There is an ever-increasing need for improved operational forecasts of tropical cyclone (TC) genesis. Recent modifications to the National Centers for Environmental Prediction's Global Forecast System (GFS) are believed to have had a positive impact on tropical forecasts. This paper will evaluate ...
We now discuss GFS’s guarantees and what they mean to applications. We also highlight how GFS maintains these guarantees but leave the details to other parts of the paper. 2.7.1 Guarantees by GFS File namespace mutations (e.g., file creation) are atomic. They are handled exclusively by ...