With the first significant tornado of 2010 hitting Oklahoma yesterday, it’s time to resurrect the EWP Blog. We are underway getting the EWP spring experiment going for 2010. This year we will be looking at a lot of new data sets, and the experiment period is longer than ever (9 weeks). We are also planning double the participation of NWS folks this year. Here is the experiment schedule (by week):

Phase I:

12 Apr – 16 Apr: PAR, CASA
19 Apr – 23 Apr: PAR, CASA
26 Apr – 30 Apr: PAR, CASA
3 May – 7 May: CASA
10 May – 14 May: CASA

Phase II:

17 May – 21 May: GOES-R, LMA, MRMS
24 May – 28 May: GOES-R, LMA, MRMS
31 May – 4 June: No operations (Memorial Day week)
7 June – 11 June: GOES-R, LMA, MRMS
14 June – 18 June: GOES-R, LMA, MRMS

In addition, during the latter half of the experiment, we may be ready to introduce the participants to some of the early radar data assimilation work being done for the Warn-On-Forecast program.

More information about each project is available here:  http://ewp.nssl.noaa.gov/2010plans.pdf

The invitation for participants has been sent to all six NWS Regions and we expect to make our decisions by 29 March.

Check back here for more updates.

Greg Stumpf, EWP 2010 Operations Coordinator