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 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. 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.
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 v2.1.0 release can be found at: https://ufs-srweather-app.readthedocs.io/en/release-public-v2.1.0/. 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://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
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
