Monday 12 May 2014 begins the second week of our four-week spring experiment of the 2014 NSSL-NWS Experimental Warning Program (EWP2014) in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed at the National Weather Center in Norman, OK. This week we will evaluate multiple experimental products geared toward WFO applications. This evaluation – known as “The Big Experiment” – will have three components including a) an evaluation of multiple CONUS GOES-R convective applications, including satellite and lightning; b) an evaluation of the model performance and forecast utility of two convection-allowing models (the variational Local Analysis Prediction System and the Norman WRF); c) and an evaluation of a new feature trending tool. We will also be coordinating with the Experimental Forecast Program and evaluating their probabilistic severe weather outlooks as guidance for our warning operations. Operational activities will take place during the week Monday through Friday.
For the week of 12-16 May, our distinguished NWS guests will be Kevin Deitsch (WFO Louisville, KY), Shawn Smith (WFO Buffalo, NY), and Michael Scotten (WFO Norman, OK). In addition to our NWS forecasters, we will be hosting a broadcast meteorologist to work at the forecast desk; this week, our distinguished guest will be Erica Grow of WUSA-TV (Washington, DC). If you see any of these folks walking around the building with a “NOAA Spring Experiment” visitor lanyard, please welcome them! The GOES-R program office, the NOAA Global Systems Divisions (GSD), and the National Severe Storms Laboratory have generously provided travel stipends for our participants from NWS forecast offices and television stations nationwide.
Visiting scientists and observers this week will include Hongli Jiang (GSD), John Cintineo (UW-Madison/CIMSS), John Mecicalksi (University of Alabama – Huntsville), Elise Schultz (University of Alabama – Huntsville), Sara Stough (University of Alabama – Huntsville), Ben Baranowski (Weather Decision Technologies), Jason Lynn (Weather Decision Technologies), Chris Schwarz (Weather Decision Technologies), and Mike Smith (AccuWeather / WeatheData),.
Bill Line will be the weekly coordinator. Lance VandenBoogart (WDTB) will be our “Tales from the Testbed” Webinar facilitator. Our support team also includes Darrel Kingfield, Kristin Calhoun, Gabe Garfield, Chris Karstens, Greg Stumpf, Karen Cooper, Vicki Farmer, Lans Rothfusz, Travis Smith, Aaron Anderson, and David Andra.
Here are several links of interest:
You can learn more about the EWP here:
NOAA employees can access the internal EWP2014 page with their LDAP credentials:
https://hwt.nssl.noaa.gov/
Gabe Garfield
CIMMS/NWS OUN
2014 EWP Operations Coordinator