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2023-03-25 16:50 32.7 21.8 -2.2 22.1 296 28.9 288 24.681 107.9 0.00
2023-03-25 16:45 32.7 24.1 -0.0 20.7 291 24.2 300 24.680 105.9 0.00
2023-03-25 16:40 32.6 25.0 0.6 20.4 289 29.2 289 24.679 108.0 0.00
2023-03-25 16:35 32.6 25.8 1.3 22.7 294 27.5 283 24.676 111.0 0.00
2023-03-25 16:30 32.7 26.6 2.1 22.3 305 31.4 289 24.673 113.3 0.00
2023-03-25 16:25 32.9 23.9 -0.0 22.7 296 30.0 286 24.672 116.7 0.00
2023-03-25 16:20 33.1 25.0 1.1 17.3 313 24.1 303 24.671 120.8 0.00
2023-03-25 16:15 33.3 25.9 2.0 22.0 306 30.9 307 24.667 134.6 0.00
2023-03-25 16:10 33.6 22.7 -0.6 19.2 300 23.8 283 24.666 169.5 0.00
2023-03-25 16:05 33.8 23.1 -0.1 23.7 286 29.5 299 24.664 214.2 0.00
2023-03-25 16:00 34.0 24.5 1.4 22.8 290 33.3 275 24.663 252.5 0.00
2023-03-25 15:55 34.1 23.9 0.9 21.1 293 27.3 287 24.662 233.4 0.00
2023-03-25 15:50 34.1 24.3 1.3 22.2 288 34.8 290 24.659 242.0 0.00
2023-03-25 15:45 34.0 25.1 1.9 20.0 282 29.4 295 24.657 232.6 0.00
2023-03-25 15:40 33.9 26.4 2.9 20.4 300 25.7 290 24.655 177.1 0.00
2023-03-25 15:35 34.0 25.7 2.4 18.6 286 23.7 287 24.654 174.3 0.00
2023-03-25 15:30 34.1 24.5 1.5 21.7 292 30.1 300 24.651 183.4 0.00
2023-03-25 15:25 34.5 24.9 2.2 20.9 290 27.2 278 24.648 217.6 0.00
2023-03-25 15:20 35.1 25.1 2.8 19.2 298 27.0 284 24.647 295.5 0.00
2023-03-25 15:15 35.0 27.1 4.5 16.6 285 22.7 271 24.645 364.3 0.00
2023-03-25 15:10 34.7 23.5 1.1 20.1 291 24.6 269 24.644 346.9 0.00
2023-03-25 15:05 34.5 25.8 2.9 22.8 279 31.2 285 24.642 210.2 0.00
2023-03-25 15:00 34.9 23.2 0.9 22.7 295 29.1 286 24.640 217.2 0.00
2023-03-25 14:55 35.7 25.8 3.9 23.0 288 29.9 286 24.639 308.7 0.00
2023-03-25 14:50 36.2 24.3 3.1 20.2 287 29.1 280 24.637 484.9 0.00
2023-03-25 14:45 36.7 21.5 0.9 16.1 295 23.0 295 24.638 604.4 0.00
2023-03-25 14:40 36.2 23.9 2.7 19.5 264 24.7 271 24.637 607.5 0.00
2023-03-25 14:35 35.9 21.6 0.3 21.5 270 26.9 273 24.638 600.5 0.00
2023-03-25 14:30 35.8 23.8 2.3 23.2 273 30.2 268 24.636 608.1 0.00
2023-03-25 14:25 35.9 22.5 1.2 16.3 275 24.4 278 24.635 489.1 0.00
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2023-03-25 16:50 0.4 21.8 -19.0 9.9 296 12.9 288 835.79 107.9 0.00
2023-03-25 16:45 0.4 24.1 -17.8 9.3 291 10.8 300 835.75 105.9 0.00
2023-03-25 16:40 0.3 25.0 -17.4 9.1 289 13.1 289 835.71 108.0 0.00
2023-03-25 16:35 0.3 25.8 -17.1 10.1 294 12.3 283 835.63 111.0 0.00
2023-03-25 16:30 0.4 26.6 -16.6 10.0 305 14.1 289 835.51 113.3 0.00
2023-03-25 16:25 0.5 23.9 -17.8 10.2 296 13.4 286 835.49 116.7 0.00
2023-03-25 16:20 0.6 25.0 -17.2 7.8 313 10.8 303 835.44 120.8 0.00
2023-03-25 16:15 0.7 25.9 -16.7 9.8 306 13.8 307 835.33 134.6 0.00
2023-03-25 16:10 0.9 22.7 -18.1 8.6 300 10.6 283 835.28 169.5 0.00
2023-03-25 16:05 1.0 23.1 -17.8 10.6 286 13.2 299 835.21 214.2 0.00
2023-03-25 16:00 1.1 24.5 -17.0 10.2 290 14.9 275 835.19 252.5 0.00
2023-03-25 15:55 1.1 23.9 -17.3 9.4 293 12.2 287 835.14 233.4 0.00
2023-03-25 15:50 1.2 24.3 -17.0 9.9 288 15.6 290 835.05 242.0 0.00
2023-03-25 15:45 1.1 25.1 -16.7 8.9 282 13.1 295 834.98 232.6 0.00
2023-03-25 15:40 1.1 26.4 -16.1 9.1 300 11.5 290 834.93 177.1 0.00
2023-03-25 15:35 1.1 25.7 -16.4 8.3 286 10.6 287 834.87 174.3 0.00
2023-03-25 15:30 1.2 24.5 -17.0 9.7 292 13.4 300 834.76 183.4 0.00
2023-03-25 15:25 1.4 24.9 -16.5 9.3 290 12.2 278 834.68 217.6 0.00
2023-03-25 15:20 1.7 25.1 -16.2 8.6 298 12.1 284 834.63 295.5 0.00
2023-03-25 15:15 1.7 27.1 -15.3 7.4 285 10.1 271 834.58 364.3 0.00
2023-03-25 15:10 1.5 23.5 -17.2 9.0 291 11.0 269 834.53 346.9 0.00
2023-03-25 15:05 1.4 25.8 -16.1 10.2 279 14.0 285 834.46 210.2 0.00
2023-03-25 15:00 1.6 23.2 -17.3 10.2 295 13.0 286 834.41 217.2 0.00
2023-03-25 14:55 2.0 25.8 -15.6 10.3 288 13.3 286 834.37 308.7 0.00
2023-03-25 14:50 2.3 24.3 -16.0 9.0 287 13.0 280 834.32 484.9 0.00
2023-03-25 14:45 2.6 21.5 -17.3 7.2 295 10.3 295 834.33 604.4 0.00
2023-03-25 14:40 2.3 23.9 -16.3 8.7 264 11.1 271 834.31 607.5 0.00
2023-03-25 14:35 2.1 21.6 -17.6 9.6 270 12.0 273 834.33 600.5 0.00
2023-03-25 14:30 2.1 23.8 -16.5 10.4 273 13.5 268 834.28 608.1 0.00
2023-03-25 14:25 2.2 22.5 -17.1 7.3 275 10.9 278 834.24 489.1 0.00
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Accelerate Improvements in National Hurricane Center Forecast Techniques – Statistical Techniques and Advanced Model Diagnostic Tools

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  • Climate Weather Processes
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    An Open Framework for Process-Oriented Diagnostics

    Project Theme:
  • Climate Weather Processes
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    CIRA Support for Tropical Cyclone Model Diagnostics and Product Development (HFIP)

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  • Climate Weather Processes
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    Collaborative Research: Assessing Oceanic Predictability Sources for MJO Propagation

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  • Climate Weather Processes
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    Enabling Cloud Condensate Cycling for All-Sky Radiance Assimilation in HWRF

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  • Climate Weather Processes
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    Enhancing NIDIS drought monitoring and early warning in the Intermountain

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  • Climate Weather Processes
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    Forecasting North Pacific Blocking and Atmospheric River Probabilities: Sensitivity to Model Physics and the MJO

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  • Climate Weather Processes
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    Identifying Drought‐related Triggers and Impacts on Decision Calendars for the Ski Industry

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  • Climate Weather Processes
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    Identifying Varying Patterns of Combined Change over the 21st Century with Neural Networks

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  • Climate Weather Processes
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    MJO and QBO Contributions to U.S. Precipitation Skill at S2S Leads

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  • Climate Weather Processes
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    Near-field Characterization of Biomass Burning Plumes

    Project Theme:
  • Climate Weather Processes
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    Diagnostics of Poor-skill events in FV3GFS and FV3-GEFS, Hurricane Supplemental, 4b-1-1b

    Project Theme:
  • Data Assimilation
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    Implementation and Testing of Lognormal Humidity and Cloudrelated Control Variables for the NCEP GSI Hybrid EnVar Assimilation Scheme

    Project Theme:
  • Data Assimilation
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    Skillfully Predicting Atmospheric Rivers and Their Impacts in Weeks 2-5 Based on the State of the MJO and QBO

    Project Theme:
  • Data Assimilation
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    Accounting for Non-Gaussianity in the Background Error Distributions Associated with Cloud-related Variables (Microwave-radiances and Hydrometeors) in Hybrid Data Assimilation for Convective-scale Prediction

    Project Theme:
  • Data Distribution
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    CIRA Research Collaborations with the National Weather Service Meteorological Development Lab

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  • Data Distribution
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    HAZARD SERVICES: National Center Evolve

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  • Data Distribution
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    HURRICANE SUPPLEMENTAL 1C Proposal (3A-4)

    Project Theme:
  • Data Distribution
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    Environmental Applications Research – Data Distribution and Visualization for Global Models

    Project Theme:
  • Education and Outreach
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    Environmental Applications Research – Global and Regional Model Development

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  • Education and Outreach
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    Environmental Applications Research – Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) Rapid Refresh (RAP) and High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Models Project, Data Distribution and Visualization

    Project Theme:
  • Education and Outreach
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    Environmental Applications Research – Science On a Sphere® (SOS) Development

    Project Theme:
  • Education and Outreach
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    Environmental Applications Research – TerraViz (branded as SOS Explorer)

    Project Theme:
  • Education and Outreach
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    Environmental Applications Research – WRF-Chem Model Development

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  • Education and Outreach
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    Environmental Applications Research – AWIPS I & AWIPS II Workstation Development

    Project Theme:
  • Education and Outreach
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    Environmental Applications Research–Data Assimilation: Improving Short-range Forecasts of Severe Weather and Aviation Weather from the Assimilation of Satellite Data

    Project Theme:
  • Education and Outreach
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    Forecast Impact and Quality Assessment

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  • Education and Outreach
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    Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)

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  • Education and Outreach
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    Research Collaborations with Information and Technology Services

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  • Education and Outreach
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    Weather Archive and Visualization Environment (WAVE)

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  • Education and Outreach
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    Aerosol Size Distribution and Composition Evolution during FIREX Activities: Closure Analyses and Climate Impacts

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    Implementation and testing of stochastic perturbations within a stand-alone regional (SAR) FV3 ensemble using the Common Community Physics Package (CCPP)

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    Improved Understanding of Air-sea Interaction Processes and Biases in the Tropical Western Pacific using Observation Sensitivity Experiments and Global Forecast Models

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    Joint GOES-R, JPSS, and NASA Summer Workshop on the Theory and Use of Satellite Data

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    Modeling the Complex and Dynamic Physico-chemical Evolution of Primary and Secondary Organic Aerosol from Wildfire Smoke

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    Use of the Stochastic-dynamic Approach in a Single Dynamic-Core Storm-Scale Ensemble for Improved Spread and Reliability of QPF and Surface Variables

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    Using dynamically-based probabilistic forecast systems to improve the National Hurricane Center wind speed probability products

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    A GOES-R Proving Ground for National Weather Service Forecaster Readiness and Training

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    ABI (CLP) CIRA Support for Research and Development for GOES-R Risk Reduction for Mesoscale Weather Analysis and Forecasting

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    ADEB Support CIRA Support for Research and Development for GOES-R Risk Reduction for Mesoscale Weather Analysis and Forecasting

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    CIRA Support for Assessment of New Calibrated NNP and NOAA-20 ATMS Window and Water Vapor Channel Radiance and JPSS-2

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    CIRA Support for Research and Development for GOES-R Risk Reduction for Mesoscale Weather Analysis and Forecasting

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    CIRA Support for Research and Development for GOES-R Risk Reduction for Mesoscale Weather Analysis and Forecasting and Training

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    CIRA Support for the Generation of Multispectral Imagery Products from MetopSG METImage

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    CIRA Support for the Hurricane Intensity and Structure Algorithm (HISA) Migration to STAR Enterprise System

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    CIRA Support for Upgrade to the Multi-Platform Satellite Tropical Cyclone Surface Wind Analysis Product

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    CIRA support to ATMS Precipitable Water Algorithms and Products (MIRS)

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    CIRA Support to Connecting GOES-R with Rapid-Update Numerical Forecast Models for Advanced Short-Term Prediction and Data Fusion Capabilities

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    CIRA Support to Connecting GOES-R with Rapid-Update Numerical Forecast Models for Advanced Short-Term Prediction and Data Fusion Capabilities Connecting GOES-R High Resolution Temporal Information with Rapid Updating Models

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    CIRA support to Metop-C Readiness for Blended Hydrometeorological Products

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    CIRA Support to NESDIS Environmental Applications Team (NEAT)

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    CIRA Support to NESDIS Environmental Applications Team (NEAT)

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    CIRA Support to NESDIS Environmental Applications Team (NEAT)

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    CIRA Support to NESDIS Environmental Applications Team (NEAT)

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    CIRA Support to NESDIS Environmental Applications Team (NEAT)

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    CIRA Support to NESDIS Environmental Applications Team (NEAT)

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    CIRA Support to NESDIS Environmental Applications Team (NEAT)

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    CIRA Support to NESDIS Environmental Applications Team (NEAT) – Son

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    CIRA Support to the JPSS STAR Science Program: S-NPP/NOAA-20/JPSS VIIRS EDR Imagery Algorithm and Validation Activities and S-NPP/NOAA-20/JPSS VIIRS Cloud Validation

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    CIRA Support to the Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS)

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    Comparison of Model versus Observationally-Driven Water Vapor Profiles for Forecasting Heavy Precipitation Events

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    Creating Synthetic Microwave Imagery Using Goes-R L1b and L2+ Baseline Products for Improved Hurricane Monitoring and Rainfall Estimation Using Machine Learning

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    DA of GLM in HWRF/GSI CIRA Support for Research and Development for GOES‐R Risk Reduction for Mesoscale Weather Analysis and Forecasting

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    DayNightImager – CIRA Science Support to the Day-Night Imager Sensor

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    Developing an Environmental Awareness Repertoire of ABI Imagery (‘DEAR-ABII’) to Advise the Operational Weather Forecaster

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    GOES History CIRA Support for Research and Development for GOES-R Risk Reduction for Mesoscale Weather Analysis and Forecasting

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    GOES-R ABI Channel Differencing Used to Reveal Cloud-free Zones of ‘Precursors of Convective Initiation’.

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    GOES-R FDTE Sat Training Liaison – CIRA support to GOES-R Training: The Satellite Hydro-Meteorology (SHyMet) Education and Outreach Program & GOES-R commitment to the WMO CGMS Intl VLab & GOES-R FDTD

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    GOES-R ML ABI Airmass – CIRA Support for GOES-R Risk Reduction projects GOESR ABI Data combined with Machine Learning Techniques

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    GOES-R Proving Ground Activities – CIRA Tropical Cyclone Group

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    GOES-R Proving Ground Activities — CIRA Meteorological Satellite Application Group

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    GOES-R VLAB- CIRA support to GOES-R Training: The Satellite HydroMeteorology (SHyMet) Education and Outreach Program & GOES-R commitment to the WMO CGMS Int VLab & GOES-R FDTD Satellite Training Liaison

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    GOESR Proving Ground Activities — CIRA Training Team

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    GOESR Water Vapor Products CIRA Support for Research and Development for GOES-R Risk Reduction for Mesoscale Weather Analysis and Forecasting

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    JPSS-PGRR DNB VADER CIRA Support to JPSS Proving Ground Risk Reduction

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    JPSS-PGRR Gridded NUCAPS in AWIPS CIRA Support to Proving Ground Risk Reduction

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    JPSS-PGRR History CIRA Support to Proving Ground Risk Reduction

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    JPSS-PGRR Nighttime CCL CIRA Support to Proving Ground Risk Reduction

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    JPSS-PGRR TC ATMS CIRA Support to Proving Ground Risk Reduction

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    JPSS-PGRR VIIRS Multispec CIRA Support to JPSS Proving Ground Risk Reduction

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    Merged Water Vapor CIRA Support to Proving Ground Risk Reduction

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    NHC Satellite Application Developer – CIRA Support to a GOES-R Proving Ground for National Weather Service Forecaster Readiness and Training

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    NWS OPG – CIRA Support to the NOAA NWS Operations Proving Ground

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    Research Collaboration at the NOAA/NWS Aviation Weather Center (AWC) in Support of the Aviation Weather Testbed (AWT)

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    Research Collaboration at the NWS Aviation Weather Center (AWC) in Support of the Aviation Weather Testbed (AWT), Aviation Weather Research Program (AWRP), NextGen Weather Program.

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    Research-to-Operations at the NOAA/Aviation Weather Center (AWC) and Aviation Weather Testbed (AWT) in support of the FAA Aviation Weather Research Program (AWRP)

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    Research-to-Operations at the NOAA/Aviation Weather Center (AWC) and Aviation Weather Testbed (AWT) in support of the FAA Aviation Weather Research Program (AWRP).

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    SHyMet – CIRA support to GOES-R Training: The Satellite Hydro-Meteorology (SHyMet) Education and Outreach Program & GOES-R commitment to the WMO CGMS Intl VLab & GOES-R FDTD Satellite Training Liaison

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    AQPI Economic Impacts Study

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    Estimating the Economic Value of Improved Weather Forecasts Resulting from NOAA – GSD Research and Technology Transfer

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    CIRA Support to JPSS Proving Ground Risk Reduction Training Activities

    Project Theme:
  • Various
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    Hydrometeorological and Water Resources Research

    Project Theme:
  • Various
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    Improving Convection-Permitting Ensemble Based Uncertainty Communication for Decision Support Using the Weather Archive and Visualization Environment (WAVE)

    Project Theme:
  • Various
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    Intelligent post-processing of convection-allowing model output to inform Weather Prediction Center outlooks and forecasts

    Project Theme:
  • Various
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    JPSS PGRR VLAB CIRA Support to JPSS Proving Ground Risk Reduction Training Activities

    Project Theme:
  • Various
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    Multi-disciplinary Investigation of Concurrent Tornado and Flash Flood Threats in Landfalling Tropical Cyclones

    Project Theme:
  • Various
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    S2S Forecasting of North American Precipitation Anomalies: Using Empirical Forecasts to Challenge Dynamical Forecasts

    Project Theme:
  • Various
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    Support of the Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training (VISIT)

    Project Theme:
  • Various
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    Understanding the Role of the Diurnal Cycle and the Mean State On the Propagation of the Intraseasonal Variability Over the Maritime Continent

    Project Theme:
  • Various