Extreme precipitation in the San Francisco Bay Area can quickly result in life-threatening weather conditions, causing harm and devastation to both life and property.
Today, the Department of Commerce and NOAA announced a $7 million funding opportunity through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to establish a new multi-university Data Assimilation Consortium that will improve weather predictions.
How do different racial and socioeconomic groups in the United States receive, understand, and respond to severe weather information?
Hurricane Ian became the 15th billion-dollar disaster in 2022 spurring a newfound interest in forecast and risk communication in the media, and providing a real-world opportunity for WPO-funded critical forecast improvement research to take place.
Floods are among the most costly and deadly natural disasters that occur in the United States, coming in second to heat events.
As the climate continues to change and the frequency, severity, and impacts of wildfires increase, the importance of wildfire prediction and detection becomes even more critical.
Imperative to increased forecasting skill for hurricanes is the development of the Hurricane Forecast Analysis System or HAFS.
JEDI will allow for a faster development and research-to-operations (R2O) of advanced data assimilation and related components to meet the requirements of NOAA’s Unified Forecast System (UFS).
At the height of the spring severe weather season, the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed hosts multiple real-time, forecasting, and warning experiments to evaluate the operational utility of new science, technology, and products. NOAA NSSL, the NOAA National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center and the NOAA NWS Norman Forecast Office lead the effort. The Spring Experiments are a unique opportunity…
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…