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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...
August 24, 2022
GSL's Hazard Services Team receives National Weather Association Award
The GSL Hazard Services Team has received the National Weather Association Larry R. Johnson Special Award. Because of their work, 20 NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Offices were able to evaluate and issue long-duration winter and non-precipitation weather watches, warnings, and advisories for millions of people from 2020-2022, years ahead of...
August 18, 2022
GSL's Darrel Kingfield is NOAA's Employee of the Month!
Dr. Kingfield is honored for skillfully navigating the COVID-19 pandemic to implement the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) Hazard Services workflows that will greatly modernize the forecast and warning operations at National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs). The operational implementation of Hazard Ser...