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CAPS's mission is to develop and demonstrate techniques for the numerical analysis and prediction of high-impact local weather and environmental conditions, with emphasis on the assimilation of observations from Doppler radars and other advanced in-situ and remote sensing systems.

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conducts a broad-based program of basic and applied storm-scale research, and its award-winning Advanced Regional Prediction System (ARPS) is used worldwide.

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wants to be the world leader in convective-scale data assimilation and numerical weather prediction, providing a venue for exploring bold new ideas, attracting the best scientists and students, and facilitating the transfer of knowledge and technology to academia, government and industry.


Meet the officers who patrol your beat. Work with your beat officers and your neighbors to determine the priority crime problems in your neighborhood. Find out what the police are doing--and what you can do--to fight crime and address the priority problems on your block and your beat. Meet your neighbors and get organized. You can do all of these, and more, at your beat community meeting.

Beat community meetings are held on a regular basis....monthly or... at a minimum ...quarterly. The meetings usually do not exceed one hour.

Beat community meetings are hosted by the Police Department and are chaired by a police officer who is a member of t he beat team. A member of the community, often called the beat facilitatodr, may co-chair the meeting and asist in establishing the agenda.

Beat community meetings are an important first step in the red pink caps
problem-solving process on your beat. The meetings provide you withthe opportunity to help set the crime-fighting priorities in your community--to work with your beat officers in identifying and prioritizing crime and disorder problems, in analizing thoes problems, and in developing strategies to address t hem. Information from the beat communit meeting is used by the beat team in creating the beat plan-- a tool tht helps police officers and the community keep track of the priority problems on the beat and the progress made in addressing those problems on the beat and the progress made in addressing those problems.