Partners Projects

Proposals for Partners Projects are accepted throughout the year, as long as funds are available. Partners Project features include:

  • Collaborative effort with an NWS office or multiple offices
  • One year in length
  • Average university award is approximately $15,000
  • Typically involve one NWS forecaster and one university faculty member, rather than a group (as is usually the case with Cooperative Projects)
  • Topics generally focus on a single case study or analysis problem
  • May be used to fund local/regional workshops

Check out our current Partners Projects opportunities here! 

Recent Partner Projects

Partners Projects vary from research for papers to the development of data tools and more. Check out these recent projects to get started.

An image of modeled imagery created by a project funded by the Outreach & University Partnership Program.

High Resolution Experimental Forecasts

The University of Hawai’i partnered with the National Weather Service Honolulu Forecast Office to research hight resolution forecasts performance from the WRF-ARW of tropical cyclones for the Hawaiian Islands. Read the full report here.

Full report
A screen shot showing a website developed as part of the Outreach & University Partnership program.

High Impact Weather Website

The University of Albany partnered with the NWS office in Albany, NY, to research three high impact weather events using New York State Mesonet data. Results and real-time data are available on a website. Read the full report here.

Full report