AMS 2023 2nd Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation
Abstracts are being accepted for the Second Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation hosted at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, January 8-12, 2023.
EPIC Fall 2022 Code Sprint
Join the EPIC team on Friday, September 9, 2022 for a virtual day-long series of presentations designed to help new users configure and set up the Short Range Weather Application!
EPIC Fall 2022 Hack-a-thon
The EPIC team and NOAA are hosting a week long virtual hackathon for anyone to join, regardless of your experience so anyone is welcome!
Renee Richardson
Internship season February 2021 – January 2022 Internship Affiliation Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship University Affiliation Florida State University Major Postdoc: Sociology of Science PhD: Meteorology Flashback to 2019… a few friends of mine had either just finished the Knauss Fellowship, were in the middle of their fellowship, or were busy preparing for their Placement Week.…
Your ‘Tern to Shine: Steve Elliot
Internship season Summer 2021-2022 Internship Affiliation AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow University Affiliation Arizona State University Major Postdoc: Sociology of Science PhD: Biology Tell us about your fellowship responsibilities. I work on topics related to data governance, portfolio analysis, and building computational capacity for social science within OAR. For these topics, I attend or organize…
Unlocking a Treasure Trove of Aircraft Data
Research reveals direct measurements of wind and temperature from aircraft provide the highest valued inputs into Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models compared to weather balloon radiosondes, satellites, and ground-based, weather observing stations.
The 2023 Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall Experiment
The 10th Annual Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall (FFaIR) Experiment will be held in 2023. FFaIR is part of the Hydrometeorology Testbed (HMT) at the Weather Prediction Center (WPC). The FFaIR Experiment brings together researchers, forecasters, academia, and developers to evaluate, test, and use experimental guidance to aid in the prediction of heavy rainfall and…
Researchers and Forecasters Team Up to Improve Forecasts in the New Hurricane and Ocean Testbed
After a year and a half of concerted effort between NOAA’s National Hurricane Center (NHC), Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), and other NOAA offices, including the Weather Program Office, the Hurricane and Ocean Testbed (HOT) has been successfully re-named (from the Joint Hurricane Testbed) and re-launched in the newly designed William M. Lapenta Laboratory, named in…
Saildrones Track Hurricanes to Gather Data for Forecast Improvement
In partnership with NOAA, Saildrone Inc. is deploying seven ocean drones to collect data from hurricanes during the 2022 hurricane season with the goal of improving hurricane forecasting. For the first year, two saildrones will track hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. One of the biggest challenges to hurricane forecasting is predicting rapid intensification, when hurricane…
Ensemble Prediction and Predictability of Extreme Weather via Circulation Regimes
A presentation given at NOAA’s 46th Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop used cluster analysis methods to investigate and forecast circulation regimes impact on weeks 3/4 predictions. This study demonstrates that the dominant circulation regimes over North America are combinations of teleconnections where the clusters are related to temperature and precipitation anomalies. The computationally efficient…