UFS Short-Range App v1.0.0
This is the second public release of the UFS code — a great step towards consolidating
a community modeling framework uniting the Weather Enterprise.
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Bulletin of the UFS Community
Neil Jacobs and EPIC, Space Weather, Lapenta Summer Interns Improving the UFS,
NOAA Leaders Uccellini and McLean Announcing their retirements and much more!
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Unified Forecast System
The UFS is a community-based, coupled, comprehensive Earth modeling system
supporting NOAA‘s operational weather forecasting suite and the Weather Enterprise
UFS Research to Operations (R2O) Project
to accelerate innovation into operational modeling for weather and climate prediction.
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What’s New?
The UFS Community will be a presence at the 2022 AMS Annual Meeting held in Houston, Texas next week. Find out more information here.
The next UFS Webinar will be held on February 10th at 3pm EST. The topic will be “Stretched Grids for GEOS-Chem High Performance” will be presented by Liam Bindle from the Washington University in St. Louis. Register here.
The UFS Comms & Outreach Group published the July-December edition of the Bulletin of the UFS Community. Read now!
Community News
We are looking for recommendation for speakers for our webinar series. Please use the form and send in your recommendations to us.
The UFS Community has contributed to NOAA Science Advisory Board’s latest report on Priorities on Weather Research. Please check out the report and the acknowledgement letter
FY2022 NWS Office of Science and Technology Integration: Unified Forecast System Funding Opportunity
OSTI is soliciting research proposals that will advance the development of the community-based Unified Forecast System (UFS) through three competitions: 1) Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS); 2) Weeks 3-4/S2S Program; and 3) Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP). This notification (see announcement on grants.gov) is valued at approximately $3,000,000 for the first year of multi-year (2 or 3 year) projects.
The METplus team is launching a Tutorial Series beginning Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 9am MT/11am ET. Participants can join METplus trainers weekly for virtual one-hour sessions where background presentations by subject matter experts will be woven through hands-on training. For more details and registration visit here
Find out how ideas sketched on a napkin strengthened the UFS and EPIC in this story, reflecting upon a recent paper by the former NOAA acting administrator Neil Jacobs. (9/22/2021)
The National Weather Service announced the release of a new space weather model: The WAM-IPE becoming operational! Learn more. (1/3/2021)
Forecasters are the most important stakeholders in the UFS. Find out how we engage and address their concerns in the Forecasters Workshops Report! Read More. (8/25/2021)
Cover of the Bulletin of the UFS Community, July-December Edition
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What is the UFS? The Unified Forecast System (UFS) is a community-based, coupled, comprehensive Earth modeling system. The UFS numerical applications span local to global domains and predictive time scales from sub-hourly analyses to seasonal predictions. UFS is designed to support the Weather Enterprise and to be the source system for NOAA’s operational numerical weather prediction applications. Read more about UFS.