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Quarterly Newsletter
October 19, 2022
GSL advances software visualization and display system for use by forecasters
The Weather Archive and Visualization Environment (WAVE) is an online tool used by NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters to create consistent, understandable graphics for use in decision support, on social media, and in presentations. WAVE is being developed in partnership with the NWS, and can be accessed with NOAA credentials.GSL’s W...
October 07, 2022
11th Science On a Sphere® Users Collaborative Network summary
The 11th Science On a Sphere® (SOS) Users Collaborative Network Workshop was held virtually August 30 - September 1, 2022 with 159 people registered from almost 100 institutions and 8 countries. The workshop was part of the ongoing SOS partnership with NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, NOAA Office of Education, and the Cooperative Institute for Re...
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September 30, 2022
GSL creates new visualizations of Urban Heat Islands
GSL has partnered with the NOAA Climate Program Office, the NOAA Office of Education the U.S. State Department, NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab, and Meta (Facebook) to bring Urban Heat Island (UHI) (definition at bottom) data to the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 27) taking place in Egypt during November. Meta will be pr...
September 21, 2022
New model demonstrated in the Aviation Weather Testbed
NOAA’s experimental Rapid Refresh Forecast System (RRFS) was demonstrated at the Aviation Weather Testbed Summer Experiment from September 13-16. The Aviation Weather Testbed is hosted by the Aviation Weather Center and works to improve aviation forecasting in order to strengthen pilot and passenger safety and ease the decision-making process of...
September 21, 2022
A new prototype smoke forecasting system
Tracking smoke and its effect on the surrounding environment is an important area of research in both global and regional numerical weather prediction systems. This new research begins the process of creating an ensemble-based system for forecasting wildfire smoke. Researchers extended the National Severe Storms Laboratory’s Warn-on Forecast Sys...
August 29, 2022
GSL researcher receives the 2022 CIRA Research Initiative Award
GSL/CIRA researcher Ryan Lagerquist has received the 2022 CIRA Research Initiative Award.Lagerquist's work is at the forefront of using new Machine Learning (ML)/Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods for meteorological applications and he contributed greatly to four different applications in less than two years at CIRA. Ryan works closely with re...