Ed Szoke's Homepage

Greetings! I'm a meteorologist at the NOAA Global Systems Division (GSD) , working on a variety of projects with the general goal of transfering technology to the operational forecast environment. I actually work for NOAA/GSD as an employee of CIRA.

Projects

    AFWA training.

      LAPS is running at the Air Force Weather Agency at a number of global theaters . The analyses are being used to initialize the MM5 model over various domains as well. We are working with AFWA on developing training modules to help better utilize the mesoscale model output from MM5. A training test page can be found here.

    LAPS training.

      Taiwan.

        The Central Weather Bureau in Taiwan is also running LAPS. We have developed some training on how best to use LAPS in Taiwan; a homepage showing some LAPS cases from Taiwan can be found here.

      Thailand.

        A number of visitors from the Thailand Meteorological Department were at FSL from 14-26 May 2001 for an extended workshop. Included in this was some work with LAPS, which we have set up to run on a Thailand localization along with MM5 (both at 10 km), with forecasts out to 24 h. The training talks and real-time LAPS and MM5 for Thailand can be found here.

    D2D training.

      Korea.

        In Nov-Dec 2001 we did some winter weather training using D2D at the KMA. Our training site is found here.

    D3D: Display in 3-Dimensions.

      A major function of FSL over the years was the development of what is now AWIPS . This article summarizes these developements. A potential part of the AWIPS system is D3D, which would utilize new visualization tools to examine data and model output in three-dimensions. Our current work on D3D can be found at this site. Our presentation at the IIPS conference can be found here.

      At the 2002 AMS Annual meeting (Orlando, January 2002) there was an AWIPS Symposium that featured a session on D3D. The announcement for this conference can be found here.

    IHOP.

      The International H2O Project will be conducted in the Spring of 2002. Here is the IHOP website.

        A Science Seminar from 29 October 2001 is found here.

        A preliminary html version of a talk on the FSL models during IHOP for the Severe Local Storms Conference in San Antionio in August 2002 is found here. A pdf version of the conference paper is found here.

        A talk at the Toulouse Workshop, June 2004 is found here.

        Our IHOP talk for the 20th WAF/16th NWP Conference at the AMS Annual Meeting in Seattle can be found in this powerpoint presentation to be given (as the last talk!) on January 15th. (Another version is found here.) (Latest version is found here.)

      Preliminary model evaluation/assessment forms for the FSL models for IHOP can be found here. A more finalized version is found here, and the nowcaster weather evaluation form is found here.

      The RTVS site for IHOP models is located off of this site.

      Model evaluation/assessment forms developed by the SPC for IHOP can be found here.

    Profiler project.

      Profiler impact study...see the homepage here.

    Aviation projects.

      Turbulence project: This project involves installing a TKE turbulence formulation in the 20 km version of the RUC model to produce an explicit prediction of the eddy dissipation rate, which can be related to turbulence that an aircraft might encounter.

        A presentation on this work for the latest (Dec 5-7, 2000) Program Management Review can be found here.

      TAMDAR project.

        A literature review that describes the potential value of aircraft data for determining mesoscale and finer structures (in particular moisture and turbulence) can be found here.

        Talk at the AMS Annual meeting in Atlanta, January 2006, is here .

        Talk at the AMS SLS Conference in St. Louis, November 2006, is here .

        Talk at the AMS Annual Meeting ARAM Conference in New Orleans, January 2008, is here .

    Verification of medium to longer range forecasts.

      A more informal project, born out of our involvement in forecasting for various field programs like STORM-FEST and MCAT, involves a subjective assessment of the performance of numerical models for the medium to long range (approximately forecasts for 3 to as much as 10 days out) for winter time events that might affect the Colorado Front Range.

      A conference paper was written summarizing some of our findings for the 17th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (Denver, 1999).

      A separate homepage has been established where cases saved can be accessed. You can find it here.

      Examination of a range of NWP forecasts for the Great March 2003 snowstorm can be found in this powerpoint presentation to be given as paper 10.3A at the 20th WAF/16th NWP Conference at the AMS Annual Meeting in Seattle on Tuesday January 13th.

    Daily Weather Briefing program.

      GSD has a 30-minute weather briefing daily starting at 1100 LT in room 3C405. Everyone is welcome to attend. Briefers come mainly from the staff at GSD, but also from other groups within the NOAA Labs at the David Skaggs Research Center.

      The purposes of the weather briefing include

        1) Examining changes to D2D that may be prospects for permanent changes in AWIPS;
        2) Providing an outlet for testing and exposure of new features, like D3D;
        3) Giving staff of FSL and others in NOAA the opportunity to stay connected with the weather and weather forecasting;
        4) Providing a forum to discuss occurring and upcoming weather events for both meteorologists and non-meteorologists at NOAA in Boulder.

      Certain forecasts and products have been saved for use in the Daily Weather Briefing. They can be found here.

    Miscellaneous.

      A talk from Oct. 20, 2001 on weather technology and other issues is found here.
      A talk for SLS 2004 conference is found here.

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