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SUBJECT : Meeting, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 |
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PREDICT UPDATE MEETING - May |
PARTICIPANTS
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Name |
Affiliation |
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Affiliation |
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Aguilar, Shannon |
NCAR |
Aquino, Janine |
NCAR |
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Baeuerle, Brigitte |
NCAR |
Bell,
Michael |
NPS |
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Boothe, Mark |
NPS |
Boynton, Henry |
NCAR |
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Bradford, Mark |
NCAR |
Davis,
Chris |
NCAR |
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Hanson, Mary |
NCAR |
Herndon, Derrick |
CIMSS |
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Heymsfield, Andy |
NCAR |
McClain, Scotty |
NCAR |
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Meitín, José |
NCAR |
Moore, Jim |
NCAR |
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Salazar, Vidal |
NCAR |
Slaten, Branden |
NCAR |
| StMartin, Briesa |
NCAR |
Stossmeister, Greg |
NCAR |
| Tudor, Laura |
NCAR |
Velden, Chris |
Univ of Wisconsin |
| Williams, Steve |
NCAR |
Zucker, Shelley |
NCAR |
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MEETING SUMMARY : |
| Tri-agency meetings during AMS Tropical Conf (Tucson) Forecasters Mock Exercise Education and Outreach Update from Facilities. |
| Tri-agency coordination meeting (Tucson): Attended by Jim Moore and Steve Williams from EOL - Coordination issues related to project interactions before the field deployments were discussed, as well as on a daily basis basis - such as the daily planning teleconference, this will take place 7 days a week 16 UTC/local noon (Florida, USVI). There will be a schedule of rotating project facilitator and weather briefing team. Begin weekly tri-agency coordination telecons with project principals. Dropsondes: Need to figure out how aircraft operations can be coordinated so that dropsondes will be launched to be effective for modeling efforts at synoptic times. Dropsondes from GV need to get into GTS as soon as possible. EOL has a procedure (used during RAINEX and T-PARC, automated for VOCALS) for auto QC using ASPEN in batch mode, but there is some interest from IFEX and GRIP (point of contact Michael Black NOAA/HRD) to have a team performing manual quality control on the ground using students PRIOR to submittal into GTS. Needs further discussion (AI.65) FAA coordination : NCAR pilots (and others) drafted a message describing this summer's research aircraft operations, (AI.50) submitted through Hank Tracy (hurricane coordinator, Miami FAA) to be forwarded to NY Oceanic. Plan is to have a pilots/FAA briefing in July with group at NY (largest ATC area in domain) Need to finalize meeting dates (AI.66) due to busy summer schedule for pilots (S McClain attempted to contact Tracy, but no updates) Satellite coverage: C Velden reported that rapid scan from GOES satellites will be available during the project with coverage over entire basin - major development region, GOES-13, current operational satellite will do special scan sequence every hour to cover tropical domain, 15-min frequency. Velden is exploring what flexibility do we have to call rapid scans - default will be to have it on at all times, NWS can override this schedule if they are interested in something else (e.g. severe weather over CONUS), Velden is confident that we have 15-minute real time continuous coverage from west coast of Africa, on a band ~5° N to 35° N. CIMSS in the process of installing servers that will store all these data. Encouraging colleagues at NOAA and NASA to access so we can include in all field campaigns. Additionally, METEOSAT data with coverage from eastern Atlantic and all of continental Africa will be saved. Question about merging GOES and METEOSAT - Extra step needed at Wisconsin, also need to synchronize scan times, off sets but there is a basic schedule that could be matched. Data servers will be set up within a couple of weeks and have operational before the July "dry run" to test out. Eventhough METEOSAT images are open to projects, prefer that it no t be widely distributed. Other Tucson meetings: PREDICT forecasters: PREDICT forecast team will conduct a mock exercise, expect 10-15 people will converge in Boulder for 3 days, idea is to go through the full forecast preparation and daily planning meeting, talk about flight strategies and plans as if deployed. Expect to begin PREDICT forecast on 12 August at St Croix operations center with planning for potential flight operations as early as 15 August. NASA DC-8 also expected to start flight operations on 15 August, they will have test flights through the 10 August, out of Palmdale not Fort Lauderdale. Data Management: Meeting held to discuss real time data sharing and also archives. PREDICT has created a list of products that we expect to put into field catalog - There appear to be a fair amount of overlap with GRIP. NASA will demonstrate their collaborative website during Thursday GRIP telecon and also during the July dry run. Svetla to get input on improvements. Currently, there are two NASA websites, stil;l need discussion as to where to share forecast products. Michael Goodman to send a list of what will be available from Huntsville web site. Steve Williams plans to put together a spreadsheet to see where overlap exists. We are updating PREDICT forecasters email distribution list to send out the list of field catalog products and also finalize forecasters schedule (AI.42) in St Croix, at the moment, only the forecast team leads are shown on staffing schedule. Data policy: EOL has drafted a policy for PREDICT (AI.67), plan to distribute to steering committe and publish on website. Can propose similar data policy to be adopted by GRIP and IFEX but didn't get to that in Tuscon because the right players weren't in attendance. PREDICT Forecasting team "mock exercise": Continue with plans for forecasters exercise in Boulder- Begin 7am MDT on Monday 19 July- make preparations in time for 1600 UTC Daily Planning Meeting "dry run" (10 am MDT) running concurrently. Plan to include NCAR pilots during second day to make forecasters aware of what pilots need before or during mission (Boynton and Ringleman may be available). Expect up to 15 participants during 3 days. Have reserved work room at Foothills Lab (FL-1 2037). Field Catalog will be operational and CDS will also have available a forecaster workstation that will be deployed to St Croix (AI.68). Real time displays that are available, overlays of satellite data with aircraft tracks and dropsonde position, location of track positions, will need software and display capabilities to easily produce and transmit to aircraft for mission coordination. Some software applications have been discussed, NASA has one, EOL uses Google, are there other products out there? Need forecasters to suggest viable software applications (not ideas). Shelley Zucker has checked rates at Residence Inn, Boulder Inn, Golden Buff, Courtyard Marriot - block of rooms for forecast team. Will post the information when it is complete. Outreach: - Rockwell Will soon publish pages on the EOL field projects website. PREDICT specific pages will link from there. Plan to develop a PREDICT 20-30 min in length documentary, so we will be recording video and interviews during the forecast exercise in July. EOL is in the process of laying out a PREDICT story line - will need help from PIs. Updates from Facilities: Logistics: Buccaneer Hotel- UCAR contract is in place (AI.53). Individual guests will pay; credit cards will be charged weekly, therefore make sure you receive a travel advance. UCAR contract spells out 48 hr cancellation policy and early departures. Need to provide the hotel with expected EOL guest list by July 28/29. Shannon Aguilar and Briesa StMartin (RAF) will provide administrative support in STX from 12 Aug through 15 Sept. All PREDICT participants should notify Shannon <shannon@ucar.edu> of their travel dates to STX. EOL will use the UCAR corporate agreement with Hertz rental cars when booking travel with Boulder Travel. Airfare rates continue to rise so make arrangements promptly. Shipping: target date for RAF seatainers is July 12. Priority is RAF, CDS and ISF equipment (AI.25). Addresses for FBO and hotel for independent shipping have been posted on website (AI.59). Dropsonde: 500 PREDICT dropsondes have been delivered to Foothills Campus. We have identified 3 grad students (AI.57) who will assist with dropsondes and the Ops Center in STX, some are interested in forecasting and others GV in situ data processing. Their primary assignment will be dropsonde quality control. CDS Systems Administration: Only one sys admin will be in STX for the 1st 2 weeks and the last 2 weeks. 2 Sys Admin will cover the double crew period in early September. EOL Field Catalog will be running for forecasting exercise in July. XChat: M Bradford has contacted Sean McMillan and John Hill at NOAA/AOC (AI.45) to tie their chatserver into our EOL network, this has not been tested yet, but should work OK. Global Hawk, GRIP and PREDICT will log on NCAR chat server; AOC, HRD/IFEX and CARCAH can log into AOC chat server and see all the "chatrooms" for all projects. RAF: No RAF representatives were in attendance (except pilots). Diplomatic clearances continue through the system- END OF REPORT |
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