{"id":478,"date":"2010-03-26T10:44:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/?p=478"},"modified":"2010-03-26T10:44:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:44:46","slug":"noaa-hazardous-weather-testbed-spring-experiments-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2010\/03\/noaa-hazardous-weather-testbed-spring-experiments-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiments \u2013 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-501\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2010\/03\/noaa-hazardous-weather-testbed-spring-experiments-%e2%80%93-2010\/mime-attachment-11\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-501\" title=\"mime-attachment-11\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2010\/03\/mime-attachment-11-316x237.jpg\" alt=\"HWT\" width=\"316\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nssl.noaa.gov\/hwt\/\" target=\"_blank\">NOAA\u2019s Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT)<\/a> is a facility jointly managed by the National Severe Storms Laboratory, the Storm Prediction Center, and the NWS Oklahoma City\/Norman Weather Forecast Office at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. \u00a0The cornerstone of the testbed is the annual NOAA HWT Spring Experiment that attracts 50-60 researchers and forecasters to Norman each year. Forecasters are provided with a first-hand look at the latest research concepts and products, while research scientists are immersed in the challenges and needs of front-line forecasters.\u00a0The close collaboration between research scientists and operational weather forecasters advances forecasts and warnings for hazardous weather events throughout the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ewp.nssl.noaa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">2010 HWT Spring Experiment <\/a>projects are scheduled from April 12 through June 18, 2010.\u00a0 The Experimental Warning Program, part of the HWT will be the focus this year.<\/p>\n<p>Participants from the National Weather Service and other organizations will evaluate the operational utility of phased array radar technology, a dense radar network, experimental applications intended for GOES-R satellite, and multiple-radar\/multiple sensor severe weather algorithms.\u00a0 All will work in real-time warning situations or with archived cases.<\/p>\n<p>Feedback from the evaluations leads to further research and refinement of applications to be ultimately included in future operational systems that help guide and manage the severe weather warning decision-making process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong> Collaboration between NSSL and the local operational forecasting community dates back to the 1980s.\u00a0 After the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/\">Storm Prediction Center (SPC)<\/a> moved its operations to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nssl.noaa.gov\/\">National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)<\/a> facility in 1997, the mutual interests of forecasters from the SPC, researchers from NSSL, and collocated joint research partners from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cimms.ou.edu\/\">Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS)<\/a> inspired the formation of the current NOAA HWT. The testbed&#8217;s activities have been varied, ranging from daily map discussions involving imminent severe weather to loosely-related research projects involving 2-3 collaborators to periodic intensive collaboration periods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The cornerstone of the testbed is the annual NOAA HWT Spring Experiment that attracts 50-60 researchers and forecasters to Norman each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":501,"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":[6,16],"tags":[182,189,230,325,448,450],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration","category-warning","tag-hot-items","tag-hwt","tag-issue-march-2010","tag-noaa","tag-spc","tag-spring-experiment"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}