NWS Weather Forecast Office Partners
The collaborations with the National Weather Service continue to grow as SPoRT added 7 new partner Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) from the Southern Region as of the Fall of 2007 to give a total of 12 WFO partners listed in the table below. This expansion resulted from discussions during the Science and Operations Officer Workshop held in Huntsville in July of 2006. The expansion has been aided by the collaborative efforts of Southern Region Headquarters, who have provided their services to support a systematic data dissemination network. Based on local characteristics, individual offices have varying interests and forecast priorities. SPoRT works with our partners to identify these specific forecast issues and link these concerns with a particular, unique data product. As a result, only a small subset of a data suite, such as from MODIS or AMSR-E, may be transitioned with each WFO. However, by focusing on these specific issues, SPoRT will have better feedback as the WFO personnel can discuss their own, local issues. With such a wide array of interests and possible products, an internal website was created with access to the product distribution database. SPoRT realizes that a variety of groups have an interest in knowing who is receiving data from SPoRT, including the specific instrument, product, image, or resolution of these data. This not only includes SPoRT personnel for internal organizational purposes, but also includes our collaborators, sponsors, and other NASA or NOAA agencies. To this end we have developed a Data Distribution site that allows users to quickly find our partners, the points of contact, and product suites. In fact, specific queries to the databases allow users to develop searches based on partner, resolution, product, domain, or instrument.
| Albuquerque, New Mexico | Deirdre Kann, SOO | GOES Aviation, CIRA |
| Birmingham, Alabama | Kevin Pence, SOO | MODIS, LMA |
| Corpus Christi, Texas | Ronald Morales Jr., SOO | GOES Aviation, CIRA |
| Great Falls, Montana | David Bernhardt, SOO | MODIS |
| Houston, Texas | Lance Wood, SOO | GOES Aviation, CIRA |
| Huntsville, Alabama | Jason Burks, ITO | MODIS, AMSR-E, LMA, GOES Aviation, CI, SPoRT ADAS, CIRA |
| Melbourne, Florida | David Sharp, SOO | GOES Aviation, CIRA |
| Miami, Florida | Pablo Santos, SOO | MODIS, AMSR-E, GOES Aviation, CIRA |
| Mobile, Alabama | Jeffrey Medlin, SOO | MODIS, AMSR-E, GOES Aviation, CIRA |
| Morristown, (Knoxville), Tennessee | David Hotz, SOO | LMA, GOES Aviation, CIRA |
| Nashville, Tennessee | Henry Steigerwaldt, SOO | MODIS, LMA |
| Tallahassee, Florida | Irv Watson, SOO | GOES Aviation, CIRA |
