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February 25, 2025

GSL/PSL partner with AI startup to make observational data AI-ready

NOAA’s Physical Sciences Laboratory and Global Systems Laboratory and the artificial intelligence startup Brightband have entered into a two-year Cooperative Research And Development Agreement (CRADA) that will optimize a vast NOAA-managed archive of observational weather data for training artificial intelligence (AI)-based weather forecasting a...

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January 08, 2025

The person underneath the umbrella

Weather touches every part of our lives–our flights, utility bills, commutes, work days, soccer games, and even our moods. For over a half century, NOAA has been studying the skies to better understand how our atmosphere works. Our efforts have led to rapid advances in weather detection and atmospheric modeling to ultimately deliver the best for...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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