The next major gfs upgrade is expected to be made sometime in 2017 after the transition of ncep operational suite to the weather and climate operational supercomputing system (wcoss) cray … The global forecast system (gfs) is a national centers for environmental prediction (ncep) weather forecast model that generates data for dozens of atmospheric and land-soil variables, including … Gfs (global forecast system) is noaa/ncep’s primary global numerical weather prediction model.

The gfs (global forecast system) model produces forecasts out to 16 days, four times per day. The loop time steps are 6 hours from analysis time to 240 hours (10 days), then change to 12-hour time … The gfs data files stored here can be immediately used for oar/arl’s noaa-epa atmosphere-chemistry coupler cloud (nacc-cloud) tool, and are in a network common data form (netcdf), …