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Quarterly Newsletter
October 07, 2024
New release of a state-of-the-art physics package for weather models
GSL and the Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) have achieved a milestone with the release of the Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) v7.0.0! The Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) is a state-of-the-art infrastructure designed to facilitate community-wide development of atmospheric physics parameterizations across different host weather ...
September 17, 2024
Investigating the Impact of Uncrewed Aircraft Observations on Weather Forecasts via Simulations
NOAA GSL and partners CIRES/CU Boulder and University of Nebraska - Lincoln have used Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) to analyze the impacts of Uncrewed Aircraft Observations on weather models and their forecasts. Many high-impact weather phenomena such as thunderstorm initiation, tornadoes, fog, wildfires and precipitation are t...
July 29, 2024
June Fire Weather Testbed Evaluations
NOAA Global Systems Laboratory hosted the first in-person evaluation in the new NOAA Fire Weather Testbed (FWT) in June. Forecasters from NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) were paired with state forestry partners and trained on a new wildland fire detection and monitoring tool in the Next Generation Fire System (NGFS), and an experimental me...
July 17, 2024
A Hazard Services Milestone!
On June 14, the Pittsburgh NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Office (NWSFO) issued the first-ever real-time Severe Thunderstorm Warning using GSL-developed Hazard Services software. The warning alerted more than 32,000 residents across eastern Ohio to the imminent threat of severe weather. This work is part of the NWS’s ongoing transition a...
July 17, 2024
2024 High Seas Polygon Workshop
In June, NOAA GSL, GSL/Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) and NOAA Hurricane and Ocean Testbed (HOT) hosted a user-focused workshop to test Hazard Services software for high seas forecasts at the NOAA National Hurricane Center. This is part of a larger effort to modernize and streamline the process of issuing high seas f...
July 10, 2024
GSL releases big update to weather forecast tool
NOAA GSL has released a new version of the Dynamic Ensemble-based Scenarios for Impact-based Decision Support (DESI), a powerful tool for ensemble-based weather forecast information and visualization. DESI 3.1 builds on the additions from version 3.0 to give NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists the tools to better serve their commu...