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.
As previously reported, the HIWPP project management is working to develop ways to engage the public and the scientific community in the project. To this end, they recently added the following notice on the HIWPP web site:
… HIWPP will provide access to global model output in real-time research mode, and to enhanced tools to analyze, evaluate, and visualize these data. If you would like additional information as it becomes available, please email webmaster.hiwpp@noaa.gov with your name, affiliation, and email address. A mailing list is being created and will be used to disseminate new information, updates, and announcements.
The program plans to begin the public participation phase of the project in mid-January 2015. You can read our previous post about HIWPP here.
