External Collaborations

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External Collaborations Seek involvement with
large user community to extend SPoRT concept,
capabilities, resources, and expertise
Selected WFOs in Southern Region - receiving data
and products AIRS Science Team (Susskind) -
quality indicators NCAR/RAP (Weiner/Herzegh)
MODIS / AIRS cloud products to improve TAFs
(ceiling and visibility forecasts) NCAR
AutoNowcaster SERVIR / CATHALAC in Central/South
America (Irwin _at_MSFC) - link EOS data and
products to ecological forecasting and disaster
management agencies Spaceflight Meteorology
Group (SMG/Houston) EOS observations to support
western US and European landing
sites NESDIS/STAR (ORA) and JCSDA assimilation
of AIRS GOES-R3 GLM
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External Collaborations Seek involvement with
large user community to extend SPoRT concept,
capabilities, resources, and expertise
Participation in NSSL Spring Program 2005 High
resolution WRF assessment in operational
setting University of Oklahoma AIRS
assimilation in the Gulf of Mexico, AMSR-E
precipitation in coastal regions NASA MAP 05
Use of 2 km WRF driven by NASA GEOS-5
output Florida State University AIRS radiance
assimilation