- Extend forecast skill beyond 8 to 10 days and support development of products for weeks 3 and 4 to extend weather forecasting to 30 days
- Improve hurricane track and intensity forecasts
The proposed NGGPS Coupled Model will include a single atmospheric dynamic core; a suite of atmospheric physics; and numerical ocean, wave, sea ice, land surface, aerosol and atmospheric composition models. This model will be integrated with data assimilation, ensemble design, post-processing, and creation of guidance products within the NOAA Environmental Modeling System (NEMS) and Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) infrastructure.
Model Development Teams/Working Groups, comprised of scientists and modelers from NOAA and across US Government agencies and laboratories, cooperative institutions, universities, and the international numerical weather prediction community are working towards a common goal of developing a Unified Forecast System (UFS). The Working Groups are addressing various aspects of NGGPS and accelerating model component and system development, including integrating the new FV3 dynamical core into both global and regional models, accelerating the evolution of model physics, implementing the Common Community Physics Package (CCPP), developing data assimilation improvements, and creating optimal verification methods and tools to evaluate the performance of the NGGPS model. Enhanced coordination among partners is accelerating all efforts and integrating community development into testing at EMC and transition to operations.
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