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In this project, researchers propose to develop a new comprehensive observing strategy to more accurately, monitor, warn and verify winter weather. Improving upon already known limitations, this research will build upon prior work to demonstrate an innovative, high quality system for monitoring snow depth, snowfall rates and accumulation, snow water equivalent, freezing rain, and precipitation…
To fill data gaps in the ASOS observational network across New York state, this project will develop a real-time Extreme Temperature Dashboard, a product that will offer granular extreme temperature analyses. This product is foreseen to provide benefit to the daily operations of NWS Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) and Emergency Management of New York and…
This project aims to address the sea level pressure (SLP) data scarcity issue over the oceans by utilizing drifting buoys, i.e. drifters. Recent literature shows SLP data collected by drifters dramatically improves weather forecasting; however, only 60% of drifters are outfitted with barometers. The project team will equip drifters with barometers and analyze and assess…
This project will deploy a large uncrewed aerial system (UAS) platform during active flood events to collect and disseminate flood imagery to river forecast centers, specifically the NWS Southern Region. This project will not only enhance the capabilities of UAS during hydrologic events, but will also improve situational awareness of the operational centers and provide…
This project will deploy uncrewed surface vehicles (USV), Saildrones, into hurricane environments to continuously collect high-quality near-surface atmosphere and upper ocean measurements. The real time data from Saildrones will provide critical data to better understand the air-sea transition zone physics and how that may affect hurricane intensity.
This project will deploy low-altitude small uncrewed aircraft systems (sUAS) from NOAA WP-3D hurricane hunter aircrafts to enhance observations within the hurricane boundary layer. The data collected by the sUASs will aid in better predictions of hurricane intensity change by increasing data coverage of the boundary layer and helping improve the physics within NOAA’s operational…
Utilizing pressure sensors within smartphones, this project will collect, anonymize, and bias-correct millions of smartphone pressure data points and evaluate the value this data has on operational forecast models. The project team will assess the impact of the large number of smartphone pressure measurements on both operational forecasting and numerical weather prediction.
This project demonstrates a low-cost, innovative system that has the ability to pull meteorological data, including wind and temperature, from aircraft equipped with Mode S Enhanced Surveillance (EHS) transponders in real-time. This standalone system presents several advantages over current aircraft data collection methods such as low latency on the order of seconds and the compatibility…
