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Quarterly Newsletter
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...
October 19, 2020
Oct 27-29: GSL to host Hazard Services Functional Forecaster Assessment Test (FAT) to evaluate marine and non-precipitation weather products
Oct 27-29: GSL researchers will virtually host more than a dozen participants for a Functional Forecaster Assessment Test (FFAT) of new Hazard Services capabilities. FAT will be Oct. 27-29, all virtual using the Amazon Web Services cloud platform and will evaluate marine and non-precipitation weather products. Because the software already includ...
October 01, 2020
GEFS-Aerosols transitioned into operations
The Global Ensemble Forecast System - Aerosols (GEFS-Aerosols) was transitioned to operations on September 23, 2020. GEFS-Aerosols is an atmospheric composition model that integrates weather and air quality using the Finite Volume Cubed Sphere (FV3) core. The Global Systems Laboratory (GSL) led the project, with contributions from the Chemical S...
October 01, 2020
GSL's Tom LeFebvre receives Isaac Cline Award from the National Hurricane Center
The National Hurricane Center has given GSL’s Tom LeFebvre the local Isaac M. Cline award for his work on the High-Seas Forecast package that includes a set of tools that forecasters use to define the wind, waves, and weather in gridded form over the High Seas Area of Responsibility. Then the High Seas formatter samples those grids and formats t...
September 28, 2020
On the limits of tropical cyclone track prediction
September 28, 2020 - Recent research shows the range of skillful tropical cyclone track forecasts is expected to be extended by a day per decade in the future. The study, by scientists Feifan Zhou from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Zoltan Toth from NOAA’s Global Systems Laboratory, was published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorologic...