The Unified Forecast System (UFS) is a community-based, coupled, comprehensive Earth modeling system. It is designed to be the source system for NOAA’s operational numerical weather prediction applications while enabling research, development, and contribution opportunities for the broader Weather Enterprise. For more information about the UFS, visit the UFS Portal.
The UFS includes multiple applications that support different forecast durations and spatial domains. This documentation describes the development branch of the UFS Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application, which targets predictions of atmospheric behavior on a limited spatial domain and on time scales from minutes to several days. The development branch of the application is continually evolving as the system undergoes open development. The latest SRW App release (v2.1.0) represents a snapshot of this continuously evolving system.
UFS Development Team. (2022, Nov. 17). Unified Forecast System (UFS) Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application (Version v2.1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7277602
Release Date: 11/17/2022
Release Description: The SRW Application v2.1.0 includes a prognostic atmospheric model, pre- and post-processing, and a community workflow for running the system end-to-end. These components are documented within this User’s Guide and supported through GitHub Discussions. New and improved capabilities for this release include:
Future work will expand the capabilities of the application to include data assimilation (DA) and a forecast restart/cycling capability.
Documentation:
Release Date: 06/23/2022
Release Description: The SRW Application v2.0.0 includes a prognostic atmospheric model, pre- and post-processing, and a community workflow for running the system end-to-end. These components are documented within this User’s Guide and supported through a community forum (https://forums.ufscommunity.org/). New and improved capabilities for this release include the addition of a verification package (METplus) for both deterministic and ensemble simulations and support for four Stochastically Perturbed Perturbation (SPP) schemes. Future work will expand the capabilities of the application to include data assimilation (DA) and a forecast restart/cycling capability.
Documentation:
Release Date: 09/16/2021
Release Description: Bug fix release. There is a full description of the version 1.0.1 release here.
Documentation:
Release Date: 03/04/2021
Release Description: The UFS Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application targets predictions of atmospheric behavior on a limited spatial domain and on time scales from less than an hour out to several days. The SRW Application version 1.0 release includes a prognostic atmospheric model, pre- and post-processing, and a community workflow for running the system end-to-end. More details are provided here.
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