{"id":2213,"date":"2014-03-18T17:22:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T22:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2016-05-06T12:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T17:00:48","slug":"nssl-scientists-awarded-an-nsf-grant-to-improve-convective-scale-weather-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2014\/03\/nssl-scientists-awarded-an-nsf-grant-to-improve-convective-scale-weather-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"NSSL scientists awarded an NSF grant to improve convective-scale weather prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2014\/03\/nssl-scientists-awarded-an-nsf-grant-to-improve-convective-scale-weather-prediction\/img_0853\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2225\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2225 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2014\/03\/IMG_0853-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0853\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2014\/03\/IMG_0853-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2014\/03\/IMG_0853-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2014\/03\/IMG_0853-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2014\/03\/IMG_0853-200x113.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a>NSSL scientists Jidong Gao, David Stensrud and the University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology professor Xuguang Wang have received a significant research grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new techniques that will help improve convective-scale (1km) weather prediction.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, most convective-scale data assimilation rely on techniques that were developed for larger-scale weather, where the rules of the atmospheric dynamics are usually different from those of thunderstorm events. To make convective-scale data assimilation more realistic and able to predict individual storms, they must effectively use Doppler radar data as a jumping off point.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists propose to explore new techniques to feed (assimilate) operational WSR-88D radar data into convective scale models, and evaluate the results. This research will help improve our understanding of storm-scale data assimilation and dynamics, and lead to better detection and prediction of thunderstorm hazards. The award continues to draw upon NOAA\u2019s critical investment in the WSR-88D network, and will provide synergistic support to NOAA\u2019s Warn-on-Forecast project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSSL scientists Jidong Gao, David Stensrud and the University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology professor Xuguang Wang have received a significant research grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new techniques that will help improve convective-scale (1km) weather prediction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":2225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[82,155,182,250,336,343,410,456],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-news","tag-convective-scale","tag-gao","tag-hot-items","tag-jidong","tag-nssl","tag-nwp","tag-research","tag-stensrud"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3739,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/3739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}