EPIC is happy to announce that we will be presenting at the AGU Fall Meeting, December 12 – 16, 2022. It is the most influential event in the world dedicated to the advancement of Earth and space sciences. The meeting will be held in Chicago and online everywhere. More than 25,000 attendees from more than…
Abstracts are being accepted for the Second Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation hosted at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, January 8-12, 2023. Topics in this Symposium will include discussion on the motivation and process by which the community can work together to explore, validate, and integrate all aspects necessary to advancing weather and…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…