NAME-04 Forecasters Meeting- AGENDA

NAME FOC FORECASTER ORIENTATION

AND PLANNING MEETING
(Final Draft) (20 April 2004)

Tucson Arizona, Thursday April 22, 2004
(List of Participants)

8:00 am Welcome, introductions, and meeting goals – Erik Pytlak

Session 1 NAME Weather Review 2003 (Chair : Pytlak)

8:10 am Northern NAME Tier I - Maddox

8:35 amSouthern NAME Tier I - A. Douglas

9:00 am Ten minute presentations on the summer 2003 experience

                     Martin Murphy – My notes from last summer
                     Pat Holbrook – A look at surges 2003 compared to 1995
                     Kerry Jones – From Ignacio to backdoor fronts What I learned
                     Erik Pytlak – What I didn’t learn last summer

9:45 am BREAK

Session 2 – QPF 2003 and 2004 (Chair Miguel Cortez)

10:00 am Zone precipitation observations, gauges and gridded – A. Douglas

10:10 amOverview and assessment of 2003 QPF forecasts – Maddox

10:25 am QPF forecasts and zones 2004 – A. Douglas

Session 3 – FOC forecasting 2004 (Chair: Maddox)

10:45 am Access & Uploading products, discussions and graphics
to the JOSS NAME Field Catalog summer 2004 – Meitín

11:10 am Forecaster staffing and shifts: TUS – Pytlak
SMN- Cortez

11:30 am LUNCH

Session 3 – FOC forecasting 2004 - continued (Chair: Maddox)

1:00 pm Proposed forecast products for 2004 – Pytlak

1:30 pm Forecast deadlines and briefing procedures – Maddox

Session 4 – Special Presentation (Chair: Pytlak)

2:00 pm The NCEP/Hydromet Testbed – Dr. Louis Uccellini, Director NCEP

2:?? pm Plans for a Sounding Data Monitoring and Display Facility at
the NAME Operations Center in Tucson – Paul Ciesielki, CSU

2:45 pm BREAK

Session 5 – NCEPs Center participation and coordination among
FOCS and Centers (Chair: A. Douglas)

3:00 pm SMN/NWS exchange visits: goals 2004 – A. Douglas / Cortez

3:20 pm Coordination among FOCs – Maddox

3:30 pm Name activities, coordination, and interaction with NCEP Centers

4:15 pm Open discussions and action items – ALL

5:30 pm ADJOURN

NOTE: If time allows on Wednesday afternoon, and if there are interested participants, we will try to coordinate a brief visit/tour to the NAME operational areas of the NWS Office and the Atmospheric Science Department