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.
UFS Graduate Student Test
Consider this your official invitation to take our Graduate Student Test!
Begin working with the UFS and become an important contributor
Bulletin of the UFS Community
NIU Professor Victor Gensini and a Q&A with NOAA SPC Director Dr. Russ Schneider.
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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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Community News
Celebrating World Ocean Day: NOAA embraces the United Nations Ocean Decade as an opportunity for expansion, integration and co-design, promoting operational oceanography to advance The Science We Need for the Ocean We Want. Read the full story. (6/8/2021)
The DTC announced the release of a multi-component verification framework called the enhanced Model Evaluation Tools, A.K.A. METplus. Read More. (5/28/2021)
NOAA announced that Raytheon Intelligence & Space will develop the Earth Prediction Innovation Center EPIC to help the UFS Community create an Earth modeling system integrating the Weather Enterprise. (4/26/2021)
UN World Ocean Day: A Gault School student with a native beach plant she grew from seed. Photo: Earth is Blue Magazine/Nick Zachar/NOAA
Begin working with the UFS now!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.