Members of the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) attended the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting last week in San Francisco, CA and engaged the community in a number of EPIC ways. The AGU Fall Meeting is the most influential event in the world dedicated to the advancement of Earth and space sciences with over 25,000 attendees from 100+ counties.
EPIC’s involvement kicked off on Monday, December 11th when Dr. Jose-Henrique Alves 1, 2, 3, Keven Blackman 1, 2, 3, 4, and Christopher Domanti 1, 2, 3, 4 teamed up to give an overview and update of the EPIC Program at the NOAA booth. This caught the attention of several students who talked with the team after the presentation. EPIC also supported the UFS presentation at the NOAA booth on Tuesday, December 12th.
The sessions on community modeling took place on Thursday, December 14th, starting with poster sessions. Keven Blackman, Chris Domanti, and Dr. Mark Potts 1, 2, 3, 5 talked with the community about EPIC Community Infrastructure Supporting Innovation of the Unified Forecast System and EPIC Community Engagement Supporting Community Modeling Innovation. Their posters were displayed alongside the UFS poster Got Code? Join the UFS Community!, presented by Dr. Hendrik Tolman 1, 6, 7. The three consecutive posters allowed the community to see all the great work being done by both the UFS and EPIC. Many interested students learned for the first time about the UFS and how to get involved, and several engaged developers came to collaborate and learn about recent work. Later in the day, Dr. Jong Kim 1, 2, 3, 8 presented on Parameter Sensitivity Analysis in the NOAA UFS Land Data Assimilation System, and Dr. Mark Potts presented on Advances Towards In-Core Gain Form Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter (GETKF) Data Assimilation Using JEDI and a Coupled UFS Model. The day concluded with the UFS-EPIC Modeling Forum Town Hall with remarks from Dr. Michael Morgan, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction. The discussion highlighted the partnership between NOAA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) as well as emerging Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning applications for weather prediction.
This was EPIC’s second appearance at the annual AGU Fall Meeting, and it was considered another all-around success! After engaging with the community, it was clear that they now understand the importance of community modeling and its applications. Discussions were more focused on how EPIC and the UFS can enhance the source system for numerical weather prediction. The team is looking forward to our next big event, the 104th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, as well as the 3rd annual Unifying Innovations in Forecasting Capabilities Workshop (UIFCW) in late summer 2024!!
Affiliations:
- NOAA
- Weather Program Office (WPO)
- EPIC
- Raytheon
- Redline
- National Weather Service (NWS)
- Office of Science and Technology Integration (OSTI)
- Science and Technology Corporation (STC)
Presentations:
- Advances towards in-core Gain Form Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter (GETKF) Data Assimilation using JEDI and a coupled UFS model
- Parameter Sensitivity Analysis in the NOAA UFS Land Data Assimilation System
- Earth Prediction Innovation Center – Community Engagement-Poster
- Earth Prediction Innovation Center – Community Infrastructure-Poster
