The Unified Forecast System (UFS) is a community-based, coupled, comprehensive Earth modeling system. NOAA's operational model suite for numerical weather prediction (NWP) is quickly transitioning to the UFS from a number of different modeling systems. The UFS enables research, development, and contribution opportunities within the broader Weather Enterprise (including government, industry, and academia). For more information about the UFS, visit the UFS Portal at https://ufscommunity.org/.
The UFS includes multiple applications (see a complete list at https://ufscommunity.org/science/aboutapps/) that support different forecast durations and spatial domains. The UFS Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application 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. This SRW App v2.2.0 release represents a snapshot of this continuously evolving system.
The UFS SRW App User's Guide associated with the development branch is at: https://ufs-srweather-app.readthedocs.io/en/develop/, while the guide specific to the SRW App v2.2.0 release can be found at: https://ufs-srweather-app.readthedocs.io/en/release-public-v2.2.0/. The repository is at: https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app.
For instructions on how to clone the repository, build the code, and run the workflow, see:
- https://ufs-srweather-app.readthedocs.io/en/release-public-v2.2.0/
- https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/wiki/Getting-Started
For a debugging guide for users and developers in the field of Earth System Modeling, please see: https://epic.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Debugging-Guide.pdf
The SRW App v2.2.0 citation is as follows and should be used when presenting results based on research conducted with the App:
UFS Development Team. (2023, Oct. 31). Unified Forecast System (UFS) Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application (Version v2.2.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10015544
