The GLFS was honored for "developing the first U.S. coastal forecasting system to make routine operational predictions of currents, temperatures, and key trace constituents," of the Great Lakes.
The GLFS is an operational system developed by The Ohio State University and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, which is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. GLFS consists of three-dimensional numerical circulation and wave models on a supercomputer, data assimilation, objective analysis, results rendering and verification on workstations, and images downloading and viewing on personal computers.
Members of the GLFS are Director Keith W. Bedford, Director
David J. Schwab, Yifei Philip Chu, Brendon Hoch, John
G. W. Kelley, Chih Feng Kuan, Sean O'Neil, David P. Podber,
Panagiotis Velissariou, David J. S. Welsh, Chieh-Cheng James
Yen, Jay S. Hobgood, and Carolyn J. Merry.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 82, No. 7, July
2001, page 1508
Presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 2001