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In recognition of the Year of Open Science, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and EPIC (Earth Prediction Innovation Center) have been featured on Open.Science.gov for the collaborative and open science work on the Unified Forecast System (UFS).
The 5-day workshop will engage the greater Weather Enterprise in the ongoing effort to accelerate contributions to the Unified Forecast System.
How do different racial and socioeconomic groups in the United States receive, understand, and respond to severe weather information?
The primary objectives are to review and evaluate the current capabilities and advancements of the NMME in addressing the challenges of seasonal climate predictability; and secondly, to identify actionable recommendations for the future direction and enhancement of the NMME project.
Russ Schumacher, professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science and Colorado State Climatologist, has led a team developing a sophisticated machine learning model for advancing skillful prediction of hazardous weather across the continental United States.
In the last 5 years, the United States has endured a total of 89 billion dollar weather and climate disasters. The U.S. government has responded with increased resources to better understand the weather and climate conditions that affect us all.
Hurricane Ian became the 15th billion-dollar disaster in 2022 spurring a newfound interest in forecast and risk communication in the media, and providing a real-world opportunity for WPO-funded critical forecast improvement research to take place.
A new article published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society details how the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) is working to unify community weather modeling and advance numerical weather prediction using open-source and open-science methods.
WPO held a webinar hosted by the NOAA Central Library on the FY23 Notice of Funding Opportunity.
EPIC is presenting at the AGU Fall Meeting in Chicago, December 12 – 16, 2022.