Unified Forecast System
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UFS Publications & Documents

Articles

| Aug 07, 2024

The state of the UFS July 2024

Hendrik L Tolman (UFS), Maoyi Huang (EPIC)

Articles

| Dec 07, 2023

Integration of MPAS Dycore into UFS

Jun Wang (NOAA/NWS/EMC), Kevin Viner (NOAA/NWS/EMC), Dustin Swales (NOAA/OAR/GSL), Dan Rosen (NCAR/CGD), Dom Heinzeller (UCAR/JCSDA), and Ligia Bernardet (NOAA/OAR/GSL)

Articles

| Nov 03, 2023

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

Jian-Wen Bao, Fanglin Yang, Ligia Bernardet, Lisa Bengtsson and Gary Wick

Articles

| Jan 10, 2022

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

Krishnamurthy, V. and C. Stan, 2022

Articles

| May 01, 2021

Sources of subseasonal predictability over CONUS during Boreal Summer

Krishnamurthy, V., J. Meixner, L. Stephanova, J. Wang, D. Worthen, S. Moorthi, B. Li, T. Sluka, and C. Stan, 2021

Governance

| Apr 06, 2021

UFS Organization and Governance

Unified Forecast System -Steering Committee (UFS-SC)

Governance

| Apr 06, 2021

UFS Strategic Plan 2021-2025

Unified Forecast System - Steering Committee (UFS-SC) and Writing Team

Technical Reports

| Apr 23, 2020

2017-2018 Roadmap for the Production Suite at NCEP (signed in 2020)

Hendrik Tolman and John Cortinas

Technical Reports

| Apr 16, 2020

A Strategic Vision for the NOAA’s Physical Environmental Modeling Enterprise (signed in 2020)

Hendrik Tolman and John Cortinas

Articles

| Jan 07, 2020

Initial Development and Testing of a Convection-Allowing Model Scorecard

Burkely T. Gallo and Christina P. Kalb and John Halley Gotway and Henry H. Fisher and Brett Roberts and Israel L. Jirak and Adam J. Clark and Curtis Alexander and Tara L. Jensen

Articles

| Dec 06, 2019

Comparisons of QPFs Derived from Single- and Multicore Convection-Allowing Ensembles

Adam J. Clark

Charter

| Nov 30, 2019

Unified Forecast System Technical Oversight Board Charter

Charter

| Nov 30, 2019

Unified Forecast System (UFS) Steering Committee (UFS SC) Charter

Articles

| Oct 18, 2019

A Model Framework for Stochastic Representation of Uncertainties Associated with Physical Processes in NOAA’s Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS)

Lisa Bengtsson and Jian-Wen Bao and Philip Pegion and Cecile Penland and Sara Michelson and Jeffrey Whitaker

Articles

| Oct 18, 2019

Convectively Coupled Equatorial Wave Simulations Using the ECMWF IFS and the NOAA GFS Cumulus Convection Schemes in the NOAA GFS Model

Lisa Bengtsson and Juliana Dias and Maria Gehne and Peter Bechtold and Jeffrey Whitaker and Jian-Wen Bao and Linus Magnusson and Sara Michelson and Philip Pegion and Stefan Tulich and George N. Kiladis

Articles

| Sep 16, 2019

Systematic Comparison of Convection-Allowing Models during the 2017 NOAA HWT Spring Forecasting Experiment

Corey K. Potvin and Jacob R. Carley and Adam J. Clark and Louis J. Wicker and Patrick S. Skinner and Anthony E. Reinhart and Burkely T. Gallo and John S. Kain and Glen S. Romine and Eric A. Aligo and Keith A. Brewster and David C. Dowell and Lucas M. Harris and Israel L. Jirak and Fanyou Kong and Timothy A. Supinie and Kevin W. Thomas and Xuguang Wang and Yongming Wang and Ming Xue

Articles

| Sep 10, 2019

Hierarchical System Development for the UFS

Michael Ek and Cecelia DeLuca and Ligia Bernardet and Tara Jensen and Mariana Vertenstein and Arun Chawla and James Kinter and Richard Rood

Misc

| Aug 06, 2019

Unified Forecast System: @ EPIC Community Workshop

Richard Rood and Hendrik Tolman

Misc

| May 14, 2019

Unified Forecast System SIP: Research and Operations

Richard Rood and Hendrik Tolman

Misc

| May 09, 2019

Unified Forecast System Brief: Technical Oversight Board

Richard Rood and Hendrik Tolman

Misc

| Mar 01, 2019

Unified Forecast System Overview

Richard Rood and Hendrik Tolman

Misc

| Jan 30, 2019

Memorandum of Agreement among UCAR Acting on Behalf of NCAR and the NWS/NOAA and the OAR/NOAA for Co-Development of Common Modeling Infrastructure

Chris Davis and Jean-Francois Lamarque and Hendrik Tolman and DaNa Carlis

Technical Reports

| Dec 14, 2018

Community Modeling review Committee Report

Frederick Carr and James Kinter and Cecilia Bitz and Alicia R. Karspeck and Cliff Mass and Rohit Mathur and Lorenzo Polvani and Richard Rood and Elena Shevliakova and Hendrik Tolman and Ryan Torn and John Wilkin and Eric Wood and Fuqing Zhang

Technical Reports

| Nov 30, 2018

Organizing Research to Operations Transition

Richard Rood and Hendrik Tolman

Misc

| Jun 08, 2018

UFS Infrastructure: Repositories Sub-Group

Rusty Benson and Arun Chawla and Cristiana Stan and Cecelia DeLuca and Bill Sacks and Gerhard Theurich and Seth Underwood and Mariana Vertenstein and Jun Wang

Technical Reports

| Dec 21, 2017

Unified Forecast System Communication and Outreach Plan

Timothy Schneider and Cecelia DeLuca and Susan Jasko and Bhavana Rakesh and Heather Archambault and Bill Bua and Eric Chassignet and Hui-ya Chuang and Adam Clark and Jimy Dudhia and Rocky Dunlap and Michael Ek and Kate Howard and Isadora Jankov and Daryl Kleist and Sarah Lu and Avichal Mehra and Richard Rood and Hui-Shao and Jennifer Sprague-Hilderbrand and Cristiana Stan and Hendrik Tolman and Steve Warren and Betsy Weatherhead

Technical Reports

| Dec 15, 2017

UCACN Model Advisory Committee Report

UMAC members: Frederick Carr, Richard Rood, Alan Blumberg, Chris Bretherton, Eric Chassignet, Brian Colle, James Doyle, Anke Kamrath, Jim Kinter, Cliff Mass, Peter Neilley, Christa Peters-Lidard

Technical Reports

| Mar 31, 2017

System Architecture for Operational Needs and Research Collaborations

Tom Auligne and V. Balaji and Rusty Benson and Ligia Bernardet and Arun Chawla and Philip Chu and Anthony Craig and Arlindo da Silva and Cecelia DeLuca and John Derber and James Doyle and Michael Farrar and Mark Iredell and James Kinter and Jean-Francois Lamarque and John Michalakes and Philip Rasch and Suranjana Saha and Vijay Tallapragada and Gerhard Theurich and Samuel Trahan and Mariana Vertenstein and Jun Wang

Misc

| Jan 01, 2017

High-level NOAA Unified Modeling Overview

Jason Link and Hendrik Tolman and Eric Bayler and Chris Brown and Pat Burke and Jessie Carman and Scott Cross and John Dunne and Doug Lipton and Annarita Mariotti and Rick Methot and Ed Myers and Tim Schneider and Monica Grasso and Katie Robinson

Technical Reports

| Oct 05, 2016

UCACN Model Advisory Committee

UMAC members: Frederick Carr, Richard Rood, Alan Blumberg, Chris Bretherton, Eric Chassignet, Brian Colle, James Doyle, Anke Kamrath, Jim Kinter, Cliff Mass, Peter Neilley, Christa Peters-Lidard

Technical Reports

| Dec 07, 2015

Report of the UCACN Model Advisory Committee

UMAC Members: Frederick Carr, Richard Rood, Alan Blumberg, Chris Bretherton, Andy Brown, Eric Chassignet, Brian Colle, James Doyle, Tom Hamill, Anke Kamrath, Jim Kinter, Ben Kirtman, Cliff Mass, Peter Keilley, Christa Peters-Lidard