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Quarterly Newsletter
November 26, 2024
Hurricane Helene tests Hazard Services
Several NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Offices (NWS WFOs), including Charleston, SC (CHS) have been testing the latest version of Hazard Services for convective operations. The WFO issued 39 tornado warnings, 28 special marine warnings for waterspouts, and dozens of followup statements during Hurricane Helene. “We were really pleased wit...
October 18, 2024
Winter and non-precip weather hazard functions go live
On October 1, 2024 Hazard Services winter weather and non-precipitation hazard functions went live in all NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Offices across the nation. GSL leads the development of Hazard Services, a multi-year, multi-phase, multi-partner effort to streamline the process to create a hazardous weather watch, warning, or adviso...
October 18, 2024
Tenth Anniversary of the HRRR in Operations
From its inception as an experiment to improve forecasts for aviation, GSL is thrilled to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the pioneering High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) weather model’s transition to NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) operations. Since September 30, 2014, GSL has delivered four major upgrades to the HRRR model, with the f...
October 18, 2024
GSL presents at the 2024 AMS Severe Local Storms Conference
GSL scientists will present at the AMS 31st Conference on Severe Local Storms October 21-24 in Virginia Beach, VA. The conference is the premiere gathering for scientists, forecasters, educators, and communicators engaged in all aspects of work related to hazardous deep convective weather phenomena. The theme for this year is Supporting the Next...
October 07, 2024
New release of a state-of-the-art physics package for weather models
GSL and the Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) have achieved a milestone with the release of the Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) v7.0.0! The Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) is a state-of-the-art infrastructure designed to facilitate community-wide development of atmospheric physics parameterizations across different host weather ...
September 17, 2024
Investigating the Impact of Uncrewed Aircraft Observations on Weather Forecasts via Simulations
NOAA GSL and partners CIRES/CU Boulder and University of Nebraska - Lincoln have used Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) to analyze the impacts of Uncrewed Aircraft Observations on weather models and their forecasts. Many high-impact weather phenomena such as thunderstorm initiation, tornadoes, fog, wildfires and precipitation are t...