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February 29, 2024
Building a Fire-Ready Nation: A story map
Recent wildfire disasters have devastated Hawaii, California, North Carolina, and parts of the western U.S., while major cities during the summer of 2023 saw dangerous air quality levels due to smoke from Canadian fires. Critical research is being funded by an additional $100 million over five years through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL...
February 26, 2024
GSL wins Department of Commerce Medals!
GSL has received three distinguished medals from the U.S. Department of Commerce.Since 1949, the Department has granted honor awards in the form of Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals. The Gold and Silver Medals are the highest and second highest honor granted by the Secretary of Commerce for distinguished and exceptional performance. GSL’s visualiz...
January 25, 2024
Outreach spotlight: Artist versus The Machine
GSL/CIRES scientist Kirana Bergstrom led a Jupyter Notebook tutorial on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for 8th grade students called" Artist vs The Machine: Can You Beat an AI at Pictionary?" She led three in person sessions, each an hour long, for a total of more than 100 students.Kirana is part of a small team at the forefront of AI science at G...
January 25, 2024
The future of decision support: DESI 3.0
NOAA GSL has released an upgrade to a powerful decision support system to provide forecasters, decision-makers, and other stakeholders with ensemble-based weather forecast information and visualizations. The Dynamic Ensemble-based Scenarios for Impact-based Decision Support (DESI) version 3.0 is a web and cloud-based application that is used by...
January 16, 2024
GSL names new Assimilation and Verification Division Chief
GSL is pleased to announce that Steve Weygandt has been selected as the new Chief of the Assimilation, Verification, and Innovation Division (AVID). Steve brings a wealth of experience and vision to the new position. Steve received an M.S. degree from Penn State University in 1991, researching mesoscale modeling. He earned his Ph.D. from the ...
January 04, 2024
GSL Seminar: The 30 December 2021 Colorado Front Range Windstorm
The Front Range windstorm of 30 December 2021 combined extreme surface winds (>45 m s−1) with fire ignition resulting in an extraordinary and quickly evolving, extremely destructive wildfire–urban interface fire event. This windstorm differed from typical downslope windstorms in several aspects. We describe the observations, model guidance, a...