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ENS Products  - Their Use

The ENS ensemble produces a great deal of forecast data; much of it we display in diagramatic or chart formit is displayed as diagrams or charts.  It is difficult for the human eye to identify more than the larger differences between each individual ensemble member so several .  Several display methods have been developed to enable critical assessment of are used to help assess the similarity and spread of results, and to some extent the run-to-run consistency.  Chart output facilitates an gives:

• easy visual interpretation of the information

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• a simple visual assessment of the probabilities of forecast weather events

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• highlights potential extreme weather events. 

Outputs The outputs from the various IFS programs are described in the rest of Section 8 this section (medium range output, extended range output, seasonal output).  Access to the charts (ecCharts, Open Access, Dashboard) is described in Section 10.

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