Model Listing

The following is not a complete listing of models, though it does contain many of the models that you will see released in the National Hurricane Center's (NHC) public model files. Some models listed below are used by the NHC but are rarely released into the public model file for a storm.

We use a variety of sources for the below data. The majority of the information below comes from the techlist file on NOAA's server, the NHC's annual verification reports, and the forecast model background and information page at the NHC (a page which has a lot of information about models). We only include extra information when it is provided specifically about that model. Even though some of the blanks could easily be filled in on some of the models, we chose not to unless the information was available specifically for that model in NHC documentation that we could easily find.

Sources for HFIP Stream 1.5 Models were found mostly here and the GFDL Ensemble here. Various other government and university sites were also consulted.

Some of the models below are deprecated, meaning they are no longer used. We include them in case our system generates historical data that may contain that particular model.

Models listed below that are a combination of other models, consensus models, could change at any time. If you are aware of any changes to those models, please let us know.

You can select a model name or type in the list below to view the models associated with it. This page is automatically created which is why it is not formatted in the most friendly way possible.

• BAM - Beta and Advection model
• Best Track Decay
• CARQ - Combined ARQ (Automated Response to Query) Position
• CLIPER and SHIFOR - Climatology and Persistence model and Statistical Hurricane Intensity Forecast model
• CLIPER - Climatology and Persistence model
• CMC (GEM) - Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) model from the Canadian Meteorological Centre
• COAMPS - NRL's Coupled Ocean / Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System
• Consensus Models
• DeMaria Radii CLIPER model
• Deprecated Models (No Longer Used)
• ECMWF - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast model
• ETA - Eta Model
• Florida State University Super-ensemble
• GFDL Ensemble (with descriptions for 2012) - NWS / Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Model
• GFDL - NWS / Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Model
• GFS - NWS / Global Forecast System
• HFIP Stream 1.5 Models (with other related models) Grouped Together (GFDL Ensemble in separate group)
• HWRF - Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting Model
• JGSM - Japanese Global Spectral Model
• LBAR - Limited Area Sine Transform Barotropic Model
• MRFO - Medium Range Forecast (MRF) Run
• McAdie Radii CLIPER model
• NAM - North American Mesoscale model
• NAVGEM - Navy Global Environmental Model
• NGM - Nested Grid Model
• NHC Forecast (from ATCF Database) - National Hurricane Center (NHC) official forecast
• OHPC - NOAA's Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC) official forecast
• OOPC - NOAA's Ocean Prediction Center (OPC) official forecast
• Rapid Intensity Aid
• SHIFOR - Statistical Hurricane Intensity Forecast model
• SHIPS - Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme
• UKMET - United Kingdom Meteorological Office
• XTRP - Extrapolation using past 12-hr motion