# Presentation: 401146

## Beyond the NSSL-CIMMS PARTNERSHIPor CIMMS CONTRIBUTIONS ABOUT WHICH YOU MAY NOT KNOW

**BIRTH AND GROWTH OF CAPS**** *****(NSF  + Private Sector)***
**INVOLVEMENT in ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT**** ****(ARM) PROGRAM***** (DoE)***
**DEVELOPMENT of INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES**** – ****PROGRESS, CHALLENGES, and FRUSTRATIONS****   ****	****              *****(NWS International, NOAA/OGP, Department of State, USAID, WMO)***
**DEVELOPMENT OF LINKAGES WITH ENERGY**** ****	****         *****(AMS, Williams Companies, ENRON, DoE, NOAA/OAR)***
**DESTINATION OF OU METEOROLOGY**
**ENHANCING THE NOAA-JOINT INSTITUTE LINKAGE**

## BIRTH AND GROWTH OF CAPS

**Established in 1989 as one of the first 11 NSF Science and Technology Centers.  **
**Its mission – the development of techniques for the computer-based prediction of high-impact local weather with the NEXRAD (WSR-88D) Doppler Radar serving as a key data source.  **
**Funding was for 11 years for $17M.**
**Partnerships with Major Companies**
**Hub-CAPS ****– ****3 year, $1M, R&D partnership with American Airlines to develop weather forecast products customized for the aviation industry to provide localized weather such as squall lines and individual thunderstorms.**
**OU-Williams Alliance**** – ****$8.1 M research collaboration over 5 years to develop and apply advanced weather and climate prediction technologies for use in the energy industry (truncated to $3.6 M over 1.5 years because of Williams’ deteriorating financial position)**

## INVOLVEMENT IN ARM PROGRAM

**SITE SCIENTIST TEAM FOR SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS**
**Played role continuously since 1992 – funding of $400,000 - $530,000 per year; currently $430,000.**
**3 Components**
**Scientific Support for Site Operations**
**Research – uses Site data to make Site more effective**
**Educational Outreach – Middle School focus led by OCS and Ken Crawford**
**Considerable interactions with NOAA**
**Special observations fed to NWS forecasting operations**
**Early research contributions by NSSL scientists (esp. D. Stensrud, Q. Xu)**
**Provided basis for much of GCIP via OGP**
**OGP funded soil moisture enhancement**
**Considerable Graduate Student involvement**
**3 Ph.D. Dissertations, 6 M.S. Theses**
**Research effort now centers around Yefim Kogan’s group, which is investigating cloud-radiation interactions**

## INVOLVEMENT IN ARM PROGRAM

**DATA QUALITY OFFICE**
**Established in mid-2000 under direction of Randy Peppler with responsibilities for all 3 ARM Sites.**
**Funding of $310,000 per year for 4 person staff which interacts daily with SGP Site Scientist Team and many parts of the ARM Program**
**Developed a web-based system to display QC results in the near real-time, including flag status and diagnostic plots**
**With corresponding maintenance and calibration results, make assessments of ARM data quality and transmit them both to data users and to ARM site operators to ensure that fixes are made.**

## DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

**Grew out of continuous (and ongoing) work on Sahel drought issues since 1973 (OGP funding)**
**Since 1985 has included focus on Moroccan interannual precipitation variability and predictability (USAID, OGP, OU funding)**
**For about 5 years, has involved cooperation and collaboration with the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD, Niamey, Niger) funded by NWS International Activities and OU**
**ACMAD link led to joint leadership of “New Radio and Internet Technology for Communication of weather and Climate Information to Rural Communities for Sustainable Development in Africa (RANET) Project involving Senegal, Niger, Chad, Kenya, Zambia, Mozambique (USAID, OU funding)**
**International Workshop Series on Regional Climate Prediction and Applications – to date, 66 participants from 47 developing nations (20+ more participants from additional countries in 2003) (State Department, USAID, WMO, OU, funding)**
**Graduate Students from Russia, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Niger, Ethiopia, Kenya, Australia**
**New Exchange Program with Department of Meteorology at University of Reading (U.K.) – involving undergraduate and graduate students.**
**Developing linkage with Vietnam (NMHS, Inst. of Oceanography) at Graduate level under USNWS-VNMHS Bilateral within “Clinton Protocol” umbrella (Vietnam Ministry, OU funding); 7-day Short Course at Institute of Oceanography in Oct 2002**

## DEVELOPMENT OF LINKAGES WITH ENERGY 

**Obvious focus for OU, but...very recent...needed establishment of Institute for Energy Economics and Policy at OU**
**Manifest in**
**New OU course (Senior Honors) in 2000**
**Leadership of “AMS-OU Policy Forum:  WEATHER, CLIMATE, AND ENERGY” in Washington, DC, in October 2001 funded by Williams Companies, ENRON, DoE, NOAA/OAR**
**OU Energy Weather Project – producing energy forecast for 2002-2003 winter**
**Key intermediate role played by (surprisingly) a project on “Water Pipe Freezing in the Southeastern United States” funded by Institute of Business and Home Safety (IBHS)**
**Great success**
**Equally great failure**
**But “Pipe Freezing” project and slowness of major insurance company to hire the graduate student involved → hired by Williams →then Williams hired 5 more of our graduates →who are now migrating to other companies!**

## DESTINATION OF OU METEOROLOGY 

**CIMMS *****(along with OCS and CAPS)***** is providing the research leadership that complements the academic mission of SoM.**
**FOUNDATION**** --  laid from early 1980s to early 1990s – 5 new faculty lines    ****	****                 (D. Lilly, T. Gal-Chen, K. Droegemeier, K. Crawford, P. Lamb)**
**GOAL ****–  to be recognized as one of the University Programs that “defined ****	****   the  field” by identifying vital new areas of study and leading advances**
**FOCUS ****– Mesoscale Meteorology-to- Regional Climate using**
**OBSERVATIONS – radar, Mesonet, ARM, special data sets**
**THEORY AND MODELING – ARPS, MM5, ECHAM5**
**TO JOIN ****--**
**Univ. of Chicago – synoptic and large-scale dynamics**
**M.I.T. – general circulation, large-scale dynamics**
**Univ. of Wisconsin – climate, satellite meteorology**
**University of Washington – stratosphere, large-scale climate**