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Community Engagement

CATChem and UFS-Chem will be a fully public community modeling system that is governed by the community through a working group. The community encompasses all users and developers of CATChem and UFS-Chem, which includes, but is not limited to Academia, research, industry, individuals, government labs, operational team, and NOAA Environmental Modeling Center (EMC). The following groups will be critical users and developers of UFS-Chem.

  1. NOAA OAR laboratories
  2. NOAA NWS
  3. Atmospheric chemistry and composition research communities (i.e., universities and other government agencies)
  4. State, local, and Federal government agencies
  5. Public and/or private sector

The NOAA OAR laboratories (ARL, CSL, GSL, GFDL, and GML) are committed to developing UFS-Chem together so that atmospheric chemistry and composition modeling across the NOAA OAR laboratories is unified. This reduces redundant efforts across NOAA and increases efficiency in model development leading to more accurate NOAA forecast and research models.

UFS-Chem will have a community working group, which will include leaders from NOAA OAR, leaders from NOAA EMC, leaders from the research community outside of NOAA, and at least one leader, who is early-career (graduate student or postdoc). The leadership team will rotate. Anyone in the community can join and participate in the working group meetings, which will always include a public virtual option to encourage transparency. The UFS-Chem working group will work closely with the UFS Working Groups to ensure efficient progress on R2O and O2R. The UFS-Chem working group will include liaisons from other modeling endeavors. The UFS-Chem community working group will be created soon so please reach out if you have suggestions and check back frequently for further updates.

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