WPO funds work to advance our understanding of fire weather to improve forecasts of fire behavior and smoke for the public. The projects selected in this competition address the evolution of active fires and smoke, data assimilation of atmospheric and terrestrial conditions, new or improved physics parameterizations, and fire weather forecast system testing and verification.…
The Joint Technology Transfer Initiative supported the development and completion of the “WoFS ML Severe” severe weather probability suite, which is based on the Warn-on-Forecast System and machine learning. WoFS ML Severe uses inputs from the Warn-on-Forecast System and is trained on a combination of local storm reports and radar-based detections of severe weather to…
The Consortium for Advanced Data Assimilation Research and Education (CADRE), supported by the Weather Program Office through Inflation Reduction Act funding, is introducing itself to the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise at this year’s American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting. The conference is being held in Washington, D.C. December 9–13, 2024. The video will be…
Researchers funded by WPO’s Science, Technology, and Society Division presented their findings at the 51st Conference on Broadcast Meteorology and Seventh Conference on Weather Warnings and Communication, fostering a valuable exchange of insights between researchers and practitioners.
WPO is part of history as two projects funded by the WPO Observations Program are supporting NOAA’s hurricane observing mission, which is being recognized in the 2024 Guinness World Records Book.
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The NOAA Weather Program Office (WPO) is proud to announce the awards for the FY23 Notice of Funding.
Four projects have been selected for the FY23 WPO VORTEX-USA Awards. The grant total for the four selected projects equals $2.5M with each project being funded for 3 years beginning in August 2023.
The total of funding awarded* for the eleven selected projects is approximately $4M per year.
The competition selected 12 projects from academia, government, and industry with a focus on advancing the Unified Forecast System (UFS) to become the world’s most accurate and reliable operational modeling system.