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News Letter April 2023

The full version of HIWeather News Letter April 2023
April 2023
April 2023

Welcome to this newsletter from the HIWeather project. I hope you enjoy the content from our project teams working across the varied disciplines and components that come together in an effective warning system.

It is an exciting time for those involved in warnings. Last March the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres laid down the challenge to our community to protect everyone in the world with early warnings within five years. WMO and its partners put together an outline plan which was presented at COP27 in Egypt last November. Within WMO the plans have been through the meeting of the Services Commission in October and, more recently the Executive Council. It will be a main item on the agenda for Congress in May. HIWeather outputs have significantly influenced the formulation of the plan, not least in the reference to bridges over valleys of death, albeit within a warning value cycle defined rather more broadly than the focus of HIWeather.

Our Value Cycle project is gradually gaining traction outside of HIWeather, with case studies now completed in the USA, in Australia and in the UK. Across Europe, the EU Human Technology Nexus project has adopted the HIWeather Value Cycle template as the starting point for an interoperable evaluation tool to be used across all ten demonstrators, with different governance structures and addressing different hazards. A preliminary survey of the structures of the warning systems has been partially completed and work is just starting on mapping two of the demonstrators on to the HIWeather template.

I was lucky enough to get to the AMS annual meeting in Denver back in January. There was snow on the ground after the Christmas storms there – and even more in the foothills at Golden, where I enjoyed a memorable hike on the Sunday morning before the start of the meeting. As ever, there was a vast amount of fantastic research to choose from. I particularly concentrated on the sessions describing progress with FACETS (Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats), addressing many of the issues that HIWeather is concerned with across the whole value chain, particularly in relation to warnings of severe convective weather.

By the time you read this, the HIWeather Impact Based Forecasting and Warning writing workshop will be imminent. The project is focused on identifying and recording gaps in our knowledge of this key component of modern warning systems. There is much to learn about what sort of impact information is needed to help prompt a behavioural response, to whom, and when, and how it can be connected into the warning process. And the challenges of producing forecasts of impact are becoming evident as more centres attempt to implement them.

 

Brian Golding

Co-Chair 

Brian Golding

Co-chair of HIWeather

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PROCESSES & PREDICTABILITY

AEOLUS CAMPAIGN WILL TAKE PLACE IN SEPTEMBER 2021

After two postponements, the Aeolus Tropical Campaign will finally take place inSeptember 2021 on the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of West Africa. The German (German Aerospace Center, DLR) and French (Service des Avions Français Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement, SAFIRE) Falcon aircraft will fly out of Sal airport, while the US American DC-8 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA) will be stationed on the US Virgin Islands and visit Cape Verde for intensive measurement periods. The research flights will be accompanied by radiosonde launches operated by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and by ground-based dust remote sensing measurements from the island of Mindelo (ASKOS: https://askos.space.noa.gr). In addition to Cal/Val activities for the space-borne wind and aerosol lidar on the Aeolus satellite, scientific investigations will target African Easterly and other Equatorial Waves, tropical cyclogenesis, dust outbreaks from the Sahara and mesoscale convective systems.


Preparing equipment for an Aeolus overpass in Mindelo

After two postponements, the Aeolus Tropical Campaign will finally take place inSeptember 2021 on the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of West Africa. The German (German Aerospace Center, DLR) and French (Service des Avions Français Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement, SAFIRE) Falcon aircraft will fly out of Sal airport, while the US American DC-8 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA) will be stationed on the US Virgin Islands and visit Cape Verde for intensive measurement periods. The research flights will be accompanied by radiosonde launches operated by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and by ground-based dust remote sensing measurements from the island of Mindelo (ASKOS: https://askos.space.noa.gr). In addition to Cal/Val activities for the space-borne wind and aerosol lidar on the Aeolus satellite, scientific investigations will target African Easterly and other Equatorial Waves, tropical cyclogenesis, dust outbreaks from the Sahara and mesoscale convective systems.

After two postponements, the Aeolus Tropical Campaign will finally take place inSeptember 2021 on the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of West Africa. The German (German Aerospace Center, DLR) and French (Service des Avions Français Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement, SAFIRE) Falcon aircraft will fly out of Sal airport, while the US American DC-8 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA) will be stationed on the US Virgin Islands and visit Cape Verde for intensive measurement periods. The research flights will be accompanied by radiosonde launches operated by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and by ground-based dust remote sensing measurements from the island of Mindelo (ASKOS: https://askos.space.noa.gr). In addition to Cal/Val activities for the space-borne wind and aerosol lidar on the Aeolus satellite, scientific investigations will target African Easterly and other Equatorial Waves, tropical cyclogenesis, dust outbreaks from the Sahara and mesoscale convective systems.

After two postponements, the Aeolus Tropical Campaign will finally take place inSeptember 2021 on the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of West Africa. The German (German Aerospace Center, DLR) and French (Service des Avions Français Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement, SAFIRE) Falcon aircraft will fly out of Sal airport, while the US American DC-8 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA) will be stationed on the US Virgin Islands and visit Cape Verde for intensive measurement periods. The research flights will be accompanied by radiosonde launches operated by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and by ground-based dust remote sensing measurements from the island of Mindelo (ASKOS: https://askos.space.noa.gr). In addition to Cal/Val activities for the space-borne wind and aerosol lidar on the Aeolus satellite, scientific investigations will target African Easterly and other Equatorial Waves, tropical cyclogenesis, dust outbreaks from the Sahara and mesoscale convective systems.

After two postponements, the Aeolus Tropical Campaign will finally take place inSeptember 2021 on the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of West Africa. The German (German Aerospace Center, DLR) and French (Service des Avions Français Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement, SAFIRE) Falcon aircraft will fly out of Sal airport, while the US American DC-8 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA) will be stationed on the US Virgin Islands and visit Cape Verde for intensive measurement periods. The research flights will be accompanied by radiosonde launches operated by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and by ground-based dust remote sensing measurements from the island of Mindelo (ASKOS: https://askos.space.noa.gr). In addition to Cal/Val activities for the space-borne wind and aerosol lidar on the Aeolus satellite, scientific investigations will target African Easterly and other Equatorial Waves, tropical cyclogenesis, dust outbreaks from the Sahara and mesoscale convective systems.