FY23 WPO Observations Awards
The total of funding awarded* for the eleven selected projects is approximately $4M per year.
Women at NOAA Advancing Hurricane Research and Forecasting
Meet Renee Richardson, a Program Coordinator at WPO. She is featured in an article by NOAA Global Ocean Montioring and Observation for being one of seven women to advance hurricane research and forecasting at NOAA.
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. APAR will be mounted on the new C-130J hurricane hunter aircraft and allow the atmosphere to be sampled at a higher spatial resolution and probe deeper into storms.
WPO-Funded Research Collects Critical Forecast Improvement Data during Hurricane Ian
According to NOAA, Hurricane Ian became the 15th Billion-Dollar disaster in 2022. Landfall impacts from Ian are still being felt, as residents of the Florida coast begin rebuilding their homes where severe flooding and damage took place. Though devastating, Hurricane Ian spurred a newfound interest in forecast and risk communication in the media, and provided…
Renee Richardson Featured On Cool Careers
Watch the video on NOAA’s Ocean Today > Transcript The most fascinating thing about hurricanes, to me, is how the atmosphere and ocean work together to form these massive storms that can cause such great destruction. What got me interested in hurricanes was 1999 Hurricane Floyd, powerful enough to actually knock a tree down, which…
The Observations Team is Looking for Reviewers
The Observations team is looking for reviewers for the Observations competition within the WPO’s FY23 Funding Opportunity. If you are interested and would like to volunteer to be a reviewer for the Observations competition, please fill out the reviewer form below. The information requested in the form is required for the review system (Grants Online)…
Upcoming Sessions at AMS
The 103rd American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting will be a hybrid meeting hosted in Denver, CO, on 8-12 January 2023. Innovative Technological Advances for Mesoscale Observing Systems The scope of this session includes weather- and water-related observations from the surface through the troposphere, with emphasis on the PBL, including in-situ surface, profiling, balloon-borne, radar,…