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GSL researchers hosted their fourth virtual Functional Assessment Test (FAT), evaluating next-generation Hazard Services capabilities. Hazard Services will modernize how the National Weather Service’s WFOs and National Centers create forecasts, watches, and warnings and consolidate these efforts into a single highly customizable software system. Over 25,000 short-fuse convective weather products...

Each hurricane season brings the opportunity to demonstrate advances that improve weather model accuracy. The Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP) real-time Experiments (HREx) starts officially on August 1 and ends on October 31. Real-time model products are evaluated after each season to identify techniques that appear particularly promising to operational...

GSL’s visualization expert created this video of wildfire smoke forecasts from July 8-August 9, 2021 from GSL’s experimental FV3-Chem model. This shows the broad reach of smoke as it is carried by the wind across the world.

Each day, NOAA’s Weather Forecast Offices provide almost 600 airports with close to 2,500 aviation weather forecasts and about 1,300 inflight forecasts. GSL’s Assimilation and Verification Innovation Division is honored by the National Weather Association (NWA) for developing and delivering the first convection-allowing hourly-updated weather model that provides guidance for...

GSL researchers have been working with NWS forecasters on shakedown tests of “Threats-In-Motion” (TIM), a warning dissemination approach that would enable NWS to enhance severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings. TIM will be tested this Summer in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed. Testing will be done by 6 NWS forecasters (8,...

A team of CIRES Software Engineers at NOAA GSL has prototyped the Rapid Refresh Forecast System on the Cloud. This work was in close collaboration with NOAA Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) on a FY19 Disaster Supplemental project. The first configuration tested was a forecast ensemble capability in real time as...

GSL researchers will host their fourth virtual Functional Assessment Test (FAT), evaluating next-generation Hazard Services capabilities. Hazard Services will modernize how the National Weather Service’s WFOs and National Centers create forecasts, watches, and warnings and consolidate these efforts into a single highly-customizable software system. This system contains an extensive framework...

Beginning in July 2021, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder within in the Global Systems Laboratory (GSL) will begin a four-year project “Building Insights through Observation: Researching Arts-Based Methods for Teaching and Learning with Data” funded by the National Science Foundation’s Discovery...

June 21-July 3 2021: GSL experimental models will be evaluated by forecasters for their utility in assessing the excessive rainfall and flash flooding threat in the Day 1 timeframe. Flooding is one of the most dangerous weather events and has caused an increasing number of deaths in the past few...

GSL’s visualization team produced a new video that showcases GSL research and the impact it has on society. You can enjoy the video here!

The public release of the Common Community Physics Package and the Single Column Model (CCPP-SCM v5.0.0) bundle facilitates the development of physical parameterizations by the broader community, which is a cornerstone to enhance the transfer of innovations onto operational numerical weather prediction models. This package was released on March 8,...

GSL researchers virtually hosted more than a dozen participants for a Functional Forecaster Assessment Test (FFAT) of new Hazard Services capabilities in late February. They used the Amazon Web Services cloud platform to evaluate the workflow to issue marine and non-precipitation weather products, along with hydrology and winter weather products....

Data sharing will enable new innovations in numerical weather prediction science The Global Systems Laboratory (GSL) is co-leading the release of the Unified Forecast System (UFS) Short-Range Weather (SRW) application v1.0. The UFS is a community-based, coupled, comprehensive Earth modeling system with shared science components and software infrastructure. The...

SOS Team Commendation Letter.pdf January 20, 2021 Dear Members of NOAA’s Science on a Sphere Team, I am delighted to commend you for your superior performance in building NOAA’s Science On a Sphere (SOS) community. The SOS is NOAA’s most far-reaching and dynamic education and outreach tool. It is a...

GSL/CIRES scientist Eric James gave a seminar “Commercial-Aircraft-Based Weather Observations for NWP: Data Coverage, Forecast Impacts, and COVID-19.” Click here for a link to the recorded presentation. Click here for the slides. Weather observations from commercial aircraft constitute an essential component of the global observing system and have been shown...

On January 26 around half a million people in southwestern New Hampshire received their first live Winter Weather Advisory from the Hazard Services software (see attached). The GYZ (Portland/Gray, Maine) NWS office was one of a limited number that tested and evaluated new GSL Hazard Services Winter Weather Watch/Warning/Advisory (WWA)...

Scientists around the world and at GSL are working on fundamental changes to computer code to improve the computational efficiency of weather models. In early December 2020, four GSL researchers participated in intensive “hacking” sessions with mentors from NVIDIA and Lawrence Livermore National Labs to accelerate their computer code towards...