Unified Forecast System
UFS Research to Operations (R2O) Project
to accelerate innovation into NOAA operational modeling for weather and climate prediction. Read more....
First Public Release of JEDI
JCSDA Announces the First Public Release of JEDI the community-driven
Joint Effort for Data assimilation Integration. Read more about the release.
UFS Medium-Range App v1.1.0
The new release allows the intake of initial conditions in netCDF format,
a flexible post-processor output, and protects the system from extreme SST initial values.
Read more about the most recent UFS release.
UFS Mission
accurate National Weather Service forecasts by harnessing
the diverse and substantial expertise of governmental,
academic, and private enterprise partners.
NEWS
The 101st Annual American Meteorological Society 2021 meeting starts tomorrow (Jan 9th). Check out the schedule and read more about the topics of talks, posters, and town halls representing UFS Community members’ works. (1/8/21)
The UFS R2O team has launched the UFS R2O project website to provide an opportunity for the community to engage and learn more about this project. (1/8/21)
2020 was a remarkable year for the UFS Community. Read a review of what made this a great year, and how our accomplishments have prepared an amazing 2021. (12/30/20)
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
The application period for 2022 fellowships in the Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship Program is open!
- Applications will be accepted until February 2021.
More information. (Posted 11/06/2020)
The JCSDA is announcing the first public, open-source release of JEDI on October 28, 2020. JEDI changes the data assimilation paradigm through the utilization of agile methodologies and tools that effectively address traditional and evolving challenges. JEDI is a community effort developed and distributed by the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA), a multi-agency research center uniting NOAA, NASA, US Navy and Air Force, with its operations hosted by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). Read more about the JEDI System and Academy. A broad collaboration among NOAA and non-NOAA scientists was launched in July 2020 this month to accelerate innovation into NOAA operational modeling for weather and climate prediction. The Unified Forecast System (UFS), a community-based, coupled comprehensive end-to-end Earth system data assimilation and prediction system, is being used in a Research-to-Operations (R2O) project. The UFS-R2O project was established in response to advice from the community that NOAA modeling and data assimilation needs to be integrated and collectively managed, based on a unified modeling framework in a unified collaborative strategy. Read more about the UFS R2O project here. The second UFS application to be released (read about the first here) will be the Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application 1.0, which focuses on atmospheric behavior from less than an hour to several days. Expected in fall 2020, the SRW Application 1.0 includes prognostic atmospheric and land models, pre- and post-processing, and a community workflow for running the system end-to-end. Supported model resolutions in this release include a 3-km, 13-km, and 25-km predefined Contiguous U.S (CONUS) domain. The release will be distributed through GitHub and is designed to be code that the research community can easily access, run, and use for experimentation, allowing innovations to be committed back to the relevant repositories. The release team is being led by NOAA and NCAR partners and involves contributors from a diverse set of organizations. Data assimilation and a verification package will be provided as a part of a future release. Read more about the SRW release here.
The Joint Effort for Data assimilation Integration (JEDI) has its First Public Release
The Unified Forecast System Research-to-Operations Project (2020 – 2022)
COMING SOON: THE UFS SHORT RANGE WEATHER APPLICATION 1.0