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February 25, 2026
The NOAA Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC), in collaboration with NOAA’s Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL), is pleased to announce the development and integration of an idealized aquaplanet test case into the Unified Forecast System Weather Model (UFS-WM) Hierarchical System Development (HSD) framework. Historically, aquaplanet idealized tests have been widely used to study interactions between the ocean and atmosphere by simplifying the complex interactions which exist in a fully-coupled Earth System Model (ESM) (i.e., by restricting interactions to ocean-atmosphere components, while removing land, sea ice, and other feedbacks).
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