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8A.1 THE EXPERIMENTAL WARNING PROGRAM 2008 SPRING EXPERIMENT AT THE NOAA HAZARDOUS WEATHER TESTBED Gregory J. Stumpf1,2,3,*, Travis M. Smith1,3, Kevin L. Manross1,3, David L. Andra Jr.4 1Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorology Studies, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 2NOAA/National Weather Service Meteorological Development Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD 3NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK 4NOAA/National Weather Service/Weather Forecast Office, Norman, OK 1. INTRODUCTION including computer algorithms employing sophisticated image processing and artificial intelligence, and The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration innovative display systems [e.g., the Four-dimensional (NOAA) Hazardous Weather Testbed’s (HWT) Stormcell Investigator (FSI; Stumpf et al. 2006)], and Experimental Warning Program’s (EWP) purpose is to NSSL leads the path in new Doppler radar technologies. integrate National Weather Service (NWS) operational meteorologists, and National Severe Storms Laboratory The spring experiment was designed to gather feedback (NSSL) researchers to test new science, technologies, from visiting operational meteorologists. Evaluations products, and services designed to improve short-term were conducted using archived case studies as well as (0-2 hour) warnings and nowcasts of severe convective real-time proof-of-concept tests at the HWT facility weather threats (Stumpf et al. 2005). The HWT during actual severe weather warning operations. User provides a conceptual framework and a physical space comments were collected during shifts, short surveys to foster collaboration between research and operations were given at the end of shifts, and discussions to test and evaluate emerging technologies and science occurred during post-mortem de-briefings. Input from for NWS hazardous weather warning operations.
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