GFSx now available on the web

The new GFS is now running in real-time parallel on the MPP machines in Gaithersburg MD. The biggest changes are as follows:

1. New hybrid sigma-pressure coordinate system
2. Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation used for data assimilation (analysis done in grid point space, rather than in spectral/wave number space).

The graphics can be found at:

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwpara/analysis/

for the parallel, and just replace "nwpara" with "nwprod" in the URL above.

Bill