NSSL Staff Profiles

Race Clark is the Program Lead for the Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor (MRMS) project. MRMS is an advanced remote sensing processing system that aggregates information from weather radars, surface observations, satellites, and numerical weather prediction models to generate more complete and useful analyses of the atmosphere. NSSL continues to deliver updates to the National Weather Service, which has run a version of MRMS operationally since the fall of 2014. NSSL continues to maintain a real-time experimental version of MRMS from which new scientific advancements are regularly transitioned into use in the National Weather Service's forecast and warning processes.

Race coordinates R&D activities related to MRMS and liaises with external MRMS users and partners, especially the NWS. He is also the Federal technical advisor for the Applied Computing for the Meteorological Enterprise (ACME) team, leads MRMS activities under NSSL's CRADA with Climavision, co-leads MRMS's research activities with the USAF, and many other projects. His research interests include weather radar integration and mosaicking, the use of weather radar data to build decision support tools and systems, and the use of ML techniques to fuse disparate datasets together into useful products.