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UFS Short-Range App v2.10 Released

The UFS Community released v2.10 of the Short-Range Weather Application Find out more
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UFS Forums Transition

Effective October 31, 2022, the UFS Forums have been transitioned to the UFS GitHub Forum Discussions
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Unified Forecast System

The UFS is a community-based, coupled, comprehensive Earth modeling system
supporting NOAA‘s operational weather forecasting suite and the Weather Enterprise

Building better forecasts through community partnerships
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UFS Research to Operations (R2O) Project

A broad collaboration uniting NOAA and community scientists was launched
to accelerate innovation into operational modeling for weather and climate prediction.

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What’s New?

The Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) and the Unified Forecast System (UFS) community are proud to announce the public release of the UFS Short-Range Weather (UFS SRW) Application version 2.1.0. This release is an update to the version 2.0.0 release from June 2022 and reflects a number of changes currently available at the head of the UFS SRW development branch. The Application is designed for short-range (up to two days) regional forecasts located anywhere on the globe. Read more about this update here

**Effective October 31, 2022, the UFS Community Forums have been made read-only and transitioned to specific GitHub Discussions. Please see details. 

Ever wondered what the UFS is? Check out the latest downloadable brochure here

The UFS community is proud to announce the public release of the UFS Short-Range Weather Application v2.0.0 (SRW App)  Read more

The Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) is pleased to announce the Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) v6.0.0 public release. Read more

Community News

The EPIC team has recently succeeded in running the UFS weather model on all 3 CSPs. Read more about it here.

Richard Rood is sharing a presentation he made as a guest lecturer on weather analysis providing insight and explaining the work of the UFS. Details here

Neil Jacobs has been chosen to serve as chief science advisor for the UFS. His tenure began February 14. See the Press Release.

The UFS Community was a presence at the 2022 AMS meetings for a recap of the events and other information please visit here.

The NOAA Modeling Board will be holding a TED-style talks that will be open to the public . These are virtual meetings.  Find out more about the NOAA Modeling Board here.

We are looking for recommendations for speakers for our webinar series. Please use the form and send in your recommendations to us.

The UFS Community has contributed to NOAA Science Advisory Board’s latest report on Priorities on Weather Research. Please check out the report and the acknowledgement letter 

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Neil Jacobs

Check out the latest edition of the UFS Quarterly Newsletter

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Recent Webinar

Broad Community Development of the Unified Forecast System, Using the WAVEWATCH III® Wind Model as an Example – Hendrik Tolman, NOAA / WNS / STI

Thursday, November 11, 2022, 3 PM ET.

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What is the UFS?  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. UFS is designed to support the Weather Enterprise and to be the source system for NOAA’s operational numerical weather prediction applications. Read more about UFS.

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