Mission Statement:
To promote the development and implementation of improved analysis and forecasting techniques and methodologies to benefit operational hydrometeorology.
Committee Members:
Committee Chair
Committee Members
- Chuck Graves, Associate Professor at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO (2019)
- Peter Roohr, NOAA/NWS, Office of Science and Technology Integration (2019)
- Chauncy Schultz, SOO at NOAA/NWS, Bismarck, ND (2019)
- Jaclyn Shearer, Meteorologist at WSOC-TV in Charlotte, NC (ABC affiliate) (2019)
- Brett Borchardt - NWS Grand Rapids, MI (2021)
- Jaret Rogers - NWS Phoenix, AZ (2021)
- Dr. Sarah Trojniak - Physical Scientist at NWS Weather Prediction Center, silver Spring, MD. (2021)
- Alyssa Bates
Research to Operations Nexus (RON) Subcommittee:
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- RON Subcommittee Chairs: Alyssa Bates and Randy Graham
- Master Class Lead: Brett Borchardt
- Student Briefing Lead: Sarah Trojniak
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Committee Functions
We participate in a number of projects to accomplish the mission of our committee. Some recent examples include:
- Master Class: Our committee organizes a Master Class during the student portion of the Annual Meeting, in which we gather subject matter experts and facilitators to lead small group discussions through an entire forecast process, from mid-range to short-term. Past Master Classes have focused on severe weather, heavy rain, and winter weather.
- Student Weather Briefing: Our committee serves as mentors to students for the Daily Weather Briefing at the Annual Meeting.
- Publishing relevant material in the NWA Newsletter or Journal of Operational Meteorology.
- Leading at least one NWA Webinar Wednesday every year.
News
Forecasting Resources:
Observation Data - Real Time and Archived
Radar and Lightning
- Plymouth State - Current Radar:
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/lnids_conus.html - NWA - Collected Radar Links:
https://nwas.org/committees/rs/radar.html - NASA SPoRT - Lightning Mapping Arrays (North Alabama, D.C. and Kennedy Space Center):
http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/sport/lma/
Satellite
- NWA - Collected Satellite Links:
https://nwas.org/committees/rs/nwasat.html - NASA SPoRT - Sea Surface Temperatures:
http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/sportPublishData.pl?dataset=sst&product=sport_nhemis
Point Observations
- Aviation Weather Center - Aviation Weather Overview (mobile friendly):
http://new.aviationweather.gov/ - CWSU - Interactive Map of observations and TAFs:
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/zoa/mwmap3.php?map=usa - University of Wyoming - Archived and Current Sounding Data:
http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html
Other
- Plymouth State - Archived Product Generator:
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/u-make.html - Florida State University - Recent Text Observation Reports (Archive):
http://www.eoas.fsu.edu/resources/weather-data
Map Walls and Collections of Data
- The Ohio State - Map Wall and Observation Data:
http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/ - NCAR - Satellite imagery, recent METARs, surface plots, upper air data, NAM/RAP/GFS Model output:
http://weather.rap.ucar.edu/ - Unisys - Observation and Forecast Maps:
http://weather.unisys.com/ - Plymouth State - Weather Center:
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/ - Penn State - Map Wall:
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~fxg1/ewall.html
Model Output
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- Aviation Weather Center:
http://aviationweather.gov/ - National Hurricane Center:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ - Space Weather Prediction Center:
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ - Storm Prediction Center:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/ - Weather Prediction Center:
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/
Training Resources
- COMET Course Site:
https://www.meted.ucar.edu/index.php - COMET - Isentropic Analysis:
https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=94 - COMET - Jet Streak Circulations:
https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=166 - COMET - Principles of Convection:
https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=16 - COMET - Skew-T Mastery:
https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=225 - COMET - Weather Radar Fundamentals:
https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=960
- NWS - JetStream Online Weather School:
http://www.srh.weather.gov/jetstream/
Other Web Resources
- Florida State University - Weather Calculator:
http://www.met.fsu.edu/orgs/wxstation/calculator.html