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Posted - February 27, 2020

Eric Jacobsen teaching an aspect of the NWS WDTD Hazard Services Focal Point Workshop to NWS forecasters. (Photo by Mike Magsig/NWS WDTD Workshop Lead) | Sarah Borg working with a NWS forecaster on some coding issues. (Photo by Emily Summars-Jeffries/OU CIMMS)

OU CIMMS, NWS WDTD Provides First-Ever Training on Hazard Services

An in-residence workshop provided by OU CIMMS and NWS WDTD is the only one, and the first, of its kind. The workshop focused on training 122 forecasters, one from each NWS forecasting office, on a new warning software.
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Posted - February 25, 2020

James “Jeff” Kimpel. | Jeff Kimpel and former CIMMS Director Yoshi Sasaki.

Weather Enterprise Mourning Loss of Jeff Kimpel

The weather enterprise is mourning the loss of visionary James “Jeff” Kimpel, who passed away early Saturday morning.
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Posted - February 10, 2020

NOAA and cooperative institute researchers are working with forecasters to assess new tools in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed during the HS-PHI Interoffice Collaboration experiment. This experiment is part of an effort involving the NWS warning paradigm known as Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats

Researchers Test Experimental Severe Weather Warning Tools

Throughout February, researchers are testing technologies to allow warnings to follow storms continuously in NOAA’s Hazardous Weather Testbed.
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Posted - January 27, 2020

Burkely Gallo presenting on her and the team’s machine learning techniques research at the NOAA booth at the American Meteorological Society 100th Annual Meeting in January 2020. Burkely is a University of Oklahoma Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies research whose work supports the NOAA NWS Storm Prediction Center. (Photo by Emily Summars-Jeffries/OU CIMMS/NOAA NSSL) | The OAR/NWS Shark Tank

Researchers Leverage Machine Learning to Improve Forecasting Tools

Weather models are the basic building blocks of any forecast. NOAA and cooperative institute researchers are leveraging machine learning techniques and high-resolution weather models in an effort to improve these tools.
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Posted - January 21, 2020

Alexander Ryzhkov

Researchers Awarded at Meteorological Conference

Researchers with the University of Oklahoma Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies received awards at the American Meteorological Society 100th Annual Meeting in January.
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Posted - December 02, 2019

NOAA Researchers Are Working to Make Traveling in Winter Weather Safer

A team of scientists is working on ways to better forecast potentially dangerous winter weather to cut down on these impacts to travelers.
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