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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

Dr. Frederick and Mrs. Meg Carr

OU School of Meteorology

Weathernews

ChairSlide3

25 Years of CAPS Accomplishments

Ming

Xue, Keith Brewster, Richard Carpenter, and Jerry BrotzgeSlide4

CAPS: By the Numbers…

Current active grants: 25

Current employees in CAPS: 51Graduate degrees awarded: 70+CAPS REU students (current and former): 202

Journal publications by CAPS: 469Citations to ARPS model description papers: 895Google hits for “Advanced Regional Prediction System”: 10,600

Google hits for “Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms”: 126,000Approximate annual research budget: ~ $2.5MTotal internal storage capacity: 1+ PetabyteTotal amount of NWP model output stored off-site: 2+ PetabyteSlide5

CAPS PhD Graduates

Wan-Shu Wu (1990) - Lilly

Jung-Sing Jwo (1991) –

Lakshmivarahan (CS)Jeanne Schneider (1991) – LillyMeta Sienkiewicz (1991) – Gal-ChenC. G. Song (1992) –

Lakshmivarahan (CS)Juanzhen Sun (1992) - LillyLitao Deng (1993) – LillyQingyun Zhao (1993) - CarrYong Li (1994) –

DroegemeierYu-Chieng Liou (1995) – Gal-Chen/LillyMei Xu (1995) – Gal-Chen/LillySteve Lazarus (1996) –

DroegemeierSeon Ki Park (1996) – DroegemeierDan Weber (1997) – Lilly/FiedlerYidi Liu (1998) – Straka

/LewisYvette Richardson (1998) – DroegemeierSteve Weygandt (1998) – Droegemeier/ShapiroJian Zhang (1998) – CarrJinxing Zong (1998) – Droegemeier

Keith Brewster (1999) - Carr

Matt Miller (1999) –

Kalnay

Ed

Adlerman

(2000) -

Droegemeier

Mark

Askelson

(2000) –

Straka

William Martin (2001) - Shapiro

Yingiu

Wang (2002) –

Droegemeier

Hee

-Dong

Yoo

(2003) -

Droegemeier

Ming Hu (2007) -

Xue

Mingjing

Tong (2007) -

Xue

Youngsun

Jung (2008) –

Xue

Dan

Dawson (2009)

–

Xue

Corey

Potvin

(2010) - Shapiro

Jili

Dong (2011) -

Xue

Guoqing

Ge (2011) -

Xue

Nathan Snook (2011) –

Xue

Alex

Schenkman

(2012) –

Xue

Jing Cheng (2013) -

Xue

Gang Zhao (2013) -

Xue

Nathan Dahl (2014) -

Xue

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Visiting Scientists to CAPS

"We expect CAPS to achieve international

preeminence.

CAPS will bring the world to the state.“ - Joan

Wadlow, OU Provost, 1988Slide7

Distribution of ARPS Users (1998)

“New

techniques that will be refined by the research will allow scientists

to

predict weather at a county-by-county level within a

decade”, Jeff

Kimpel 1988Slide8

National Media and AwardsSlide9

CAPS Timeline and Milestones

NSF Science and Technology Center, 1989-1999

Publication of Doug Lilly’s “Numerical Prediction of Thunderstorms – has its time come?”, 1990Moved into

Sarkeys Energy Center, 1992Publication of ARPS 3.0 Users’ Guide, 1993CRAFT, 1993Doug Lilly retirement, 1994

VORTEX, 1994-1995Publication of ARPS 4.0 User’s Guide, 1995Project Hub-CAPS, 1996-1999Won the ComputerWorld Smithsonian Award, 1997Won the Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation in Computer Software, 1997

TAKE-97,98 (Testing of ARPS in Korea Environment)Join NCAR, NCEP, FSL as one of the 4 partners developing WRF model 1997SAMEX (Storm and Mesoscale Ensemble Experiment) 1998AMS-99, SOP-99NSF Grant to CAPS to develop WRF model and DA system 1999-2012Become a partner with FSL and EMC to contribute to operational WRF/RAP system development 1999-nowSlide10

CAPS Timeline and Milestones

Spin-off of WDT, 2000

Williams Company 2000-2002IHOP, 2002CRAFT, 2003-2004

LEAD, 2003-2008CASA, 2003-2013Move to the National Weather Center, 2006CSTAR HWT Spring Experiment

SSEF 2007-presentONR grants to work with COAMPS 2008-presentVORTEX2, 2009-2010Became a University Strategic Organization, 2009NOAA THORPPEX grant to work with NCEP global model 2009-2012.Warn-on-Forecast Collaboration, 2010

NOAA HFIP grant to work with Hurricane WRF 2011-Taiwan Central Weather Bureau Project 2011-2014 Projects from China (ShenZhen, ChonqQin

, JiangSu, SuZhou) 2010 – nowSlide11

General Outline

Dr. Ming

Xue: CAPS Research Dr. Keith Brewster: CAPS Real-time Analyses and ForecastsDr. Richard Carpenter: CAPS Early Commercialization Activities, 1996-2000