EPIC as a Catalyst for NOAA’s Future Earth Prediction System

Abstract NOAA has launched the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) in partnership with Weather Enterprise (academia, government, and industry) to bring power of distributed innovation bear on one greatest challenges our time. EPIC provides a collaborative framework building upon community-driven Unified Forecast System (UFS) accelerate innovative improvements nation’s forecast system order save lives, protect property, enhance economy. This article describes NOAA’s strategic, tactical, organizational approaches utilize transform world-leading U.S. national systems into an even stronger more effective community-based, computationally advanced prediction meet expanding pressing needs international societies.