ACCAP Alaska Climate Webinar Announcement
Enabling Scientific and Technological Improvements to Meet Core Partner
Service Requirements in Alaska - An Arctic Test Bed
Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy
Speaker: Gene Petrescu, National Weather Service
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
10:00-11:00 a.m. AKST
To register for the webinar, please fill out the form available at:
https://accap.uaf.edu/Arctic_Test_Bed
The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) will host a
webinar titled "Enabling Scientific and Technological Improvements to
Meet Core Partner Service Requirements in Alaska - An Arctic Test Bed"
on Tuesday, 9 December 2014 from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. AKST. It will be
presented by Gene Petrescu of the National Weather Service.
Test beds, such as the Joint Hurricane Test Bed (Miami, FL) and the
Hazardous Weather Test Bed (Norman, OK) have been highly effective in
meeting unique or pressing science and service challenges for the NWS.
NWS Alaska Region leadership has developed plans for a significant
enhancement to our operational capabilities in Alaska to address the
emerging requirements of the Arctic: An Arctic Test Bed.
Historically, the complexity of forecast operations and the inherent
challenges in Alaska have not been addressed well by the R&D programs
and projects that support the CONUS regions of the NWS. In addition,
there are science and technology, and unique service challenges (e.g.,
sea ice forecasts) and opportunities (Bilateral agreements with Canada,
Russia, and Norway) that would best be worked through Alaska operations.
A dedicated test bed will provide a mechanism to transfer technology,
research, and observations advances into operations in a timely and
effective manner.
A NOAA Arctic Test Bed will provide a crucial nexus for ensuringNOAA's
developers understand Alaska's needs, improve NOAA's responsiveness to
its Arctic-related science and service priorities among the NWS and OAR
(CPO and ESRL), and enable better leveraging of other research
initiatives and data sources external to NOAA which are particular to
the polar region (e.g., WWRP Polar Prediction Project).
Registration and more information available at:
https://accap.uaf.edu/Arctic_Test_Bed.
For further information on the ACCAP Alaska Climate webinars, to
subscribe to their podcasts, and for archived webinars please go to:
http://accap.uaf.edu/webinars.
For questions, please contact:
Tina Buxbaum
Phone: 907-474-7812
Email: tmbuxbaum [at] alaska.edu
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