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Meteorological models provide results on a gridded basis, meaning entities are provided
at specific locations within a regular grid. Different models provide results at
different grid resolutions (i.e. distance between points). Within MMEFS, this information
must be interpolated to a finer scale to allow for basin average estimates to be
calculated. The following figures show the grid resolution for various meteorological
model systems. Note there is a trade-off between grid resolution and availability of
model results. The finer the grid resolution, the longer a solution for each time step
takes. Therefore, finer resolution models, at this time, tend to provide results for
shorter forecast horizons so that model results can be made available at a reasonable time
after the start of the model run.
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