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Quarterly Newsletter
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...
April 12, 2023
GSL completes first research to education transition with Science On a Sphere®
For the past 25 years, Science on a Sphere® (SOS) has been a valuable tool to visualize Earth system science for audiences of all ages and education. SOS was invented and built in 2005 and received a US patent. Since then, SOS has been installed in nearly 200 locations around the world, with an estimated 67 million people viewing it each year. ...
April 12, 2023
GSL/CIRES Gerard Ketefian wins DTC PROUD award
NOAA GSL and CIRES research scientist Dr. Gerard Ketefian was recently awarded the Development Testbed Center’s Performance Recognition for Outstanding DTC achievements (PROUD) Award. The Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) is a distributed facility where the Numerical Weather Prediction community can test and evaluate new models and techniques ...