{"id":76,"date":"2008-03-27T10:22:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/visit\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/27\/qpf-bombs-and-getting-the-most-out-of-your-model\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:06:30","slug":"qpf-bombs-and-getting-the-most-out-of-your-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/2008\/03\/27\/qpf-bombs-and-getting-the-most-out-of-your-model\/","title":{"rendered":"QPF Bombs and Getting the Most Out of Your Model"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/qpfbomb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/qpfbomb.jpg\" alt=\"two model forecast runs (12 hours apart)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">J. Braun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Above is an example of two model forecast runs (12 hours apart).&nbsp;&nbsp;The<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"> main difference comes when looking at&nbsp;the&nbsp;QPF amounts&nbsp;generated&nbsp;over&nbsp;ERN ND and&nbsp;NWRN MN&nbsp;between the two model runs.&nbsp; The&nbsp;later model&nbsp;run on the right is able to transport more moisture&nbsp;to the north&nbsp;as opposed to the earlier run with the large QPF Bomb over ERN KS and WRN MS.&nbsp; To learn more&nbsp;about NWP model&#8217;s ability to discern these bombs and what useful information you can still glean from &#8220;contaminated&#8221; output, please see this helpful web module put together by Pete Manousos a few years ago, by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/qpfbombs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clicking here.<\/a> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New\"> <\/span><\/span> <\/span>\ufffd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. Braun Above is an example of two model forecast runs (12 hours apart).&nbsp;&nbsp;The main difference comes when looking at&nbsp;the&nbsp;QPF amounts&nbsp;generated&nbsp;over&nbsp;ERN ND and&nbsp;NWRN MN&nbsp;between the two model runs.&nbsp; The&nbsp;later model&nbsp;run on the right is able to transport more moisture&nbsp;to the north&nbsp;as opposed to the earlier run with the large QPF Bomb over ERN KS and <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/2008\/03\/27\/qpf-bombs-and-getting-the-most-out-of-your-model\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25],"tags":[72,115,133,190,206,222,223,227,281],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nwp-models-ncep","category-problems-in-forecasting","tag-avn","tag-eta","tag-gfs","tag-nam","tag-nwp-models","tag-qpf","tag-qpf-bombs","tag-rsm","tag-wrf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4750,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/4750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}