Emerging Initiatives

Carefully assessing the science and its readiness for application

This section is focused on research and development tracks that RAL is pursuing but have not yet fully matured and become a part of one of the five RAL Applications Programs. RAL staff invests time and effort to understand how the technology, demographics, science, politics and overall sensitivity of various sectors to weather and climate are changing on global, regional, national and local scales. Decisions to pursue new initiatives are based on these assessments, which at the highest level, are reflected in the RAL Strategic Plan, Science in Service to Society.

Emerging Initiatives Research

• Atmospheric Turbulence
• Convective Weather
• Snowfall and Freezing Precipitation
• Icing and Related Cloud Physics
• Remote Sensing
• Precipitation Physics
• Oceanic Weather
• Land-Surface Atmosphere Interactions
• Ceiling and Visibility
• Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
• Surface Hydrology
• Forecast Verification and Applied Statistics

Emerging Initiatives Technology

• Data Mining
• Algorithms
• Data Management and Distribution
• Computing Infrastructure
• Software Engineering Process
• Decision Support Systems
• Technology Transfer
• Engineering Expertise

Primary Contacts

• MAHONEY, Bill | WSAP DIRECTOR | ph: 8426 | email: mahoney
• BROWN, Barbara | WSAP DEPUTY DIRECTOR | ph: 8468 | email: bgb
• WIENER, Gerry | WSAP DEPUTY DIRECTOR | ph: 8417 | email: gerry