Participants at the HMT-SE Research Planning Workshop in Chapel Hill, NC

HMT-SE Research Planning Workshop

The second of two HMT Southeast planning workshops was held on June 15-17, 2009 in Chapel Hill, NC: the HMT-SE Research Planning Workshop. This workshop built on the findings from the first workshop, held in February 2009, which identified hydrometeorological and operational requirements and gaps for this region. At the second workshop, 70 attendees from federal, state, and county forecast, warning and emergency management organizations, and academic institutions focused on identifying the research and development needs to help transition newly-identified science and technologies into operations. Input from these workshops is being used to develop a science plan that will guide the experimental design of HMT-SE. This plan will describe the research, development, and field experiments to be conducted during the HMT-SE field campaign, which is tentatively slated for deployment beginning in 2011, and running nominally for five years.

The workshop was again co-hosted by the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) of North Carolina and facilitation was coordinated through the NOAA Southeast and Caribbean Regional Team (SECART), by staff from the NOAA Coastal Services Center.