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  • Welcome & About
    • About CIRA
      • Jobs
      • Letter from Christian Kummerow:
      • Map & Directions
      • Organizational Structure
      • Reports
      • Room Schedules
      • Staff Directory
      • Strategic Plan
      • Vision & Mission Statement
    • Themes
      • Climate and Weather Processes
      • Competitive Projects
      • Data Assimilation
      • Data Distributions
      • Education and Outreach
      • Modeling Systems Research
      • NOAA Projects
      • Satellite Algorithm Development, Training and Education
      • Societal and Economic Impact Studies
    • Collaborative Groups
      • Colorado Climate Center
      • National Park Service
      • Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch
  • Teams
    • Colorado Teams:
      • NOAA/Earth System Research Lab (ESRL) – Boulder, CO
      • Air Quality – Fort Collins, CO
      • Atmospheric Science (ATS) – Fort Collins, CO
      • Carbon – Fort Collins, CO
      • CIRA Software Engineering Group (CSEG) – Fort Collins, CO
      • Data Assimilation (DA) – Fort Collins, CO
      • Data Processing Centers (DPC) – Fort Collins, CO
      • Independent – Fort Collins, CO
      • MetSat – Fort Collins, CO
      • Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB) – Fort Collins, CO
      • Training – Fort Collins, CO
      • Tropical Cyclone – Fort Collins, CO
    • Other Location Teams:
      • National Hurricane Center – Miami, FL
      • NESDIS Environmental Applications Team (NEAT) – College Park, MD
      • NWS/Meteorological Development Laboratory (MDL) – Silver Spring, MD
      • NWS/Aviation Weather Center (AWC) – Kansas City, MO
      • Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO-Training) – Kansas City, MO
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2021-02-23 09:15 41.4 36.4 16.7 3.4 211 6.4 192 0.000 132.3 0.00
2021-02-23 09:10 41.4 39.9 18.8 4.8 78 8.4 72 0.000 135.9 0.00
2021-02-23 09:05 40.9 39.2 18.0 6.3 132 8.9 175 0.000 133.9 0.00
2021-02-23 09:00 41.1 46.1 22.0 3.8 241 7.4 251 0.000 129.1 0.00
2021-02-23 08:55 40.6 39.1 17.7 3.5 213 5.7 233 0.000 127.3 0.00
2021-02-23 08:50 40.3 41.5 18.7 6.5 234 10.0 255 0.000 127.3 0.00
2021-02-23 08:45 40.5 45.2 21.0 3.9 252 6.1 281 0.000 127.4 0.00
2021-02-23 08:40 40.9 40.3 18.6 3.6 188 8.0 178 0.000 127.2 0.00
2021-02-23 08:35 39.5 38.9 16.5 3.2 214 6.1 187 0.000 126.6 0.00
2021-02-23 08:30 38.7 44.3 18.8 4.0 212 5.5 191 0.000 126.5 0.00
2021-02-23 08:25 38.4 47.5 20.1 4.0 193 5.9 193 0.000 125.0 0.00
2021-02-23 08:20 38.4 43.7 18.2 4.5 182 5.8 136 0.000 118.2 0.00
2021-02-23 08:15 38.1 43.5 17.9 5.2 138 6.6 142 0.000 111.2 0.00
2021-02-23 08:10 38.1 45.4 18.8 4.6 144 6.2 168 0.000 104.1 0.00
2021-02-23 08:05 37.5 45.6 18.4 5.4 149 7.2 142 0.000 97.3 0.00
2021-02-23 08:00 36.6 47.4 18.5 6.5 169 7.8 185 0.000 92.2 0.00
2021-02-23 07:55 36.0 48.5 18.5 5.9 199 7.4 199 0.000 86.3 0.00
2021-02-23 07:50 36.2 49.6 19.2 4.0 206 5.6 202 0.000 77.8 0.00
2021-02-23 07:45 36.7 46.2 18.0 3.2 160 4.0 120 0.000 69.1 0.00
2021-02-23 07:40 36.7 46.1 17.9 3.2 129 3.9 130 0.000 61.0 0.00
2021-02-23 07:35 36.9 46.8 18.4 5.0 144 6.8 158 0.000 53.6 0.00
2021-02-23 07:30 37.4 45.3 18.1 4.8 146 6.1 146 0.000 46.9 0.00
2021-02-23 07:25 35.9 46.0 17.1 2.4 117 5.4 113 0.000 40.4 0.00
2021-02-23 07:20 35.6 50.0 18.8 4.0 284 5.6 275 0.000 34.2 0.00
2021-02-23 07:15 36.5 48.6 18.9 3.2 272 6.2 151 0.000 27.8 0.00
2021-02-23 07:10 36.3 48.1 18.5 7.4 145 10.0 160 0.000 21.5 0.00
2021-02-23 07:05 36.6 45.0 17.3 8.6 137 10.0 129 0.000 16.0 0.00
2021-02-23 07:00 36.8 46.1 18.0 6.7 128 9.0 134 0.000 11.1 0.00
2021-02-23 06:55 35.7 47.0 17.5 4.7 160 6.1 181 0.000 7.3 0.00
2021-02-23 06:50 35.3 49.3 18.2 5.9 191 7.1 189 0.000 5.0 0.00
CIRA

Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere

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Modeling Systems Research


Much of the Regional to Global-scale Modeling work done at CIRA is performed by approximately 20 CIRA researchers who are integrated into various collaborative research activities within the Global Systems Division (GSD) at the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) in Boulder. They conduct research and development to provide NOAA and the nation with observing, prediction, computer, and information systems that deliver environmental products ranging from local to global predictions of short-range, high impact weather and air quality events to longer-term intra-seasonal climate forecasts.

 

CIRA researchers and scientists, in partnership with GSD, Global Monitoring Division (GMD), and Physical Sciences Division (PSD) scientists, conceive, design, and test the forecast impact of meteorological observing systems, with an emphasis on integrated observing systems employing a large range of measurement systems. They develop modeling and assimilation techniques and information systems to improve the short-range weather forecasting necessary for severe weather watches and warnings, heavy precipitation events, water management, air quality forecasting, and fire weather prediction. They develop the global Earth system modeling and assimilation techniques needed for global chemical transport and regional climate simulations.

 

Together with our partners at the NOAA ESRL, CIRA scientists and researchers investigate high-performance computer architectures to handle the enormous computational demands of environmental models and develop environmental information systems to support commerce, transportation, emergency management, and other societal needs. They support NOAA in high-performance computing through new computing technology and improved software engineering practices while investigating advanced computer architecture to handle the enormous computational demands of environmental models.

 

In other research, our scientists use models to improve the representation of clouds and land surface processes and to investigate the response of regional hydrology to global climate change. These impact studies help facilitate the development and enhancement of models for both operational forecasting and research applications. They help create tools that allow scientists to obtain more information from observations and simulated observations and conduct weather analysis, numerical forecasting, and ensemble forecasting.

Theme Projects

  • EAR – Rapid Update Cycle (RUC), Rapid Refresh (RAP) and High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Assimilation Development and Enhancement
  • EAR – WRF-Chem Model Development
  • EAR – Verification Work to Support Regional and Global Modeling
  • EAR – Improving Short-Range Forecasts of Severe Weather and Aviation Weather from the Assimilation of Satellite Data
  • EAR – Addressing Model Uncertainty through Stochastic Parameter Perturbations within the HRRR Ensemble (DTC-Task)
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