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Quarterly Newsletter
January 18, 2022
Blog Post: Untangling Positional and Structural Forecast Errors
Fig. 1. Schematic for total forecast error decomposition: (1) Spatially align a forecast with the verifying analysis field; (2) Smooth original and aligned forecast and analysis to remove unpredictable smaller scales; (3) Decompose total error into orthogonal (right angle) components of (i) large scale positional error, (ii) large scale structur...
January 12, 2022
Air pollution from wildfires, rising heat affected two-thirds of U.S. West
On a single day in 2020, 43 million people in the region experienced harmful levels of air pollution. Large wildfires and severe heat events are happening more often at the same time, worsening air pollution across the western United States, according to a new study led by Washington State University, with CIRES and NOAA’s Global Systems Lab...
December 15, 2021
John Brown: GSL Scientist Emeritus
Dr. John Brown is retiring after an extraordinary, multi-faceted four-decade career of contributions to the NOAA weather community that has served the nation. He will return as GSL’s first Scientist Emeritus.Dr. Brown’s exceptional command of meteorology at convective, meso-, and synoptic scales, and mastery of modeling techniques and physics co...
December 15, 2021
GSL's Michael Kraus retires after more than 50 years of federal service
Dr. Michael Kraus is retiring after more than 50 years of federal service and leadership at the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory and NOAA to support tactical and strategic weather decisions.Dr. Kraus began his career in 1967 as a civilian at the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (AFGL). He developed techniques using Doppler radar to forecast severe...
December 01, 2021
GSL presents at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2021
GSL at the 2021 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union GSL, CIRES, and CIRA researchers are presenting some interesting talks at the 2021 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Highlights are listed below!Air QualityExperimental air quality forecasting with the Rapid-Refresh model coupled to chemistry (RAP-Chem) - Jordan Schnell...
November 30, 2021
GSL presents: "NOAA-CDC Ventures in Public Health and Weather"
Dr. Karen Holcomb presented "NOAA-CDC Ventures in Public Health and Weather: Impacts of vector control and weather on mosquito populations and West Nile virus transmission dynamics." Dr. Holcomb has a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of California-Davis and is with the NOAA Global Systems Laboratory in Boulder, CO, and the CDC National ...