Select era:
Eras are identified by the model used (MM5 or WRF) and the grid-spacing of the domains.
Note some overlap in the date ranges of each era.
MM590 era (90/30/10/3-km):
2001010500 through 2005121912
MM560 era (60/24/6/2-km):
2005091700 through 2008063000
WRF60 era (60/24/6/2-km):
2006030600 through 2008110300
WRF45 era (45/15/5/1.67-km):
2008100100 through 2013011400
WRF30 era (30/10/3.3/1.1-km):
2013011400 through 2017101000
WRF24 era (24/8/2.2/0.67-km):
2017101012 through present
Select grid. Pleae check that the desired grid is available for the selected era above:
Domain 1
Antarctica and the Southern Oceans
Domain 2
Antarctic Continent
Domain 3
Ross Sea / Ross Ice Shelf (from 2001010500; this includes the South Pole region after 2013040800)
Domain 4
South Pole (available from 2011122900 through 2013040800)
Domain 5
Ross Island (available starting with the 2001121112 forecast)
Domain 6
Antarctic Peninsula (available starting with the 2003091912 forecast)
Drake Passage
South America to Antarctic Peninsula transit
New Zealand
What it says on the tin
Specify forecast initializations:
AMPS forecasts are initialized at 00 and 12 UTC.
Please check for consistency of dates with the date range of the selected era above.
Initialization start date:
Ten-digit UTC time : <YYYYMMDDHH>
Initialization end date:
Ten-digit UTC time : <YYYYMMDDHH>
Initialization increment:
Hours between successive forecast initializations; must be divisible by 12
Specify range of forecast hours desired from the above forecast initilizations:
Start hour:
End hour:
Hour increment:
Must be non-zero even if start hour equals end hour