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Am I right? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>when the model arrives to the time step of the new GFS file (time+ 6h), <u>how it integrates the information of the already atmospheric situation and the info from the GFS new file</u>?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Is it then <u>possible to run WRF beyond the last GFS analysis</u> or longer than this intervals? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks a lot in advance!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p 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