Winter Weather Warning Decision Making Workshop Presentations

The following presentations were given during the WDTB Winter Weather Warning Decision Making Workshops. These workshops (held four times at COMET Between November, 2001 and July, 2003) were an opportunity for WDTB to provide instruction on longer-fuse (i.e., winter weather) watches and warnings to NWS forecasters.

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Day 1:	Presenter:
NWS Winter Weather Programmatic Goals (409 KB PPT File)	Mark Tew (NWS Fire and Public Weather Services Branch /OCWWS)
User Needs: Societal Impacts (4.49 MB SHW File)	Brad Grant (WDTB)
Ensemble Forecasting (6.23 MB PPT File)	Stephen Jascourt (COMET/NCEP)
Precipitation Type Forecasting: 18 hours and beyond (65.1 MB SHW File)	Dan Baumgardt (ARX)
Forecasting Significant Weather Events: Comparing Your System to Climatology (1.09 MB PPT File)	Rich Grumm (CTP)
Day 2:
Forecasting Precipitation Type - Nowcasting Techniques (4.00 MB SHW File)	Dan Baumgardt (ARX)
Using BUFKIT to forecast precip type/heavy snow (4.56 MB PPT File)	Ed Mahoney (WDTB)
Winter Weather Forecasting Topics (3.55 MB PPT File)	Dave Schultz (NSSL)
Mesoscale Models: How to Use Them (582 KB PPT File)	Rich Grumm (CTP)
What's New in Numerical Weather Prediction (1.85 MB PPT File)	Bill Bua (COMET/NCEP)
Augmenting Model Forecasts with Real time Data (28.4 MB VisitView Executable)*	Jim Ladue and Brad Grant (WDTB)
Day 1 Diagnosis and Forecast Methodology (1.41 MB PPT File)	Jim Ladue (WDTB)
Prediction of Frontogenetically Forced Precipitation Bands (4.94 MB PPT File)	Pete Banacos (SPC)
Effective Communications with the Media (3.51 MB PPT File)	Brad Grant/Ed Mahoney (WDTB)
Day 3:
Forecasting Arctic Outbreaks (41.9 MB PPT File)	Brad Bramer (FGF)
HPC Winter Weather Activities (7.58 MB SHW File)	Michael Musher (HPC)
SPC Mesoscale Winter Weather Operations (1.59 MB PPT File)	Pete Banacos (SPC)
Challenges of Forecasting in the West (28.4 MB PPT File) Webcast also available.	Brad Coleman (SEW)
Topographic Forced Events (2.04 MB PPT File)	Doug Wesley (COMET)
Snow Accumulation Algorithm (371 KB PPT File)	Mark Fresch (ROC)
Forecasting Blizzard, High Wind, and Dust Storm Conditions (18.4 MB PPT File)	Brad Bramer (FGF)
The Great March Storm: Part I (24.8 MB PPT File) and Part II (1.63 MB PPT File)	Ed Szoke (FSL)/Doug Wesley (COMET)/ Dave Barjenbruch (BOU)
Using Mesoscale Models (1.15 MB PPT File)	Bob Rozulmalski (NWS COMET Branch)
Blizzard of Oct 24, 2001 (5.0 MB SHW File)
Overview of 14 December 1997 Mississippi Snowstorm (1.15 MB PPT File)	Alan Gerard (NWS)
Day 4:
Use of IFPS in Winter Weather Forecasting (836 KB PPT File)	Brian Motta (FSL/COMET)
A Step by Step Guide to Building an All Inclusive Snow Spotter Network (175 KB PDF File)	John Quinlan (NWS)/Eric Sinsabaugh (NWS)
WDTB Winter Weather Workshop Summary (205 KB PPT File)	Brad Grant (WDTB)

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