mb geopotential height and temperature. The Global Forecast System (GFS) is a global numerical weather prediction system containing a global computer model and variational analysis run by the United States' National Weather Service (NWS). The mathematical model is run four times a day, and produces forecasts for up to 16 days in advance, but with decreased spatial resolution after 10 days.