NCAS-M faculty and students will continue to collaborate with NOAA researchers and stakeholders to perform timely and usable research designed to directly support the following WRN strategic plans: “Reduce the impacts of weather, water, and climate events by transforming the way people receive, understand, and act on information.” Research under this theme will be interdisciplinary and range from studies to support the improvement of convective-scale guidance to increase lead times and reduce false alarm rates for warnings and forecasts to studies by social scientists to understand user decision-making needs and communicate relevant forecast confidence and risk information.

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