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June 08, 2020

GSL models will be evaluated in the 2020 Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall experiment

June 15: GSL will demonstrate model advances in the 4-week Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall (FFaIR) experiment hosted by the Weather Prediction Center Hydrometeorology Testbed. The experiment brings together researchers and forecasters from across the meteorological community to work towards the common goal to enhance forecasting skill related t...

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June 08, 2020

Hazard Services Functional Forecaster Assessment Test

GSL researchers will virtually host more than a dozen participants for a Functional Assessment Test of new Hazard Services capabilities. Hazard Services will modernize how the National Weather Service (NWS) and National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) create forecasts, watches, and warnings. The system provides a pathway to operation...

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May 20, 2020

2020 NOAA Bronze Medal - Jeff VanBuskirk

GSL’s Jeff VanBuskirk has been awarded a NOAA Bronze Medal “For identifying and implementing innovative data center upgrades to increase efficiency and resiliency for Research Supercomputing in NOAA.” The NOAA Bronze Medal is awarded for superior performance characterized by outstanding or significant contributions that have increased the effici...

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May 07, 2020

GSL Hilary Peddicord, Beth Wehe, and Jonathan Joyce win CIRES Outstanding Performance Awards

CIRES announced the 2020 winners of their CIRES Outstanding Performance Awards targeted to honor projects that are novel, high impact, and show remarkable creativity or resourcefulness. GSL researchers won two awards in the “Service” category -- projects that are successful because of the utility they have within the community.GSL/CIRES research...

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April 06, 2020

GSL and NCAR Scientists Mark 30 years of Daily Weather Observations in Boulder

On March 31, 2020, GSD’s John Brown and NCAR’s Matt Kelsch will mark 30 years of daily weather observations taken at the Boulder NWS Cooperative Observation Program (COOP) site at the Department of Commerce campus. The minimum length of time to establish a “climatology” for a site is 30 years.Boulder had a long stretch of inconsistent weather ob...

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March 24, 2020

The Common Community Physics Package Unites the Modeling Community

GSD and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) through the Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) announced upgraded tools for the modeling community to experiment with and advance physical parameterizations for numerical weather prediction. The Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) v4.0.0, along with the CCPP Single Column Model (SCM...

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