On July 7, HRD Director Frank Marks presented a talk on HFIP to the Extreme Events-Ocean Observations Workshop Planning Task Team under the NOAA Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Global Ocean and Monitoring Program (https://globalocean.noaa.gov/). The Task Team is organizing a workshop to design a pilot project that employs a number of observing platforms for improved forecasts of extreme weather events over the oceans. An intensive field campaign during the 2021 hurricane season will be conducted toward this goal. The workshop will likely be at AOML in early 2021. One key question that the workshop will address is how ocean observations can support the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP) Five-Year Plan 2019-2024.
You can download the slides for the presentation from ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/pub/hrd/blog/seminars/2020/Marks_HFIP_20200707.pptx.