FORECAST Research and Development

Photo of mobile mesonet from VORTEX

Mobile Mesonet on the VORTEX project. The mobile mesonet system, a group of cars instrumented with high-quality weather observing equipment, provided very detailed mappings of meteorological variables in the vitally important near-ground region of tornadic and potentially tornadic storms.

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Mission...
To conduct basic and applied research that leads to the improvement of National Weather Service forecasts of hazardous and severe weather using observations, modeling, theory, and experimental forecast techniques.

-- Dave Stensrud, Chief

Mesoscale Applications

Models and Assimilation

Field Observing Facilities Support