UFS Insights Newsletter
The latest issue of the UFS Insights newsletter is now available online! Read all about the latest and greatest goings on at EPIC and the UFS!
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Hierarchical System Development (HSD) Capability Announcement
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NOAA Unified Forecast System (UFS) Replay Data
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Improved Representation of Land Processes Key to Precipitation Extremes: Integration of LM4 in the UFS
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Land Data Assimilation v2.0.0
UFS Land Data Assimilation (DA) System v2.0.0 Release
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EPIC at the AGU Annual Meeting
December 9-13, 2024
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AMS 2025 Annual Meeting
January 12-16, 2025
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EPIC Strategic Implementation Plan
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November 25, 2024

EPIC is pleased to announce the integration of two new test cases into the UFS Weather Model in support of hierarchical system development within the UFS. The two tests, an idealized baroclinic wave case and a 2020 July Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) UFS case study, are now available in the develop branch of the UFS Weather Model. 

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