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Quarterly Newsletter
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 -...
November 04, 2020
GSL's Curtis Alexander awarded 2020 OAR Employee of the Year for Leadership
GSL’s Curtis Alexander was awarded the 2020 OAR Employee of the Year for Leadership. The citation reads: “For excellence and leadership to develop and implement real-time hazardous weather prediction that improves the safety of U.S. citizens.”Dr. Curtis Alexander is a Supervisory Meteorologist at the NOAA Global Systems Laboratory (GSL) and Chie...
October 29, 2020
New research finds reduced observations from commercial aircraft impact regional weather model’s accuracy
National Weather Service says accuracy of official forecasts has not been affectedAircraft-based observations are one of the most important meteorological observation sources within the modern global observing system. Flight reductions related to the COVID-19 pandemic raised questions about whether the loss of meteorological observations from ai...