NORMAN, Okla.,
May 21,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Oklahoma will lead a new
multi-university consortium to improve weather forecasts using
enhanced weather prediction systems, recommended as part of
President Biden's Investing in America agenda.
The University of
Oklahoma will lead a new multi-university consortium to
improve weather forecasts
The Department of Commerce and NOAA recommended up to
$7 million from the Inflation
Reduction Act to establish the Consortium for Advanced Data
Assimilation Research and Education, called CADRE. Other
universities involved in the consortium include Howard University, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Maryland, Colorado State University, and the University of Utah. Additionally, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
State University of New York at Albany
and City College of New York will
participate as non-funded collaborators.
"CADRE will work collaboratively to perform innovative data
assimilation research and development to improve weather forecast
from short range to subseasonal to seasonal scales. It will promote
transitioning advanced data assimilation research into NOAA's
operational weather forecast systems," said Xuguang Wang, Ph.D., OU professor and CADRE
director. "CADRE will also fill serious gaps in the data
assimilation workforce through increasing the number of graduate
students and postdocs formally trained in data assimilation and
through enhancing the national and international data assimilation
workforce pipeline."
Data assimilation is the science that combines observations with
numerical models to analyze the earth system as it evolves over
time. It is used every day to provide the starting points for
weather forecasts. Data assimilation can also be used to understand
how a weather or ocean system might change over time and to keep a
weather model on track by constantly correcting the model with new
weather observations. CADRE will address challenges in data
assimilation for weather such as gaps in the data assimilation
workforce and the lack of sustained innovative data assimilation
research. Learn more at https://link.ou.edu/cadre.
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