PFI-AIR: CASA Warning System Innovation Institute

NSF加速创新研究（AIR）项目将在公私合作伙伴之间创建一个创新生态系统，以提供天气预警系统、技术和流程。 评估最佳尺度的雨水径流的指导方针，并采用高分辨率分析的大气现状，将能够精确定位的地区，风暴发展将发生。此外，社会科学方法将评估人类对洪水警报的反应，并推荐警报策略。 天气具有重大的社会影响。2008年美国国内生产总值的3.4%或4850亿美元对天气变化敏感，2011年的极端天气导致至少922人死亡，总经济损失超过700亿美元。 这将是美国首次部署用于洪水预警的X波段雷达之一，这些活动将导致在山洪预警、风暴引发和城市规模决策领域创造新知识。

This NSF Accelerating Innovation Research (AIR) project will create an innovation ecosystem between/among public-private partners to provide weather warning systems, technologies, and processes. Assessing the guidelines for optimal scale of rainfall-runoff and employing high resolution analyses of the current state of the atmosphere will enable pinpointing areas where storm development will occur. Additionally, social science methods will evaluate human response to flood warnings with recommended warning strategies. Weather has significant societal impacts. 3.4% or $485 billion of the 2008 U.S. gross domestic product is sensitive to weather variability, and the extreme weather of 2011 resulted in at least 922 deaths and more than $70 billion in total economic losses. This will be one of the first deployments of X-band radars for flood warning in the U.S. These activities will result in the creation of new knowledge in the fields of flash flood warning, storm initiation, and urban-scale decision-making.