NWS Office of Science and Technology Integration: Unified Forecast System Tender

Procurement Summary

State : -

Summary : NWS Office of Science and Technology Integration: Unified Forecast System

Deadline : 07 Feb 2020

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 37673689

Document Ref. No. : NOAA-NWS-NWSPO-2020-2006290

Competition : ICB

Financier : Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership : -

Document Fees : Refer Document

Tender Value : Refer Document

EMD : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
For questions about this announcement, contact the NWS OSTI Modeling Program Office via email at nws.sti.modeling.team@noaa.gov.
Country: USA
Email: nws.sti.modeling.team@noaa.gov

Tender Details

Tender are invited for NWS Office of Science and Technology Integration: Unified Forecast System
CFDA Number : 11.468 -- Applied Meteorological Research
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement : No
Estimated Total Program Funding : $2, 800, 000
Closing Date for Applications: Feb 07, 2020
Posted Date : Nov 01, 2019
Description: NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Science and Technology Integration (OSTI) is soliciting research proposals to support NOAA's development of the community-based, coupled, comprehensive earth modeling system, the Unified Forecast System (UFS). The UFS is designed to provide more accurate forecast guidance through operational numerical weather prediction applications. These applications span local and global domains, and predictive time scales from sub-hourly to seasonal. This solicitation favors projects at specific stages of maturity as signified by their readiness level as described in Section 1.A. There are three competitions from this notification valued at approximately $2, 800, 000 for the first year of multi-year (2-year) projects that will advance development of the UFS: 1) Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS); 2) Weeks 3-4 Program; and 3) Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP). Research projects to advance NGGPS will propose accelerating development of improved global weather prediction models; coupling among atmosphere, ocean, land surface and ice system model components; improving data assimilation techniques; improving ensemble techniques; developing post-processing forecast tools and techniques; or improving software architecture, computational performance and system engineering. Proposals pertaining to the advancement of the Weeks 3-4 program will focus on the development of a coupled UFS system including data assimilation approaches, extending the forecast of the UFS from 3 weeks to seasonal timescales, and developing metrics including validation and verification. Proposals for the HFIP initiative will relate to research required to improve operational tropical cyclone forecasting to meet societal requirements to effectively mitigate economic disruption.

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