P27     Facilitating development of physical parameterizations for NOAA’s Unified Forecast System.

Bernardet, Ligia, University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CU/CIRES) and NOAA ESRL Global Systems Division (NOAA/ESRL/GSD) and Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), G. Firl, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and DTC,  D. Heinzeller, CU/CIRES, DTC and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, L. Carson, NCAR and DTC, M. Zhang, CU/CIRES, DTC and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, J. Wolff, NCAR and DTC, J. Henderson, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and DTC, W. Li, T. Hertneky, NCAR and DTC, L. Pan, CU/CIRES, DTC and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, L. Blank, M. Harrold, J. Dudhia, and L. Nance, NCAR and DTC

The Common Community Physics Package (CCPP), which encompasses a library of physical parameterizations (the CCPP-Physics) and a framework that connects the parameterizations to host models (the CCPP-Framework), is being adopted for use by the NOAA Unified Forecast System (UFS). The CCPP-Framework is also being adopted and enhanced  for future use in WRF and MPAS.

The public release of the CCPP contains all parameterizations of the current operational GFS, plus additional developmental schemes. The CCPP can currently be used with the Single Column Model developed by the Global Model Test Bed (GMTB) of the Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), and with the weather application of the UFS.

In this poster, we will provide an overview of the CCPP and describe the community support provided for its use. We will also describe physics activities being carried out at the GMTB, such as the creation of a hierarchical testing framework for physics development and testing and evaluation efforts to inform future operational implementations of the physics suite.