Unified Forecast System
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The Unified Forecast System

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Explore code, user support, documentation, and developer info for each Unified Forecast System (UFS) application, model, or component.

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

Novel grid capabilities in GFDL’s dynamical core FV3

Dr. Joseph Mouallem

Improving Dust Emission Models: Wind Speed Bias and Alluvial Flows

Emily Faber

The UFS-AQM Online Prediction System for Enhanced Fire Predictability

Dr. Jianping Huang NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC

Ongoing Research and Developments for NOAA’s Next Generation Air Quality Model

Dr. Patrick Campbell George Mason University/NOAA-ARL Affiliate

The state of the UFS July 2024

Integration of MPAS Dycore into UFS

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

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

Sources of subseasonal predictability over CONUS during Boreal Summer

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