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Topic: Modeling

Cargo ship docked in Corpus Christi harbor, Texas

NOAA launches two coastal models for mariner safety on West Coast, Gulf of Mexico

March 31, 2021

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Cargo ship docked in Corpus Christi harbor, Texas

Powerful lightning bolts strike from a sunset thunderstorm in the Arizona desert.

NOAA upgrades flagship U.S. global weather model

March 22, 2021

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Powerful lightning bolts strike from a sunset thunderstorm in the Arizona desert.

NOAA's powerful Global Forecast System model was upgraded today, providing forecasters with a more accurate 4D picture of how a weather system will evolve. Gray, blue and white colors depict moisture in the atmosphere on May 11, 2016, over North America.

NOAA to announce major upgrades to U.S. weather model March 22

March 15, 2021

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NOAA's powerful Global Forecast System model was upgraded today, providing forecasters with a more accurate 4D picture of how a weather system will evolve. Gray, blue and white colors depict moisture in the atmosphere on May 11, 2016, over North America.

Rip currents are powerful, channeled currents of water flowing away from shore. Learn what rip currents are and how to escape them before you enter the water - it may save your life!

Wave model upgrade includes hourly rip current predictions

March 2, 2021

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Rip currents are powerful, channeled currents of water flowing away from shore. Learn what rip currents are and how to escape them before you enter the water - it may save your life!

Corridor of computer servers

NOAA upgrades Global Ensemble Forecast System

September 23, 2020

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Trekking through heavy rain.

Science briefing for media on major U.S. weather modeling system upgrade

September 21, 2020

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Trekking through heavy rain.

NOAA's HRRR-Smoke model can help warn fire managers and local communities where heavy smoke will collect when a fire "lays down" overnight, as the Four Mile Fire did in Boulder, Colorado, in 2010.

When smoke is in the air, all eyes turn to this NOAA weather model

August 26, 2020

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NOAA's HRRR-Smoke model can help warn fire managers and local communities where heavy smoke will collect when a fire "lays down" overnight, as the Four Mile Fire did in Boulder, Colorado, in 2010.

A supercell thunderstorm in Kansas on May 27, 2019.

NOAA seeks partnership to help develop world’s best weather model

March 20, 2020

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A supercell thunderstorm in Kansas on May 27, 2019.

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NOAA launches new approach to accelerate innovation and new science in weather modeling

March 11, 2020

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High-performance computers are crucial tools for weather and climate forecast models.

U.S. to triple operational weather and climate supercomputing capacity

February 20, 2020

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supercomputing/IT

High-performance computers are crucial tools for weather and climate forecast models.

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