UIFCW 2023 – July 24-28, 2023, A UFS Collaboration Powered by EPIC
The 5-day workshop will engage the greater Weather Enterprise in the ongoing effort to accelerate contributions to the Unified Forecast System.
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Weather-Ready Nation for All? The Demographics of Severe Weather Communication
How do different racial and socioeconomic groups in the United States receive, understand, and respond to severe weather information?
NMME Workshop – Meeting Future Needs…June 21-22, 2023
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.
CSU Machine Learning Model Helps Forecasters Improve Confidence in Storm Prediction
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.
Advancing Research in our Highest Weather Impacts
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.
WPO-Funded Research Collects Critical Forecast Improvement Data during Hurricane Ian
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.
EPIC as a Catalyst for NOAA’s Future Earth Prediction System
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.
Webinar: FY23 Notice of Funding Opportunity
WPO held a webinar hosted by the NOAA Central Library on the FY23 Notice of Funding Opportunity.
EPIC @ AGU Fall Meeting, 12 – 16 December 2022
EPIC is presenting at the AGU Fall Meeting in Chicago, December 12 – 16, 2022.
WindBorne Weather Balloon Reaches New Heights in Atmospheric Measurement Capabilities
The Observations Program at the Weather Program Office has partnered with WindBorne Systems, Inc. to fund the development of an advanced weather balloon. This technology offers a low cost platform enabling collection of surface to stratosphere weather data in lesser-sampled regions.