I don't have much to add other than repeating how good this thread is, and thank you for the information.
Hopefully as I learn more the weenie-ism of my posts in the model/obs threads will decrease. My most recent example of weenie-ism was trying to use http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/dlmmain.php?&basin=atlantic&sat=wg8∏=dlm2&zoom=&time= to figure out where the weekend storm was going to go by looking at the 500-850 mb steering layer. Does this site have a purpose, and if so, when might you use it?
Coming from a software engineering background, I am curious what programming language most models are developed in? Also, what kind of computers are they using to process all of the algorithms?
