The High Impact Weather
Prediction Project (HIWPP) is a collaboration between a
dozen or more organizations led by the NOAA Office of
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Earth System Research
Laboratory (ESRL) and the OAR/Office of Weather and Air
Quality. Funded as part of the Hurricane Sandy Disaster
Relief Supplemental Appropriations, the project aims to
improve near term (from “now” to several weeks
or months in the future) prediction of dangerous weather
events including hurricanes, floods, and blizzards.
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Rich Signell
Richard Signell of the United States Geological Survey has been awarded the
2014 Russell
L. DeSouza Award by the Unidata Users Committee.
The DeSouza Award honors “individuals whose energy, expertise,
and active involvement enable the Unidata Program to better
serve the geosciences.”
Dr. Signell is a research oceanographer at the US Geological
Survey in Woods Hole, MA. He has been a tireless proponent
of Unidata software tools for more than twenty years; in
1992 he co-authored a paper titled “NetCDF: A
Public-Domain-Software Solution to Data-Access Problems for
Numerical Modelers” for a conference of the American
Society of Civil Engineers. Dr. Robert Hetland of Texas
A&M University, who nominated Signell for the award,
says “I believe that the general adoption of netCDF as
the standard way to store numerical ocean model information
is due to Rich's early efforts to promote netCDF.”
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