EXTERNAL COLLABORATIONS

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EXTERNAL COLLABORATIONS

• Ongoing collaborations
• Universities
• Florida State Univ. research on 4DVAR with AIRS
• Univ. of Wisconsin direct broadcast data,
  software development, transitional activities
  data dissemination to 10 Central and Western
  region offices
• Univ. South Florida direct broadcast data
  source, oceanography expertise
• Florida Inst. of Technology research on coastal
  atmospheric processes
• University of Oklahoma data assimilation and
  lightning activities
• CSU/CIRA blended TPW product for dissemination
• New Mexico Tech lightning sensor technology
• NOAA/NWS
• Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) product
  assessment and use
• Huntsville - testbed for products lead on
  training and assessment
• Mobile and Miami case study investigations
• new product interactions - Melbourne, Billings,
  and Glasgow
• Southern Region (SR) Headquarters data
  dissemination, WFO coordination

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EXTERNAL COLLABORATIONS

• NASA/GSFC
• Coupled WRF/LIS research, computational resources
• NASA/NOAA/DOD JCSDA
• Collaborative GSI/WRF assimilation development
  with AIRS radiances
• Computational resources
• Misc.
• WorldWinds, Inc. - private weather provider to
  marine community, use of ocean products
• JPL collaborative AIRS research, AIRS products
  to operations
• NASA/NOAA/DOD Integrated Program Office -
  training products
• Vaisala - lightning algorithms and network data
• NOAA
• NESDIS STAR remote sensing expertise, data,
  transitional activities
• NSSL lightning activities, real-time WRF
  forecasts

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NEW COLLABORATIONS

• New collaborations
• NRL (Monterey) - data dissemination
• Data Exploitation (NDE) program transition of
  NPP data products to WFOs
• NESDIS / Office of Satellite Data Processing and
  Distribution (OSDPD) transition of polar water
  vapor products to end users
• ROSES 2007
• Battelle /LaRC (Paul Stackhouse) energy
  applications with WRF
• Univ. North Carolina Chapel Hill (Adel Hanna)
  disaster management SST composites in wave
  model (ADCIRC)