Winter 2021 | In 2017, Congress instructed NOAA to establish the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) to advance “observational, computing, and modeling capabilities to support substantial improvement in weather forecasting and prediction of high impact weather events.” What will the details of EPIC look like? EPIC has not yet been formed, so the community doesn’t know, and it’s not yet clear that NOAA knows either. Hopefully, it can achieve its goal to improve accessibility to the operational code and data so that scientists… Read More