Autumn 2021 | Although the COVID pandemic has precluded in-person experiments for nearly two years in NOAA’s Hazardous Weather Testbed, virtual Spring Forecasting Experiments (SFEs) have proven to be an effective way to maintain momentum in key research-to-operations activities. SFEs are annual, 5-week severe-weather forecasting experiments led by NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center and National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma. After pivoting to a virtual format for SFE 2020, which limited… Read More
Bridges to Operations: Highlights of the 2021 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment
Visitors: Cloud Overlap Enhancements Adopted for HWRF Operations
Visitors: Michael Iacono and John Henderson
Autumn 2021 | During their recent project for the DTC Visitor Program, Michael Iacono and John Henderson of Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) used the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting model (HWRF) to investigate an improved way to represent the sub-grid variability and vertical overlap of partial cloudiness within the calculation of atmospheric radiative transfer. Their exponential-random (ER) cloud overlap advancement was adopted by NOAA in the 2020 operational HWRF. … Read More
Community Connections: Introducing the Unified Forecast System Case Studies Platform
Autumn 2021 | The Unified Forecast System (UFS) Case Studies platform offers resources for conducting case studies that represent the evolving forecast challenges of NOAA’s operational Global Forecast System (GFS). This platform is the outcome of a DTC project funded by the 2019 Disaster Related Appropriation… Read More
Did you know?: METplus Tutorial Series -- November 2021 to May 2022
Autumn 2021 | METplus will be launching a Tutorial Series on Tuesday, November 30, 2021. Participants can join METplus trainers weekly for one-hour online sessions where presentations by subject matter experts will be woven throughout the hands-on training. Visit the METplus Training Series… Read More
Software Release: UFS Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application bug fix release (v1.0.1)
2021-09-16 | 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
2021-09-15 | 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
Louisa Nance
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 DTC, with Subject Matter Experts from NOAA's Environmental Modeling Center, National Severe Storms Laboratory, and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, had a training session for the Unified Forecast System (UFS) Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application, Sept 2021. Here is the Practical session focused on teaching community users… Read More
Announcement: UNIFIED FORECAST SYSTEM (UFS) SHORT-RANGE WEATHER (SRW) APPLICATION USERS' TRAINING
Summer 2021 | 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… 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
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