Hendrik Tolman1, Frederick Toepfer1, Timothy Schneider1, and Richard B. Rood2
Abstract
Based on recommendations from various reviews, the National Weather Service (NWS) is moving to a Unified Forecast System (UFS) to be applied to all spatial and temporal scales for which the NWS needs model guidance to produce forecasts and Impact-based Decision Support Services (IDSS). Over the last three years, the NWS has developed plans to move toward a UFS, and these plans have already resulted in a simplification of the production suite while moving towards a UFS. In parallel to this planning, the NWS has executed a Research to Operations (R2O) initiative to create an advanced Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS). Whereas NGGPS mostly focuses on atmospheric modeling, the UFS expands this to the entire set of (coupled) modeling requirements for the NWS.
This presentation will address the following aspects of the UFS
- Strategic planning and design.
- The UFS as a community effort, and the corresponding
- UFS Steering Committee.
- Up to date progress on the development of the UFS.
1 NOAA, National Weather Service, Office of Science and technology Integration
2 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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