hAzArdOus weAther testbed experimentAl fOrecAst prOgrAm spring experiment
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B ackground. Each spring during the climatological peak of the severe weather season in the United States, the Experimental Forecast Program (EFP) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) conducts a multiagency collaborative forecasting experiment known as the HWT EFP Spring Experiment. Organized by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) and National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), the annual Spring Experiments test new concepts and technologies designed to improve the prediction of hazardous mesoscale weather. A primary goal is to accelerate the transfer of promising new tools from research to operations, while inspiring new initiatives for operationally relevant research, through intensive real-time experimental forecasting and evaluation activities (e.g., Weiss et al. 2007). This article summarizes the activities and preliminary findings from the 2010 HWT EFP Spring Experiment (SE2010) conducted on 17 May–18 June. The HWT is jointly managed by the SPC, NSSL, and the National Weather Service (NWS) Oklahoma City/Norman Weather Forecast Office (OUN), which are all located within the National Weather Center building on the University of Oklahoma’s south research campus. HWT facilities include a combined forecast and research area situated between the SPC and OUN operations rooms (Fig. 1). The proximity to operational facilities, and access to data and workstations replicating those used operationally within the SPC, creates a unique environment supporting collaboration between researchers and operational forecasters on topics of mutual interest. The HWT organizational structure is composed of the EFP, whose specific mission is focused on predicting hazardous mesoscale weather events on time scales ranging from a few hours to a week in advance, and on spatial domains from several counties to the CONUS, as well as the Experimental Warning Program and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R) Proving Ground. An Overview Of the 2010 hAzArdOus weAther testbed experimentAl fOrecAst prOgrAm spring experiment
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