On Thursday, November 20, 2014 3:22:22 PM UTC, wrote:
Hi Mr Cannon, Please can you tell me the dynamics of "The Model" that you refer to? Can you also tell me where online I can look at the methodology and model parameters, variables and diagnostics? Are there any guidance notes on model use ....and what programming language is the model written in to process the Terabytes of information necessary each day to make sure it is viable and not at variance with itself after each iteration? (internally consistent.) Us there any verification and quality control of data in or out? I would love to see how the model deals with the a Troposphere/ Stratosphere/ Mesosphere and Ionosphere interaction.

Thanks in advance
Ben

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Excellent.

These are the sorts of question I would have liked to have posed to the now pleasingly absent Jonathan Powell about his much-touted "Positive Weather Solutions" / "Vantage Weather Services" model. Presumably run on the Cray lurking in the basement of his terraced house in Glamorgan.

Equally they could be put to Exacta in his flat in Lancaster.

Stephen.