The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $878,098 cooperative agreement to the University of Oklahoma under the Weather and Air Quality Research program (CFDA 11.459) from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025.
The award will support the university's efforts to advance background ensemble covariance at the air-sea interface and contribute to the development of a fully-coupled data assimilation system. Key activities include assimilating atmospheric and oceanic data, developing new coupled methods, implementing these methods into data assimilation modeling, and testing and evaluating results. The project aims to further understanding of the impact of coupled ocean-atmosphere covariance and coupled updating on hurricane forecasting. Findings are expected to provide guidance for designing and accelerating the next generation of operational convection-allowing hurricane data assimilation and forecast systems.
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