William R. Moninger - Awards

December 2008 - ESRL/Global Systems Division Web Award

Most Improved Site - Susan Sahm and Bill Moninger for the FIM Model Verification Sites "The RAOB comparison site has been around awhile, but has been recently updated and extended to include the FIM Global Model as well as the addition of the anomaly correlation site. The FIM Model verification sites are the first global model verification capabilities at ESRL. They use extremely flexible and powerful web applications to provide verification statistics for the globe and for several sub-regions for two global models: the FIM, developed at ESRL, and the GFS, running operationally at NCEP. The sites have been crucial in identifying model weaknesses and evaluating the fixes to those weaknesses."

December 2005 - NOAA Research Employee of the Year

For work with AMDAR data.

December 2005 - Earth System Research Laboratory / Global Systems Division Web Award

Most Improved Website: AMDAR Data Display "This application has extended to global data over the past year, with widespread international usage. Bill has coordinated with users, the international aircraft data community, and carriers themselves to improve its use, especially over Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America. This site is considered to be far and away the best web site on global aircraft data anywhere."

October 2005 - NASA Aviation Safety and Security Program Award

For "outstanding contributions to aviation weather safety research and development."

December 2003 - Forecast Systems Laboratory Web Award

For the Best Web Product: the FSL (now ESRL/GSD) Publications Web Site, which allows ESRL/GSD's publication information to be accessed and maintained over the web.

December 2003 - Forecast Systems Laboratory Web Award

For the Most Improved Web Product. "By incorporating the MySQL database, Bill Moninger of the Forecast Research Division significantly improved the speed of access to verification statistics on the Real Time Verification System (RTVS) site. The improved performance is a boon to FSL scientists, our collaborators at the Aviation Weather Center and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the aviation user community."