UFS Insights Issue #6 released

The sixth issue of UFS Insights, a collaborative effort between NOAA’s Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) and the Unified Forecast System (UFS) community, is available to read here. The News and Insights section provides details about: You can subscribe to the UFS Insights newsletter and read past UFS Insights here.

The Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) Hydrometeorology Testbed - Hydro (hereafter denoted as HMT-Hydro) experiment is a part of the United States Weather Research Program (USWRP) through the Hydrometeorology Testbed (HMT) that runs from 25 June to 20 July 2018. During the HMT-Hydro experiment, forecasters and hydrologists from the National Weather Service (NWS) will work with National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) research scientists to assess new technology and techniques to improve the prediction and warning of flash flooding. In particular, NWS participants will evaluate new probabilistic hydrologic modeling concepts and output within the Flooded Locations and Simulated Hydrographs (FLASH) system that could help convey the uncertainty of the flash flood threat. NWS participants will also evaluate high resolution precipitation forecasts from the NSSL Warn-on-Forecast (WoF) project and the addition of these forecasts into the FLASH system. Feedback from participants will allow NSSL research scientists to identify how these precipitation forecasts could influence the warning decision making process, including the potential for increased warning lead time. The HMT-Hydro experiment runs in conjunction with the Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall (FFaIR) experiment at the Weather Prediction Center (WPC) to collaborate on the short-term forecasting of flash flooding for both a national and regional scale.

Climate Testbed Awards FY24

WPO’s Climate Testbed partnership with the National Center for Environmental Prediction supports research to improve the operational products at the Climate Prediction Center. We accomplish this by supporting research projects in the collaborative Climate Testbed, which are intended to demonstrate the potential for scientific advances from the external research community to improve operational climate predictions…

Fire Weather FY24 Awards

WPO funds work to advance our understanding of fire weather to improve forecasts of fire behavior and smoke for the public. The projects selected in this competition address the evolution of active fires and smoke, data assimilation of atmospheric and terrestrial conditions, new or improved physics parameterizations, and fire weather forecast system testing and verification.…

UFS Insights Issue #5 released

The fifth issue of UFS Insights, a collaborative effort between NOAA’s Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) and the Unified Forecast System (UFS) community, is available to read here. In this issue, you’ll find an in-depth look at the UFS, including updates on key components, innovators, partnerships, and initiatives shaping the future of weather, water, and…

Floodwater from a river inundates neighborhoods in Minot, North Dakota.

Biden-Harris Administration, NOAA fund over $22M to advance research of water-related climate impacts

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) provided NOAA $492 million over five years to improve coastal and inland flood and inundation mapping and forecasting capabilities, advance next-generation water modeling activities, and to modernize precipitation frequency atlases for the U.S., including probable maximum precipitation. Funding was also provided to build out subseasonal to annual Integrated Water Capabilities…

New StoryMap: The Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System on the Cloud

The Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP) supports NOAA’s hurricane forecast and warning capabilities through partnerships with the Environmental Modeling Center, National Hurricane Center, and the Hurricane Research Division. The recently observed increase in the number of hurricanes and tropical storms in the North Atlantic (the most recent season with below normal activity was 2015) highlights…