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Quarterly Newsletter
July 26, 2023
GSL hosts film screening about the recent lived experiences of Black residents in Boulder
On Friday, June 16th, GSL hosted a showing of the film This Is [Not] Who We Are in the NIST auditorium on the DOC Boulder Labs campus. The film was produced by the Boulder-based Landlocked Films and Blackat Video Productions, and winner of numerous awards, including People's Choice Award at the 2022 Boulder International Film Festival, Best Feat...
July 05, 2023
New Threats-in-Motion tackles erratic storms
On May 4, 2022, a destructive long-track supercell thunderstorm was moving northeast near Lockett, Texas, while NOAA National Weather Service Meteorologist Vivek Mahale was on duty. The tornado then took a dramatic left turn into the town, and its motion changed to the north and then to the northwest.With current software, the forecaster draws a...
June 22, 2023
GSL/CIRES scientist receives an Energy Systems Integration Group LifeTime Excellence Award
GSL/CIRES scientist Stan Benjamin received a LifeTime Excellence Award from the Energy Systems Integration Group at a ceremony in June. Benjamin was honored for “sustained contributions to atmospheric modeling and weather prediction for improved forecasting of renewable energy.” The Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) is a nonprofit organiz...
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June 05, 2023
NOAA names first manager of new Fire Weather Testbed
Zach Tolby, formerly a Senior Forecaster and Incident Meteorologist (IMET), at the Reno, Nevada Weather Forecast Office, was recently selected to be the first Manager and Lead Scientist of the Fire Weather Testbed, which is housed in the Global Systems Laboratory’s Boulder, Colorado offices.Tolby has over 12 years of operational forecasting expe...
April 19, 2023
MADIS data system moves to full operations
The NOAA National Weather Service and the greater meteorological community rely on high-quality observations to better understand the atmosphere, improve weather forecasts, and support warnings for hazardous weather events. GSL recently transferred the final versions of the flagship observation system, the Meteorological Assimilation and Data In...
April 19, 2023
Forecasters test Threats In Motion this spring
NOAA NWS forecasters are testing an experimental weather alert system called Threats In Motion (TIM). Threats in Motion lets forecasters create moving warning polygons for hazardous weather to alert the public in its path. The legacy warning system poses a challenge for forecasters when the hazardous weather appears to be continuing beyond the i...