Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research & Operations

We visited the Norman High School career fair to talk to students about severe weather research. We asked them to take a stab at guessing which states receive the most hail. They had lots of great ideas! Most were surprised to learn hail is a special phenomenon in Oklahoma.

It was a delightful time of sharing and learning at the Workshop on Science, Predictability, Operations, Preparation & Response for High Impact Weather at University at Albany, one of our valuable consortium partners.

Watch researcher Steve Martinaitis talk to KWTV News9: “Flash flooding is on average the most deadliest and most costly hazard we have in the United States." University of Oklahoma NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration https://lnkd.in/gwx7q8RU

Steve Martinaitis spoke to The Norman Transcript about $4.5 million in new federal funding: “(The funding) gives us the opportunity to advance our infrastructure on how to better position ourselves to bring in new data sets, sources, how best to leverage those data sources and to create new science that allows us to improve the precipitation estimation products that we generate.” https://bit.ly/3ZT8wq4

Dean Meyer, a researcher on our MRMS Stormscale Hydrometeorology team, explains how precipitation estimation and its frequency through hydrological modeling can save lives and property in this KFOR Oklahoma's News 4 interview: https://lnkd.in/gw_Q5h68

BREAKING NEWS: We have been awarded $4.5 million from U.S. Department of Commerce & NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration to study next-generation water modeling of precipitation frequency + water availability. Flash flooding is the greatest, most impactful short-fused weather event in the U.S. Read the story on University of Oklahoma website: https://bit.ly/47RCi0s

CIWRO researchers were in Rome this month for the 12th European conference on Radar in meteorology and hydrology #ERAD2024. Sebastian Torres and David Warde taught the training course "Under the Hood: How Signal Processing in the WSR-88D Provides the Best Quality Data." Poster presentation highlights include: Chris Curtis on how to mitigate interference contamination on weather radars. Sebastian Torres on using the ATD to demonstrate unique capabilities of phased-array radar for weather observations. Additional posters: Igor Ivic on the polarimetric calibration of the ATD -- one of the biggest technical challenges associated with adopting PAR for weather. And David Warde on the characterization of contamination by wind farms on radar data. Plus, Feng Nai gave a presentation on the automatic detection and filtering of contamination by wind farms on radar data.

Moving boxes, setting up desks and hanging flags for a good cause? Yes, sign us up! We worked with our National Weather Center friends to help Envision Success for Veterans get organized in their new building as part of the United Way of Norman Day of Caring. #UWNDOC

Congratulations to Alyssa Bates for receiving the National Weather Association Member of the Year Award. Alyssa is an instructional meteorologist at the National Weather Service Warning Decision Training Division at CIWRO. She serves as R2O/O2R liaison, working with NOAA NSSL researchers to show experimental tools and techniques to the National Weather Service field before they become operational.

Join us as we celebrate heritage and contributions rooted in all Latin American countries. Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!