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The Unified Forecast System

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Unified Forecast System

Innovation through community

What

A suite of unified Earth system models
developed by the science community to
better predict weather and climate. The UFS
aims to simplify NOAA’s operational suite from
21 standalone forecast systems to 8 by 2025.

Why

We can’t control the weather, but we need to be able to predict and adapt to it. The UFS harnesses the power of community to build next generation operational weather prediction systems.

Partners

Government, Academia, Innovators, Scientists, Developers, Industry
NOAA supports the UFS in partnership with the research and development community

UFS & EPIC

The Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) is a NOAA-led program that fuels the UFS via user support, hands-on training, and community engagement

Initiatives

Modeling applications spanning local to global scales and sub hourly to seasonal predictions
Configurable Infrastructure
Community Webinars
Research-to-Operations and Operations-to-Research thrusts

Recent Webinars and Publications

On Tropical Variability in NOAA’s Unified Forecast System

January 11, 2024

Presenter(s): Dr. Lisa Bengtsson and Dr. Maria Gehne, Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL)

Designing fully non-parametric state and parameter estimation methods for the UFS

October 12, 2023

Presenter(s):Jonathan Poterjoy, University of Maryland

Model infrastructure development in UFS weather model

September 14, 2023

Presenter(s): Jun Wang, NWS/NCEP/EMC

The history and development of the NOAA FENGSHA dust emission scheme

August 10, 2023

Presenter(s): Barry Baker, NOAA Air Resources Laboratory

Integration of MPAS Dycore into UFS

December 7, 2023

The Frist Annual UFS Physics Workshop White Paper: Summary and Key Conclusions

November 3, 2023

Prediction of extreme events in precipitation and temperature over CONUS during boreal summer in the UFS coupled model

January 10, 2022

Sources of subseasonal predictability over CONUS during Boreal Summer

May 1, 2021

UFS Organization and Governance

April 6, 2021

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Unified Forecast System

The Unified Forecast System (UFS) is a community-based, coupled, comprehensive Earth modeling system. The UFS numerical applications span local to global domains and predictive time scales from sub-hourly analyses to seasonal predictions. It is designed to support the Weather Enterprise and to be the source system for NOAA’s operational numerical weather prediction applications.

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