NOAA Unified Forecast System Subseasonal to Seasonal Prototypes

Description

The Unified Forecast System Subseasonal to Seasonal prototypes consist of reforecast data from the UFS atmosphere-ocean coupled model experimental prototype version 5, 6, 7, and 8 produced by the Medium Range and Subseasonal to Seasonal Application team of the UFS-R2O project. The UFS prototypes are the first dataset released to the broader weather community for analysis and feedback as part of the development of the next generation operational numerical weather prediction system from NWS. The datasets includes all the major weather variables for atmosphere, land, ocean, sea ice, and ocean waves.

Acknowledgment - The Unified Forecast System (UFS) atmosphere-ocean coupled model experimental version # data used in this study are made available through the UFS Research to Operations (UFS-R2O) project sponsored by the National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Science and Technology Integration (OSTI) Modeling Program Division and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Weather Program Office (WPO).

Update Frequency

A Prototype is a retrospective run for the period from 2011 to 2018. The runs are initialized twice per month (1st and 15th) and the length of the forecast is 35 days with an output frequency of 6 hours.

License

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Documentation

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Contact

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How to Cite

NOAA Unified Forecast System Subseasonal to Seasonal Prototypes was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-ufs-s2s.

Usage Examples

Publications

• Advances in Seasonal Predictions of Arctic Sea Ice With NOAA UFS by Jieshun Zhu, Wanqiu Wang, Yanyun Liu, Arun Kumar, and David DeWitt
  
• The impact of tropical SST biases on the S2S precipitation forecast skill over the Contiguous United States in the UFS global coupled model by Hedanqiu Bai, Bin Li, Avichal Mehra, Jessica Meixner, Shrinivas Moorthi, Sulagna Ray, Lydia Stefanova, Jiande Wang, Jun Wang, Denise Worthen, Fanglin Yang, and Cristiana Stan