Bryan Mroczka

• Urizar, C., DiVeglio, C., Gray, G., Jillson, E., LaMarre, B., Medlin, J., Mroczka, B., Machuan, P., Wright, D., Yang, Z., and Zheng, L. (2022). Leveraging Inter-agency Collaborations in the Development of tthe Northern Gulf of Mexico Operational Forecast System and the Mobile Bay Marine Channels Forecast. Poster Presentation at Ocean Sciences Meeting, USA. [Available online Poster_FINAL_mroczka.pptx]
  Abstract: "The NOAA National Ocean Service’s modeling vision is to provide accurate, reliable, and accessible predictions of coastal conditions along the entire coast of the continental U.S. In pursuit of this vision, NOS Operational Forecast Systems (OFSs) provide users with nowcast (analyses of near present) and up to 120 hours of forecast guidance of water level, current, temperature, and salinity. Last year, NOS implemented an upgraded Northern Gulf of Mexico OFS (NGOFS2). NGOFS2 has extensive geographic coverage at a high spatial resolution capable of resolving small waterways for supporting the navigation and ecological forecasting sectors. Leveraging the advancements in NGOFS2, the National Weather Service (NWS), in consultation with local partners, joined with NOS to develop the Marine Channels Forecast (MCF) in Mobile Bay. The MCF integrates NWS forecasts with oceanographic information from NGOFS2. The integrated forecasts are available to emergency managers and the local marine community at critical locations along Mobile Bay shipping channels. By providing an integrated suite of forecast products the Mobile Bay MCF helps to ensure safe and efficient marine transportation in the region. One outcome of these projects is to illustrate the power of inter-agency collaboration in developing and expanding products into new coastal communities."
• Austin, M., Mroczka, B., Jillson, E., Baron, T., Urizar, C. (2017). Leveraging Innovation through Collaboration: Enhancing Impact-Based Decision Support Services for Marine Interests in and Around Tampa Bay, Florida. 97th AMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, January 22-26, 2017.
• Paxton, C., Mroczka, B., McKaughan, A., Kryston, C., (2017). Southwest Florida Warm Season Waterspouts. 97th AMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, January 22-26, 2017.
• Mroczka, B., Lericos, T., Fournier, J., (2011). The Use of High Resolution Models in Forecasting the Deep South Ice Storm of January 10th, 2011. Submission to the 2011 NWA Conference, 15-20 October 2011, Birmingham, AL.
• Fournier, J., Mroczka, B., Lericos, T. (2011). A Comparison of Statistical Versus Explicit Convection Model Precipitation Forecasts During the Summer Convective Season in Tallahassee, FL. Submission 2011 NWA Conference, 15-20 October 2011, Birmingham, AL.
• Mroczka, B. (2010). Conference Poster Session: Improving the temporal and spatial resolution of the forecast of sea-breeze generated convection along the southeast U.S. coast. Southeastern Coastal Atmospheric Processes Symposium (SeCAPS), March 2010, Mobile, AL.
• Mroczka, B.A., Camp, J.P., Gould, K.J., Watson, A.I. (2010). Improving the temporal and spatial resolution of the forecast of sea-breeze generated convection along the southeast U.S. coast. 90th AMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 18-22, 2010. [Available online http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/161602.pdf]
• Watson, A.I, Mroczka, B.A., Fournier, J.A., Camp, J.P., Goree, R.C. (2008). The tornado outbreak of 1-2 March 2007 in the National Weather Service Tallahassee Forecast Area. 88th AMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 20-24, 2008. [Available online http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/134352.pdf]
• Fuelberg, H.E., Quina, G.S., Mroczka, B.A., Lanier, R.J., Bradberry, J.S. and Breidenbach, J.P. (2002). A high resolution precipitation database for Florida. Reprints, Second Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, Las Vegas, NV.
• Fuelberg, H.E., Quina, G.S., Mroczka, B.A., Lanier, R.J., Bradberry, J. and Breidenbach, J.P. (2001). High resolution precipitation climatologies from radar data. Eighteenth Conf. Wea. Analysis and Forecasting, Amer. Meteor. Soc, Ft. Lauderdale.