High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Weather Nowcasts

The U.S. Air Force conducts global operations that range from humanitarian support to campaigns against violent extremist organizations, often in austere and sometimes hostile locations with limited or non-existent surface-generated environmental information. Recent scientific and engineering advances in high-performance computing, numerical weather prediction and space-based remote sensing have fueled the growth of advanced global numeric weather prediction systems that are able to provide high resolution rapid-update forecasts for any location on the planet. Despite these tremendous advances enabling highly accurate, rapid-update weather forecasting and nowcasting, there exists an entirely unexplored trove of historically unused data that could enhance hyper-local weather predictions. Unique AF and DoD non-traditional data sources could be used to gather and feed a large swath of previously untapped environmental data relevant to weather nowcasting. EarthCast Technologies (ECT) is an industry pioneer in this field and provides highly detailed, real-time environmental intelligence and nowcasts to in-flight commercial aircraft and other weather consumers who provide their own non-traditional data sources for inclusion into custom nowcast products. ECT is uniquely qualified to analyze and incorporate satellite provided, non-traditional data sources into operational advanced weather modeling to create high-resolution, rapid refresh nowcasts in support of real-time battle management in data-sparse locations.