Welcome to the Case Studies Page for the UFS Weather Model

This documentation provides resources for representative case studies in the Unified Forecast System (UFS) Weather model using UFS Medium-Range Weather (MRW) Application (for community), UFS Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application (for community), and NOAA Environmental Modeling Center’s Global Workflow (for developers).

MRW AppGlobal WorkflowSRW App

GitHub

ufs-community/ufs-mrweather-app

Public Release

v1.0

Compsets

GFSv16beta, GFSv15p2

Case Catalog

• 2018 Hurricane Michael

• 2019 Hurricane Barry

• 2019 Hurricane Lorenzo

• 2019 Halloween Storm

• 2020 Easter Sunday Storm

• 2019 Memorial Day Heat Wave

• 2020 January Cold Blast

• 2020 Cold Air Damming

• 2020 Denver Radiation Inversion

• 2020 July CAPE Case

Date of Last Update

Jul 01, 2022

Notable Links

• Key foci for UFS of Medium-Range/Subseasonal-to-Seasonal scale research and development (from UFS-R2O Roject)

• Developmental Testbed Center (DTC)

• Unified Forecast System (UFS)

• The UFS Medium-Range Weather App Users Guide

• NOAA Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) global-workflow GitHub Wiki page

• The UFS Short-Range Weather App Users Guide

Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. 2018 Hurricane Michael
  • 2.1. Model Configuration and Datasets
  • 2.2. Case Results
    • 2.2.1. Hurricane Track and Intensity
  • 2.3. Summary and Discussion
• 3. 2019 Hurricane Barry
  • 3.1. Model Configuration and Datasets
  • 3.2. Case Results
    • 3.2.1. Hurricane Track and Intensity
    • 3.2.2. Comparison with Satellite Data
    • 3.2.3. Hovmöller diagram of 850 hPa WS after Landfall
  • 3.3. Summary and Discussion
• 4. 2019 Hurricane Lorenzo
  • 4.1. Model Configuration and Datasets
  • 4.2. Case Results
    • 4.2.1. Hurricane Track and Intensity
    • 4.2.2. N. Atl. Subtropical High
  • 4.3. Summary and Discussion
• 5. 2019 Halloween Storm
  • 5.1. Model Configuration and Datasets
  • 5.2. Case Results
    • 5.2.1. Synoptic Dynamics
    • 5.2.2. Surface Temperature and Wind Speed
    • 5.2.3. Moisture/Precipitation
  • 5.3. Summary and Discussion
• 6. 2020 Easter Sunday Storm
  • 6.1. Model Configuration and Datasets
  • 6.2. Case Results
    • 6.2.1. Synoptic Dynamics
    • 6.2.2. Surface Temperature and Wind Speed
  • 6.3. Summary and Discussion
• 7. 2019 Memorial Day Heat Wave
  • 7.1. Model Configuration and Datasets
  • 7.2. Case Results
    • 7.2.1. Synoptic Dynamics
    • 7.2.2. Surface Temperature
  • 7.3. Summary and Discussion
• 8. 2020 January Cold Blast
  • 8.1. Model Configuration and Datasets
  • 8.2. Case Results
    • 8.2.1. Synoptic Dynamics
    • 8.2.2. Surface Temperature and Wind Speed
  • 8.3. Summary and Discussion
• 9. 2020 Cold Air Damming
  • 9.1. Model Configuration and Datasets
  • 9.2. Case Results
    • 9.2.1. Synoptic Dynamics
    • 9.2.2. Surface Temperature and Wind Speed
  • 9.3. Summary and Discussion
• 10. 2020 Denver Radiation Inversion
  • 10.1. Model Configuration and Datasets
  • 10.2. Case Results
    • 10.2.1. Skew-T Log-P Plot
  • 10.3. Summary and Discussion
• 11. 2020 July CAPE Case
  • 11.1. Model Configuration and Datasets
  • 11.2. Case Results
    • 11.2.1. Synoptic Dynamics
    • 11.2.2. Convective Available Potential Energy
  • 11.3. Summary and Discussion
• 12. Example scripts
• 13. Using another physics suite
  • 13.1. Check if the suite is supported
  • 13.2. Compose another physics suite
  • 13.3. Change the namelist
• 14. Hierarchical Testing Framework
  • 14.1. 2020 July CAPE Case
  • 14.2. 2020 Cold Air Damming