This National Science Foundation award provides $353,470 to the Desert Research Institute, a division of the Nevada System of Higher Education, to develop new technology and computer-generated predictions to improve the prediction of derecho windstorms. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the two-year project will create models and 4D visualizations synthesizing atmospheric conditions conducive to long-lasting and devastating derechos. By better representing the jet stream, frontal systems and other precursors to derecho genesis and movement, the technology aims to substantially improve operational weather forecasting reliability. The models and predictions will be made available to government and private forecasters to potentially provide more accurate derecho warnings further in advance, thus reducing lives lost and property damage from these damaging phenomena.
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