SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report

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Status: Approved

Basic Information

Project No. and Title: WDC15 : Management of a volunteer rainfall-hail-snowfall network
Period Covered: 10/01/2007 to 09/01/2008
Date of Report: 08/01/2008
Annual Meeting Dates: 05/08/2008 to 05/09/2008

Nolan Doesken, Colorado State University, coordinated the meeting. Other contributors included: Steve Hilberg (University of Illinois); Pat Guinan (University of Missouri); John W. Nielson-Gammon Texas A & M;Jeff Andresen ( Michigan State University); Ryan Boyles (North Carolina State University);David Robinson (Rutgers Univ); Lesley-Ann L. Dupigny-Giroux (University of Vermont); Jan Curtis (NRCS); Mike Anderson (CA).

Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

The Development Committee met and discussed development of a WERA proposal. The committee proposes to work toward the following three objectives to collaboratively improve precipitation monitoring in the U.S. 1) Promote volunteer precipitation observations as a cost-effective approach to monitoring a highly variable and critically important element of our climate 2) Improve climate monitoring capabilities as well as applications by supplementing existing observing networks 3) Educate the community (see section under Educational Plan) on the value and applications of high density precipitation observations.