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Dr. Frederick and Mrs. Meg Carr

OU School of MeteorologyWeathernews Chair

25 Years of CAPS Accomplishments

Ming Xue, Keith Brewster, Richard Carpenter, and Jerry Brotzge

CAPS: By the Numbers…• Current active grants: 25• Current employees in CAPS: 51• Graduate degrees awarded: 70+• CAPS REU students (current and former): 202• Journal publications by CAPS: 469• Citations to ARPS model description papers: 895• Google hits for “Advanced Regional Prediction System”: 10,600• Google hits for “Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms”: 126,000• Approximate annual research budget: ~ $2.5M• Total internal storage capacity: 1+ Petabyte• Total amount of NWP model output stored off-site: 2+ Petabyte

CAPS PhD Graduates• Wan-Shu Wu (1990) - Lilly• Jung-Sing Jwo (1991) – Lakshmivarahan (CS)• Jeanne Schneider (1991) – Lilly• Meta Sienkiewicz (1991) – Gal-Chen• C. G. Song (1992) – Lakshmivarahan (CS)• Juanzhen Sun (1992) - Lilly• Litao Deng (1993) – Lilly• Qingyun Zhao (1993) - Carr• Yong Li (1994) – Droegemeier• Yu-Chieng Liou (1995) – Gal-Chen/Lilly• Mei Xu (1995) – Gal-Chen/Lilly• Steve Lazarus (1996) – Droegemeier• Seon Ki Park (1996) – Droegemeier• Dan Weber (1997) – Lilly/Fiedler• Yidi Liu (1998) – Straka/Lewis• Yvette Richardson (1998) – Droegemeier• Steve Weygandt (1998) – Droegemeier/Shapiro• Jian Zhang (1998) – Carr• Jinxing 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

Visiting Scientists to CAPS

"We expect CAPS to achieve international preeminence. CAPS will bring the world to the state.“ - Joan Wadlow, OU Provost, 1988

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 1988

National Media and Awards

1. OU Storm Center Given 450 Hours on Supercomputer Oklahoman Published: August 30, 1989 NORMAN The University of Oklahoma's Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms will receive a gift from Cray Research Inc. of 450 hours of supercomputer time, valued at about $600,000.

OU Experts Storm D.C. With Tornado Technology Chris Casteel • Published: May 27, 1999 WASHINGTON - About 90 minutes before the massive tornado developed in central Oklahoma on May 3, an experimental computer at the University of Oklahoma predicted it.

CAPS Timeline and Milestones• NSF Science and Technology Center, 1989-1999• Publication of Doug Lilly’s “Numerical Prediction of Thunderstorms – has its time come?”, 1990• Moved into Sarkeys Energy Center, 1992• Publication of ARPS 3.0 Users’ Guide, 1993• CRAFT, 1993• Doug Lilly retirement, 1994• VORTEX, 1994-1995• Publication of ARPS 4.0 User’s Guide, 1995• Project Hub-CAPS, 1996-1999• Won the ComputerWorld Smithsonian Award, 1997• Won 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 1997• SAMEX (Storm and Mesoscale Ensemble Experiment) 1998• AMS-99, SOP-99• NSF Grant to CAPS to develop WRF model and DA system 1999-2012• Become a partner with FSL and EMC to contribute to operational WRF/RAP system development

1999-now

CAPS Timeline and Milestones• Spin-off of WDT, 2000• Williams Company 2000-2002• IHOP, 2002• CRAFT, 2003-2004• LEAD, 2003-2008• CASA, 2003-2013• Move to the National Weather Center, 2006• CSTAR HWT Spring Experiment SSEF 2007-present• ONR grants to work with COAMPS 2008-present• VORTEX2, 2009-2010• Became a University Strategic Organization, 2009• NOAA 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 – now

General Outline• Dr. Ming Xue: CAPS Research • Dr. Keith Brewster: CAPS Real-time Analyses and Forecasts• Dr. Richard Carpenter: CAPS Early Commercialization Activities, 1996-2000