The Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) as a Catalyst for NOAA’s Future Earth Prediction System

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) established the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) to be the catalyst for community research and modeling focused on informing and accelerating advances in our nation’s operational numerical weather prediction (NWP) forecast modeling systems via the Unified Forecast System (UFS). 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. It is designed to support the Weather Enterprise and to be the source system for NOAA‘s operational NWP applications.

This presentation will serve as an introduction to all talks in this session. These talks will highlight recent progress in EPIC’s seven investment areas: (1) external engagement and community, (2) software and Performance Engineering, (3) software infrastructure, (4) user Support Services, (5) cloud-based high-performance computing, (6) scientific innovation, and (7) management and planning. Jointly, all these investment areas advance EPIC’s mission as the catalyst for community research and modeling advances that continually inform and accelerate advances in our nation’s operational forecast modeling systems.

Community members are invited to participate in order to understand how they can leverage EPIC in learning, and performing research to advance the UFS, and to provide feedback on how the program can help better support the weather enterprise.