# Presentation: 425137

## The Future of the HWT Experimental Warning Program

- (or “What happens next?”)
- Travis Smith
- OU / CIMMS / NSSL

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## Encouraging Developments

- We survived the first year!
- New facilities
- New program
- Prototype experiment (Spring 2007) a resounding success
- PAR/CASA/SHAVE data collection / evaluation
- Gridded / Probabilistic warning guidance collaboration
- Valuable interactions with visiting / local forecasters and WDTB experts

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## Encouraging Developments

- Many people stepped in with on-the-fly improvements to daily management of projects
- Many good ideas generated at this workshop
- Funding for 1 EWP graduate student from NSSL
- Personnel resources contributed by several organizations

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## Year 1 collaboration

- NSSL / CIMMS researchers
- WFO forecasters from Central Region and Southern Region
- WFO OUN
- Warning Decision Training Branch
- CASA (UMass, OU, others)
- MDL

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## Collaboration resources

- WxGIS
- http://csa.ou.edu
- “WxGIS aims to establish a world leadership in weather GIS and achieve a seamless integration of GIScience and weather in research, education, and operations.”
- WAS*IS – Weather and Society * Integrated Studies
- http://www.sip.ucar.edu/wasis/

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## Some challenges

- Project management “out of hide” by NSSL/CIMMS and WFO personnel who have other primary duties
- Still no steady stream of support from PPBES until at least FY10 (?)
- No easy way to maintain the momentum established in 2007 without a steady funding source.

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## Some things that might happen...

- Multiple visitors each year from all NWS regions, possibly funded by:
- HWT grants (in the future)
- Individual projects may sponsor some travel
- NWS Regions (as this year)
- HWT grants for specific projects
- This is a line in the FY10 PPBES

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## Some things that might happen...

- EWP could become a year-round activity
- Severe weather threats occur year-round
- Will require a dedicated infrastructure
- Full-time coordinator
- IT support
- Software/Experiment training for visitors
- Remote collaboration
- “Virtual EWP”

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## HWT facility upgrades?

- It can be a noisy place!
- EFP and EWP share a space
- Multiple different EWP projects running simultaneously
- Need for EWP situational awareness displays
- Funding for upgrade to video system approved
- Room configuration?  Simulated WFO space?  (full AWIPS feed?)

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## Submitting a project for consideration

- Scientific goals
- Funding source
- Presently, projects must bring their own funding
- Dates
- Setup / testing period
- Project period (including times of day)
- Physical space requirements
- Equipment & IT resources
-  to be provided by the project, in most cases

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## Submitting a project for consideration

- Reviewed by the HWT scientific advisory board
- Scientists from NSSL, SPC, WFO OUN
- Approved by the HWT directors
- Directors of NSSL, SPC, WFO OUN

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