HWT: 2017 Supported Research
Hazard Services – Probabilistic Hazard Information Experiment
Dates: March 20–24, 2017, April 3–7, 2017, April 17–21, 2017
Funding organization/program:
- GSD Cooperative Institute
- OWAQ USWRP
Principal investigators and affiliations:
- Alyssa Bates (CIMMS/WDTD)
- Tracy Hansen (GSD)
- Joe James (Univ. of Akron)
- Kim Klockow (UCAR)
- Jim LaDue (WDTD)
- Chen Ling (Univ. of Akron)
- Kevin Manross (GSD)
- Tiffany Meyer (CIMMS/NSSL)
- Greg Stumpf (CIMMS/MDL)
Prototype – Probabilistic Hazard Information Experiment
Dates: May 8–12, 2017, May 22–26, 2017, June 5–9, 2017
Funding organization/program:
- OWAQ USWRP
Principal investigators and affiliations:
- Kodi Berry (CIMMS/NSSL)
- Kristin Calhoun (CIMMS/NSSL)
- James Correia, Jr. (CIMMS/SPC)
- Alan Gerard (NSSL)
- Joe James (Univ. of Akron)
- Chris Karstens (CIMMS/NSSL)
- Kim Klockow (UCAR)
- Daphne LaDue (CAPS)
- Chen Ling (Univ. of Akron
- Tiffany Meyer (CIMMS/NSSL)
- Holly Obermeier (CIMMS/NSSL)
- Shaddya Sanders (Howard University)
- Cassandra Shivers (Howard University)
- Jonathan Wolfe (NWS Charleston, WV)
GOES-16 / Joint Polar Satellite Studies Convective Applications Experiment
Dates:June 19–23, 2017, June 26–30, 2017, July 10–14, 2017, July 17–21, 2017
Funding organization/program:
- GOES-R Program Office
- JPSS Program Office
Principal investigators and affiliations:
- Michael Bowlan (CIMMS/SPC)
- Kristin Calhoun (CIMMS/NSSL)
- John Cintineo (CIMSS/ Univ of Wisconsin)
- Jack Dostalek (CIRA)
- Antonia Gambacorta (STC)
- Gabe Garfield (CIMSS/NWS Norman, OK)
- Bill Line (NWS Pueblo, CO)
- Tiffany Meyer (CIMMS/NSSL)
- Holly Obermeier (CIMMS/NSSL)
- Bob Rabin (NSSL)
- Justin Sieglaff (CIMSS/ Univ. of Wisconsin)
- Nadia Smith (STC)
- Geoffrey Stano (SPORT)
- Ashley Wheeler (STC)
- Kris White (NWS Huntsville, AL / SPORT)
- Brad Zavodsky (SPORT)
Convection-Permitting Ensemble Forecast System for Prediction of Extreme Weather
Dates: September 1, 2015–August 31, 2017
Funding organization/program:
- OWAQ
Principal investigators and affiliations:
- Glen Romine (UCAR)
- Michael Coniglio (CIMMS, NOAA/OAR/NSSL)
Developing and Evaluating GSI-based EnKF-Variational Hybrid Data Assimilation for NCEP NAMRR to Improve Convection-Allowing Hazardous Weather
Dates: September 1, 2015–August 31, 2017
Funding organization/program:
- OWAQ
Principal investigators and affiliations:
- Xuguang Wang (University of Oklahoma)
Improving Initial Conditions and their Perturbations through Ensemble-Based Data Assimilation for Optimized Storm-Scale Ensemble Prediction in Support of HWT Severe
Dates: September 1, 2015–August 31, 2017
Funding organization/program:
- OWAQ
Principal investigators and affiliations:
- Ming Xue (University of Oklahoma)
Information Extraction and Verification of Convection-Allowing Models for Severe Hail Forecasting
Dates: September 1, 2015–August 31, 2017
Funding organization/program:
- OWAQ
Principal investigators and affiliations:
- Israel Jirak (NOAA/NWS/SPC)
Integration and Evaluation of ProbSevere within the Probabilistic Hazard Information (PHI) tool in the Hazardous Weather Testbed
Dates: September 1, 2015–August 31, 2017
Funding organization/program:
- OWAQ
Principal investigators and affiliations:
- Kristin Calhoun (CIMMS, NOAA/OAR/NSSL)
- John Cintineo (University of Wisconsin-Madison, CIMSS)
- Wayne Feltz (University of Wisconsin-Madison, CIMSS)
- Christopher Karstens (CIMMS, NOAA/OAR/NSSL)
- Michael Pavolonis (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR)
- Justin Sieglaff (University of Wisconsin-Madison, CIMSS)
HWT Infrastructure Support
Dates: January 1, 2017–December 31, 2017
Funding organization/program:
- OWAQ
Principal investigators and affiliations:
- Lans Rothfusz (NOAA/OAR/National Severe Storms Laboratory)
Science Support Proposal for the Joint Technology Transfer Initiative
Dates: January 1, 2016–December 31, 2017
Funding organization/program:
- OWAQ
Principal investigators and affiliations:
- Lans Rothfusz (NOAA/OAR/National Severe Storms Laboratory)
- Alan Gerard (NOAA/OAR/National Severe Storms Laboratory)