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Quarterly Newsletter
January 28, 2021
500K people in NE U.S. receive their first live winter weather product from Hazard Services
On January 26 around half a million people in southwestern New Hampshire received their first live Winter Weather Advisory from the Hazard Services software (see attached).The GYZ (Portland/Gray, Maine) NWS office was one of a limited number that tested and evaluated new GSL Hazard Services Winter Weather Watch/Warning/Advisory (WWA) capabilitie...
January 20, 2021
GSL participates in a GPU Hackathon
Scientists around the world and at GSL are working on fundamental changes to computer code to improve the computational efficiency of weather models. In early December 2020, four GSL researchers participated in intensive “hacking” sessions with mentors from NVIDIA and Lawrence Livermore National Labs to accelerate their computer code towards an ...
January 15, 2021
The amazing research resume of High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Model
From its inception as an experiment to improve forecasts for aviation, to the transition of its final update to NOAA National Weather Service operations, the Global Systems Laboratory’s pioneering High-Resolution Rapid Refresh weather model established a remarkable resume of research accomplishments. Experimental versions of the HRRR improved t...
December 21, 2020
GSL co-hosts a successful virtual SOS Workshop
GSL and the NOAA Office of Education co-hosted the 10th Science On a Sphere® (SOS) Users Collaborative Network Workshop December 1-3, 2020. This year it was held virtually for the first time with were more than 200 participants from eight countries and 68 presenters. GSL researchers hosted five sessions. The theme of the workshop was “Celebratin...
December 03, 2020
Congratulations to our GSL team for successfully transitioning significant upgrades to NOAA regional hourly-updating weather models into NWS operations!
The NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) transitioned the final versions of GSL-developed NOAA's flagship high-resolution weather models -- Rapid Refresh (RAP) and High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) into operations. This latest RAP/HRRR version includes upgrades that make forecasts better in nearly all aspects including th...
November 09, 2020
GSL offers new educational tour "HRRR Smoke and 2020 fire season"
Four million acres burned in California alone this year, making 2020 a record fire season for the Western U.S. To explore this historic wildfire season, The Global Systems Laboratory’s (GSL) Science On a Sphere® (SOS) team released a new interactive educational tour about the 2020 wildfires on its free mobile app - SOS Explorer™ (SOSx). “Tour -...