HWT: 2019 Supported Research

Improving operational hail prediction through machine learning from HREF and CAPS storm-scale ensemble FV3 and WRF ARW forecasts including advanced microphysics

Dates: October 1, 2018–September 30, 2020

Funding organization/program:

  • OWAQ
  • Joint Technology Transfer Initiative

Principal investigators and affiliations:

  • Nate Snook (University of Oklahoma)

Generating operational guidelines for use of Probabilistic Hazard Information (PHI) with end users

Dates: October 1, 2018–September 30, 2020

Funding organization/program:

  • OWAQ/WPO
  • Joint Technology Transfer Initiative

Principal investigators and affiliations:

  • Kodi Berry (CIMMS, NOAA/OAR/NSSL)
  • Holly Obermeier (CIRES, NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD)

Inter-office collaboration affecting the issuance of severe weather warnings

Dates: October 1, 2018–September 30, 2020

Funding organization/program:

  • OWAQ/WPO
  • Joint Technology Transfer Initiative

Principal investigators and affiliations:

  • Greg Stumpf (CIMMS, NOAA/NWS/MDL)

Implementing convective storm statistics from a large reanalysis of WSR-88D data for model verification and forecasting probabilistic uncertainty

Dates: October 1, 2018–September 30, 2020

Funding organization/program:

  • OWAQ/WPO
  • Joint Technology Transfer Initiative

Principal investigators and affiliations:

  • Travis Smith (CIMMS, NOAA/OAR/NSSL)

FACETs: Advancing physical and social science concepts toward operational implementation of Probabilistic Hazard Information

Dates: July 1, 2018–June 30, 2021

Funding organization/program:

  • OWAQ/WPO
  • Joint Technology Transfer Initiative

Principal investigators and affiliations:

  • Alan Gerard (NOAA/OAR/NSSL)

Real time assimilation of GOES-16 total lightning into the NSSL 3DVAR code to improve 0-12h forecasts of high impact weather events at cloud resolving scales.

Dates: September 1, 2018–August 31, 2020

Funding organization/program:

  • NWS
  • R2O

Principal investigators and affiliations:

  • Alex Fierro (CIMMS, NOAA/OAR/NSSL)

Evaluation of GFS-FV3 Vertical Profile and Thermodynamic Environment Fidelity

Dates: September 1, 2018–August 31, 2020

Funding organization/program:

  • NWS
  • R2O

Principal investigators and affiliations:

  • Clark Evans (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Extending the rapidly-updating Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) to three dimensions for whole-atmosphere situational awareness and analysis of record

Dates: October 1, 2018–September 30, 2020

Funding organization/program:

  • OWAQ/WPO
  • Joint Technology Transfer Initiative

Principal investigators and affiliations:

  • Curtis Alexander (NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD)

Advancing frequently-updating storm-scale ensemble data assimilation and prediction towards operations

Dates: October 1, 2018–September 30, 2020

Funding organization/program:

  • OWAQ/WPO
  • Joint Technology Transfer Initiative

Principal investigators and affiliations:

  • Curtis Alexander (NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD)

Improving hail forecasts through operational implementation of the HAILCAST hail model

Dates: October 1, 2018–September 30, 2020

Funding organization/program:

  • OWAQ/WPO
  • Joint Technology Transfer Initiative

Principal investigators and affiliations:

  • Rebecca Adams-Selin (Atmospheric and Environmental Research)