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July 27, 2020
New NOAA research model improves dust, air quality forecasts
One of NOAA's newest models is providing more accurate forecasts of where the air quality impacts of the dust from the Saharan desert will be felt. Take a look at the movement of the dust as predicted by the model and visualized by NOAA GSL's Science On a Sphere® team. The coupled global weather and chemistry research model, dubbed FV3-Chem, pr...
June 15, 2020
GSL/CIRA’s Jeff Beck receives CIRA Exceptional Service Award
GSL/CIRA researcher Jeff Beck has been honored with a CIRA Exceptional Service Award for his leadership in the development, testing, and support of regional capabilities of NOAA’s numerical weather prediction models.Jeff has taken multiple leadership roles over the past year to help foster collaboration and community development of the Stand Al...
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...
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...
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...
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...