Private
industry today is the most rapidly growing segment of the U.S. weather and
climate enterprise. About one-third
of the nation’s $10 trillion economy is sensitive to climate variability and
weather, and the overall value of weather and climate information is in the
range of billions to tens of billions of dollars. The potential for economic
development in weather and climate, over the next decade, could be as large as
$10 billion. The weather and climate enterprise in Oklahoma consists of nearly 700
professionals across a dozen state and federal organizations, along with a few
small private companies.
The state
and federal entities collectively expend more than $60 million annually and have a
yearly impact on Oklahoma’s economy of approximately $100 million.
This enterprise would rank in the top 5% of payrolls within Oklahoma if
it were entirely a private corporation. During
the past 15 years, owing mostly to external grants and contracts, the employee
base of the state and federal organizations has quadrupled and its expenditures
have increased by more than 650% – without any specific emphasis on
economic development or private enterprise.
Based
upon huge federal investments made in Oklahoma during the past four decades,
more than $500 million in physical infrastructure, national prominence in education,
research, operations and training, and several new federally-funded projects
totaling more than $150 million, Oklahoma is uniquely positioned to build a
component of its economy around weather.
To learn more about individual organizations located in Norman, please select from the following. Also included are the biographies of Weather Center directors. You will need an Adobe Reader.
Organizations
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms-[Front Page][ Back Page]
Center for Natural Hazard & Disaster Research-[Front Page]Center
for Spatial Analysis-[Front Page][Back
Page]
College of Geosciences-[Front Page][Back
Page]
Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies-[Front Page][Back Page]
Environmental Verification and Analysis Center-[Front Page][Back Page]
Executive Suites at One Partners Place-[Front Page][Back Page]
Integrated Radar Data Services-[Front Page][Back Page]
National Severe Storms Laboratory-[Front Page][Back Page]
National Weather Center Programs-[Front Page]
National Weather Center-The Building-[Front Page]
National Weather Service Forecast Office-[Front Page][Back Page]
OK 9 Technology Corridor-[Front Page]
Oklahoma Climatological Survey-[Front Page][Back Page]
One Partners Place-[Front Page][Back Page]
OU Supercomputing Center Education & Research-[Front Page][Back Page]
Radar Operations Center-[Front Page][Back Page]
Sasaki Applied Meteorology Research Institute-[Front Page][Back Page]
Stephenson Research and Technology Center-[Front Page][Back Page]
Storm Prediction Center-[Front Page][Back Page]
University of Oklahoma Research Campus-[Front Page][Back Page]
Vieux & Associates-[Front
Page][Back Page]
Warning Decision Technologies-[Front
Page][Back Page]
Warning
Decision Training Branch-[Front
Page][Back Page]
Weathernews Americas-[Front Page][Back Page]
Biographies
Dr. John T. Snow, Dean, College of Geosciences; Director, National Weather Center Programs; Professor, School of Meteorology, College of Geosciences
Dr. John K. Antonio, Director and Professor, School of Computer Science
Dr. Fred Carr, Director, School of Meteorology
Dr. Jerry Crain, Director and Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering School
Dr. Kenneth C. Crawford, Director, Oklahoma Climate Survey
Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, Director, Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
Mr. Mike Foster, Meteorologist-in-Charge, National Weather Service Forecast Office
Dr. Joe Friday, Founding Director, Sasaki Applied Meteorological Research Institute; Weathernews Professor, School of Meteorology,College of Geosciences
Dr. Scott Greene, Director, Environmental Verification and Analysis Center
Dr. James F. Kimpel, Director, National Severe Storms Laboratory
Dr. Peter J. Lamb, Director, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
Dr. Thomas Landers, Associate Dean, College of Engineering
Mr. Ed Mahoney, Warning Decision Training Branch
Joel D. Martin, Integrated Radar Data Services
Dr. Henry Neeman, Director, Oklahoma Supercomputing Center for Education and Research
Dr. Richard L. Nostrand, Department of Geography
Dr. Joe Schaefer, Director, NOAA National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center
Dr. Victoria Duca Snowden, Director,Oklahoma NASA EPSCoR
Dr. Baxter Vieux, Director, International Center for Natural Hazards and Disaster Research
Mr. Richard Vogt, Director, WSR-88D NEXRAD Radar Operations Center (ROC)
Dr. May Yuan, Center for Spatial Analysis
Dr. Yoshi Sasaki, Professor and Board Member, Weathernews Americas
