Thomas J. Le Febvre authored and/or contributed to the following articles/publications.
Python: The Key to Graphical Forecast Editor's Success
For nearly a decade the National Weather Service's (NWS) Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) have conveyed the routine weather forecast as a grid of digital values for dozens of sensible weather elements over their forecast area. These gridded data sets and the products derived from them comprise the bulk of NWS's official weather forecasts. To cre...
Early Development Activities for the Integrated Hazard Information Services
One component of the National Weather Service's (NWS) AWIPS II extended effort is the Integrated Hazard Information Services (IHIS) project. The primary goal of IHIS is to integrate into a single program three applications that currently generate hazardous weather watches, warnings, and advisories: 1) WarnGen, used to create short-fused severe w...
Grid editing for the Interactive Forecast Preparation System
Continued drought in California, along with a threatened and endangered salmon population, has required the state of California to control Russian River water usage to protect young, budding winegrape vines during spring frosts. Improved forecasts of the location and duration of frost with increased lead time at individual vineyards could reduce...
Institutions Earth System Research Laboratory - ESRL National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA