The Prairie Post Quarterly Newsletter of the High Plains Regional Climate Center- July 2016

Inside this issue: Message from the interim director........................................1 Staff spotlight...........................1 Research update......................2 Product highlight....................3 Partnership spotlight.............3 AWDN information.................4 Update on regional climate conditions..................................4 Outreach/engagement.........5 Recent and upcoming travel and activities.............................

The Prairie Post Quarterly Newsletter of the High Plains Regional Climate Center- January 2017

Inside this issue: Message from the interim director........................................1 30th anniversary......................1 Stakeholder engagement activities......................................2 Product highlights..................3 AWDN information.................4 Update on regional climate conditions..................................4 Services update........................5 Recent and upcoming travel and activities.............................

The Prairie Post Quarterly Newsletter of the High Plains Regional Climate Center- October 2018

Inside this issue: Message from the interim director........................................1 Staff spotlight...........................1 ACIS GIS portal release..........2 ACIS maps enhancement.....3 Product highlight....................4 Update on regional climate conditions..................................4 Update on tribal engagement............................................. 5 Recent and upcoming travel and activities.............................

Thunderstorm Observation by Radar (ThOR): An Algorithm to Develop a Climatology of Thunderstorms

The Thunderstorm Observation by Radar (ThOR) algorithm is an objective and tunable Lagrangian approach to cataloging thunderstorms. ThOR uses observations from multiple sensors (principally multisite surveillance radar data and cloud-to-ground lightning) along with established techniques for fusing multisite radar data and identifying spatially coherent regions of radar reflectivity (clusters) that are subsequently tracked using a new tracking scheme. The main innovation of the tracking algorithm is that, by operating offline, the full data record is available, not just previous cluster positions, so all possible combinations of object sequences can be developed using all observed object positions. In contrast to Eulerian methods reliant on thunder reports, ThOR is capable of cataloging nearly every thunderstorm that occurs over regional-scale and continental United States (CONUS)-scale domains, thereby enabling analysis of internal properties and trends of thunderstorms. ThOR is verified against 166 manually analyzed cluster tracks and is also verified using descriptive statistics applied to a large (~35 000 tracks) sample. Verification also relied on a benchmark tracking algorithm that provides context for the verification statistics. ThOR tracks are shown to match the manual tracks slightly better than the benchmark tracks. Moreover, the descriptive statistics of the ThOR tracks are nearly identical to those of the manual tracks, suggesting good agreement. When the descriptive statistics were applied to the ~35 000-track dataset, ThOR tracking produces longer (statistically significant), straighter, and more coherent tracks than those of the benchmark algorithm. Qualitative assessment of ThOR performance is enabled through application to a multiday thunderstorm event and comparison to the behavior of the Storm Cell Identification and Tracking (SCIT) algorithm

The Prairie Post Quarterly Newsletter of the High Plains Regional Climate Center- April 2019

Inside this issue: Message from the director........................................1 Staff spotlight...........................1 Climate4Cities.......................2-3 Product highlight....................4 Update on regional climate conditions..................................4 THREDDS workshop...............5 AASC webinar...........................5 Recent and upcoming travel and activities.............................

The Prairie Post Quarterly Newsletter of the High Plains Regional Climate Center- April 2016

Inside this issue: Message from the interim director........................................1 Staff spotlight...........................1 Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador Program............2 Tribal work highlight..............2 Product highlight....................3 Partnership spotlight.............3 AWDN information.................4 Update on regional climate conditions..................................4 Outreach/engagement.........5 Recent and upcoming travel and activities.............................

The Prairie Post Quarterly Newsletter of the High Plains Regional Climate Center- October 2018

Inside this issue: Message from the interim director........................................1 Staff spotlight...........................1 ACIS GIS portal release..........2 ACIS maps enhancement.....3 Product highlight....................4 Update on regional climate conditions..................................4 Update on tribal engagement............................................. 5 Recent and upcoming travel and activities.............................

The Prairie Post Quarterly Newsletter of the High Plains Regional Climate Center- April 2019

Inside this issue: Message from the director........................................1 Staff spotlight...........................1 Climate4Cities.......................2-3 Product highlight....................4 Update on regional climate conditions..................................4 THREDDS workshop...............5 AASC webinar...........................5 Recent and upcoming travel and activities.............................

The Prairie Post Quarterly Newsletter of the High Plains Regional Climate Center- October 2016

Inside this issue: Message from the interim director........................................1 Staff spotlight...........................1 Stakeholder engagement activities......................................2 Product highlight....................3 Partnership spotlight.............3 AWDN information.................4 Update on regional climate conditions..................................4 Regional news..........................5 Recent and upcoming travel and activities.............................

Study of orphanage children?s value orientations

Inside this issue: Message from the interim director........................................1 Staff spotlight...........................1 Research update......................2 Product highlight....................3 Partnership spotlight.............3 AWDN information.................4 Update on regional climate conditions..................................4 Outreach/engagement.........5 Recent and upcoming travel and activities.............................