Advancing Hazardous Weather Prediction in the 2024 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment

Clark, Adam J.; Jirak, Israel L.; Supinie, Timothy A.; Knopfmeier, Kent H.; Harrison, David; Vancil, Jake; Jahn, David; Karstens, Christopher D.; Loken, Eric D.; Silcott, Miranda; Martz, Ryan; Dahl, Nathan A.; Imy, David; Wade, Andrew R.; Milne, Jeffrey M.; Hoogewind, Kimberly A.; Ernst, Sean; Picca, Joseph C.; Flournoy, Matthew; Baldwin, Michael; Heinselman, Pamela L.; Flora, Montgomery; Martin, Joshua; Matilla, Brian C.; Calhoun, Kristin; Galarneau, Thomas J.; Stratman, Derek; Potvin, Corey; Skinner, Patrick S.; Burke, Patrick

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Advancing Hazardous Weather Prediction in the 2024 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment

2024
By Clark, Adam J. ; Jirak, Israel L. ; Supinie, Timothy A. ; ...

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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Personal Author:

Clark, Adam J. ; Jirak, Israel L. ; Supinie, Timothy A. ; Knopfmeier, Kent H. ; Harrison, David ; Vancil, Jake ; Jahn, David ; Karstens, Christopher D. ; Loken, Eric D. ; Silcott, Miranda ; Martz, Ryan ; Dahl, Nathan A. ; Imy, David ; Wade, Andrew R. ; Milne, Jeffrey M. ; Hoogewind, Kimberly A. ; Ernst, Sean ; Picca, Joseph C. ; Flournoy, Matthew ; Baldwin, Michael ; Heinselman, Pamela L. ; Flora, Montgomery ; Martin, Joshua ; Matilla, Brian C. ; Calhoun, Kristin ; Galarneau, Thomas J. ; Stratman, Derek ; Potvin, Corey ; Skinner, Patrick S. ; Burke, Patrick
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NWS (National Weather Service) ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; CIWRO (Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations) ; NCEP (National Centers for Environmental Prediction) ; NSSL (National Severe Storms Laboratory) ; SPC (Storm Prediction Center)
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The 2024 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment (2024 SFE) marked the second consecutive hybrid SFE, with 68 of 160 participants contributing remotely. SFEs are coled by the NWS/Storm Prediction Center (SPC) and OAR/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) and since the early 2000s have played a key role for the U.S. severe weather enterprise by testing and optimizing new prediction tools through end-user-focused research. The wealth of severe weather forecasting and research expertise at the National Weather Center in Norman, OK, combined with state-of-the-art visualization tools, well-designed experiments, and valuable collaborations have made the annual SFEs one of the most productive and well-respected weather forecasting experiments in the world. SFE 2024 was particularly important because the configuration of NOAA’s first formally designed convection-allowing model (CAM) ensemble known as REFS (Rapid Refresh Ensemble Forecast System) was finalized in fall 2023, so the SFE 2024 was vital to conducting a thorough subjective evaluation during the peak severe weather season before a proposed operational implementation in 2025.
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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105(11), E2180-E2183
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https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-24-0249.1
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0003-0007 ; 1520-0477
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American Meteorological Society
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Journal Article
Funding:

Grant no. NA21OAR4320204
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