UFS Weather Model Image of moving Nests

Implementation and testing of stochastic perturbations within a stand-alone regional (SAR) FV3 ensemble using the Common Community Physics Package (CCPP).

The Weather Program Office is working with the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University (CSU) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to advance the forecast capabilities of the Rapid Refresh Forecast System (RRFS) through the testing and implementation of stochastic physics configurations.

Renee Richardson

Renee Richardson

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.…

Steve Elliot WPO

Your ‘Tern to Shine: Steve Elliot

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…

Bill Lapenta

Researchers and Forecasters Team Up to Improve Forecasts in the New Hurricane and Ocean Testbed

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…