WRADS Research

Recent and current grant-funded research projects

Minding the Gap: Modernizing the TC product suite by evaluating NWS partner information needs
Collaborators: Ann Bostrom
Funded by: NOAA Disaster Related Appropriations Supplemental: Improving Forecasting and Assimilation

Wait, that forecast changed? Assessing how publics consume and process changing tropical cyclone forecasts over time
Collaborators: Gabrielle Wong-Parodi and colleagues at Stanford University, Leysia Palen, Kenneth Anderson, and colleagues at University of Colorado
Funded by: NOAA Disaster Related Appropriations Supplemental: Improving Forecasting and Assimilation

Integrating sense of place into geovisualization of hurricane storm surge
Funded by: NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences program

Improving Convection-Permitting Ensemble Based Uncertainty Communication for Decision Support using the Weather Archive and Visualization Environment (WAVE)
Funded by: NOAA Joint Technology Transfer Initiative

Improved Presentation and Use of Probabilistic Forecast Products
Funded by: NOAA ESRL Global Systems Division

Understanding and Enhancing Public Interpretation and Use of Probabilistic Tornado Warnings in the Southeastern United States
Collaborators: Sonia Savelli, Susan Joslyn, and colleagues at University of Washington
Funded by: NOAA VORTEX-Southeast program

Protecting Coastal Infrastructure in a Changing Climate by Integrating Optimization Modeling and Stakeholder Observations
Collaborators: Kyle Mandli, George Deodatis, Daniel Bienstock, and colleagues at Columbia University
Funded by: NSF CRISP (Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes) program

Risk, Information, and Vulnerability for Evolving Tornado Threats
Funded by: NOAA VORTEX-Southeast program
For more information, see: RIVETT project web page

Communicating Hazard Information in the Modern Environment
Funded by: NSF Hazards SEES (Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability) program
For more information, see: CHIME project web page

Understanding Decision-Climate Interactions on Decadal Scales
Funded by: NSF EaSM (Earth System Models) program
For more information, see: UDECIDE project web page

Refinement and Evaluation of Automated High-Resolution Ensemble-Based Hazard Detection Guidance Tools for Transition to NWS Operations
Collaborators: NCAR Joint Numerical Testbed, NOAA ESRL Global Systems Division, NWS Weather Prediction Center, NWS Environmental Modeling Center
Funded by: NOAA U.S. Weather Research Program

Water Decisions for Sustainability of the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer
Collaborators: Renee McPherson and colleagues at University of Oklahoma, Erin Towler, Debasish PaiMazumder, Scott Ketchum
Funded by: NOAA Climate Program Office Sectoral Applications Research Program
For more information, see: Arbuckle-Simpson Drought project web page

Warning Decisions in Extreme Weather Events: An Integrated Multi-Method Approach
Collaborators: Jeffrey Lazo, Ann Bostrom and colleagues at University of Washington, Kathleen Tierney and colleagues at the Natural Hazards Center at University of Colorado, Kelsey Mulder
Funded by: NSF Human and Social Dynamics Program (grant ATM-0729511)
For more information, see: Morss et al. 2016, Bostrom et al. 2016, Lazrus et al. 2016, Morss et al. 2015, Lazo et al. 2015

Examining the Hurricane Warning System: Content, Channels, and Comprehension
Collaborators: Jeffrey Lazo, Betty Morrow, H. Dan O’Hair and colleagues at University of Oklahoma and University of Kentucky, Katherine Dickinson
Funded by: NSF Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events program & NSF Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences Program (grant SES-0838702), jointly with NOAA
For more information, see: Demuth et al. 2016, Morss et al. 2016, Demuth et al. 2012, Lazrus et al. 2012

NWS Public Forecast and Forecast-at-a-Glance Product Improvement
Collaborators: Jeffrey Lazo, NOAA/National Weather Service
Funded by: NOAA Office of Climate, Water and Weather Services & Office of Science and Technology
For more information, see: Picturing the Forecast, Demuth et al. 2013, Demuth et al. 2012

Communicating Weather Forecast Uncertainty and Forecast Sources, Perceptions, Uses, and Values
Collaborators: Jeffrey Lazo
Funded by: NCAR Societal Impacts Program
For more information, see: Demuth et al. 2011, Morss et al. 2010, Demuth et al. 2009, Lazo et al. 2009, Morss et al. 2008

For additional information about our research projects and findings, see our publications and presentations pages.