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Bridging the Gap Between Operations and Research to Improve Weather Prediction in Mountainous Regions

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Mountain Weather Research and Forecasting

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A gap between operational and research meteorologists has existed since the infancy of weather forecasting and represents an obstacle to progress in meteorology. This gap is related to the profoundly different perspectives and professional expectations of operational and research meteorologists. For the knowledge, observations, tools, and models described in this book to reach their full potential, the mountain meteorology community must work more effectively to bridge this gap, as described in this chapter. Essential to this effort are advocates who are capable of interacting, communicating, and commanding respect with both the operational and research communities. As a result, the mountain meteorology community should provide the attention and resources needed to ensure that future advocates are created from the pool of young scientists and forecasters. The community should also ensure that knowledge and technological advances from field programs and other research efforts are effectively transferred into operations and, at least in North America, explore the development of an integrated research and forecast center to tackle challenges in mountain hydrometeorology and fire–atmosphere prediction. Although the existence of a modest gap reflects a healthy scientific and forecasting enterprise, these and other gap-bridging activities and incentives described in this chapter should benefit the entire mountain weather community, its operational and research sectors, and, via improved forecasts, society at large.

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We thank the participants in the 2008 AMS/COMET/MSC Mountain Weather Workshop: Bridging the Gap between Research and Forecasting for 4 days of lectures and discussion that stimulated this chapter, as well as our editors and chapter coauthors for their contributions to this book. We also thank Katja Friedrich, John Lewis, Andrea Rossa, Mathias Rotach, Andrew Russell, David Stensrud, Hans Volkert, and three anonymous reviewers for their contributions to the manuscript. Participants in the panel discussion “Enhancing the Connectivity between Research and Applications for the Benefit of Society” at the 2008 AMS Annual Meeting also provided thoughts and ideas that influenced parts of this chapter. Contributing author Steenburgh acknowledges the support of the National Science Foundation and National Weather Service. Contributing author Schultz acknowledges the support of Vaisala Oyj. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, National Weather Service, or Vaisala Oyj.

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    W. James Steenburgh

  2. Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    David M. Schultz

  3. Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland

    David M. Schultz

  4. Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    David M. Schultz

  5. Meteorological Service of Canada, Vancouver, Canada

    Bradley J. Snyder

  6. NOAA/National Weather Service, Grand Junction, CO, USA

    Michael P. Meyers

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Steenburgh, W.J., Schultz, D.M., Snyder, B.J., Meyers, M.P. (2013). Bridging the Gap Between Operations and Research to Improve Weather Prediction in Mountainous Regions. In: Chow, F., De Wekker, S., Snyder, B. (eds) Mountain Weather Research and Forecasting. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4098-3_12

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