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• BACKGROUND ON THE RESEARCH APPLICATIONS LAB
1. ABOUT THIS PLAN
2. RAL MISSION AND STRUCTURE
3. VISION AND VALUES
• RAL Vision
• Operating Principles and Associated Values
• Building Advocacy
• Liaison to Stakeholders
4. CONTEXT OF RAL'S WORK
• In a Rapidly-Changing World
• An End-to-End R&D Process
• Need for On-Going Program Development
5. INTERACTIONS WITH SPONSORS AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS
• Dialogue in the "Art of the Possible"
• Sponsor's Role in Guiding the R&D
6. EVALUATING PROGRAM SUCCESS
• Scientific and Operational Validation of Work
• Other General Metrics of Output, Outcome, and Impact
• INTRODUCTION TO STRATEGIC GOALS AND PRIORITIES
• GOAL AREA: WEATHER TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE GLOBAL AIR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
1. OVERARCHING PRIORITY
2. MOTIVATION
3. NEAR-TERM OBJECTIVES
• Advanced Weather Products for the Next Generation Air Transportation System (2009 - 2013)
• Convective Weather (2009 – 2013)
• Icing (2009 – 2013)
• Winter Weather (2009 – 2013)
• Turbulence (2009 – 2013)
• Ceiling and Visibility (2009 – 2013)
• NextGen Network Enabled Weather (NNEW) (2009 – 2013)
4. FRONTIERS
   • Probabilistic Forecasts Supporting Air Traffic Management (2009 - 2013)
   • Detection and Transport of Volcanic Ash (2011 - 2013)
   • Space Weather Support for Aviation (2009 - 2013)
   • Environmental Forecasts (2010 - 2013)
• GOAL AREA: WEATHER AND CLIMATE INFORMATION FOR IMPROVED NATIONAL SECURITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY
1. OVERARCHING PRIORITY:
2. MOTIVATION
3. NEAR-TERM OBJECTIVES
• Development of Customized NWP Solutions (2009 - 2013)
• Mesoscale Climatologies (2009-2013)
• Understanding, Modeling, and Forecasting Urban Atmospheres (2009 - 2013)
• Modeling Plumes of Hazardous Material (2009 - 2013)
• Mesoscale Ensemble Prediction (2009 - 2013)
4. FRONTIERS
   • Climate Services (2009 - 2013)
   • Climate, Weather, and Health
   • Climate Services Using Practical Seasonal–Forecast Downscaling Methods
   • Software Toolkit for Regional Climate Projections
• GOAL AREA: HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS ON LOCAL TO GLOBAL SCALES
1. OVERARCHING PRIORITY:
2. MOTIVATION
3. NEAR-TERM OBJECTIVES
• Short-Term Storm Forecasting (2009 - 2013)
• Coupled Surface Hydrometeorological Modeling and Regional Climate (2009 - 2013)
• Aerosols and Precipitation (2009 - 2013)
• Microphysical Parameterizations (2009 - 2012)
• Winter Precipitation and Snowpack (2009 - 2013)
4. FRONTIERS
   • Water in the West (2010 - 2013)
   • Water Applications for the Developing World (2010 - 2013)
• GOAL AREA: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS FOR SURFACE TRANSPORTATION, ENERGY, AND OTHER EMERGING USER SECTORS
1. OVERARCHING PRIORITY:
2. MOTIVATION
3. NEAR-TERM OBJECTIVES
• Surface Transportation Weather (2009 - 2013)
• Wildland Fire Management and Mitigation (2009 - 2013)
• Precision Agriculture Decision Support (2010 - 2013)
• Intelligent Weather Systems and Probabilistic Prediction (2009 - 2013)
4. FRONTIERS
   • Renewable Energy (2010 - 2013)
   • Atmospheric Boundary Layer Research (2010 - 2013)
• GOAL AREA: TESTING, VALIDATING AND VERIFYING ADVANCED NUMERICAL FORECASTING TECHNIQUES
1. OVERARCHING PRIORITY:
2. MOTIVATION
3. NEAR-TERM OBJECTIVES
• WRF Developmental Testbed Center (2009 - 2013)
• Advanced Verification Techniques and Tools (2009 - 2013)
• Data Assimilation Testing and Evaluation (2009 - 2013)
• Space Weather Testing and Evaluation (2009 - 2013)
• Tropical Cyclone Testing and Evaluation (2009 - 2013)
4. FRONTIERS
   • National Unified Operational Prediction Capability (2010 - 2013)
• GOAL AREA: CLIMATE, WEATHER AND SOCIETY
1. OVERARCHING PRIORITY:
2. MOTIVATION
3. NEAR-TERM OBJECTIVES
• Strategies for Regional Adaptation to Climate Change (2009 - 2013)
• Use and Value of Weather Information (2009 - 2013)
4. FRONTIERS
   • New Quantitative Models that Integrate Socioeconomic and Biophysical Components of Climate Change (2009 - 2013)
• APPENDICES
1. RAL ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
2. RAL ADVISORY PANEL
3. ACRONYM DICTIONARY