Building a National Mesonet via COOP Modernization: The First Steps?

Ken Crawford, Program Director - COOP Modernization and Integrated Surface Observing Systems, NWS Office of Science and Technology. (Kenneth.Crawford@noaa.gov)

Mesoscale Observing Networks in Support of Integrated Forecasting Systems, 8—10 December 2003: A Report on a USWRP Workshop Held in Boulder, Colorado.

Workshop organized by Walter Dabberdt, Vaisala; Fred Carr, University of Oklahoma; and Tom Schlatter, NOAA/OAR/Forecast Systems Laboratory. Walt Dabberdt, Vaisala. (Walter.Dabberdt@vaisala.com)

National Cooperative Mesonet (NCM) Presentation.

Dr. Jan Dutton, WeatherBug. For a copy of this presentation, please contact Jan Dutton at jdutton@aws.com

MesoWest.

John Horel, NOAA Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction Department of Meteorology, University of Utah. ( jhorel@met.utah.edu)

In the discussions following the presentations, frequent reference was made to MADIS, a data ingest system developed at the NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory. Post-Summit, the MADIS team was invited to provide a background brief on their system. It is posted here for completeness.

Ingest, Integration, Quality Control, and Distribution of Surface Mesonet Observations Using NOAA’s Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS).

By Patricia Miller, NOAA - Forecast Systems Laboratory. (Patricia.A.Miller@noaa.gov)

During the course of discussions, the participants learned about a program that was approved just before the Summit began. This was the CLARUS program:

Clarus— America's 21st Century Surface TransportationWeather Observing and Forecasting System Initiative.