HWT “Tales from the Testbed” Forecaster Briefing Warning Decision Training Branch (WDTB)

Your Role Provide a focused assessment of a lesson learned this week that you will take back to your office. Provide a focused assessment of a lesson learned this week that you will take back to your office. Team Presentation min TOTAL Covers one aspect the TEAM learned

Facilitator Role Assist you in building your presentation Assist you in building your presentation – Help with screen capturing – Help with the pptx template – Dry run the presentations on Thursday – Facilitate the webinar on Friday

Why are we/you doing this? You are key to this experiment! You are key to this experiment! – Ensures HWT goals aligned with operational needs – Bring field expertise to research projects – Provides operationally representative results Improve feedback Improve feedback – Few papers by participants – Only 2 of 22 field participants have added to the HWT Blog

A Success Story… “Storm of the Month” “Storm of the Month” – WFOs “Tell Their Story” – NWS offices & Universities – WDTB & NSSL experts for Q&A Collaboration for Research to Ops Collaboration for Research to Ops Collaboration for Ops to Research Collaboration for Ops to Research WDTB Dual-Pol Training Operations Course WDTB Dual-Pol Training Operations Course – Train 2100 forecasters in 2 years – Selected as NOAA’s “High Priority Performance Goal (HPPG)” to DOC and OMB

“Storm of the Month” Research to Operations Results “Such interactions between the Dual-Pol researchers/ developers at NSSL & CIMMS and the operational users of that technology are invaluable to both groups. Seeing the immediacy of two-way feedbacks happen like this is simply tremendous and should accelerate future improvements to the WSR-88D and the informed applications of Dual-Pol measurements. I look forward to more such opportunities in the future.” Steve Koch, Director NSSL

Applying These Results to the HWT HWT to provide weekly operational reportsHWT to provide weekly operational reports –You will present observations and examples from your participation –Research and Operational meteorologists from across the nation will be listening This is your chance to have your voices heard… This is your chance to have your voices heard…

Aspects of a Good Briefing

Planning the Presentation 1.Define the audience’s characteristics – Operational & Research Meteorologists 2.Determine how much they already know – Most with working knowledge of operational meteorology 3.Tailor your presentation to meet their needs – Focus on operational aspect of your experience 4.Anticipate audience reactions…

Creating a Presentation A well-structured presentation has three sections: 1.Identify your main message in the opening 2.Reinforce your main message in the middle 3.Summarize with a memorable conclusion The HWT was the best experience ever!

Ideas for presentation What are the applications/limitations of the new techinques/software/hardware to my office?What are the applications/limitations of the new techinques/software/hardware to my office? What was surprising in this experiment?What was surprising in this experiment? Human factors impacts in your office?Human factors impacts in your office?

Team Webinar Structure minutes20-25 minutes –Slide 1: Intro slide –Slide 2: Team Assessment “message” –Slide 3: Motivation for your “message” –Slide 4-6: Forecaster 1 examples –Slide 7-9: Forecaster 2 examples –Slide 10-12: Forecaster 3 examples –Slide 13-15: Forecaster 4 examples –Slide 16: Takeaway (reinforce assessment)

Screen Capturing (Step 1) Choose the window you want to capture ACTIVE WINDOW INACTIVE WINDOW

Screen Capturing (Step 2) Take the screen shot (“Alt + Print Screen)

Screen Capturing (Step 2a) Select the “EWP2012_images” folder

Screen Capturing (Step 3) Name your file (suggested init_prod_##)

Screen Capturing (Step 4) Click “Save”

Thank you!!!