UIFCW 2023
Unifying Innovations in Forecasting Capabilities Workshop
Day 1 Presentations – July 24, 2023
Center Bay
Welcome & Kickoff
MC | Gillian Petro – Technical Writer, EPIC/STC (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Opening Remarks by Dr. Michael Morgan, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction
Speaker | Dr. Michael Morgan – Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction, NOAA (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Remarks from Dorothy Koch, Weather Program Office (WPO) Director, and Stephan Smith, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Integration (OSTI)
Speakers |
Dr. Dorothy Koch – Director of the Weather Program Office, NOAA/OAR/WPO (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Dr. Stephan Smith – Director of the Office of Science and Technology Integration, NOAA/NWS/OSTI (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Overview: State of the Science of UFS
Description | This session provides an overview of the state of UFS science.
Speakers |
Dr. Jim Kinter – Director of the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) & Professor of Climate Dynamics, George Mason University (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Dr. Vijay Tallapragada – Senior Scientist (ST), NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
Jeffrey S. Whitaker – Meteorologist, NOAA/OAR/ESRL/PSL
Why UFS? Using UFS as a Teaching Tool in Academia
Description | This session will focus on UFS as a teaching tool, including use cases and needs.
Speaker | Sarah Lu – Research scientist, University at Albany – SUNY & JCSDA (presentation slides: PPT )
Partnerships: How to Expand Our Community
Description | This session will discuss the need for partnerships, strategies to create partnerships, and expanding the community.
Speaker | Tamara Battle – Policy & Partnerships Lead, NOAA/OAR/WPO (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Inclusion in Community Modeling Followed by a Panel Discussion on the Importance and Need for Diversity & Inclusion (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Description | Leaders from EPIC, the UFS, and UFS-R2O will give a talk on community modeling followed by a panel discussion on the importance and need for diversity and inclusion in community modeling.
Speaker | Dr. Neil Jacobs – Chief Science Advisor for the Unified Forecast System (UFS), UCAR
Moderated by | Dr. Maoyi Huang – EPIC Program Manager, NOAA/OAR/WPO
Panelists |
Dr. DaNa Carlis, PMP – Director of the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), NOAA/OAR/ESRL/NSSL
Dr. Sen Chiao – Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Howard University and Director of the NOAA Cooperative Science Center in Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology (NCAS-M), NOAA/NCAS-M
Dr. Michael Farrar – Director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA/NWS/NCEP
Dr. Shakila Merchant, PMP – Director of CUNY HIRES and Deputy Director of the CUNY CREST Institute; Deputy Director of NOAA CESSRST
Bill Parker – Meteorologist-in-Charge (Jackson, MS WFO), NOAA/NWS
Welcome Event for New WINGS Dissertation Fellows
Description | A welcome session for all new WINGS Dissertation Fellows. During this time, WINGS fellows will present their projects and network to find mentors. (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
WINGS Dissertation Fellows:
Emily Faber (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Shreyas Dhavale (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Joseph Knisely (presentation slides: PDF)
Unifying Innovations in Forecasting Capabilities Workshop
Day 2 Presentations – July 25, 2023
Center Bay
Welcome and Kickoff
MC | Alekya Srinivasan – William M. Lapenta Intern, EPIC (presentation slides: PPT | PDF
Parallel Sessions with Updates on & Challenges of UFS Applications
Medium-Range Weather and Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Applications
Medium-range weather includes atmospheric behavior out to about two weeks, while sub-seasonal to seasonal includes atmospheric and ocean behavior from about two weeks to about one year. See more information about the UFS Configuration and current developments.
Speakers | Medium-Range Weather and Subseasonal to Seasonal Applications
Jessica Meixner – Overview of the Next Global Forecast System GFSv17 (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Lydia Stefanova – Evaluation of High Resolution Prototypes for the Next Global Forecast System GFSv17 (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Lisa Bengtsson – Improving the Representation of Tropical Variability and Its Large-Scale Teleconnections in NOAA’s Unified Forecast System (presentation slides: PDF)
Maria Gehne – Convectively Coupled Equatorial Wave Skill in the Unified Forecast System (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Benjamin Cash – Wintertime Diabatic Heating Biases in UFS Prototype-P8 (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Guo-Yuan Lien – The Operational Use and Local Development of the UFS MRW-GSI System at the Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Yuejian Zhu – Introduce the Next Global Ensemble Forecast System for Weather, Subseasonal, and Monthly Predictions (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Zhaoxia Pu – Developing a Strongly Coupled Land-Atmosphere Data Assimilation for the UFS With JEDI
Rahul Mahajan – Demystifying NCEP’s Global Workflow [GFS] (presentation slides: PDF)
Austin Coleman – Better Use of Ensembles in Operations Through Clustering and Ensemble Sensitivity Analysis (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Community Discussion: Insights from Industry and Academia
Description | Professors and industry professionals will present on the area(s) in which they encountered the greatest barriers to success using different UFS applications.
Speakers |
Luke Peffers – Chief Scientific Officer, Tomorrow.io (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Xuguang Wang – Robert Lowry Chair Professor and Presidential Research Professor, University of Oklahoma (presentation slides: PDF)
Panel Discussion on Use Cases & Needs of UFS Applications by New Professionals, Professors & Industry
Description | Experts will respond to each use case presentation and develop solutions for how the presenters can overcome their barriers.
Moderated by | Dr. Ligia Bernardet – Chief of Earth Prediction Advancement Division, NOAA/ESRL/GSL/DTC
Speakers |
Sarah Lu – Research scientist, University at Albany – SUNY and JCSDA (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Christiane Jablonowski – Professor, University of Michigan
Dr. Shih-Wei Wei – Postdoctoral fellow, University of Albany and JCSDA (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Parallel Sessions With Cross-Cutting Concepts
Cross-Cutting Concepts #1 – Physics, Verification, and Validation
Presentations will feature cutting-edge research on topics such as scale-aware physics, land physics, verification, and validation, which impact multiple applications.
Speakers | Cross-Cutting Concepts #1 – Physics, Verification, and Validation
Zhuo Wang – Evaluation and Process-Oriented Diagnosis of the GEFSv12 Reforecasts (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Sarah Lu – Integrating JEDI and METplus for Evaluation of Atmospheric Composition Forecasts (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Dustin Swales – Hierarchical Physics Development With the Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) Single Column Model (SCM) (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Weiwei Li – DTC Contributions to the UFS Physics Development and Advanced Testing and Evaluation Towards UFS Physics Unification (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Jian-Wen Bao – Developing Next-Generation Physics for UFS Applications: The Microphysics Parameterization Challenges (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Songyou Hong – A New Double-Moment Cloud Microphysics Parameterization Scheme for the UFS (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Cenlin He – Improving Snow Cover Modeling in the UFS/Noah-MP Land Component (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Unifying Innovations in Forecasting Capabilities Workshop
Day 2 Presentations – July 25, 2023
South Bay
Parallel Sessions with Updates on & Challenges of UFS Applications
Short-Range Weather Application and Rapid Refresh Forecast System
Short-range weather includes atmospheric behavior from less than an hour to several days. See more information on the UFS Configuration and current developments.
Speakers | Short-Range Weather Application and Rapid Refresh Forecast System
Matthew E. Pyle – The Current State of NOAA’s Rapid Refresh Forecast System (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Israel Jirak – Evaluation of the Rapid Refresh Forecast System During the 2023 HWT Spring Forecasting Experiment (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Louis Wicker – Assessment of Convective-Scale Attributes of the FV3 Dycore Using Idealized Simulations (presentation slides: PDF)
Yue Yang – The Role of Convective-Scale Static Background Error Covariance in FV3-LAM-Based Hybrid EnVar for Direct Radar Reflectivity Data Assimilation Over the CONUS (presentation slides: PDF)
Terra Ladwig – Recent Collaborative Development of the Three-Dimensional Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (3DRTMA) Using the Short-Range Weather Application (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Malaquias Pena – Towards Consistent Wind-Wave-Current Analysis Products in the 3DRTMA (presentation slides: PDF)
Adam Clark – Evaluations of Three Regional MPAS Configurations for Severe Weather Forecasting Applications During the 2023 NOAA/Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment (presentation slides: PDF)
Curtis Alexander – The Rapid Refresh Forecast System: Looking Beyond the First Operational Version (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Parallel Sessions With Cross-Cutting Concepts
Cross-Cutting Concepts #2 – System Architecture
Presentations will feature cutting-edge research on system architecture-related topics that impact multiple applications.
Speakers | Cross-Cutting Concepts #2 – System Architecture
Edward Hartnett – Better Compression for UFS With Support from the NetCDF Community (presentation slides: PDF)
Oliver Elbert – Pace: A GPU-enabled Implementation of FV3GFS Using GT4Py (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Tom Auligné – JCSDA Next-Generation Earth System Data Assimilation for the UFS (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Arun Chawla – Model Infrastructure Development in UFS Weather Model (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Yongming Wang – Simultaneous Multiscale Data Assimilation to Improve Convective-Scale Forecasts Over the Continental US (CONUS) (presentation slides: PDF)
Christina Holt – Unifying Workflows for UFS Applications (presentation slides: PDF)
Unifying Innovations in Forecasting Capabilities Workshop
Day 2 Presentations – July 25, 2023
North Bay
Parallel Sessions with Updates on & Challenges of UFS Applications
Hurricanes
The Hurricane Application forecasts hurricane track, intensity, and related effects out to about one week. See more information about the UFS Configuration and current development.
Speakers | Hurricanes
Zhan Zhang – Operational Implementation of NOAA’s Next-Generation Hurricane Prediction System: Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFSv1) (presentation slides: PDF)
Jonathan Martinez – The National Hurricane Center Model Evaluation Process for the Operational Implementation of the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System Version 1 (HAFSv1) Models (presentation slides: PDF)
Kun Gao – Improving Hurricane Track Prediction in a Large-Domain High-Resolution Model (presentation slides: PDF)
Kathryn Newman – Evaluation of UFS Tropical Cyclone Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts Across Physics Suites and Applications (presentation slides: PDF)
Hyun-sook Kim – Progress of Development of HAFS-MOM6 Coupling and Preliminary Hurricane Forecast Results (presentation slides: PDF)
Xu Lu – Simultaneous Multiscale 4DEnVar With Scale-Dependent Localization (SDL) in HAFS for Hurricane Predictions (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Jon Poterjoy – HAFS as a Testbed for non-Gaussian Data Assimilation Developments for the UFS (presentation slides: PDF)
Xuejin Zhang – Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System Development: Future Priorities (presentation slides: PDF)
Parallel Sessions With Cross-Cutting Concepts
Cross-Cutting Concepts #3 – Dynamics and Nesting
Presentations will feature cutting-edge research on topics such as dynamics and nesting, which impact multiple applications.
Speakers | Cross-Cutting Concepts #3 – Dynamics and Nesting
Lucas Harris – The Worldwide, Federated FV3 Community (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Paul Ullrich – Forecasting and Hindcasting Capabilities in the Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model (SCREAM) Model (presentation slides: PDF)
Ping Zhu – A Scale-Aware Three-Dimensional TKE Turbulent Mixing Parameterization for the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS) (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Jim Purser – The Motivation, Specification, and Optimization of the Extended Schmidt Gnomonic (ESG) Grid for Limited-Area Applications (presentation slides: PDF)
Joseph Mouallem – Novel Grid Capabilities in GFDL’s Dynamical Core FV3 (presentation slides: PDF)
William Ramstrom – Moving Nest Features for HAFS (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Unifying Innovations in Forecasting Capabilities Workshop
Day 3 Presentations – July 26, 2023
Center Bay
Welcome and Kickoff
MC | Dr. Tracy Fanara – Coastal Modeling Portfolio Manager, NOAA/NOS/IOOS (presentation slides: PPT)
Open Discussion: Roadblocks
Description | Contributors to the UFS will identify and discuss what they see as roadblocks to the UFS. Debrief findings of the roundtable discussion on community modeling and highlight how these findings will be addressed in the future.
Social & Behavioral Science Professional Talk
Description | A social and behavioral sciences professional will speak about integrating these fields into the greater Weather Enterprise.
Speakers |
Dr. Valerie Were – Social and Behavioral Science Program Analyst, CIRA & NWS (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Dr. Leticia Williams – Program Manager, NWS/OSTI
EPIC Support for the UFS
Description | An EPIC team member will demonstrate how EPIC supports the UFS. (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Speakers | David Huber – EPIC Sr Systems Engineer & Application Development Team Product Owner, Redline Performance Solutions, LLC
EPIC Infrastructure Update
Description | An EPIC team member will provide an EPIC infrastructure update.
Speakers | Keven Blackman – EPIC Contract Chief Engineer, Raytheon (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Panel Discussion on JCSDA, EPIC, and Community DA Development
Description | Each collaborating data assimilation (DA) institution (i.e., JCSDA, EPIC, PSL, and EMC) will summarize their role in the development of DA; presentations will touch on infrastructure, science, and community support and will be followed by a Q&A. (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Moderated by | Krishna Kumar – EPIC Program Coordinator & Senior Program Scientist, EPIC/NOAA/OAR/WPO
Panelists |
Dr. Thomas Auligne – Director, JCSDA
Dr. Sergey Frolov – Reanalysis and Data Assimilation Team Lead, NOAA/OAR/ESRL/PSL
Dr. Maoyi Huang – EPIC Program Manager, NOAA/OAR/WPO
Dr. Neil Jacobs – Chief Science Advisor for the Unified Forecast System (UFS), UCAR
Daryl Kleist – Supervisory Physical Scientist, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
Dr. Hendrik Tolman – Senior Advisor for Advanced Modeling Systems, NOAA/NWS/OSTI
Data Management, Optimization, Compression
Description | The scientific community targets the data assimilation of petabytes of observations for the development of machine learning models or model components, thereby transforming weather and climate prediction from a physics problem into a data problem. In this session, we welcome a presentation on the infrastructure necessary for improved data management, optimization, compression, versioning, licensing, and seamless access, which will enable scientific innovation.
Speaker | Milan Klöwer – Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (presentation slides: PDF)
Unifying Innovations in Forecasting Capabilities Workshop
Day 4 Presentations – July 27, 2023
Center Bay
Welcome and Kickoff
MC | Claudia Womble – EPIC Contracting Officer Representative (COR), NOAA/OAR/WPO/EPIC (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Unified Model Practices
Description | This talk provides an overview of the model development process used for Unified Modeling. This information can inform our own UFS model development process and contribute to establishing best practices for UFS development.
Speaker | Dr. David Walters – Scientific Strategic Head of Research to Operations, UK Met Office (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Research to Operations (R2O) and Operations to Research (O2R) Process With Q&A
Description | This presentation will discuss the R2O2R process with a particular focus on stages and gates and perspectives from testbeds. A Q & A will follow the presentation.
Speakers |
Keven Blackman – EPIC Contract Chief Engineer, Raytheon (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Dr. Andrea J. Ray – Physical Scientist, NOAA/OAR/ESRL/PSL, Hydrometeorological Testbed, & TBPGCC Chair (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Dr. Hendrik Tolman – Senior Advisor for Advanced Modeling Systems, NOAA/NWS/OSTI (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Keynote: Seeking Portability and Productivity for Numerical Weather Prediction Model Code
Description | Achieving hardware-specific implementation and optimization while maintaining productivity in an increasingly diverse environment of supercomputing architectures is challenging and requires rethinking traditional numerical weather prediction model programming designs. We provide insights into the ongoing porting and development of ECMWF’s non-hydrostatic FVM atmospheric dynamical core option in Python with the domain-specific library GT4Py. The presentation highlights the GT4Py approach for implementing weather and climate models, shows preliminary high-performance computing results on CPUs and GPUs for FVM and other ECMWF relevant codes, and outlines the roadmap for the overall model porting project with partners at CSCS and ETH Zurich.
Speaker | Dr. Christian Kühnlein – Senior Scientist in the Earth System Modelling Section, ECMWF (presentation slides: PDF)
Panel Discussion on Open Computing & Shaping the Future of Computing for Modeling
Description | The idea of open-modeling thrives and requires open-computing, which spans along different sectors including silicon industry, computing providers, ecosystem developers and others. To shape the future of computing that enables kilometer scale ensemble-based global modeling, the multidisciplinary cross industry collaboration between software, silicon, system manufacturers, cloud providers, academia are required. This session/panel invites collaborators to discuss their thoughts/insight on any innovative/emerging technologies (in silicon, software, systems) that enables extending the reach of open computing and/or helps shaping future of computing for modeling.
Moderated by | Keven Blackman – EPIC Contract Chief Engineer, Raytheon and Iman Gohari– Ph.D. Sr. Software Engineer, Intel (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Panelists |
Tim Carroll – Portfolio Lead for Weather Climate, Microsoft Corporation (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Dr. Stefan Gary – Senior Application Engineer and Computational Scientist, Parallel Works (presentation slides: PDF)
Parallel Sessions With Emerging Applications
Speaker | Emerging Applications 1 – Coastal and Marine
Travis Sluka – JEDI-Based Data Assimilation for the UFS Marine Components (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Christopher Cox – UFS-Arctic: A Pan-Arctic Regional Application of the UFS (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Panagiotis Velissariou – Development of the Next-Generation UFS Coastal Modeling Framework (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Joannes J. Westerink – Incorporating Thermohaline Circulation and Hydrology into Global STOFS 2D+, NOAA’s Fast Integrated Multi-Scale Multi-Process Operational Water Level Model (presentation slides: PDF)
UFS as a Decision Tool: A Private Industry Perspective
Description | This session will showcase perspectives of private industry professionals who use the UFS as a decision tool for their business objectives.
Speaker |
Luke Peffers – Chief Scientific Officer, Tomorrow.io (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Dr. Shuxia Zhang – HPC Application Engineer, Engelhart Commodity Trading Partner (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Dr. Stefan Gary – Senior Application Engineer and Computational Scientist, Parallel Works (presentation slides: PDF)
Emerging Technologies: AI
Description | Science community members will present on emerging technologies in artificial intelligence.
Speaker | Emerging Technologies: AI
Jared Goldman – Hybrid AI for Multiscale Wildfire Risk Assessment and Mitigation (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Miodrag Rancic – Application of ML/AI for Calibration of Parameters of the Multigrid Beta Filter (MGBF) and its Performance Within the Three-Dimensional Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (3D RTMA) Project (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Emerging Technologies: Cloud Computing
Description | Science community members will present on emerging technologies in cloud computing.
Speaker | Emerging Technologies: Cloud Computing
Alexander J.W. Richert – Spack-stack: A reproducible, many-platform software stack for operational weather applications (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Sergey Frolov – Augmenting Covariance Operators With Machine Learning: Generating Dedicated Datasets in the Cloud and a Prototype Model (presentation slides: PDF)
Science Spotlight on Hierarchical System Development
Description | The Hierarchical System Development (HSD) approach captures steps for contributing innovations to the UFS from WPO-funded projects, NOAA labs, and the community in general.
Speaker | Dr. Michael Ek – Director of Joint Numerical Testbed, NCAR/RAL (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Unifying Innovations in Forecasting Capabilities Workshop
Day 4 Presentations – July 27, 2023
South Bay
Parallel Sessions With Emerging Applications
Speaker | Emerging Applications 2 – Space Weather
Fabrizio Sassi – A Whole Earth System View for Heliophysics: A NASA/Goddard View (presentation slides: PDF)
Kevin Viner – The Whole Atmosphere Model (WAM) Application of NOAA’s Unified Forecast System (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Hanli Liu – Development of WACCM-X as the SIMA Geospace Component (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Jonathan L Vigh – Going Beyond the Terrestrial: Space Weather Verification Using METplus (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Unifying Innovations in Forecasting Capabilities Workshop
Day 4 Presentations – July 27, 2023
North Bay
Parallel Sessions With Emerging Applications
Speaker | Emerging Applications 3 – Air Quality
Ravan Ahmadov – Simulating Radiative Effect of Smoke and Dust Aerosols Using NOAA’s Next-Generation Storm-Scale Numerical Weather Prediction Model (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Jianping Huang – Enhancing Wildfire Predictions With the UFS-AQM Online Prediction System: A Case Study of Alberta Fires (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Bo Huang – Extending the JEDI-Based Global Aerosol Assimilation System to Improve Aerosol Prediction in the Unified Forecast System (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Barry Baker – Development of the Configurable ATmospheric Chemistry (CATChem) Model and Its Application Within the Unified Forecast System Forming a Unified UFS-Chem (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Lori Bruhwiler – Towards a State-of-the-Art Greenhouse Gas Data Assimilation/Flux Inversion Modeling System (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Unifying Innovations in Forecasting Capabilities Workshop
Day 5 Presentations – July 28, 2023
Center Bay
Welcome and Kickoff
MC | Aaron Jones – EPIC Community Engagement Product Owner, EPIC/Raytheon (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Updates & Challenges of UFS Applications: S2S/GEFS/SFS
Description | This session will highlight updates on the Subseasonal to Seasonal Weather Application, Global Ensemble Forecast System, and Seasonal Forecast System. Each presenter will have 15 minutes to present their research on their respective subject.
Speakers | Updates & Challenges of UFS Applications: S2S/GEFS/SFS
Philip Pegion – Impact of Stochastic Physics in Coupled Simulations of the UFS and CESM (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Neil Barton – Diagnosing Sea Ice in the Unified Forecast System (UFS) (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Yan Xue – NOAA’s Seasonal Forecast System (SFS) Development Plan and Project Management (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Bing Fu – The Development of Coupled GEFS: Status and Challenges (presentation slides: PDF)
Shan Sun – Examining the Sensitivity of SST to Ocean Initial Conditions in Seasonal Forecasts (presentation slides: PDF)
Coffee Break / Live Demo Running the UFS SRW Application in the Cloud
Description | Participants can watch a live demonstration of running the UFS SRW Application in the cloud.
Speakers | Dr. Natalie Perlin – EPIC Sr Systems Engineer, Redline Performance Solutions, LLC (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Making the Unified Forecast System Cool
Description | The community will discuss strategies for entry into the UFS and how to draw in the next generation and the existing community. Current students will discuss their findings.
Speakers |
Christian Barreto-Schuler – Investigating the Radiative Impact of Saharan Dust Aerosols on Medium-Range Forecasts for African Easterly Waves in the Unified Forecast System (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Laura Dailey – Developing Guidelines for Measuring, Defining, and Fostering Innovations in Earth Prediction Systems at NOAA’s Weather Program Office (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Alekya Srinivasan – Representation Matters: Insights, Strategies, and Perspectives from the Inaugural UFS/EPIC Student Ambassador (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Debrief: Findings, Recommendations & Closing Statements
Description | For our final session, representatives from EPIC, the UFS, and UFS-R2O will come together for a look back at our key findings and takeaways from the workshop. (presentation slides: PPT | PDF)
Speakers |
Christopher Domanti – EPIC Contract Program Manager, Raytheon
Kevin Garrett – Modeling Program Director, NOAA/NWS/OSTI
Dr. Maoyi Huang – EPIC Program Manager, NOAA/OAR/WPO
Dr. Neil Jacobs – Chief Science Advisor for the Unified Forecast System (UFS), UCAR
Dr. Hendrik Tolman – Senior Advisor for Advanced Modeling Systems, NOAA/NWS/OSTI
