NOAA’s Subseasonal and Seasonal Applications Workshop

The objective of the workshop is to accelerate and advance the development of GEFS and SFS by fostering enhanced collaboration among model developers, users/stakeholders and researchers. We aim to bring together scientists and stakeholders from multiple sectors to address several key topics, including but not limited to, requirements and needs for NOAA’s S2S Applications (GEFS, SFS), forecaster’s priorities in improving S2S Applications, systematic model errors in North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) and other S2S systems, and experiences/insights in improving S2S modeling systems, best practices in initializing seasonal forecast systems, advancements in the development and implementation of GEFSv13, NOAA’s SFS Development Plan, and early results in developing SFSv1, updates in UFS community components (MOM6, CICE6, Noah-MP, WW3, GOCART, FV3 dycore, CCPP, CMEPS, JEDI), process-level diagnostic tools, and verification metrics, avenues for community engagement and contribution to GEFS and SFS development and use of AI methods to supplement physics-based methods for S2S applications.

Desired outcomes of the workshop include:

• Increasing collaborations among stakeholders/users, modelers and researchers
• Determination of the areas where and how the user community is willing/able to engage and collaborate with model developers
• Identification of the areas where and how the research community can help and contribute to the development of GEFS and SFS
• Identification of  research and development areas that are critically needed but under supported
• Identification of best strategies in developing operational S2S forecast systems and gaining insights from NMME and other operational models

Key Dates:
Abstract Deadline: July 10, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: July 16, 2024
Notification of Presentation Details (Oral or Poster): July 31, 2024
Confirmation of All Presenters: Aug 6, 2024
In Person Registration Deadline: August 20, 2024
Virtual Attendance Registration Deadline: Aug 28, 2024

Registrations via this website