FY23 WPO Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Awards
The award total* for the 10 selected projects is: $4 M in cooperative agreements.
New Airborne Radar Partnership Will Give Close 3D Views Inside Clouds and Severe Storms
The Airborne Phased Array Radar (APAR) will be the world’s first phased array C-band, dual-Doppler, dual-polarization radar. WPO helped fund the initial research and development of APAR which received $91.8 million in June from the National Science Foundation.
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…
The 2022-23 Winter Weather Experiment
In support of the ongoing mission to improve National Weather Service (NWS) products and services for winter weather, the Hydrometeorology Testbed (HMT) within the Weather Prediction Center (WPC) will conduct 12th annual Winter Weather Experiment (WWE) during the 2022-2023 winter season. The WWE provides an immersive collaborative research to operations (R2O) experience bringing together members…
The Finish Line: JTTI Runs NOAA Internal Competition to Transition Matured Research into NWS Operations
The lack of continued support for projects that are near completion creates a backlog of usable resources that cannot be fully incorporated into operations. The NWS Office of Science and Technology indicated that this backlog impedes the growth and progress of NWS operations which reduces the benefit of forecast improvements for the public. WPO chose to work towards resolving this issue by holding a NOAA internal funding competition.
Phased Array Radar
Over the past 20 years NOAA/OAR, industry, and academia have made significant advancements on Phased Array Radar (PAR) research, development, and technology for weather surveillance and other applications. Because of these advancements, PAR is a leading contender in the solution for replacing the legacy NEXRAD system.
Agencies team up to accelerate Earth system prediction
Accurately predicting the weather – at short and long time scales – is among the most complex and important challenges faced by science. Protecting the nation’s security and economic well-being will increasingly rely on improved skill in forecasting weather, weather-driven events like floods and droughts, and long-term shifts in weather, ocean and sea-ice patterns.
Scientists test a new tool to improve local precipitation forecasts
A new weather forecasting tool could soon find itself part of the day-to-day operations of NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS). The instrument, called Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer, or AERI, measures temperature, water vapor and trace gases (like ozone, carbon monoxide and methane) in the lowest layer of Earth’s atmosphere, the troposphere.
NOAA National Earth System Prediction Capability Executive Steering Group Signs Major Charter Update
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…