Weather Sphere: Private Industry
Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.
Atmospheric Information Systems
Atmospheric Technology Services Company
Basic Commerce and Industries, Inc.
Bergey Windpower
Frontier Weather
Lockheed Martin
NanoWeather
Vieux, Inc.
Weather Decision Technologies
WeatherBank, Inc.
Weathernews
WSI + EEC
The Weather Sphere is a university, federal, state and private industry partnership growing to become the international leader in weather and related research and development, operations and services, and education and training.
All Weather Sphere: Private Industry partners meet one or more of the following criteria:
- Have a signed Strategic Alliance Agreement (SAA) with the University of Oklahoma.
- Have a Sponsored Research Agreement (SRA) or other contractual relationship with OU in the area of weather- and/or climate-related research and development.
- Have a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) or other contractual relationship with an Oklahoma-based federal or state agency in the area of weather- and/or climate-related research and development.
- Provide regular formal internships or similar opportunities to students enrolled in weather- and/or climate-related programs of the College of Engineering and/or the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences.
Subsets of the Weather Sphere: Private Industry partners exist based upon location. At this time, two classifications are in place.
Weather Sphere: Oklahoma Alliance
- Weather-related companies with a physical presence in Oklahoma.
The Weather Sphere: Oklahoma Alliance is an economic cluster of weather-related companies in the state. This inner core of the Weather Sphere private industry sector achieves a sustainable competitive advantage through linkages with each other and the University of Oklahoma weather and climate programs.
Click here for a listing of companies in the Weather Sphere: Oklahoma Alliance.
Weather Sphere: Norman Campus Neighbors
- Weather-related companies having a physical presence on the University of Oklahoma Research Campus.
The Weather Sphere: Norman Campus Neighbors achieve beneficial relationships with private industry, federal, state and university Weather Sphere partners having a physical presence on the University of Oklahoma Research Campus. The WS: Neighbors have the same linkages as the WS: Alliance. This Weather Sphere subset takes it one step further by offering OU Research Campus amenities; internship opportunities with students from one of the top meteorology programs in the country; prospective relationships with top researchers, faculty and scientists in the meteorology field; among other location-based benefit.