Michael Folmer (ESSIC) was recognized by the NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center (SPoRT) “for outstanding efforts to integrate experimental data into a National Center or Weather Forecast Office operations,” December 2012. SPoRT is a NASA project to transition unique observations and research capabilities to the operational weather community to improve short-term forecasts on a regional scale.
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