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Old December 31st 03, 10:43 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Colin Youngs Colin Youngs is offline
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Default German model name: GME

Dave Ludlow wrote in message ...
:On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:38:47 -0000, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:
:Anyone know what the 'E' stands for in the GME

:from
:http://www.agrowetter.de/produkte/do...er_modell.html
:"GME - Globales Modell Ersatz" which google translates as "Global
:Model Replacement". Perhaps Colin would confirm or correct this?

Günter Rampe has answered the question elsewhere in the thread. Ersatz =
replacement or substitute. Your Google translation is menacingly accurate.
Am I soon to be out of a job ?

Colin Youngs
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