NWC SEMINAR SERIES

REU Final Presentations

NWC REU Students

30 July 2009, 9:00 AM
National Weather Center, Room 1313
120 David L. Boren Blvd.
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK
Directions to the NWC (.pdf, 60 kb)

9:05-9:20 Stephanie Hoekstra, UCLA
A Social Perspective of the Effects of Warn on Forecast: Pinpointing the Ideal Tornado Warning Lead Time and Assessing the Accuracy of the General Public’s Perceptions of Weather Risks

9:20-9:35 Lauren Potter, University of Kansas
Warning the Public about Hail: Determining the Potential for Short-Term Damage Mitigation

9:35-9:50 Hannah Barnes, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Tornado False Alarms on Days with No Reported Tornadoes: A Climatological and Radar Survey

10:10-10:25 Karen Nielson, University of Oklahoma
Evaluating User Interaction With Visualization Tools in Meteorology

10:25-10:40 Cristal Sampson, New York City College of Technology
The Impacts of High Temporal Resolution PAR Data on Forecasters’ Warning Decisions

10:40-10:55 Jonathan Vogel, Penn State University
Impacts of Super-Resolution Data on National Weather Service Warning Decision Making

10:55-11:10 Justin Wittrock, Iowa State University
The Viability of Weather Dissemination via Social Network Technologies

1:30-1:45 Travis Visco, SUNY - Oneonta
Diagnosis of Azimuthal Shear Associated with Tornadoes

1:45-2:00 Alex Kowaleski, Davidson College
Verification of European Storm Forecasts

2:00-2:15 Astrid Suarez, Western Kentucky University
Numerical Forecasting of Banded Snow: A Case Study

2:35-2:50 Kristen Bradford, Valparaiso University
Forecasting Southern Plains’ Wind Ramp Events Using the WRF Model at 3-km

2:50-3:05 David Goree, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The Feasibility of Parallelizing Vegetation Fraction Information for Assimilation into Numerical Weather Prediction Models

3:05-3:20 Jeffrey Viel, Plymouth State University
A Stochastic Daily Mean Temperature Model for Weather Derivatives



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