The DTC is in the process of developing plans for a major overhaul of its website.  As a part of this process, the DTC will be removing the webpages for the following software systems that the DTC no longer supports at the beginning of April 2024:

• Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF)
• Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) Vortex Tracker for Tropical Cyclones
• Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI)
• Hurricane WRF (HWRF)
• Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) containers
• Unified Post Processing System (UPP)

If any of the documentation or tutorials available on these pages are needed, users are advised to download that reference material prior to the beginning of April 2024.

Given the DTC no longer provides support for the Unified Forecast System (UFS), the DTC will also be retiring its UFS webpage.  The DTC’s UFS webpage is no longer being updated to reflect current information; UFS users are advised to consult EPIC’s website for current information on UFS.

All,

Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) is working with the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) to establish community requirements for a Hierarchical System Development (HSD) . This effort is focused on accelerating the rate of  improving numerical prediction across scales using the Unified Forecast System (UFS).  The requirements will be captured in a white paper. We would like to invite you to provide your input via this survey.  The goal of the survey is to identify:

• What gaps you feel exist in the UFS HSD research-to-operations framework?

• What ideas you have to improve collaborative efforts between process-level study groups and model development (e.g. UFS Applications)?

• What areas of HSD used in the community should be highlighted in DTC’s white paper?

The survey has 13 questions with a mix of multiple choice and short answers. It will take 10-15 minutes to complete and is open until Friday, April 28th, 2023.  Please take a few minutes out of your busy schedule to provide us with this valuable feedback on how you would like to engage with the UFS.

Tracy Hertneky and Xia Sun, on behalf of the DTC

The METplus team is pleased to announce that registration for the METplus Advanced Training Series is now open. 

The training will be 2-hour sessions and will be held virtually in April-May and August-October from 11am-1pm ET / 9am-11am MT / 1600-1800 UTC. 

The first 3 sessions include:

April 19th - Using METplus in the cloud to evaluate UFS protoypes

May 3rd - Using METplus to compute S2S diagnostics

May 17th - Using METplus to evaluate coupled model components

Sessions will be recorded to provide those who cannot attend an opportunity to learn these topics.  Please visit the DTC website for more information and to register.  Registration closes April 12th.

Calling All METplus Enthusiasts!

The DTC is hosting the first ever METplus Users Workshop. The goals of the workshop include building the METplus community and empowering users to contribute to the development of and planning for the verification and diagnostic framework. It is planned for 27-29 June 2022 and will be hosted virtually. Participation is free. Here's some pertinent details:

Tentative Schedule:
Call for Abstracts: 20 April - 20 May
Monday, 27 June: 8:30am-2:30pm MT (10:30am-4:30pm ET; 1430-2030 UTC)
Tuesday, 28 June: 8:30am-2:30pm MT (10:30am-4:30pm ET; 1430-2030 UTC)
Wednesday, 29 June: 8:30am-12:00pm MT (10:30am-2:00pm ET; 1430-1800 UTC)

Expected Topics:

• Overview and current capabilities
• How and what to contribute
• How METplus is being used by the community
• State of the UFS Metrics Workshop findings
• Vision for the future
• Connection to UFS Applications and EPIC
• METplus Hackathon Results

Registration is now open.  Please routinely visit the Workshop website for updated details.

The Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) is pleased to announce that registration for the Unified Forecast System (UFS) Short-Range Weather (MRW) Application training is now open! The SRW Application targets predictions of regional atmospheric behavior out to several days; more details on the first SRW App release can be found at: https://ufscommunity.org/news/srwa/.

The training will be a live, yet virtual, event held September 20-24, 2021. Lecture and hands-on practice sessions will be provided by subject matter experts (SMEs) from the DTC along with NOAA's Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), and National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

The participation slots will be limited to 40 students in an effort to ensure quality instruction and as much one-on-one interaction during the practical sessions as possible. However, for interested parties who are unable to attend the live training, lectures and practice materials will be made available publicly after the event.

Please see the UFS SRW Application Users’ Training event page for more information and to register!

Regards,
UFS SRW App Training Team

The Developmental Testbed Center is pleased to announce that an online tutorial is now available for the Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) v5.0.0 and the CCPP Single Column Model (SCM) v5.0.0.

The goal of this tutorial is to familiarize CCPP beginners with its key concepts: 1) how it is used within host models, 2) what makes a piece of code compatible with the CCPP, and 3) how collections of physics parameterizations are organized into suites. It includes lecture-like videos followed by hands-on exercises. The exercises are to be conducted within the context of the CCPP SCM, so users will also get an introduction to how this model can be used for both science and physics development.

The tutorial is available at https://dtcenter.org/ccpp-scm-online-tutorial. Additional information about the CCPP and the CCPP SCM can be found at https://dtcenter.org/ccpp. 

Ligia Bernardet and Mike Ek, on behalf of the DTC CCPP team (Dom Heinzeller, Grant Firl, Laurie Carson, Man Zhang, Julie Schramm, Xia Sun, and Linlin Pan)

Are you a professor teaching a Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) class or who has been wanting to integrate aspects of NWP into your curriculum? Have you wanted to give your students hands-on, practical NWP experience but never had the resources? This workshop is for you!

The DTC will be hosting a virtual workshop focused on connecting with the university community in order to integrate cloud and container technologies into a classroom setting as a way to give students experience with NWP software. With greater accessibility to large cloud compute resources in addition to containerized components that decrease the burden of the initial startup process, these tools promote an innovative teaching tool to integrate NWP directly into a course curriculum using hands-on learning. Not only that, they provide the opportunity to foster an interest and excitement in NWP while educating the next-generation workforce!

For this workshop, we are targeting professors teaching undergraduate and/or graduate-level NWP classes, or professors interested in incorporating NWP into a class curriculum, who would like to learn about the established containerized DTC end-to-end NWP system in order to integrate these technologies into their classroom and computer lab activities. During the workshop, we will provide an overview of the containerized DTC NWP system and participants will be offered the opportunity to have hands-on practice running the DTC containers in the cloud. Discussion will follow on how these capabilities might be customized for an enhanced classroom experience with contributions based on lessons learned from collaborations with previous university programs. An opportunity for professors to network and exchange ideas on how to use this technology to better engage with their students in the NWP learning process will also be provided. 

We hope you will consider registering for this live, virtual workshop that will take place June 7–9, 2021. Previous engagements with universities have shown that the concept can be highly successful and presents a rewarding opportunity that can significantly elevate the students’ experience during the semester. We would welcome the opportunity to foster a connection and engage with a larger number of programs to enhance students' experience and excitement for NWP.

A full agenda will be provided on the event webpage soon. We hope you will consider registering now for this free workshop; details will be communicated to registered participants as they are solidified. Please feel free to share this announcement widely!

The Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), in cooperation with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from NOAA's Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), as well as NCAR’s Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD) Laboratory, will be hosting a live, virtual training session for the Unified Forecast System (UFS) Medium-Range Weather (MRW) Application from November 4-6 and November 9, 2020 (see to the training webpage). This training will be focused on teaching community users how to set up and run the latest officially released MRW Application (version 1.1) for their own experiments, with some optional material on the last day of the training session for developers who wish to modify code and contribute their changes back to the community code repository. The MRW Application targets predictions of global atmospheric behavior out to about two weeks; more details on the first MRW App release can be found here.

Attendees will be presented with live lectures from experts on the various UFS components, including the CIME-based workflow, the atmospheric model FV3 dynamic core and physics suite options, and pre/post-processing. In addition to lectures, live virtual practice sessions will be hosted to gain experience with building, running, and modifying the system to take full advantage of the supported capabilities for research and forecasting use. Participants will be able to ask questions and interact with SMEs to gain a deeper understanding of the system and how to configure it for their purposes. The final day will provide an optional "deeper dive" into the system for developers to cover advanced subjects, including code modification, domain configuration, and repository management protocols.

These "live training" spots will be limited to 40 students. For people who are unable to attend the live training, lectures and practice materials will be made available publicly after the event. 

**Registration is required, but at this time the event is planned to be free of charge. Please register using the registration tab found on the right navigation bar of this page. If it becomes necessary to move the practical session to a cloud computing platform, we will notify you as soon as possible of any associated fee. Registration status can be changed at that time if the fee impacts your ability to participate.

Due to the current situation regarding COVID-19, the first Unified Forecast System (UFS) Users’ Workshop will be held virtually online, from 27-29 July, 2020. The aim of the workshop remains to establish an annual forum to exchange ideas, advance education on applying the UFS, and embrace the full potential of the community to support and help improve the UFS modeling and prediction system. A diverse group of participants from across the weather enterprise are encouraged to participate and engage in this forum, with the following main objectives:

• Inform attendees of the most recent updates to the UFS, including programmatic and technical information
• Illustrate the capabilities of the UFS and inform the community how they can contribute to the development and improvement of the UFS
• Showcase experiences related to various aspects of the modeling system (atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, dynamics, physics, data assimilation, verification, etc.) and different range of applications (short-term up to seasonal, global, regional, hurricane, air quality, etc.)

The following logistical modifications have been made relative to holding a virtual forum:

1. Registration is now free but required (all registration fees received previously will be fully refunded)
2. Deadlines have been extended:

• Abstract submission deadline: 07 June
• Abstract acceptance notification: 06 July
• Agenda available: 13 July
• Registration closes: 20 July

3. Student/postdoc travel support will be provided for the second UFS Users’ Workshop planned for summer 2021

For more information, please view the workshop website at the following link: https://dtcenter.org/events/2020/ufs-users-workshop.

The first Unified Forecast System (UFS) Users’ Workshop will take place on July 27-29, 2020 at NCAR's Center Green Campus in Boulder, Colorado, with the aim to establish an annual forum to exchange ideas, advance education on applying the UFS, and embrace the full potential of the community to support and help improve the UFS modeling and prediction system. It will feature lively engagement and discussions with diverse groups of participants from across the Weather Enterprise including public and private sectors, academia, and those involved in operations, all of whom have a common interest in helping deliver the best forecasts to the public. The workshop is expected to improve communications, transparency, and mutual trust between operational centers and the broader community.

For more information and to register, go the the workshop website.

Join us for the DTC presentation and posters at the 100th AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, from 9 to 13 December 2019 in the Moscone Center.

A11V-2749 An Evaluation of Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) Physics Suites Across Scales
Kathryn Newman, Tracy Hertneky, Evan Anthony Kalina, Michelle Harrold, Linlin Pan, Evelyn D. Grell, Laurie Carson and Michael B Ek

Monday, 9 December 2019
08:00 - 12:20
Moscone South - Poster Hall

A13I-3018 The Use of the Enhanced Model Evaluation Tools (METplus) Verification and Diagnostic Capability in S2S
Tara L Jensen, John Halley-Gotway, Weiwei Li, Zhuo Wang, Juliana Dias and George N Kiladis

Monday, 9 December 2019
13:40 - 18:00
Moscone South - Poster Hall

A31M-2879 Evaluate the Impact of Assimilating Dual-Polarized Quality Controlled Radial Velocity on Storm Forecast with an Operational Functional Similar HRRR System
Ming Hu, Chunhua Zhou, Guoqing Ge, Ying Zhang, Michael Kavulich Jr., and Lindsay Blank

Wednesday, 11 December 2019
08:00 - 12:20
Moscone South - Poster Hall

A34E-08 Subseasonal Variability of Rossby Wave Breaking and Impacts on Tropical Cyclones during the North Atlantic Warm Season
Weiwei Li, Zhuo Wang, Gan Zhang, Melinda Peng, Stanley G Benjamin, and Ming Zhao,

Wednesday, 11 December 2019
17:45 - 18:00
Moscone West - 3000, L3

Join us at one of the many DTC-related presentations and posters at the 100th AMS Annual Meeting in historic Boston, Massachusetts, from 12 to 16 January 2020 in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

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Link to search 2020 AMS Annual meeting for DTC and Developmental Testbed Center: https://ams.confex.com/ams/2020Annual/meetingapp.cgi/Search/0?sort=SortableTimeString&size=50&page=1&searchterm=%22DTC%22%20%22Developmental%20Testbed%20Center%22

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List of search results for abstracts that include DTC and Developmental Testbed Center. All room and event locations listed below are held in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

PD1.5 Using Cloud Computing and Software Container Technology for Interactive Classroom Learning in Numerical Weather Prediction Michael J. Kavulich Jr., NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Wolff, K. Fossell, J. Halley Gotway, M. Harold, and S. Ng
Monday, January 13, 2020
08:30 AM - 08:30 AM
258C
 

1B.6 The Use of the METplus Verification and Diagnostic Capability in Forecast Evaluation across Multiple Scales and Applications Tara Jensen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Halley Gotway, G. P. McCabe Jr., J. Frimel, M. P. Row, R. G. Bullock, T. L. Fowler, D. W. Fillmore, B. Strong, M. Marquis, M. Win-Gildenmeister, J. Prestopnik, D. R. Adriaansen, and C. P. Kalb
Monday, January 13, 2020
09:45 AM - 10:00 AM
257AB

2.5 Exploring Non-Traditional Methods for Streamlining the Model Validation Process Tracy Hertneky, and T. L. Fowler and M. Harrold
Monday, January 13, 2020
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
260

3.1 Streamlining Verification through the Enhanced Model Evaluation Tools (METplus) Tara Jensen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. H. Gotway, M. P. Row, B. Strong, J. Frimel, J. J. Levit, M. Win-Gildenmeister, and M. Marquis
Monday, January 13, 2020
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
260

The Use of METplus Verification and Diagnostic Capabilities for Evaluating Sea-Ice Predictions Lindsay R. Blank, NCAR, Boulder, CO; Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and R. Grumbine, T. Jensen, and J. J. Levit
Monday, January 13, 2020
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Hall B

Adding tropical cyclone genesis verification capabilities to the Model Evaluation Tools (MET+) Daniel J. Halperin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL; and K. M. Newman, J. E. Halley Gotway, and T. L. Jensen
Monday, January 13, 2020
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Hall B

5A.3 A Community Workflow for the Stand-Alone Regional (SAR) Configuration of the FV3 Gerard Ketefian, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and Univ. of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. Beck, C. Alexander, L. Reames, G. Gayno, D. Heinzeller, L. Pan, T. Smirnova, J. Purser, D. Jovic, T. Black, J. Abeles, J. Wolff, L. Carson, J. Schramm, M. J. Kavulich Jr., J. R. Carley, and B. T. Blake
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
252A

5.5 The Model Evaluation Tools (MET): Recent Additions and Enhancements John E. Halley Gotway, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. L. Jensen, R. G. Bullock, H. Soh, D. W. Fillmore, and J. Prestopnik
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
260

3.1 Predictive Skill of African Easterly Waves in the ECMWF Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Reforecasts Weiwei Li, NCAR, Boulder, CO; Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and Z. Wang
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
01:30 PM - 01:45 PM
212

6A.2 Combining the Common Community Physics Package with a Single Column Model to Drive NWP Physics Advancements Grant J. Firl, NCAR, and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and D. Heinzeller, L. Xue, and L. Bernardet
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
03:15 PM - 03:30 PM
257AB

3.4 Leveraging Cloud Computing and Software Container Technologies to Create a Portable End-to-End Numerical Weather Prediction System Kate Fossell, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Wolff, J. H. Gotway, M. Harrold, and M. J. Kavulich Jr.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
03:45 PM - 04:00 PM
155

One-Stop Shopping for Physics across Scales: From a Single-Column Model to Three-Dimensional Configurations for Weather and S2S Linlin Pan, NOAA/GSD, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES, and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; NOAA, Boulder, CO; and L. Bernardet, D. Heinzeller, E. Kalina, G. Firl, E. Grell, K. Newman, L. Carson, and G. Grell
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Hall B

An Evaluation of Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) Physics Suites Across Scales Kathryn M. Newman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. J. Hertneky, E. A. Kalina, M. Harrold, L. Pan, G. Firl, E. D. Grell, L. Carson, and M. Ek
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Hall B

Verification of the Physics Suite Testing for GFS v16 Using the Model Evaluation Tools Michelle Harrold, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Wolff, M. Zhang, T. Hertneky, L. Bernardet, J. K. Henderson, L. R. Blank, W. Li, L. Pan, G. Firl, and T. Jensen
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Hall B

6.2 Exposing Undergraduate Students to Numerical Weather Prediction Through the Use of Software Containers and Cloud Computing Jamie K. Wolff, and S. Ng, K. R. Fossell, J. E. Halley Gotway, M. Harrold, and M. J. Kavulich Jr.
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
258C

9.3 Assimilation of Dual-Pol Quality-Controlled Radial Velocity Data in the NOAA Operational Convective-Scale Forecast System
Guoqing Ge, CIRES and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, S. Weygandt, and C. Alexander
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
259A

9.5 The Use of the METplus Verification and Diagnostic Capability in Short-Term Forecast Evaluation Tara Jensen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Halley Gotway, C. P. Kalb, L. R. Blank, D. R. Adriaansen, and D. W. Fillmore
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
252A

10B.2 A Community Effort to Unify Verification and Validation Efforts Tara Jensen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Manikin, J. A. Otkin, I. Stajner, and Z. Wang
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
01:45 PM - 02:00 PM
251

10B.3 Fostering National and International Collaboration through the Enhanced Model Evaluation Tools (METplus) Tara Jensen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Halley Gotway, M. P. Row, J. J. Levit, B. Strong, and M. Marquis
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
02:00 PM - 02:15 PM
251

11B.1 Developmental Testbed Center: Current Status and Outlook for the Future Louisa B. Nance, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Beck, L. Bernardet, G. Firl, K. Fossell, M. Harrold, M. Hu, T. L. Jensen, E. Kalina, M. Marquis, K. Newman, J. K. Wolff, K. Y. Wong, and C. Zhou
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
03:00 PM - 03:15 PM
251

11B.2 The Common Community Physics Package CCPP: Unifying Physics across NOAA and NCAR Models using a Common Software Framework Dom Heinzeller, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, and Univ. of Colorado/CIRES, and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and G. J. Firl, L. Bernardet, L. Carson, M. Zhang, S. Goldhaber, C. Craig, D. Gill, M. Duda, and F. M. Vitt
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
03:15 PM - 03:30 PM
251

Testing the DTC’s Single Column Model for Tropical Cyclone Environment Mrinal K. Biswas, NCAR and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and G. Firl, M. Ek, and J. Zhang
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Hall B

The Python-based MPMC Test Suite for NOAA Operational Data Assimilation Systems (GSI/EnKF) G. Ge, CIRES and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, C. Zhou, and D. Stark
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Hall B

Enhancements to Cloud Overlap Radiative Effects for Weather Forecasting and Tropical Cyclone Prediction Michael J. Iacono, AER, Lexington, MA; and J. M. Henderson, L. Bernardet, E. Kalina, M. K. Biswas, K. M. Newman, B. Liu, Z. Zhang, and Y. T. Hou
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Hall B

Track Centered Moving Grids for Tropical Cyclone Forecast Assessment in the Model Evaluation Tools (MET) Verification Package David W. Fillmore, 3090 Center Green Dr., Boulder, CO; NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. J. Hertneky, K. M. Newman, E. A. Kalina, R. G. Bullock, M. K. Biswas, J. E. Halley Gotway, and T. L. Jensen
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Hall B

12A.3 Physics Interoperability as a Strategy for Advancing NOAA’s Unified Forecast System Physics Suites Ligia Bernardet, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, NOAA/GSD and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and G. J. Firl, D. Heinzeller, L. Carson, M. Zhang, J. Schramm, and L. Nance
Thursday, January 16, 2020
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
257AB

12A.5 Process-oriented Diagnostics to Inform the Physics Suite of Future GFS Implementations using NOAA's Unified Forecast System Weiwei Li, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Bernardet, M. Zhang, L. Pan, M. Harrold, J. Wolff, J. K. Henderson, T. Hertneky, L. R. Blank, G. J. Firl, M. ek, J. Dudhia, T. Jensen, Z. Wang, and L. Nance
Thursday, January 16, 2020
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
257AB

13B.6 Advances Toward an Operational Convection-Allowing Ensemble Prediction System in the Unified Forecast System at NOAA J. R. Carley, NOAA, College Park, MD; and B. T. Blake, T. L. Black, E. Rogers, E. Aligo, J. Abeles, L. C. Dawson, T. Lei, Y. Lin, M. E. Pyle, P. Shafran, E. Strobach, X. Zhang, J. S. Kain, C. R. Alexander, L. J. Wicker, L. M. Harris, and J. K. Wolff
Thursday, January 16, 2020
02:45 PM - 03:00 PM
257AB

The AMS Short Course on Experimentation and Development of Physical Parameterizations for Numerical Weather Prediction Using a single-column model and the Common Community Physics Package (CCPP)  will be held on 12 January 2020 preceding the 100th AMS Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site.    

The Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) will host a short course on Integrating NWP System Components Using Container Technology and Cloud Services on 12 January 2020 preceding the 100th AMS Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. The goal of this course is to raise awareness about tools and facilities available to the community for testing and evaluating Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) innovations, including the emerging set of software tools in reusable containers and cloud computing resources, through hands-on learning. 

While this course may appeal to a wide-reaching audience, this information may be particularly useful to undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning more about NWP and to university faculty that may find software containers and cloud computing to be useful teaching tools to add to their course curriculum. For more information, please see: https://annual.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/2020/programs/short-courses-workshops/integrating-nwp-system-components-using-container-technology-and-cloud-services/

The Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) is pleased to announce an upcoming community workshop on Numerical Weather Prediction test plan and metrics for model validation and verification.

Now available: Agenda | Registration | Logistics

The workshop, to take place at the NCWCP in College Park, MD, will be held for two and a half days prior to the NGGPS Strategic Implementation Planning (SIP) meeting at the same location. The major goal of this workshop is to develop a community test plan with common validation and verification metrics for the emerging Unified Forecast System (UFS). When complete, the plan will serve as a guide for the NWP community for testing and validating new developments for the UFS models and components, and for verifying the UFS for both historical and real-time forecasts using observations and analyses, through standardized hierarchical testing. While metrics for all spatial and temporal scales for NWP models will be open for discussion at the workshop, emerging topics such as the verification of Convective Allowing Models, coupled earth system models, and ensemble systems will be emphasized.

The full two days of the workshop (July 30th - July 31st) will utilize mornings for participant presentations and short discussion periods, with the afternoons focusing on editing plan documents in various topic-based breakout sessions. Participants are requested to bring a laptop or tablet to assist in the real-time development of planning documents during the breakout sessions. A wrap-up session will be held on the final morning (August 1st). NGGPS Strategic Implementation Planning (SIP) meeting attendees are encouraged to participate in the Test Plan and Metrics wrap-up session prior to their meeting starting the afternoon of August 1st.

Agenda | Registration | Logistics

Announcements, Publications and More

VISITOR PROJECT AWARDS

Paul Roebber (Univ of Wisconsin - Milwaukee):Demonstration Project: Development of a Large Member Ensemble Forecast System for Heavy Rainfall using Evolutionary Programming.

WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, EVENTS

Physics Workshop The DTC and NOAA will convene a workshop entitled ‘Parameterization of moist process for next-generation numerical weather prediction models’ on January 27-29 2015 at the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, MD.

The workshop is intended to stimulate the development of moist process parameterization for the Next- Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) and similar global models at scales and resolutions ranging from synoptic- to convection-permitting. The theme of the workshop will also be highly relevant to current and future generation regional and mesoscale models. Observational, modeling and theoretical perspectives will be addressed. Details will be available at http://www.dtcenter.org/events/workshops15/moist_phys/

PUBLICATIONS

Wolff, Jamie, M. Harrold, T. Fowler, J. Halley Gotway, L. Nance, and B. Brown, 2014 Weather and Forecasting: Beyond the basics: Evaluating model-based precipitation forecasts using traditional, spatial, and object-based methods; http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/WAF-D-13-00135.1

Bernardet, Ligia et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Community Support and Transition of Research to Operations for the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast (HWRF) Model; http://journals. ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00093.1 

The DTC is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2018 Hurricane WRF (HWRF) tutorial to be held 23–25 January 2018 at the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP) in College Park, MD. Registration, a draft agenda, and information about hotel accommodations and other logistics can be found on our tutorial website:

2018 HWRF tutorial

The HWRF tutorial will be a three-day event organized by the Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) and by the NOAA Environmental Modeling Center (EMC). The Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast system (HWRF) is a coupled atmosphere-ocean model suitable for tropical cyclone (TC) research and forecasting in all Northern and Southern Hemisphere ocean basins.

Tutorial participants can expect to hear lectures on all aspects of HWRF, including model physics and dynamics, nesting, initialization, coupling with the ocean, postprocessing, and vortex tracking. Additionally, enrichment lectures on HWRF's multistorm capability, TC verification, HWRF ensemble system, and NCEP's future plans for TC numerical weather prediction will be presented. Practical sessions will give tutorial participants hands-on experience in running HWRF.

We look forward to seeing you in College Park. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact:

Evan Kalina (NOAA DTC): Evan.Kalina@noaa.gov
Kathryn Newman (NCAR DTC): knewman@ucar.edu
Zhan Zhang (NOAA EMC): Zhan.Zhang@noaa.gov
Bin Liu (NOAA EMC): Bin.Liu@noaa.gov>

HWRF Tutorial organizing committee