Description:

• Gaps, needs and opportunities for developing future Earth prediction systems, including recent work on numerics, physics, next-gen technologies, machine learning, artificial intelligence, observations, and data assimilation. How data is inspiring innovation in community model development efforts. Coupled applications and impacts to the future of Earth prediction systems, including air quality, wildfire and fire hazards. Current status, innovations, applications, and future developments
• Community-developed scientific and technological enhancements for weather enterprise and societal needs. Impacts of community models to operational applications, services and products in numerical weather prediction. Open innovation, open development and open source approaches in community models and the Unified Forecast System (UFS) framework. Processes and practices for transition of scientific innovation to commercial and public operations. Community perspectives on research-to-operations-to-research processes
• Shared community infrastructure for Earth system modeling and coupling. Planning for software and hardware of the future. Workflows, dependencies, continuous deployment and multi-platform support