GSD Science Handouts
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What Does The Global Systems Division Do For The Nation? The Global Systems Division (GSD) of the Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) conducts research and development for products ranging from short-term local weather predictions to longer-term global climate forecasts. |
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One component of the National Weather Service's (NWS) AWIPS II extended effort is the Hazard Services Project. Hazard Services will integrate National Weather Service Hazard Tools |
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High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) The HRRR weather prediction system merges weather prediction science and high performance computing technology with a breakthrough technique for using radar data to achieve a new standard for up-to-the-minute weather forecasting. |
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Next Generation of High-Performance Computing The key to having processing capabilities to run very high-resolution l weather models lies in affordable, powerful processors called graphics-processing units or GPU. NOAA researchers are exploring cutting-edge, highperformance computer architectures to handle these enormous demands. |
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Non-hydrostatic Icosahedral Model (NIM) The NIM is a next-generation global non-hydrostatic atmospheric model being developed to improve all aspects of NOAA’s global mission. Specifically, it is designed to improve weather prediction for all latitudes including tropical regions. |
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The Global Systems Division (GSD) is developing state-of-theart weather forecasts, verification tools, and information technology services for the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) in order to increase the efficiency of the nation’s airspace while maintaining high levels of safety. |
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Ground-Based Global Positioning System Meteorology (GPS-Met) measures water vapor in the troposphere, monitors total electron content (TEC) of the ionosphere, and provides low-cost, high-accuracy data under all weather conditions. |
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NOAA's Science On a Sphere® uses high-speed computers, projectors, and advanced imaging techniques to create the illusion of a planet, the Sun, a moon, or any other celestial body rotating in space on which weather and other geophysical data can also be shown. |
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The Gridded FX-Net System uses state-of-the-art data delivery technology to deliver high-resolution, gridded model data and bit-map imagery, while minimizing bandwidth consumption and maximizing data throughput. |
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Growing Presence of Science On a Sphere® More than 14 million people per year view SOS. NOAA’s Office of Education (OEd) has provided over $3.7 million in funding to develop such exhibits and to create dynamic content for SOS and other spherical display systems. |
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NOAA Earth Information Services (NEIS) NOAA Earth Information Services (NEIS) is a framework of layered services designed to help NOAA's mission areas by facilitating the discovery, access, integration, and understanding of all NOAA data (past, present, and future). |
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Education and Learning using Science on a Sphere® The NOAA Office of Education and the Institute for Learning Innovation conducted a cross-site summative evaluation of Science On a Sphere®. |
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MADIS – The Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System The goal of MADIS is to integrate and quality control NOAA and other-agency observations and make them easily accessible and useable for operational, research, and commercial purposes. |
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Bringing Science to Life - NOAA's Virtual Island Virtual adventures are attracting large numbers of "avatars," or virtual selves, to one of the first government-sponsored, Earth-science "islands” in the rapidly growing online world of Second Life. It requires installing free software on your computer available at www.secondlife.com. |
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Design of Cost-Effective Future Observing Systems (GEOSS) An important part of GEOSS is aimed at monitoring atmospheric, oceanic, and land surface conditions in support of weather and climate prediction. Designing improved and cost-effective future observing systems is a challenge as these systems often serve multiple users. |