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GSL is proud to announce our own recipients of the prestigious American Meteorological Society (AMS) awards for 2023! Dr. Stanley G. Benjamin (retired) received the Cleveland Abbe Award for Distinguished Service to Atmospheric Science. Dr. Benjamin has an outstanding scientific and service record at the nexus of meteorological research and...

The Camp Fire in Paradise, California, was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California’s history, and the most expensive natural disaster in the world in 2018. The wildfire claimed 88 lives and blanketed millions of people in Northern California with dense smoke for two weeks. The Camp Fire is...

GSL hosted 19 undergraduate and graduate students this summer as part of the largest internship class ever. The students come from a variety of programs, and for the first time, GSL partnered with CIRES to create a summer internship program for 11 students. Our other interns are through the NOAA...

GSL celebrates the distinguished career of Dr. Stanley G. Benjamin. Dr. Benjamin has an outstanding scientific and service record at the nexus of meteorological research and its extension to earth-system prediction with operational prediction. For more than 40 years he has led and contributed to a broad range of research...

NOAA’s current high-resolution weather model operates on a 3km grid, but how do we program the model to describe a 100-meter-wide cumulus cloud that grows into a thunderstorm? The cloud is too small for the model to represent it with equations of motion. The answer is by developing “physical parameterizations,”...

NOAA GSL’s experimental models were demonstrated at the 10th annual Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall (FFaIR) Experiment. The experiment is running from June 20 to July 22 on weekdays hosted by the Weather Prediction Center’s Hydrometeorology Testbed (HMT). Flash floods can yield devastating impacts on life and property, which is...

Sample plot from the release version of the SRW application from test cases — this example is from a high-resolution (3km) forecast over the CONUS on July 1, 2019 and shows how the updraft helicity and reflectivity coincide. Code sharing enables innovations in numerical weather prediction science The Global Systems...

The National Center for Environmental Protection (NCEP) is set to transition their suite of smoke forecast products to use NOAA Global Systems Laboratory’s Rapid Refresh (RAP) smoke model(RAP Smoke). The change will take place effective June 28th as a result of NCEP’s transition to a new supercomputer system. NOAA GSL’s...

The coupled global weather and chemistry research model, dubbed FV3-Chem, produces seven-day forecasts for a host of air quality impacts, including where dust will deliver hazy days and colorful sunsets, as well as potential breathing problems and other respiratory issues for sensitive populations. This video shows a forecast of dust...

As electricity providers increasingly add renewable energy to their portfolio, a new study shows that more accurate wind forecasts generated by a NOAA weather model is saving the utilities, and hence the consumers, big money. While wind is abundant, it is also intermittent. Utilities need accurate wind forecasts in order...

By Michael Toy, Shan Sun, Ning Wang, and Ligia Bernardet New versions of the Global Forecast System (GFS) and Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) will be implemented in operations at the National Weather Service (NWS) in 2024. The GFS and GEFS are numerical weather prediction models widely used by forecasters...

The GSL Website will be offline beginning the afternoon of April 18. We hope to be back up later on April 19.

The History and Practice of AI in the Environmental Sciences – published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Authors: Sue Ellen Haupt, David John Gagne, William W. Hsieh, Vladimir Krasnopolsky, Amy McGovern, Caren Marzban, William Moninger, Valliappa Lakshmanan, Philippe Tisso, and John K. Williams Partially retired GSL researcher...

Meet Shan Sun, GSL’s Chief of the Earth and Chemistry Modeling Branch in the Earth Prediction Advancement Division! What was your career path to get here? I came to GSD in 2009 from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University where I started as a postdoc and then...

Meet Isidora Jankov, a Physical Scientist with GSL and the Advanced Technology Division, and High-Performance Computing Branch chief. What was your career path to get here? I am originally from Serbia, former Yugoslavia. I come from a family with multiple meteorologists including my father, uncle, brother, and myself. After I...

Meet Ligia Bernardet is GSL’s Earth Prediction Advancement Division Deputy Chief! What was your career path to get here? I have worked for GSL (which had a different name back then) since 2003. I grew up in Brazil where I did my undergraduate and master’s work with great...

What is your position at GSL? I’m a CIRES associate scientist working on a few different machine learning projects in Advanced Technologies Division (ATD). I also enjoy outreach within the environmental AI science community as well as with young adults at science fairs/events. What was your career path to...