Run Hurricane models on a PC?

[dimensionless]

It is possible to run any of these hurricane models on a home desktop? If so, does anyone know where I can get information on the models? Can I download the model/source code/program itself? Will I need a data feed from the national weather service?

[Pengwuino]

http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/news/pressreleases/2003/jun/weather.html

IBM IBM eServer p690 and FAStT500 Storage Server
The supercomputer will be delivered in stages. The first phase—a cluster of 44 IBM IBM eServer p690 servers supported by 42 terabytes of IBM TotalStorage FAStT500 Storage Server disk storage—doubles the current computing power for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service.

IBM will expand the system to reach a peak speed well in excess of 100 teraflops by 2009. It would take one person with a calculator more than 80 million years to tabulate the number of calculations a 100 teraflop supercomputer can handle in a single second.

Thats the kinda computer system they run hurricane models on.

[FredGarvin]

Models like the kind they are plastering all over CNN and such now a days are not off the shelf programs. They are going to be proprietary codes and are not going to be cheap.

[PerennialII]

.... was doing some searching about weather modeling software a while back and although running them on PC (other than some skinned versions, some versions have been available in the past as demos) other than in simple examples (?) is "doomed", the sources at least partially are available for packages like "MM5" and "FMS" .... getting them running may require quite a bit of effort and would think are very complex indeed.

[dimensionless]

Models like the kind they are plastering all over CNN and such now a days are not off the shelf programs. They are going to be proprietary codes and are not going to be cheap.
I figured that some journal articles had probably been written on the subject and that they might contain code.