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EPIC Fall 2022 Code Sprint

Getting started with UFS: Running the SRW application September 9, 2022 Interested in learning more about using the applications EPIC is developing?  Join the EPIC team on Friday, September 9, 2022 for a virtual day-long series of presentations designed to help new users configure and set up the Short Range Weather Application!  With presenters from…

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EPIC Fall 2022 Hack-a-thon

September 5-11, 2022 Hosted on Google Meet with breakout rooms The EPIC team and NOAA are hosting a week long virtual hackathon for anyone to join, regardless of your experience so anyone is welcome!  Join up with folks from around the country and work together to fix theoretical vulnerabilities or issues in UFS code in…

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Implementing a state-of-the-science fire behavior model in the UFS

The Weather Program Office is working with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to incorporate a state-of-the-science fire behavior model (WRF-FIRE) that accounts for fire-atmosphere feedbacks into the Unified Forecast System (UFS). The fire behavior model will largely increase the UFS’s potential to carry out fundamental fire research, provide predictions of the fire evolution,…

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 Enhancing high resolution forecasting capability of RRFS-CMAQ

The Weather Program Office is working with Northeastern University and George Mason University to enhance the high resolution forecasting capability of the National Air Quality Forecast Capability (NAQFC) based on the inline Rapid-Refresh Forecast System (RRFS)- Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model system by developing high resolution (3-km) anthropogenic emissions based on the US national emissions…

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Beyond the “Big-Leaf” Model at NOAA

Use of Novel Satellite Data and In-Canopy Processes to Improve U.S. Air Quality Predictions. PI Name & Contact: Patrick Campbell (pcampbe8@gmu.edu; patrick.c.campbell@noaa.gov). The Weather Program Office is working with George Mason University to advance the next-generation Rapid-Refresh Forecast System (RRFS)-Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model beyond its “Big-Leaf” canopy approximation by using forest canopy processes…

Renee Richardson

Renee Richardson

Internship season  February 2021 – January 2022 Internship Affiliation  Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship University Affiliation  Florida State University  Major  Postdoc: Sociology of Science PhD: Meteorology Flashback to 2019… a few friends of mine had either just finished the Knauss Fellowship, were in the middle of their fellowship, or were busy preparing for their Placement Week.…

Steve Elliot WPO

Your ‘Tern to Shine: Steve Elliot

Internship season  Summer 2021-2022  Internship Affiliation  AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow University Affiliation  Arizona State University  Major  Postdoc: Sociology of Science PhD: Biology Tell us about your fellowship responsibilities. I work on topics related to data governance, portfolio analysis, and building computational capacity for social science within OAR. For these topics, I attend or organize…