Severe Hazards
Analysis &
Verification
Experiment
(SHAVE 2007)
Operations Plan
Introduction
Submit a storm photo
(Coming soon)
Submit a hail report
(Central OK)
Staff pages (internal)
Data
(Google Maps of SHAVE data)
Data Collection Team Duties
The data collection team consists of a mix of students and scientists from OU and NSSL. There will always be a scientist either on-duty or on-call during operations. A typical data collection period will have three to five people collecting data with one person serving as operations coordinator (OC) with possibly an assistant OC. The coordinator will typically make decisions on the type of storms to investigate as well as which storms in particular should be examined. They may take part in data collection as well, depending on workload. The rest of the team will be involved in collecting data from the public about hail size and duration.
| During the project, operations may occur on any day of the week, and student participants should expect to work 35 to 40 hours each week. Operations will typically be from around 1 pm to 9 pm CDT, but earlier in some cases. The primary duty of student participants is data collection; however, there will likely be less-active days were additional data analysis and other duties will be performed. |
Operations Coordinator and OC Assistant:
- select storms for interrogation
- select "call targets" from available phone number databases
- coordinate with other Hazardous Weather Testbed projects
- help maintain communication among all participants during operations
- maintain a (b)log of data collection activities (which storms, reasoning)
- monitor computer systems for any problems
- call end of operations
Data Collection Team:
- check operations status message at 11:45 am each day
- select "call targets" from available list after the storm passes the location
- call the targets and conduct survey
- enter and check the data
- communicate with OC and each other to ensure the best data collection strategies