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HRRR: High Resolution Rapid Refresh

• HRRR Homepage (ESRL)

• GSL-Regional-Model-Forum (GitHub)

Dowell, D. C., and Coauthors, 2022: The High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR): An Hourly Updating Convection-Allowing Forecast Model. Part I: Motivation and System Description. Wea. Forecasting, 37, 1371–1395, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-21-0151.1.

James, E. P., and Coauthors, 2022: The High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR): An Hourly Updating Convection-Allowing Forecast Model. Part II: Forecast Performance. Wea. Forecasting, 37, 1397–1417, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-21-0130.1.

James, E. P., and S. G. Benjamin, 2017: Observation system experiments with the hourly updating Rapid Refresh model using GSI hybrid ensemble-variational data assimilation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 2897–2918, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-16-0398.1.

gantt title HRRR Version History axisFormat %Y HRRRv1 : 2014-09-30, 2016-08-23 HRRRv2 : after v1, 2018-07-12 HRRRv3 : after v2, 2020-12-02 HRRRv4 :active, after v3 2020-12-02, 2024-11-01 RRFS : after v4, 2026

RAP: Rapid Refresh

ESRL: https://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/

NCEI: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/weather-climate-models/rapid-refresh-update

AWS: https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-rap/

Benjamin, S. G., and Coauthors, 2004: An Hourly Assimilation–Forecast Cycle: The RUC. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 495–518, https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<0495:AHACTR>2.0.CO;2.

Benjamin, S. G., and Coauthors, 2016: A North American Hourly Assimilation and Model Forecast Cycle: The Rapid Refresh. Mon. Wea. Rev., 144, 1669–1694, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-15-0242.1.

gantt title RAP Model Sources axisFormat %Y section NCEI RUC : 2005-01-01, 2012-05-01 RAP : 2012-05-01, 2022-05-01 section Big Data Program RAP : 2021-02-22, 2022-02-22

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