End of the experiment

Well, this marks a close to this year's Spring Experiment activities. We will begin again in the late summer this year with the Fire Weather and Heavy rain experiment starting August 24 and ending September 3. I would like to thank all of the participants this year from the various cooperative institutes and partners for coming and assisting in the product training and participating in the experiments alongside the forecasters. Without this participation, the experiment would not have been a success. I would also like to thank all the forecasters who participated this year and took valuable time away from their WFOs to come out and give us their time. The feedback gathered from the forecasters in the EFP and the EWP this year provided invaluable information to help improve the GOES-R products we evaluated this year. While not all feedback gathered this year may have been positive, it is important to remember that understanding the shortcomings in the demonstration strategy and the products themselves is essential to develop a robust product set prior to operational use once GOES-R launches. I would particularly like to thank Andy Dean, Gregg Grosshans, Israel Jirak and Chris Melick from the SPC's Science Support Branch for setting up and providing technical support for the NAWIPS systems on the EFP side. I would also like to thank Ben Baranowski and Darrel Kingfield from WDTB, as well as Kristin Kuhlman, Kevin Manross, Greg Stumpf and Travis Smith from NSSL for their assistance in setting up the AWIPS systems and providing technical support for the EWP side throughout the weeks. Without all of these people there would have been no experiment and I greatly appreciate all of their efforts. We are looking forward to continued interactions with the forecaster and product developer communities throughout the next year and into the coming years.

Thank you!