The National Earth System Prediction Capability (ESPC) Project Office, located in the OAR Office of Weather and Air Quality, recently held the National ESPC’s Executive Steering Group (ESG) meeting on 18 April, 2016. The National ESPC’s mission is to create a suite of numerical prediction systems supporting decisions across weather and decadal time scales by…
The VORTEX-SE field study, set to run March 1 through April 30, will involve 40 physical and social science researchers from 20 research entities, many based in the southeast. They will deploy and operate approximately 13 vehicles, three mobile radars and one fixed radar.
Research to focus on improved prediction of tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, snow NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan announced today $5.7 million in cooperative research agreements and grants to improve the forecasting of hazardous and extreme weather including tornadoes, hurricanes, heavy rainfall, floods and snowstorms. The funding, provided by NOAA Research, will support collaborative work between NOAA and 27…
As the Northeast digs out from this week’s blizzard, a new NOAA-led effort to improve the forecasting of such high impact weather events is reaching an important early benchmark. One of the first major improvements – upgrading the resolution of three global forecast models — has already shown its effectiveness. One of these models, the newly upgraded Global Forecast System (GFS) model, provided one of the most precise forecasts of the track, intensity, precipitation, and distribution of the Nor’easter.
TWC’s “Weather Geeks,” a weekly program hosted by Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd (Director of the University of Georgia’s Atmospheric Sciences Program and 2013 AMS President), airs on Sundays at noon on the popular cable affiliate. The show serves as a forum for experts to discuss the most pressing issues and current hot topics of the weather community.
The Office of Weather and Air Quality (OWAQ) supports research conducted by NOAA scientists and partners that focuses on high-impact weather and air quality events including: hurricanes, severe thunderstorms, heavy precipitation, air pollution, and the social science behind how the public processes weather forecast information and products. OWAQ uses its hallmark US Weather Research Program (USWRP) to fund research for the purposes of improving the understanding of high-impact weather events, sharpening the capabilities of numerical weather and air quality forecast models, bettering the understanding of atmospheric processes associated with high-impact weather and air quality events, and enhancing forecasting and analysis techniques for more accurate forecasts. The ultimate goal is to transition this valuable research into NOAA operations to help save lives and reduce property damage.
The Office of Weather & Air Quality announces a funding opportunity for research projects supporting the overall mission of Hazardous Weather and Hydrometeorology Testbeds. Collaborative testbed projects shorten the transition time from meteorological research to useful operational forecasting tools
On Thursday, Sept. 18, scientists reported successfully receiving weather data from the Coyote unmanned aircraft system. The Coyote unmanned aircraft is the first unmanned aircraft deployed directly inside a hurricane from NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft.
NOAA scientists and partners are launching a number of new unmanned aircraft and water vehicles to collect weather information as part of a coordinated effort to improve hurricane forecasts.
The Office of Weather & Air Quality announces a funding opportunity for projects at the Joint Hurricane Testbed – open to both federal and non-federal scientists.