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GSD Forecast Impact and Quality Assessment Section (FIQAS) scientists are co-hosting a workshop to demonstrate GSD experimental tools to NWS meteorologists from the Aviation Weather Center and 21 aviation-focused regional offices. The workshop will be held on April 25-26, 2019 at the FAA‘s Air Traffic Control System Command Center (ATCSCC)...

GSD’s modeling team will demonstrate several advanced real-time experimental prediction systems in the 2019 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) Spring Forecasting Experiment (SFE) from April 29 through May 31 in Norman, OK. The HWT SFE is organized by the NOAA Storm Prediction Center (SPC) and the NOAA National Severe Storms...

Several GSD researchers presented their work at the European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna, Austria in early April. Their talks and posters are summarized below. Forecasting smoke, visibility and smoke-weather interactions using a coupled meteorology-chemistry modeling system: Rapid Refresh andHigh-Resolution Rapid Refresh coupled with Smoke (RAP/HRRR-Smoke) – Ravan...

GSD researchers Stan Benjamin and John Brown co-authored “100 Years of Progress in Forecasting and NWP Applications,” a chapter in the AMS Centennial Monograph, published by The American Meteorological Society (AMS). The chapter discusses how the international scientific community has collaboratively transformed weather forecasting and Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) into...

The 167th Science on a Sphere is being installed in Midland, TX this month and John Schneider’s last day at NOAA was June 28. Please see the July 2019 edition of In The Loop with NOAA Science On a Sphere for details on these stories an other SOS activities. For...

GSD researchers hosted more than a dozen participants for two types of tests of the Hazard Services system in July in the GSD Forecast Center. Hazard Services will modernize how National Weather Service (NWS) and National Centers for Environmental Prediciton (NCEP) create forecasts, watches, and warnings. The system provides a...

The Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences awarded the 2019 Charles L. Hosler Alumni Scholar Medal to GSD Senior Scientist Stan Benjamin during its annual Wilson Awards Banquet. The Hosler Medal is awarded to an alumi who has made outstanding contributions to the development of science through research,...

Free tool helps teachers, students understand the Earth An enormous earthquake, the most powerful ever recorded, rocked southern Chile on May 22, 1960 and created a tsunami that raced across the Pacfic Ocean. As giant waves rippled outward, they sped along the shore and bounced back and forth off islands,...

GSD met a major multi-year milestone on September 4, 2019, when a significant upgrade to the Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) went live in NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) operations. MADIS ingests weather data from both NOAA and non-NOAA providers, implemented quality control checks, and provides an interface for...

Jennifer Mahoney, previously Acting Director of the Global Systems Division (GSD) of NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory, has been selected to lead the weather forecasting and technology development program. She assumed her new role as Director on October 28. As Deputy Director of GSD since 2013, Mahoney transformed and strengthened...

The NOAA Global Systems Laboratory’s Science on a Sphere (SOS) Explorer™ and SOS Explorer™ Mobile team has been chosen as the 2020 recipient of the Impact Award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC). SOS Explorer and SOS Explorer Mobile were developed by a NOAA Global Systems Laboratory...

NWS forecasters gave a final evaluation to two Hazard Services project milestones during a workshop organized and held by GSD in February 2020. First, the NWS is working to consolidate the number of flooding products they issue and simplify flooding information that will be communicated to the public. Forecasters evaluated...

Global Systems Division (GSD) researchers will host more than a dozen participants for an evaluation of the Hazard Services system this week (Feb 11-13) in the GSD Forecast Center. Hazard Services will modernize how National Weather Service (NWS) and National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) create forecasts, watches, and warnings....

The National Weather Service (NWS) forecast office in Burlington, Vermont has received a NOAA Heritage grant to install the Global Systems Division’s Science On a Sphere – Explorer™ in the Burlington International Airport as part of their 70th-anniversary celebration. The project will expose over a million airport passengers and members...

The Global Systems Divsion (GSD) and NSSL are leading a “collaboration” experiment in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) February 10-14 and February 24-28. Participating teams of forecasters will test software called “Threats in Motion” (TiM) that helps them collaborate across NWS County Warning Area (CWA) boundaries. The implementation of...

GSD has received science approval from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) to proceed with full operational implementation of the 13km Rapid Refresh version 5 and the 3km High-Resolution Rapid Refresh version 4 weather prediction models by mid-2020. This decision was made on Friday, December 20, 2019, after a period...

Jennifer has been a NOAA employee since before she began at CSU and has risen steadily through the ranks of NOAA leadership. She recently assumed the position of Director of ESRL’s Global Systems Division (one of four divisions at the Earth Systems Research Lab), where she oversees over 230 Research...