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…
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…
Research reveals direct measurements of wind and temperature from aircraft provide the highest valued inputs into Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models compared to weather balloon radiosondes, satellites, and ground-based, weather observing stations. However, aircraft data has its shortcomings including data spareness, clustering around major airports, and relatively high latency, which constrains its full potential to…
The 10th Annual Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall (FFaIR) Experiment will be held in 2023. FFaIR is part of the Hydrometeorology Testbed (HMT) at the Weather Prediction Center (WPC). The FFaIR Experiment brings together researchers, forecasters, academia, and developers to evaluate, test, and use experimental guidance to aid in the prediction of heavy rainfall and…
After a year and a half of concerted effort between NOAA’s National Hurricane Center (NHC), Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), and other NOAA offices, including the Weather Program Office, the Hurricane and Ocean Testbed (HOT) has been successfully re-named (from the Joint Hurricane Testbed) and re-launched in the newly designed William M. Lapenta Laboratory, named in…
In partnership with NOAA, Saildrone Inc. is deploying seven ocean drones to collect data from hurricanes during the 2022 hurricane season with the goal of improving hurricane forecasting. For the first year, two saildrones will track hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. One of the biggest challenges to hurricane forecasting is predicting rapid intensification, when hurricane…