11 transitioning unique NASA data and research technologies to the NWS EXTERNAL COLLABORATIONS Ongoing collaborations Universities Florida State Univ. – research on 4DVAR with AIRS Univ. of Wisconsin – direct broadcast data, software development, transitional activities – data dissemination to 10 Central and Western region offices Univ. South Florida – direct broadcast data source, oceanography expertise Florida Inst. of Technology – research on coastal atmospheric processes University of Oklahoma – data assimilation and lightning activities CSU/CIRA –blended TPW product for dissemination New Mexico Tech – lightning sensor technology NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) – product assessment and use ›Huntsville - testbed for products lead on training and assessment ›Mobile and Miami – case study investigations ›new product interactions - Melbourne, Billings, and Glasgow Southern Region (SR) Headquarters – data dissemination, WFO coordination
22 transitioning unique NASA data and research technologies to the NWS NASA/GSFC Coupled WRF/LIS research, computational resources NASA/NOAA/DOD JCSDA Collaborative GSI/WRF assimilation development with AIRS radiances Computational resources Misc. WorldWinds, Inc. - private weather provider to marine community, use of ocean products JPL – collaborative AIRS research, AIRS products to operations NASA/NOAA/DOD Integrated Program Office - training products Vaisala - lightning algorithms and network data NOAA NESDIS STAR – remote sensing expertise, data, transitional activities NSSL – lightning activities, real-time WRF forecasts EXTERNAL COLLABORATIONS
33 transitioning unique NASA data and research technologies to the NWS New collaborations NRL (Monterey) - data dissemination Data Exploitation (NDE) program – transition of NPP data products to WFOs NESDIS / Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution (OSDPD) – transition of polar water vapor products to end users ROSES 2007 Battelle /LaRC (Paul Stackhouse) – energy applications with WRF Univ. North Carolina – Chapel Hill (Adel Hanna) – disaster management – SST composites in wave model (ADCIRC) NEW COLLABORATIONS