List of United States government meteorology research projects

This is a timeline and list of meteorology research projects conducted by or funded by the United States federal government.

List ProjectYearsOrganizations involvedRefsProject Cirrus1947United States Army Signal Corps General Electric Office of Naval Research United States Air ForceProject BATON1962United States Department of Defense United States Army Signal Corps Meteorology Research, Inc.Project Stormfury1962–1983National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationOperation Popeye1967–1972United States Air ForceTOtable Tornado Observatory(TOTO)1979–1985National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Severe Storms Laboratory Environmental Technology Laboratory University of OklahomaProject NIMROD1978National Center for Atmospheric Research University of Chicago National Weather ServiceTOGA1985–1994World Climate Research Programme World Meteorological Organization United Nations National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationERICA1988–1989Ocean Prediction CenterGEWEX1990–PresentWorld Climate Research Programme World Meteorological Organization United Nations National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationVORTEX11994–1995National Severe Storms Laboratory National Weather Service University of OklahomaUAEREP2001–PresentNational Center for Meteorology National Center for Atmospheric Research University of the Witwatersrand NASA National Science Foundation (Funding only)THORPEX2003–PresentWorld Meteorological Organization United Nations National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationInternational Cloud Experiment(TWP-ICE)2006United States Department of Energy Bureau of Meteorology NASA European Commission DG RTD-1.2 University of UtahU.S. Climate Scientists Join Collaborators in Australia to Begin Tropical Cloud ExperimentExecutive Summary VORTEX22009–2010National Severe Storms Laboratory National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center University of Oklahoma CIMMS University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Center for Severe Weather Research Bureau of Meteorology Environment Canada Office of Naval Research University of Massachusetts Amherst Texas Tech University National Center for Atmospheric Research National Science Foundation (Funding only)Recovering from Tornado Brain2013–2024University of Tennessee University of Missouri United States Department of Health and Human Services (Funding only)OWLeS2013–2014University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University of Wyoming Millersville University Hobart and William Smith Colleges University of Alabama in Huntsville Center for Severe Weather Research University of Utah State University of New York at Oswego University at Albany Pennsylvania State University National Science Foundation (Funding only)VORTEX-SE / VORTEX USA2015–2019National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Severe Storms Laboratory University of Oklahoma University of Alabama in Huntsville National Science FoundationWarn-on-Forecast(WoF or WoFS)2016–PresentNational Severe Storms Laboratory University of OklahomaSeeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime clouds: the Idaho Experiment (SNOWIE)2017University of Wyoming National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) University of Colorado University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Idaho Power Company National Science Foundation (Funding only)TORUS Project2019–2022National Severe Storms Laboratory Office of Marine and Aviation Operations University of Nebraska–Lincoln University of Oklahoma CIWRO Texas Tech University University of Colorado Boulder National Science Foundation (Funding only)PERiLS Project2022–2023National Severe Storms Laboratory NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory NOAA Global Systems Laboratory National Weather Service University of Oklahoma CIWRO University of Alabama in Huntsville University of Louisiana at Monroe Purdue University Texas Tech University Pennsylvania State University University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign North Carolina State University Stony Brook University National Science Foundation (Funding only)LIFT Project2024–PresentNational Severe Storms Laboratory University of Oklahoma CIWRO Texas Tech University Disaster Imaging Inc. National Science Foundation (Funding only)

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