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Edward J. Szoke authored and/or contributed to the following articles/publications.
An overview of CIRA's contribution to the GOES-R Proving Ground
CIRA is an active member of the GOES-R Proving Ground project, along with two other Proving Ground product developers, the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) and NASA's Short-term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) Program. These three organizations engage in developing new products that demonstrate the ca...
Evaluation of Regional Aircraft Observations using TAMDAR
We present a multiyear evaluation of a regional aircraft observation system (TAMDAR). We compare TAMDAR observation errors with errors in traditional reports from commercial aircraft (AMDAR), and evaluate the impact of TAMDAR observations on forecasts from the Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) over a three-year period. Because of the high vertical resolu...
New TAMDAR fleets and their impact on Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) forecasts
Commercial aircraft now provide more than 160,000 observations per day of wind and temperature aloft over North America. The general term for these data is AMDAR (Aircraft Meteorological Data Reports). These data have been shown to improve both short- and long-term weather forecasts, and have become increasingly important for regional and global...
TAMDAR Fleets and Their Impact on Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) Forecasts.
Commercial aircraft now provide more than 170,000 observations per day of winds and temperature aloft over the contiguous United States. The general term for these data is AMDAR (Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay). These data have been ingested into the Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) for more than a decade, and have been shown to improve forecasts. ...
TAMDAR and its impact RAPID UPDATE CYCLE (RUC) forecasts
Commercial aircraft now provide more than 160,000 observations per day of wind and temperature aloft over the contiguous United States. The general term for these data is AMDAR (Aircraft Meteorological Data Reports). These data have been shown to improve both short- and long-term weather forecasts, and have become increasingly important for regi...
TAMDAR/AMDAR data assements on RUC at NOAA's Global Systems Divison
Commercial aircraft now provide more than 150,000 observations per day of winds and temperature aloft over the contiguous United States. The general term for these data is AMDAR (Aircraft Meteorological Data Reports). These data have been shown to improve both short-term and long-term weather forecasts (Moninger, et al., 2003). One weakness of t...
AMDAR optimization studies at the Forecast Systems Laboratory
AMDAR Optimization Studies at the Earth System Research Laboratory / Global Systems Division
Commercial aircraft now provide more than 130,000 observations per day of temperature and winds aloft over the contiguous US. The general term for these data is AMDAR (Aircraft Meteorological Data Reports). See, e.g., Moninger et al., 2003 for more information about AMDAR. These data have been shown to improve both short- and long-term weather f...
The year 2006 marks the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the Denver Cyclone, made possible after the installation of a mesonetwork of automated weather stations in 1981 by then NOAA/PROFS (Program for Regional Observing and Forecasting Services). The “PROFS mesonet” provided sufficient resolution to observe the Denver Cyclone, a zone of low-...
TAMDAR, the Rapid Update Cycle, and the Great Lakes Fleet Experiment
The TAMDAR (Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting) sensor (Daniels et al., 2004) is designed to measure winds, temperature, humidity, turbulence, and icing from regional commercial aircraft. These data are downlinked via satellite to a ground-based processing center and are generally available to users within one minute of actual m...
Mesoscale Model Simulations in Quasi-Forecast Mode of the Great Western Storm of 16-20 March 2003
A massive snowstorm crippled large portions of the central Rockies and adjacent plains during the period 16-20 March 2003. Snowfall accumulation in the foothills and mountains exceeded four feet in relatively large regions, while on the plains amounts above two feet were common. The large impacts of this historic storm are well documented. This ...
OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF THREE DIMENSIONAL AIR PARCEL TRAJECTORIES USING AWIPS D3D
EVALUATION OF LOCAL-SCALE FORECASTS FOR SEVERE WEATHER OF 20 JULY 2000
OPERATIONAL EVALUATION OF THE LAPS-??MM5 HOT START LOCAL FORECAST MODEL
3D visualization development at NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory
An assessment of the utility of a local model for operational mountain snowfall predictions
Developing and testing a 3-D visualization workstation application at FSL
Forecasting strong winds and low-level turbulence at Colorado Springs: MCAT97
The landspout life cycle: maybe not as simple as previously thought
Advancing New Satellite Products into Operations: CIRA's NWS Proving Ground Plans
The past year has been an exciting one for NWS operations with the successful launch of GOES-16 late in 2016. Forecasters are now seeing more satellite data then ever before, with both new satellite bands and an ever-increasing number of new satellite products. The GOES-R Proving Ground efforts gave many forecasters a preview of some of these ne...
Institution National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA
Institution National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA
The elevated mixed layer (EML) can be an important aspect for severe thunderstorm forecasting. Because its thermodynamic characteristics vary as it moves eastward, tracking the EML is a crucial part of the forecasting process, something that previously has been quite challenging owing to the limited spatial and temporal resolution of observed so...
Institution National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA
The elevated mixed layer (EML) can be an important aspect for severe thunderstorm forecasting. Because its thermodynamic characteristics vary as it moves eastward, tracking the EML is a crucial part of the forecasting process, something that previously has been quite challenging owing to the limited spatial and temporal resolution of observed...
Diagnostic fields developed for hourly updated NOAA weather models
This document describes methods for diagnosing non-prognostic variables from explicit prognostic variables from hourly updated NOAA models. Many of these diagnostics have been developed for specific forecast applications for downstream forecast users over the years; these variables have been output from the Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model prior t...
Institution National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA
The increasing use of mobile phones (MPs) equipped with digital cameras and the ability to post images and information to the Internet in real time has significantly improved the ability to report events almost instantaneously. From the perspective of weather forecasters responsible for issuing severe weather warnings, the old adage holds that a...
The Marshall Fire on 30 December 2021 became the most destructive wildfire costwise in Colorado history as it evolved into a suburban firestorm in southeastern Boulder County, driven by strong winds and a snow-free and drought-influenced fuel state. The fire was driven by a strong downslope windstorm that maintained its intensity for nearly 11 h...
Institution National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA