Autumn 2021 | The UFS Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application v1.0.1 was publicly released on 9/16/2021. More information on this bug fix release can be found under the “Release Notes” section of the SRW App umbrella repository wiki page. The UFS SRW App targets predictions of atmospheric behavior on a limited spatial domain and on time scales from less than an hour out to several days. It is the foundation for building NOAA’s future convection-allowing ensemble forecast system, known as the Rapid Refresh Forecast System (RRFS). Public… Read More
Software Release: UPP V9.0.1 Release
Autumn 2021 | Announcement: The Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) is pleased to announce the release of the Unified Post Processor Version 9.0.1. This is a bug fix release for UPP V9.0.0. This release can be used in standalone mode and is also the version used as the post processor… Read More
Director's Corner: DTC Outlook for the Future
Summer 2021 | Over the years, a major component of the DTC’s approach to facilitating the transition of research innovations into operations has been its support for distributed development of community software that includes the capabilities of the current operational systems. This software support has provided the foundation for conducting testing and evaluation that can inform the research to operations (R2O) process. The DTC’s software support responsibilities have involved, to varying degrees… Read More
Lead Story: Accelerating Progress of the Unified Forecast System through Community Infrastructure
Summer 2021 | The goals of the Unified Forecast System (UFS) are ambitious: construct a unified modeling system capable of replacing dozens of independently developed and maintained operational prediction systems, while simultaneously paving the way for researchers in NOAA labs and the broader NWP community to access and use that system, improve it, and contribute their own innovations. Toward these goals, the UFS… Read More
Who's Who: Mrinal Biswas
Summer 2021 | Mrinal Biswas was born and raised in Durgapur, West Bengal, India, a small industrial town. He was raised by a Civil Engineer father while his mother took care of him and his sister. He enjoyed school but even more enjoyable was the time he played outdoors with his friends late into the evening. He was fascinated with anything electronic from radios to vinyl record players, even watches, disassembling them while his mom took his sister to school and quickly re-assembling them before… Read More
Bridges to Operations: METplus for Operational Verification and Diagnostics
Summer 2021 | The idea of including the enhanced Model Evaluation Tools (METplus) in NOAA operations for the verification and validation of Environmental Modeling Center (EMC)’s suite of environmental prediction models has been a decade in the making. METplus is the DTC-developed verification framework that spans a wide range of… Read More
Visitors: Evaluating CCPP Physics Across Scales for Severe Convective Events
Visitor: William Gallus, Jr
Summer 2021 | The DTC Visitor Program offers a unique means of gaining experience with state-of-the-art modeling and visualization approaches. During my visits with the DTC through this program the previous three times, I explored these diverse areas of study, and was able to provide several graduate students with unique opportunities in these areas: the DTC's first convection-allowing model (CAM)… Read More
Community Connections: DTC Workshop on Integrating Cloud and Container Technologies into University NWP Curriculum
The Recap
Summer 2021 | The DTC convened a live, virtual three-day workshop 7-9 June 2021 tailored toward university faculty interested in integrating software container and cloud technologies into new or existing Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) curricula. Of the nearly 40 interested registrants from over 25 different institutions, approximately 16 active participants attended the three-day event. The majority of attendees were either professors of NWP courses or interested in teaching NWP in the future,… Read More
Did you know?: UFS Short-Range Weather Training
Summer 2021 | The Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), in cooperation with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from NOAA's Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), will host a live, virtual training session for the Unified Forecast System (UFS) Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application from September 20-24, 2021.… Read More
Software Release: METplus v4.0.0 Coordinated Release
2021-05-14 | The DTC is pleased to announce the release of the multi-component verification framework called the enhanced Model Evaluation Tools (METplus), or METplus. METplus contains a suite of Python wrappers and ancillary scripts to enhance the user's ability to quickly set-up and run MET. METplus also has an analysis suite including METviewer and METexpress user interfaces and METdatadb, METcalcpy, and METplotpy as shared packages for loading and storing MET output as well as aggregating and plotting results.… Read More
Lead Story: UFS Metrics Workshop Refines Key Metrics
Spring 2021 | The Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Unified Forecast System's Verification and Validation Cross-Cutting Team (UFS-V&V), hosted a three-day workshop to identify key verification and validation metrics for UFS applications. The workshop was held remotely 22-24 February 2021. Registration for the event totaled 315 participants from across the research and operational community. … Read More
Who's Who: Evelyn Grell
Spring 2021 | Evelyn Grell’s story begins in a suburb of Philadelphia, PA where she was raised. Her interest in weather was inspired from spending time with grandparents on the Jersey shore. Her grandfather was an avid sailor and even built his own sailboat. Naturally, monitoring the weather and especially the wind direction was essential before setting sail. Evelyn never seriously considered meteorology as a career… Read More
Bridges to Operations: Growing the WPC HydroMeteorological Testbed: Immersive Forecasting and New Perspectives
Spring 2021 | The Hydrometeorological Testbed at NOAA/NWS/NCEP Weather Prediction Center (WPC) is a naturalistic decision-making environment, a physical space, a collaboration space, and an insight-generating laboratory. We explore observations and models (Numerical Weather Prediction, Machine Learning and statistical models) in order to evaluate, validate and verify weather-forecasting procedures, tools, and techniques. … Read More
Community Connections: DTC Embarks on International Project to Provide Information about Model Physics Uncertainty
Spring 2021 | The “Model Uncertainty Model Intercomparison Project” (MUMIP) is an international effort to better understand model-physics uncertainty, and how to represent it in stochastic physical parameterizations. After all, physical parameterizations provide an approximate solution to physical processes occurring in… Read More
Did you know?: UFS Short-range Weather Application Version 1.0 has been released
Spring 2021 | The latest Unified Forecasting System (UFS) application to be released is the Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application, which targets predictions of atmospheric behavior on a limited spatial domain and on time scales from less than an hour out to several days. The SRW Application version 1.0… Read More
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