NOAA, Zignal to Explore AI in Storm Reporting
NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) and National Weather Service (NWS) are partnering with Zignal Labs on a project to explore how real-time, publicly available data can improve the precision and timeliness of NOAA’s storm event reporting.
Over the next six months, NOAA and Zignal Labs will conduct a pilot project to assess how Zignal’s artificial intelligence-powered capabilities can be used to augment NOAA’s storm reporting. NOAA and Zignal will explore how this storm-related data could potentially be added to NOAA’s Storm Events Database, the official system of record for NWS storm reports and the nation’s authoritative archive of significant weather events. The database supports a wide range of critical applications, including disaster response planning, insurance assessments, legal proceedings, forensic meteorology, and scientific research conducted by OAR, private industry, and academia.
The joint team will also work together on developing quality assurance protocols, integration methods, and a final report on lessons learned from the pilot.