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Modeling wildland fires : A description of the Coupled Atmosphere-Wildland...
This work describes the Coupled Atmosphere Wildland Fire Environment (CAWFE) model, which is used to simulate wildland fires. CAWFE is comprised of a numerical weather...- publication PDF
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Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) Model: 2017 Scientific...
The Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast (HWRF) system has been in operation at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Centers for...- publication PDF
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Survey of Mozambique Public on Weather, Water, and Climate Information
The 24 million people of Mozambique in southeast Africa face extreme hydro-meteorological events including floods, droughts, and tropical cyclones as well as considerable...- publication PDF
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Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Climate Informatics: CI 2016
Climate informatics is an emerging research area that combines the fields of climate science and data science (specifically machine learning, data mining and statistics) to...- publication PDF
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Characterizing drought risks and implications for water management under...
Drought risks arise from the intersection of climate hazards and social vulnerability. To characterize drought risks, we develop and demonstrate a new Combined Drought Risk...- publication PDF
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Report of the First Prospectus Development Team - U.S. Weather Research Program
This is a report by the Prospectus Development Team wherein critical issues related to weather and forecasting, with emphasis on circulations at the mesoscale and short-term...- publication PDF
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Modeling high-impact weather and climate: Lessons from a tropical cyclone perspective
Although the societal impact of a weather event increases with the rarity of the event, our current ability to assess extreme events and their impacts is limited by not only...- publication PDF
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TCMT Evaluation for the HFIP Reconnaissance Data Impact Tiger Team (RDITT)
In January 2013, the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP) established the Reconnaissance Data Impact Tiger Team (RDITT) to conduct a systematic investigation of the...- publication PDF
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Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Climate Informatics: CI 2017
It has been the seventh International Workshop on Climate Informatics and we believe it had much success in accelerating discovery at the intersection of these disciplines. For...- publication PDF
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Streamflow Drought Indicators for the Conterminous United States
Streamflow drought refers to a significant decrease in surface water availability and has spatial and temporal characteristics that can occur in every watershed region. Here, we...- publication PDF
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U.S. Weather Research Program, Hurricane Landfall Workshop Report
This report contains the results of workshop participants who prioritized research and observational opportunities to achieve pre-landfall track forecast gains of this track-...- publication PDF
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Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Climate Informatics: CI 2018
Climate informatics is an emerging research area that combines the fields of climate science and data science (specifically machine learning, data mining and statistics) to...- publication PDF
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Broadcast media on-line survey on extratropical and tropical cyclone...
This report on a survey of broadcast meteorologists (also referred to as the media) is part of a larger body of work to better understand how National Oceanic and Atmospheric...- publication PDF
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Survey of coastal emergency managers perspectives on NWS storm surge...
This NOAA-funded project aims to explore and assess (1) the public's awareness and understanding concerning storm surge and storm surge information, and (2) whether the NWS...- publication PDF
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Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) Model: 2015 Scientific...
This document describes the scientific aspects of the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) modeling system. This is based on 2015 HWRF v3.7a public release. This...- publication PDF
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Impact of Climate Change on Gulf of Mexico Hurricanes
A state of the art modeling study was undertaken to estimate the most likely impacts of climate change on Gulf of Mexico hurricane intensity and frequency. The modeling study...- publication PDF
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Quantifying the Spatial Structure of Tropical Cyclone Imagery
Tropical cyclones are highly organized, rotating storms which rank among the most costly natural disasters in the United States. The processes which drive intensification and...- publication PDF
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QSCAT-R: The QuikSCAT Tropical Cyclone Radial Structure Dataset
This document describes the QuikSCAT Tropical Cyclone Radial Structure Dataset (QSCAT-R), including its parameter and file structure as well as the underlying methodology for...- publication PDF
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Emergency managers on-line survey on extratropical and tropical cyclone...
We report on a web-based survey of emergency managers (EMs) that is part of a larger body of work with the goal of better understanding how certain NOAA weather forecast...- publication PDF
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VDM+: The Enhanced Vortex Message Dataset: Structure, Intensity, and...
This document describes the Enhanced Vortex Data Message Dataset (VDM+), including the input data sources, the dimensioning structure and organization for the resulting three...- publication PDF