Session 1B Special Session: The UFS-R2O Project: Advancing NOAA’s Unified Forecast System [UFS] as a Collaborative Community-Based Modeling System for Research and Operations: Part I

Monday, 13 January 2025: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
341 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O)
Cochairs:
Vijay S. Tallapragada, NWS, NCEP/EMC/MDAB, College Park, MD and James L. Kinter

Funded jointly by NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Science and Technology Integration (OSTI) and the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Weather Program Office (WPO), the UFS-R2O Project has made significant progress since its inception in July 2020, coordinating a large community of researchers, both inside and outside NOAA, for integrating new research into the operational UFS applications. 
The UFS-R2O Project was conceived with a focus on leveraging the nascent UFS community to build new UFS applications that will replace several existing operational modeling systems and simplify the NCEP Production Suite (NPS). The project consists of four integrated teams covering the global Medium Range Weather and Subseasonal (MRW/SubX); the Seasonal (SFS), the regional Short Range Weather/Convection Allowing Modeling (SRW/CAM); and the Hurricane applications, and are supported by seven cross-cutting development teams.

This Special Session on UFS-R2O Project is aimed at providing highlights and the outcomes of the UFS R2O Project thus far, with emphasis on accomplishments and future plans from the UFS Application Teams and Development Teams, community engagement and collaborative environment, and plans for the future. We also seek to make the collaboration even more productive and bring in new team members from the UFS community to contribute to the improvement of the nation’s operational prediction systems for the benefit of all of us.
Convener: Vijay S. Tallapragada, NOAA

Papers:
8:30 AM
1B.1
The Unified Forecast System Research to Operations (UFS-R2O) Project: A Community Perspective
James L. Kinter, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

8:45 AM
1B.2
Unified Forecast System Research to Operations (UFS-R2O) Project Phase II: Status Update and Future Plans
Vijay S. Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD; and J. S. Whitaker and J. L. Kinter

9:00 AM
1B.3
Transitioning Research Unified Forecast System Applications to Operations
Ivanka Stajner, EMC, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Meixner, V. S. Tallapragada, J. J. Levit, J. R. Carley, A. Mehra, D. T. Kleist, F. Yang, and R. Montuoro

9:15 AM
1B.4
Development of Infrastructure to Support the Transition of the Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS) to the Joint Effort for Data assimilation Integration (JEDI)
Cory R Martin, PhD, NWS, College Park, MD; and A. Collard, K. J. Dougherty, T. J. Elless, D. Holdaway, D. T. Kleist, H. E. Liu, R. Mahajan, R. McLaren, D. A. New, E. Safford, R. Treadon, and G. Vernieres

9:30 AM
1B.5
UFS Weather Model Infrastructure Development
Jun Wang, NWS, College Park, MD; NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and D. Worthen, D. Jovic, B. Curtis, D. P. Sarmiento, N. Szapiro, A. Tsay, D. Rosen, G. J. Theurich, M. Vertenstein, U. Turuncoglu, B. Liu, J. Edwards, R. Montuoro, J. Kim, R. Mahajan, and J. R. Carley

Handout (1.7 MB)

9:45 AM
1B.6
Advancements in Physics Parameterizations for Global Earth System Modeling: Unveiling GFSv17/GEFSv13/SFSv1 Physics under the Unified Forecast System (UFS) Research to Operations (R2O) project
Lisa Bengtsson, NOAA/OAR/PSL, Boulder, CO; and F. Yang

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