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NASA's Short-term Prediction Research and
Transition (SPoRT) Center accelerates the

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infusion of NASA's Earth 
science observations, data assimilation, and

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modeling research into the regional and local
National Weather Service forecasting and decision-making

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process.

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SPoRT works closely with the National Weather
Service forecasters at 24 local and regional

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Weather Forecast Officess and five National
Centers for Environmental Prediction across

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the country to identify forecast problems
and address them using timely, high-resolution

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NASA observations and unique research capabilities

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The forecasting success of each weather forecast
office depends upon the ability to collect

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atmospheric observations, assimilate observations
into numerical models, and convert model analyses

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into national environmental information, and
provide local warning and forecast services

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to affected communities.

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SPoRT's products focus on the regional scale
and emphasize forecast improvements on a 0

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to 48 hour time scale.

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So, just how does all this science interaction
get done?

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The team develops novel data analysis and
forecasting techniques and integrates them

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into a test bed environment to demonstrate
their operational feasibility.

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Promising data and forecast approaches are
then integrated into current National Weather

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Service decision support systems such as the
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System

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(AWIPS).

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Weather forecasters are able to easily access
and display the gathered observations due

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to their seamless integration with their standard
product suite in order to generate weather

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guidance and advanced forecasts.

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This partnership has afforded SPoRT and National
Weather Service along with the Weather Forecast

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Offices the opportunity to train its team
members on new data, products, and/or capabilities

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in the form of science sharing sessions, informative
presentations, and special training modules.

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(footage)

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Regular scientific interaction with internal
team members and colleagues across the country

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is essential for effective collaboration in
the science community.

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Here in the SPoRT Visualization and Collaboration
Lab at the National Space Science and Technology

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Center an interactive, high resolution, large
format display system, or hyperwall was recently

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installed in order to facilitate better collaboration
among SPoRT partners, both internally and

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externally.

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The main component of the visualization lab
is a 14 x 7 foot video display which is capable

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of showing contiguous video and still imagery
as if it were a single display.

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Soundbite: Andrew Molthan
The video wall in the SPoRT Video Conference

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Lab is regularly used in SPoRT collaborations
by:

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Include in lower thirds on screen as footage
is shown.

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hosting seminars with both internal and external
presenters (show footage)

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conducting end user training and instructional
workshops (Show footage)

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for internal collaboration and planning (e.g.
proposal develop and collaborative software

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development � footage)
The video wall also supports advanced scientific