Gettman, Dennis D.

"Model Output Statistics (MOS) forecasts of temperature, dew point, winds, clouds, and precipitation for major population centers throughout the United States have been available for many years now. These forecasts have been a valuable source of guidance to the public and aviation forecaster. MOS forecasts, however, offer little or no guidance to the fire weather meteorologist in the West. His/her task is to provide forecasts of temperature, dew point, winds, clouds, and precipitation, but the MOS guidance, in nearly every case, is for valley locations. The vast majority of the fire weather forecast domain is above the valley floors"--Introduction.

National Weather Service (NWS)