Unified Forecast System
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The Unified Forecast System: A concise explanation

Richard “Ricky” Rood has been a crucial part of the leadership in the Unified Forecast System community – the UFS community. He has offered to share a presentation he made as a guest lecturer at the University of Michigan on weather analysis providing insight and explaining the work of the UFS. Abstract: What is the […]

UFS at the 2022 American Meteorological Society Meeting

When: 23-27 January, 2022 Where: George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas Theme: Environmental Security: Weather, water, and climate Read the latest edition of the UFS Quarterly Newsletter See the List of UFS and UFS Related Talks and Presenters Social Media Note: The Twitter Hashtag for the AMS 2022 Annual Meeting is #AMS2022, please be […]

The National Weather Service Released a New Space Weather Model: The WAM-IPE!

On July 21, 2021 the National Weather Service began operations on a new and groundbreaking space weather model known as the Whole Atmosphere Model and Ionosphere Plasmasphere Electrodynamics Model (WAM-IPE). The new model operations allow the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) to provide better forecasting capabilities of ionospheric and space weather conditions. The model utilizes […]

Neil Jacobs’ Vision that Established EPIC and Strengthened the UFS Community

Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) is the cornerstone of modern environmental forecasting. The United States uses a large variety of NWPs for its operational weather forecasting activities at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), ranging from large synoptic-scale models such as the Global Forecast System (GFS), and short-range convection-allowing models such as the High-Resolution Rapid […]