CAPS

CAPS will be busy this week with several Invited Talks, Panels and Presentations at the American Meteorological Society's 101 Annual Meeting, a virtual conference being held online. Jan 10-Jan 15. See link for a list of all CAPS talks. #AMS2021 #AMS101 http://www.caps.ou.edu/CAPS_AMS101_Presentations.pdf

As part of the Hydrometeorology Winter Weather Experiment CAPS has begun running a small (5-member) ensemble for 84 h at 3-km grid covering the CONUS. Runs will be at 00z every Tuesday beginning Nov 3 and continuing into mid-March. We will submit special runs when major winter storms are expected. We will have VIP queue access on the scheduled days, and we are fortunate to have gained access this year to a machine at the Texas Advanced Computing Center that is less bus...y, so even normal queue runs sometimes start with only a short wait. We are sending the output files to the HMT at NOAA/WPC and also plotting selected fields focusing on winter weather variables on the web at this URL: http://www.caps.ou.edu/~nsnook/HMT_winter/index.html We are focusing this year on testing various combinations of surface and precipitation physics in the FV3-LAM (formerly known as FV3-SAR) using the NOAA Unified Forecasting System code release.

Congratulations to CAPS Affiliated Faculty member Dr. Amy McGovern for being named in the 2021 Class of new AMS Fellows. Computer Science Professor McGovern has been working with CAPS team members and SoM students on Artificial Intelligence applied to severe storms foreca sting.

Congratulations to CAPS Affiliated Faculty member Dr. Fred Carr for AMS Cleveland Abbe Award For tireless, selfless, wide-ranging service to the community that has had an immeasurable impact on the nation’s weather, water, and climate efforts.

Congratulations to our own Dr. Daphne LaDue for earning the AMS Robert H. and Joanne Simpson Mentorship Award For generous, thoughtful, and caring mentorship to students and their supervisors during more than 20 years of directing the Oklahoma Research Experience for Undergraduates program." Well deserved, Daphne, especially when in 2020 NWC REU had to go 100% online on short notice.