Project Hub-CAPS, a 3-year research and development partnership between American Airlines and the University of Oklahoma to adapt storm-scale numerical weather prediction technology for commercial airline operations.
A multi-institutional NWP experiment during spring, 1998 convective season over the central US. Known as SAMEX '98 (Storm and Mesoscale Ensemble Experiment, spring 1998), this effort involves a realtime comparison of approximately 30 ensemble forecasts, run at 30 km resolution using 3 models, against forecasts run at both intermediate (10 km) and high (2-3 km) resolution over sub-sets of the ensemble domain.
CAPS SAMEX'98 Forecast Experiment
ARPS was run at part of SAMEX'98 during May 1998, at 27/9 km resolutions, on PSC's massively parallel Cray T3E, using 128 processors. The forecast products are at http://origin.caps.ou.edu/~samex/arps/.
Past Spring Operational Forecast Experiments at CAPS
The ARPS model is being run daily through June 1995 in support of the VORTEX project. Participants in this evaluation include the NOAA NSSL, the Norman NWSFO, the NOAA SPC, and the OU School of Meteorology. Forecasting results are summarized in Droegemeier et al (1996a) and Xue et al (1996a).The 1996 CAPS Spring Operational Storm-Scale Prediction Experiment is a collaborative effort among OU's CAPS, the Norman NWSFO , the NOAA SPC, and the National Aviation Weather Center (AWC). The principal goal is to conduct high-resolution, short-term numerical predictions of convective weather on a daily basis, and to evaluate the quality of these forecasts in operational settings. Forecasting results are summarized in Droegemeier et al (1996b) and Xue et al (1996b).
Testing of ARPS in Korean Environment (TAKE)
ARPS is being tested at Korean Meteorological Agency (KMA) during the Changma (Meiyu) seasons (July - August) at 9 and 27 km resolutions, in 1997 and 1998. A conference paper summarizes the efforts in 1997.
The goal of the COMET-Tinker Project is to evaluate the forecasting effectiveness of the ARPS mesoscale model by Air Force weather personnel. This project is a cooperative effort between the School of Meteorology (SOM), at the University of Oklahoma, and the 72nd Air Base Wing Weather Flight at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. The project is funded by the COoperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET) Outreach Program of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and by the Air Weather Service (AWS) of the United States Air Force.
Realtime Analysis with ADAS at University of Oklahoma
ARPS Data Analysis System (ADAS) is being run daily at CAPS to produce hourly analysis for the southern great plain. A parallel effort that uses NIDS radar data in addition is done at Hub-CAPS.
Realtime analysis is being done with ADAS at the Department of Meteorology, University of Utah. It is part of the Utah Mesonet Project.