Meetings and Presentations
The most recent NGGPS bi-weekly presentation(s):
Presentations of NGGPS funded project status updates by Jim Kinter, Improving Week 3-4 Weather Prediction through a Global CAM Version of the NOAA Unified Coupled Modeling Framework, and Cliff Mass, Convection Permitting Global Prediction: Evaluation for Operational Application in NOAA will take occur November 6, 2019 2pm-3pm ET.
Successful FY 2020-2022 UFS SIP Planning Meeting
The FY20-22 UFS Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) meeting took place May 14-16, 2019 at the NCWCP Conference Center and Auditorium in College Park, MD. The goal of this meeting was to review the status of SIP activities and facilitate coordination among SIP Working Groups in preparation for the next annual update of the SIP for FY20-22. Please see the link below to access the presentations and review the slides from the breakout session discussions.
Link to Publications and Presentations from Federally Funded Principal Investigators
FY20-22 UFS Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) Meeting (May 14-16, 2019)
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Coordination Meeting for the Unified Forecast System (UFS) Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) Annual Update (FY 20-22) May 14-16, 2019 NCWCP, Conference Center/Auditorium 5830 University Research Court, College Park, MD 20740 Objectives:
To review the status of SIP activities and facilitate coordination among SIP Working Groups in preparation for the next annual update of the SIP for FY20-22. Groups will present progress and successes, and address challenges and dependencies requiring resolution, and recommend changes where warranted. Updates regarding governance and community interaction will be provided. We do not plan to hold a follow-up in person SIP meeting, but aim to provide information and guidance to enable working groups to develop and prepare the update of the SIP to be finalized in October 2019.
Participation:
Key stakeholders such as SIP Working Group co-leads and UFS Steering Committee members are asked to attend in person if possible. Additionally, SMEs/Working Group members, relevant directors/program managers, and other stakeholders are welcome to attend.Day 1: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 (In Auditorium)
8:00AM Networking and Light Refreshments 8:30AM Introduction / Welcome and Admin Remarks 8:50AM Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) Update (Dr. Jacobs)[no slides] 9:20AM NWS/OSTI Overview & Priorities for UFS SIP (Dorothy Koch) 9:40AM OAR/OWAQ Overview & Priorities for UFS SIP (DaNa Carlis)/td> 10:00AM EMC Perspectives (Brian Gross) 10:20AM Break 10:40AM HPC Considerations for UFS SIP Project Planning (Frank Indiviglio) 11:10AM Development of Global Model Suites (Vijay Tallapragada) 11:45AM Lunch 1:00PM HAFS Update (Vijay Tallapragada) 1:15PM Model Evaluation Group: Strengths/Weaknesses of GFSv15 (Geoff Manikin)) • Follow-on discussion moderated by Jason Levit
• This will inform some of the forecast goals of the next cycle of Medium-Range Weather App
3:00PM Break 3:20PM Communications and Outreach (Susan Jasko) 3:45PM Unified Forecast System Steering Committee (UFS-SC) Co-chairs’ Perspectives (Ricky Rood, Hendrik Tolman) • Review of what we have done in UFS-SC
• R2O Document as Plan: Relation to Wednesday & Thursday breakout sessions
4:45PM Day 1 Wrap-up/Actions 5:000PM Adjourn for the Day Day 2: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 (In auditorium until breakout session)
8:00AM Networking and Light Refreshments 8:30AM Common Community Physics Package Update (Ligia Bernardet) **SIP WG Update Briefings** 9:00AM Physics WG Update (including suite testing/selection) (Jack Kain) 9:30AM System Architecture (Cecelia DeLuca) 9:45AM Infrastructure (Cristiana Stan) 10:00AM Break 10:15AM Dynamics and Nesting (Vijay Tallapragada) 10:30AM Data Assimilation (Jeff Whitaker) 10:45AM Convection Allowing Models (CAM) 11:00AM Marine (Avichal Mehra) 11:15AM Land / Hydrology (Mike Ek and Helin Wei) 11:30AM Lunch 1:00PM Aerosols and Atmospheric Composition (Ivanka Stajner) 1:15PM Ensembles (Tom Hamill) 1:30PM Post Processing (Jeff Craven and Jason Levit) 1:45PM Verification and Validation (includes core metrics discussion) 2:30PM Break 2:50PM SIP Working Group Survey Response Summary (Hui-Ya Chuang) *Move to Conference Rooms A/B/C for breakout activity (remainder of afternoon) 3:00PM Application Research and Development Goals, Priorities, and Working Group Discussion (includes introductory remarks about applications under consideration, followed by breakout sessions) Objectives for each of the three breakout groups (working concurrently): ●Identify high-level forecast goals for three core UFS applications: Medium-Range Weather, Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S), and Short-Range Weather /Convection Allowing
● Propose recommended actions or solutions: Science priorities to address forecast goals
● Propose any changes that may be needed for Working Groups to best support these applications
Groups moderated/assisted by SMEs with scientific expertise for each application:
● Medium-range weather: Vijay Tallapragada, Fanglin Yang, Geoff Manikin
● S2S: Avichal Mehra, Cristiana Stan
● Short-range/Convection Allowing: Curtis Alexander, Lou Wicker, Pam Heinselman
5:00PM Adjourn for the Day Day 3: Thursday, May 16, 2019 (Begin in auditorium)
8:30AM Outbriefs from Goals/Priorities/Working Group Discussion (group leads from Wednesday afternoon breakouts) ● Outbriefs from Goals/Priorities/Working Group Discussion BREAKOUT GROUP A
● Outbriefs from Goals/Priorities/Working Group Discussion BREAKOUT GROUP B
● Outbriefs from Goals/Priorities/Working Group Discussion BREAKOUT GROUP C
*Move to Conference Rooms A/B/C for breakout activity 9:00AM R2O Enhancement Activities - Breakout Sessions ● Developing test plan for end-to-end GFSv16 system and downstream applications (Facilitator: Ivanka Stajner: Template for Application level test plan, including relation to downstream and dependent applications) ○ Goals of the development cycle (From Wednesday Afternoon)
○ Pre-operational implementation tests (Informed by MEG presentation)
○ Tests to support development goals (e.g., process level physics)
○ Systems-scale testing DA & Model (Systems Verification/Validation, Hierarchical Systems Testing)
■ Multiple resolutions
■ Multiple time scales
■ Comparison to benchmarks
■ Automated
○ Test plan should be published
● Using the GFSv15 release to advance community support capacity (Facilitator: Ricky Rood)
○ Status of repositories and code availability (from TOB meeting)
○ Decision on portability requirements
○ Develop a plan for basic community support: What is needed to make release successful?
■ Existing resources
■ Augmented resources (no-regrets investment)
● Develop plans to replace current suite of limited area models with FV3-SAR solutions (Facilitator: Lou Wicker or Curtis Alexander; Build on FY19-21 SIP (Annex 7) plans for replacement of limited area models; outcome should serve as a basis for the FY20-22 SIP update)
11:40AM Meeting Wrap-up/Closing Remarks 12:00PM Adjourn - End of SIP Annual Update Meeting
2018
NGGPS Principal Investigators (PI) Meeting (August 7, 2018)
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NGGPS PI Meeting Agenda August 7, 2018 NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP) 5830 University Research Court, College Park, MD 20740 GOALS:
• To assess progress of NGGPS projects from the 2016 funding opportunity for the development of the NCEP unified prediction system.
•To enhance awareness at NCEP (specifically, EMC and CPC) of ongoing NGGPS projects advancing modeling and prediction.
•To enhance communication between NCEP and the external community PIs and enhance community engagement in NCEP’s activities.
Session 1: Data Assimilation
Session 2: Verification and Prediction/PhysicsSession 3: Prediction from Days 6-10 to Weeks 3-4
Tuesday, August 7, 8:00 am - 4:00 pm EDT
Coordination Meeting for the United Forecast System (UFS) Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) August 1 - 3, 2018). Notes from the report are here.
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Coordination Meeting for the Unified Forecast System (UFS)
Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) Annual UpdateAugust 1 - 3, 2018 NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP) 5830 University Research Court, College Park, MD 20740 Registration: https://dtcenter.org/events/2018/2018-dtc-community-unified-forecast-system-test-plan-metrics-workshop/registration 2018 UFS SIP Annual Update Notes summary is here
OBJECTIVES:
The primary objective of this meeting is to finalize updates needed to the current SIP to build the draft FY19-FY21 SIP document, building on the team updates from the 31 Jan - 1 Feb 2018 SIP meeting. SIP teams will provide an update on activities and conduct further coordination of team plan documentation. Additional review/revision of the draft document will be conducted following the meeting with a goal of releasing a smooth FY19-FY21 SIP by mid-late Oct 2018.
Other objectives include a review/determination on the future strategy for NOAA NWP data assimilation as well as delivery of updates on SIP related resources and activities.Agenda Day 1, Wednesday, August 1, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
1:00pm Welcome/Introduction • Admin Remarks (Fred Toepfer, OSTI/NGGPS Program Manager; Brian Gross, NCEP Office of the Director)
• NGGPS/SIP Overview (Ming Ji, Director NWS/OSTI, Fred Toepfer, OSTI/NGGPS Program Manager)
• OWAQ SIP Overview (John Cortinas, Director OWAQ)
• Hurricane Supplemental Overview (Fred Toepfer, OSTI/NGGPS Program Manager; DaNa Carlis, OAR Policy, Planning and Evaluation)
• Capacity of R&D and Operational HPC Resources for WGs and SIP Projects (Frank Indiviglio, Lead computer Scientist)
2:15pm Break 2:30pm Community Participation • NCAR/NOAA MOA
◊ Overview of 7 Elements of Common Infrastructure (Hendrik Tolman, Senior Adviser for Advanced Modeling Systems)
◊ Community Participation through Common Repositories, Infrastructure, and Workflow (JEDI, FV3GFS, CAM, and coupled model development) (Hendrik Tolman, Senior Adviser for Advanced Modeling Systems)
• Common Community Physics Package/Community Physics Framework (Ligia Bernardet, DTC/GMTB, NOAA/GSD and CU/CIRES)
• Verification, Validation, and Testing for the UFS (Tara Jensen, DTC and NCAR)
3:25pm Break 3:40pm Community Participation (continued) • Communications and Outreach (including UFS Portal) (Susan Jasko/Tim Schneider,SIP Communications and Outreach WG Co-Chairs, Bhavana Rakesh, OSTI)
3:50pm Unified Forecast System Steering Committee • Overview/Update on Steering Committee Activities (Richard Rood/Hendrik Tolman, UFS-SC co-chairs)
•Role of Steering Committee in Guiding the UFS (Richard Rood/Hendrik Tolman) (including whether overall SIP process is moving effort to a true UFS)
•Discussion on Thoughts for Increasing Community Participation / Discussion on how to improve the experience of SIP Working Group participation(Richard Rood, University of Michigan/Hendrik Tolman, OSTI/Brian Gross, EMC)
5:00pm Adjourn for the day Agenda Day 2, Thursday, August 2, 2018 8:15 am - 5:00 pm EDT
8:00am Networking/Beverages 8:15am NGGPS Global Model Suites Planned for NCEP/EMC Operations (Vijay Tallapragada, EMC, Arun Chawla, EMC) •Coupled Modeling
•S2S
•Connection to CAM from global model suite
9:00am Mesoscale/Convective Allowing Models (CAM)(Jack Kain, EMC, Curtis Alexander, CAM Working Group co-chairs) •CAM requirements from parent model
•Connection to CAM from global model suite
10:00am Break 10:20am System Architecture (Cecelia DeLuca, GSD) 10:30am Infrastructure (Rusty Benson, GFDL) 10:50am Dynamics/Nesting (Vijay Tallapragada, NCEP/EMC) 11:00am Physics (Jack Kain, NCEP/EMC) 11:10am Marine (Avichal Mehra, NCEP/EMC) 11:20am Lunch 12:30pm Land / Hydrology (Helin Wei, EMC, Mike Ek, NCAR, Brian Cosgrove, OWP) 12:40pm Aerosols and Atmospheric Composition (Ivanka Stajner, NCEP/EMC) 12:50pm Ensembles (Tom Hamill, PSD) 1:00pm Post Processing (Jeff Craven, STI/SMB) 1:10pm Verification and Validation (Tara Jensen, NCAR and DTC) 1:20pm Break 1:30pm Focused Session on Data Assimilation Plans Panel: Ivanka Stajner (EMC), Tom Auligné (JCSDA), Daryl Kleist (EMC), Jeff Whitaker (PSD), Ron Gelaro (NASA) •Proposed Operational Data Assimilation Plan
•JEDI Update, including CRTM Repository Strategy
2:30pm Break 3:00pm Focused Session on Data Assimilation Plans (continued) 4:00pm Breakout Session (arrange your own!) and DA Executive Session 5:00pm Adjourn for the day Agenda Day 3, Friday, August 3, 2018 8:00 am - 2:00 pm EDT
8:00am Networking/Beverages 8:30am SIP WG Cross-Coordination Break-Out Sessions •The WG were asked to coordinate efforts on projects across Annexes
◊Address dependencies/constraints of activities
◊Are milestones and deliverables across multi-WG projects aligned or are there gaps?
◊What areas require further attention?
◊What is needed for success in the FY19-21?
◊Ways to improve communication among POCs, telcons/email updates
12:00pm Lunch 1:30pm Discussion/Wrap-Up 3:00pm Adjourn
SIP Coordination Meeting (January 31 - February 1, 2018)
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To view the meeting presentations, please go to the SIP Coordination Meeting website here.Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) Coordination Meeting January 31 - February 1, 2018 NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP) 5830 University Research Court, College Park, MD 20740 https://ral.ucar.edu/events/2018/sip-program-meeting OBJECTIVE:
To present the status of SIP activities and facilitate coordination among SIP working groups in preparation for an annual update of the SIP for FY19-21. Groups will present progress and successes, and address issues and dependencies requiring resolution. The goal is for the SIP working group co-leads to obtain direction and information needed to return to their working groups and coordinate updates to their respective SIP Annexes for the annual update of the SIP. We are anticipating reconvening to develop the final draft of SIPv2 in August 2018.Agenda Day 1, Wednesday, January 31, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm EST
8:30am Networking/Beverages 9:00am Welcome/General NGGPS/SIP Overview and Status (Ming Ji/Fred Toepfer) • Meeting Goals/Approach
• FY2018 Spend Plan Priorities
9:20am Charge to Group (Brian Gross/Fred Toepfer/Ivanka Stajner) 9:40am UFS Governance Briefing (Fred Toepfer/Hendrik Tolman) 10:00am Break 10:15am Community Engagement (10 min each, with 10 min at end of session for Q&A) • Communications/Outreach (Tim Schneider)
•GMTB Activities (Ligia Bernardet/Grant Firl)
•NOAA/NCAR MoA (Hendrik Tolman)
•CPO/MAPP (Annarita Mariotti)
•FFO/Grants (Chris Hedge)
11:15am EMC Implementation Plan (and Alignment with SIP) (Brian Gross) 12:00pm lunch 12:15pm Lunchtime Presentation on CAPS effort (FV3 at CAM resolutions) (Ming Xue) 1:00pm Break Project Briefings by Teams (15 min each, 10 min with 5 min for Q&A) (SIP google folder / website) Project Briefings include: •Significant project milestone accomplishments
•Project milestone issues
•Team coordination/dependency successes/issues
1:15pm NGGPS Global Model Suites Planned for NCEP/EMC Operations (Vijay Tallapragada) 1:30pm System Architecture (Cecelia DeLuca) 1:45pm Infrastructure (Rusty Benson) 2:00pm Dynamics and Nesting (Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan) 2:15pm Model Physics (Jack Kain) 2:30pm Data Assimilation (Tom Auligné) 2:45pm Mesoscale/Convection Allowing Models (CAM) (Curtis Alexander) 3:00pm Break 3:15pm Marine Models (Avichal Mehra/Pat Burke) 3:30pm Aerosols and Atmospheric Composition (Ivanka Stajner) 3:45pm Ensembles (Tom Hamill) 4:00pm Post-Processing (Jeff Craven) 4:15pm Verification/Validation (Tara Jensen) 4:30pm Land Surface Models (LSM) and Hydrology (Christa Peters-Lidard) 4:45pm First Day Wrap-Up 5:00pm Adjourn Agenda Day 2, Thursday, February 1, 2018 8:30 am - 4:15 pm EST
8:30am Networking/Beverages 9:00am Data Assimilation Planning for the Unified Forecast System (Panel) 10:25am Break 10:40am CAM Discussion (Panel) Website presented during Adam Clark's discussion: 12:00pm Lunch 12:45pm Verification, Validation and Test Plan for the Unified Forecast System (Panel) 2:15pm UFS Steering Committee (Richard Rood and Hendrik Tolman) •Role, Priorities and Communication
•Operating plan for UFS Steering Committee and Working Groups
•Relationship between the Steering Committee and Working Groups
•Scheduling of Communications
3:00pm/td> Break 3:15pm Review/Way Ahead (Brian Gross/Fred Toepfer/Ivanka Stajner •Path to SIP V2
•Team Coordination Dynamics
•Next Meeting Schedule
4:15pm Adjourn
2017
NGGPS/MAPP PI Meeting (August 2-3, 2017)
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Agenda NGGPS/MAPP Principal Investigators Meeting August 2-3, 2017 NCWCP Auditorium 5830 University Research Court, College Park, MD 20740 Goals:
• To assess progress on the Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS-) and Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP-) funded projects for the development of the NCEP unified prediction system focusing on modeling, data assimilation, validation, post-processing, and software infrastructure aspects• To enhance awareness at NCEP (specifically, EMC) of the full portfolio of NGGPS and MAPP projects advancing modeling (including data assimilation and infrastructure) and prediction
• To enhance communication between NCEP and the external community PIs and enhance community engagement in NCEP’s activities.
Session 1: NGGPS-Funded NOAA Testbed Projects: Enhancing High-Impact Weather Forecasts
Session 2: Model Physics and Modeling Framework
Session 3: Data Assimilation
Session 4: Verification and Validation
Session 5: Multi-Model Ensembles, Post-Processing, and Applications
Agenda Day 1, Wednesday, August 2, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm EST
Agenda Day 2, Thursday, August 3, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) Meeting (August 1-3, 2017)
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SIP working groups discussed high points of their projects and breakout groups developed a write-up of the SIP effort and future directions, and presented the draft document to the UMAC*. *UMAC is a sub-committee of the UCAR Community Advisory Committee for NCEP Administered by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
AGENDA
Day 1: Tuesday, August 1, 2017, 8:00am-5:00pm
8:00 am Networking + Beverage service
8:30 am Welcome/Introduction (Mike Farrar, NWS/NCEP/EMC Director)
SIP WG summaries/updates
8:40 am Draft Governance document (Ricky Rood, Univ. of Michigan)
9:10 am Draft Comms/Outreach Plan (Tim Schneider, NWS/OSTI)
9:20 am SIP Annex 1, NGGPS model suites planned for EMC Ops (Vijay Tallapragada, NWS/NCEP/EMC)
9:30 am SIP Annex 2, System Architecture WG
9:40 am SIP Annex 3, Infrastructure WG
9:50 am SIP Annex 4, Dynamics and Nesting WG
10:00 am SIP Annex 5, Model Physics WG
10:10 – 10:30 BREAK
10:40 am SIP Annex 6, Data Assimilation WG
10:50 am SIP Annex 7, Convective Allowing Models (CAM) WG
11:00 am SIP Annex 8, Marine Models WG
11:10 pm SIP Annex 9, Land Surface Models and Hydrology WG
11:20 pm SIP Annex 10, Aerosols & Atmospheric Composition WG
11:30 pm SIP Annex 11, Ensembles WG
11:40 pm SIP Annex 12, Post-processing WG
11:50 pm SIP Annex 13, Verification WG
12:00 pm LUNCH (orders taken in advance)
Open discussion and SIP WG breakouts (TBD)
1:00 pm Identify next steps for meeting (e.g., major issues to address, ad hoc breakout groups)
OPEN DISCUSSION or BREAKOUTS (TBD)
3:00 – 3:30 BREAK
3:30 pm OPEN DISCUSSION or BREAKOUTS (TBD)
4:45 pm Day-1 Wrap-up
5:00 pm ADJOURN for the day
=======================================================================================DAY 2: Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 8:00am-5:00pm
8:00 am Network/Beverage service
8:30 am Day-1 recap + discuss specific steps for Day-2
OPEN DISCUSSION or BREAKOUTS (TBD)
10:00 – 10:30 BREAK
10:30 am OPEN DISCUSSION or BREAKOUTS (TBD)
12:00 pm LUNCH (orders taken in advance)
1:00 pm OPEN DISCUSSION or BREAKOUTS (TBD)
3:00 – 3:30 BREAK
3:30 pm OPEN DISCUSSION or BREAKOUTS (TBD)
4:45 pm Day-1 Wrap-up + Finalize Strategy/Selection for Writing/Briefing team(s)
5:00 pm ADJOURN for the day
=======================================================================================DAY 3: Thursday, Aug 3, 8:00am-5:00pm
8:00 am Network/Beverage service
8:30 am Writing/Briefing Team(s) -- OPEN DISCUSSION or BREAKOUTS (TBD)
BREAK to be Ad Hoc during this period
11:00 am NGGPS Poster Session (area outside of conference center and auditorium; list next page)
12:00 pm LUNCH (orders taken in advance)
1:00 pm SIP Presentation and Discussion with UMAC and partner agency reps
3:00 – 3:30 BREAK
3:30 pm SIP Presentation and Discussion with UMAC and partner agency reps (continued)
4:45 pm Wrap-up
5:00 pm ADJOURN
Community Modeling Workshop (April 18-20, 2017)
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PART 1: NOAA COMMUNITY MODELING WORKSHOP
Day 1: Tuesday, April 18, 2017
8:00 - 8:30 Social interaction with light refreshments
8:30 - 9:00 Introduction
Welcome, admin remarks (Mike Farrar, Director, EMC) NGGPS Program Overview (Ming Ji, Director NWS/OSTI)
Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) Overview (Mike Farrar, Director, EMC) Discussion
9:00 - 10:30 Panel: “Goals and Needs of a Community Unified Modeling System” Panelists: Tony Busalacchi (UCAR), Fred Carr (Academia/OU), Mary Glackin (IBM/The Weather Company), Pat Harr (NSF), Craig McLean (OAR), Louis Uccellini (NWS), NASA*, Navy*
Moderator: Mike Farrar
Brief remarks from each panelist followed by group discussion
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK
Note: The format of the Moderated Discussion sessions includes brief remarks from each WG representative followed by group discussion.
11:00 - 12:00 Moderated Discussion with the Governance WG (Ricky Rood, U. Mich.) and System Architecture WG (Jim Kinter, GMU)
Moderator: Mike Farrar
Governance - Decision making, roles/responsibilities, advisory boards, org. alignment.
System Architecture - NEMS evolution for coupling approach, etc.
12:00 - 1:00 WORKING LUNCH – Self-Organized Small Group Interaction
1:00 - 2:00 Moderated Discussion with Infrastructure WG (Rusty Benson, GFDL) and Global Modeling Test Bed/GMTB (Bill Kuo, DTC)
Moderator: Whit Anderson
Infrastructure - Standards/documentation; CM; code repository; testing; etc.
GMTB - Its role, how it will work, Common Community Physics Package (CCPP), etc.
2:00 - 3:00 Moderated Discussion with the Dynamics/Nesting WG (Vijay Tallapragada), Model Physics (Jim Doyle, NRL), Convective Allowing Model (CAM) WG (Stan Benjamin, ESRL)
Moderator: Whit Anderson
Dynamics/Nesting - FV3 transition on global weather/S2S/climate; hurricane nests
Physics - Stochastic, scale-aware physics; relationship to the CCPP, etc.
CAM - Intermediate steps to CAM ensembles, Warn on Forecast; test/evaluation w/community
3:00 - 3:30 BREAK
3:30 - 4:40 Moderated Discussion with Data Assimilation WG (Tom Auligne, JCSDA), Ensembles WG (Tom Hamill, ESRL/PSD), Verification & Validation (V&V) WG (Tara Jensen, NCAR/RAL), and Post-Processing WG (Matt Peroutka, NWS/MDL).
Moderator: Whit Anderson
DA - FV3 integ. between NOAA, NASA; Joint Effort for DA Integration (JEDI); coupled DA.
Ensembles: Strategy across scales; model uncertainty
V&V: V&V of ops forecasts vs. R&D testing/evaluation; unified/standard tools and data formats
Post-Processing: Community infrastructure (e.g., Unified Post Processor/UPP); standard formats/tools
4:40 - 5:30 Moderated Discussion with the Marine Models WG (Robert Hallberg, GFDL), Land Surface Models (LSMs) + Hydrology WG (Christa Peters-Lidard, NASA/Goddard), and Aerosols/Atmospheric Composition WG (Ivanka Stajner, NWS/OSTI)
Moderator: Whit Anderson
Marine - Current marine models, NOS coastal/bay models, future ecological models
Land/Hydro - LSMs within coupled system, connections with National Water Model, etc.
Aerosols/Atm. Comp. - Downstream vs. inline applications; science challenges, etc.
5:30 - 5:45 Day-1 wrap-up, setup for Day-2 5:45
ADJOURN – for the Day
Day 2: Wednesday, April 19, 2017
8:00 - 8:30 Social interaction with light refreshments
8:30 - 8:45 Recap of Day 1; Motivations & Instructions for Breakout session
Moderator: Tim Schneider
Key questions for breakout groups to address:
Based on what you’ve seen thus far (what looks right and what does not?), please identify:
Best practices: What are the major things that we’re getting right? Gaps: What are the major things that we’re missing, or that we’re heading down the wrong tracks on?Room
Working Groups
Auditorium
Governance (#1); Dynamics (#4); Physics (#5); Data Assimilation(#6)
CC #1
Ensembles (#7); Marine (#10)
CC #2
Infrastructure (#3); V&V (#9)
CC #3
Land/Hydro (#11); Meso/CAM (#13)
2155
Communications & Outreach (#14) – Kickoff Part II
Free
System Arch. (#2); Post Proc. (#8); Atmos. Comp. (#12)
5:00 ADJOURN – Part 2 Complete
Day 2: Wednesday, April 19, 2017
1:00 - 1:15 Plenary (Auditorium): Kick-off SIP/NGGPS Working Group Meeting 1:15 - 5:00 SIP Working Group Technical Sessions/Breakouts - Open
1:15 - 2:30 Breakout #1
Room
Working Groups
Auditorium
System Arch. (#2); Marine (#10); Land/Hydro (#11); Atmos. Comp.
(#12)
CC #1
Ensembles (#7); V&V (#9); Meso/CAM (#13)
CC #2
Dynamics (#4); Physics (#5)
CC #3
Infrastructure (#3); Data Assimilation (#6)
2155
Governance (#1); Post Proc. (#8)
Free
N/A
2:30 - 3:45 Breakout #2
Room
Working Groups
Auditorium
V&V (#9); Marine (#10); Land/Hydro (#11); Atmos. Comp. (#12)
CC #1
Dynamics (#4); Ensembles (#7); Meso/CAM (#13)
CC #2
Physics (#5); Data Assimilation (#6)
CC #3
Infrastructure (#3); Post Proc. (#8)
2155
Governance (#1); System Arch. (#2)
Free
N/A
3:45 - 5:00 Breakout #3
Room
Working Groups
Auditorium
Infrastructure (#3); Marine (#10); Land/Hydro (#11); Atmos. Comp.
(#12)
CC #1
System Arch. (#2); Physics (#5)
CC #2
Post Proc. (#8); Meso/CAM (#13)
CC #3
Dynamics (#4); V&V (#9)
2155
Data Assimilation (#6); Ensembles (#7)
Free
Governance (#1)
5:00 ADJOURN – for the Day
DAY 3: THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2017
8:00 - 8:30 Social interaction with light refreshments
8:30 - 5:00 SIP Working Group Technical Sessions/Breakouts
8:30 - 9:45 Breakout #4
Room
Working Groups
Auditorium
Physics (#5); Marine (#10); Land/Hydro (#11); Atmos. Comp. (#12)
CC #1
Governance (#1); V&V (#9)
CC #2
Dynamics (#4); Data Assimilation (#6)
CC #3
Ensembles (#7); Post Proc. (#8)
2155
System Arch. (#2); Infrastructure (#3)
Free
Meso/CAM (#13)
9:45 - 11:00 Breakout #5
Room
Working Groups
Auditorium
Governance (#1); Marine (#10); Land/Hydro (#11); Atmos. Comp.(#12)
CC #1
Infrastructure (#3); Dynamics (#4)
CC #2
Post Proc. (#8); V&V (#9)
CC #3
Physics (#5); Meso/CAM (#13)
2155
System Arch. (#2); Data Assimilation (#6)
Free
Ensembles (#7)
11:00 - 12:15 Breakout #6
Room
Working Groups
Auditorium
Post Proc. (#8); Marine (#10); Land/Hydro (#11); Atmos. Comp. (#12)
CC #1
Governance (#1); Infrastructure (#3)
CC #2
System Arch. (#2); V&V (#9)
CC #3
Data Assimilation (#6); Meso/CAM (#13)
2155
Physics (#5); Ensembles (#7)
Free
Dynamics (#4)
12:15 - 1:15 Lunch (on your own -or- pre-order box lunches)
1:15 - 2:30 Breakout #7
Room
Working Groups
Auditorium
Dynamics (#4); Marine (#10); Land/Hydro (#11); Atmos. Comp. (#12)
CC #1
Governance (#1); Meso/CAM (#13)
CC #2
Data Assimilation (#6); V&V (#9)
CC #3
System Arch. (#2); Ensembles (#7)
2155
N/A
Free
Infrastructure (#3); Physics (#5); Post Proc. (#8)
2:30 - 3:45 Breakout #8
Room
Working Groups
Auditorium
Data Assimilation (#6); Marine (#10); Land/Hydro (#11); Atmos.Comp. (#12)
CC #1
Governance (#1); Ensembles (#7)
CC #2
Physics (#5); V&V (#9)
CC #3
Infrastructure (#3); Meso/CAM (#13)
2155
Communications & Outreach (#14) – Kickoff Part I
Free
System Arch. (#2); Dynamics (#4); Post Proc. (#8)
3:45 - 5:00 Breakout #9
8:45 - 10:15 Breakout session. No remote (virtual) access. 10:15 10:45 BREAK
10:45 - 12:00 Breakout summary reports, discussion, and wrap up.
Moderator: Tim Schneider
12:00 ADJOURN – Part 1 Complete
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (on your own -or- pre-order box lunches)
PART 2: STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (SIP) COORDINATION WORKSHOP
The thirteen NGGPS/SIP Working Groups that have been formed are: Governance (#1); System Architecture (#2); Infrastructure (#3); Dynamics/Nesting (#4); Physics (#5); Data Assimilation (#6); Ensemble Development (#7); Post Processing (#8); Verification/Validation (#9); Marine (#10); Land/Hydrology (#11); Aerosols/Atmospheric Composition (#12); Mesoscale/CAM (#13). This part of the workshop is aimed at advancing the technical planning within each working group and ensuring that they are well-coordinated across them.
A few notes about the breakouts:
The breakouts are one-hour-long each, with 15 minutes for transition between the breakouts CC = Conference Center (includes the Auditorium and 3 side rooms) Room 2155 is located inside security- Part 2 (plenary and breakouts), is open to those present at NCWCP (i.e. in-person only); however, there will be no remote access.
For additional information, please go to the Community Modeling Workshop Meeting Page (hosted by NCAR).
NGGPS related talks presented at the AMS 2017 Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2017)
AMS 2017 NGGPS related talks
2016
NGGPS Atmospheric Physics Workshop (November 8-9, 2016)
Atmospheric Physics Workshop
Program Meeting
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NGGPS Program Meeting
August 4 - 5, 2016
NCWCP Conference Rooms
5830 University Research Court
College Park, MD 20740
NGGPS Program Meeting Objectives
NGGPS program priorities, goals, and progress will be presented in an interactive forum for discussion and participant feedback. During the meeting, implementation team leads/co-leads will present a status update of their team efforts towards a unified global coupled system along with a summary of current work and projected long-term plans. Participant feedback during the meeting will be used in shaping NGGPS priorities and plans going forward.
Agenda Day 1, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Thursday, August 4, 2016
Conference Rooms
9:00am Welcome - Fred Toepfer/Tim Schneider/Mike Ek 9:10am NGGPS Overview (.pdf) - Ivanka Stajner/Fred Toepfer/Tim Schneider 9:40am NOAA's response to UMAC recommendations (.pdf) - Tim Schneider/Vijay Tallapragada 10:00am EMC Path Forward (.pdf) - Vijay Tallapragada 10:45am Break 11:00am Atmospheric Prediction Dynamics (.pdf) - Jeff Whitaker/Vijay Tallapragada 12:00pm Lunch 1:00pm Nesting (.pdf) - Vijay Tallapragada 1:20pm Atmospheric Prediction Physics (.pdf) - Shrinivas Moorthi/Jim Doyle/Bill Kou 2:20pm Global Modeling Test Bed (.pdf) - Ligia Bernardet/Bill Kou 2:50pm Aerosols and Atmospheric Composition (.pptx) - Ivanka Stajner/Yu-Tai Hou 3:20pm Break 3:35pm Atmospheric Data Assimilation (.pdf) - John Berber/Tom Auligne 4:45pm Adjourn Agenda Day 2, 8:00 am - 1:00 pm EDT
Friday, August 5, 2016
Conference Rooms
8:00am Welcome/Recap - Tim Schneider/Fred Toepfer/Ivanka Stajner 8:10am Overarching System/NEMS (.pdf) - Cecilia DeLuca/Mark Iredell 8:40am Post-Processing (.pdf) - Matthew Peroutka/Yuejian Zhu 9:10am Ensemble Development (.pdf) - Yuejian Zhu/Tom Hamill 9:40am Verification and Validation (.pdf) - Ivanka Stajner/Glenn White 10:00am Break 10:25am Land Prediction (.pdf) - Helin Wei 10:55am NGGPS Testbed Implementation Team (.pdf) - Paula Davidson/Mike Ek 11:25am Marine Prediction (incl. ocean, wave, and sea ice) (.pdf) - Arun Chawla 11:55am Pick up lunch - Discussion
World's Best Weather Prediction: A community discussion (.pdf)
Plans for 2017 and beyond (.pdf) - Tim Schneider1:00pm Adjourn
PI Meeting
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NGGPS FFO PI Meeting
August 2-3, 2016
NCWCP Conference Rooms
5830 University Research Court
College Park, MD 20740
FFO PI Meeting Objectives
Principal investigators/co-investigators funded through the NWS STI 2015 federally funded opportunity, will present an overview, results, and direction of their current work to accelerate critical research for the advancement of a unified coupled global system developed through the NGGPS program. The NGGPS Implementation Team Leads, and EMC scientists will provide collaborative feedback to the investigators.
Agenda Day 1 - NGGPS FFO PI 8:00 am - 4:15 pm EDT
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Conference Rooms
8:00am Welcome - Christopher Hedge (STI) and EMC representative 8:10am NGGPS Overview (.pdf) - Ivanka Stajner/Fred Toepfer/Tim Schneider (STI) Nesting/Convective Systems 8:30am Team Lead: Vijay Tallapragada (EMC) 8:35am Advancing Storm-Scale Forecasts over Nested Domains for High-Impact Weather (.pdf) - Eli Dennis and Michael Colbert for David Stensrud (Pennsylvania State University) Marine 9:05am Team Lead: Arun Chawla/Avichal Mehra (EMC) 9:10am An Operational Hybrid 3DVar/EnKF Ocean Assimilation System-NCEP (.pdf) - Steve Penny (University of Maryland) Physics 9:40am Team Leads: Jim Doyle (Navy)/Bill Kuo (UCAR)/Shrinivas Moorthi (EMC) 9:45am Integrating Unified Gravity Wave Physics into the Next Generation Global Prediction System (.pdf) - Valery Yudin for Timothy Fuller-Rowell (University of Colorado) 10:15am Break 10:30am Developing Physics-oriented Diagnostic Tools for Model Evaluation and Improvement (.pdf) - Zhuo Wang (University of Illinois) Ensemble Development 11:00am Team Leads: Tom Hamill (ESRL)/Yuejian Zhu (EMC) 11:05am Calibration and Evaluation of GEFS Ensemble Forecasts at Weeks 2-4 (.pdf) - Ping Liu (SUNY - Stony Brook) 11:35am Development and testing of a multi-model ensemble prediction system for sub-monthly forecasts (.pdf) - Andrew Robertson (Columbia University) 12:05pm Lunch 1:00pm Accelerating Development of NOAA's Next-Generation Global couple System for Week-3 and Week-4 Weather Prediction (.pdf) - James Kinter (George Mason University) Atmospheric Data Assimilation 1:30pm Team Lead: John Derber (EMC)/Tom Auligne (JCSDA) 1:35pm Development of Advanced Data Assimilation Techniques for Improved use of Satellite-Derived Atmospheric Motion Vectors (pdf) - James Jung (University of Wisconsin) 2:05pm Improving Global and Hurricane Prediction by Using Minimum-Cost Large Ensemble in GFS 4DEnVar Hybrid Data Assimilation System (pdf) - Xuguang Wang (University of Oklahoma) 2:35pm Improved tropical cyclone initialization for NCEP operations through direct assimilation of storm information (pdf) - Daryl Kleist (University of Maryland) 3:05pm Break 3:20pm HIWPP Final Wrap up (.pdf) - Bonny Strong (ESRL) 3:50pm Recap - Christopher Hedge 4:15pm Adjourn/Unofficial Dinner Agenda Day 2 -NGGPS FFO PI - 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Conference Rooms
HIWPP Meeting
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HIWPP/NGGPS Program Status Meeting
February 9-10, 2016
NCWCP Conference Rooms
5830 University Research Court
College Park, MD 20740
NGGPS Program Meeting Objectives
- Provide a status update of High Impact Weather Prediction Project (HIWPP) projects, products completed, and lessons learned.
- Provide a status update of the R2O Initiative for the development of a Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS). The NGGPS implementation teams will present a review of their efforts including a summary status of current work and near- and long-term plans.
Agenda Day 1, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Conference Rooms
8:00am Welcome - R2O/NGGPS Initiative (.pdf) (Fred Toepfer/Ivanka Stajner) 8:10am Welcome - HIWPP (Tim Schneider/Bonny Strong) 8:20am NCEP/EMC Welcome (EMC) HIWPP Science reports
Presentation of research results, papers planned, products completed, remaining tasks, and next steps8:30am Hydrostatic models – deterministic and ensembles (.pdf) - (Stan Benjamin, Isidora Jankov) 8:50am Parameterization Development:
Unified Representation of Turbulence and Clouds (.pdf) - (Shrinivas Moorthi)9:05am Physics Parameterizations:
Scale and Aerosol Aware Stochastic Convective Parameterization (.pdf) - (Georg Grell)9:20am Assimilation/Ensembles/Stochastic Physics (.pdf) - (Jeff Whitaker) 9:40am Break 10:00am Massively Parallel Fine Grain (MPFG)/GPU Optimization (.pdf) - (Mark Govett) 10:20am Moving Hurricane Nest (.pdf) - (S. Gopalakrishnan, Vijay Tallapragada) 10:45am NMME Expansion (.pdf) - (Jin Huang) 11:05am Test Program and NEIS (.pdf) - (Bonny Strong/Jebb Stewart) 11:30am HIWPP Project management issues (.pdf) - (Tim Schneider, Bonny Strong)
Final reports, any identified resource issues, etc.12:00pm Lunch 1:00pm HIWPP Project Lessons Learned discussion (.pdf) - (Tim Schneider, Bonny Strong) 2:45pm HIWPP Wrap-up (.pdf) - (Tim Schneider) 3:00pm Break 3:15pm Atmospheric Prediction - Dynamics NGGPS Team Briefing (.pdf) - (Jeff Whitaker/Vijay Tallapragada) 4:15pm Nesting/Convective Systems (.pdf) - (Vijay Tallapragada) 5:00pm Adjourn Agenda Day 2, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Conference Rooms
8:00am Welcome/Recap (Fred Toepfer/Ivanka Stajner) 8:10 am Overview/Status of NGGPS Implementation (.pdf) - (Ivanka Stajner) 8:30 am Overarching System – NEMS (.pdf) - (Cecilia DeLuca/Mark Iredell) 9:00am Software Architecture and Engineering (including NEMS) (.pdf) - (Hendrik Tolman) 9:30 am Coupled System Development (.pdf) - (Suranjana Saha) 10:00 am Break 10:15 pm Atmospheric Prediction - Physics (.pdf) - (Jim Doyle/Shrinivas Moorthi) 11:15 am Aerosols and Atmospheric Composition (.pdf) - (Ivanka Stajner/Yu-Tai Hou) 11:45 pm Atmospheric Data Assimilation (.pdf) - (John Derber) 12:15 pm Lunch 1:15 pm Ocean Prediction (incl. wave and sea ice) (.pdf) - (Avichal Mehra) 2:00 pm Land Prediction (.pdf) - (Mike Ek) 2:30 pm Post-Processing/Ensemble Development (.pdf) - (Tom Hamill/Yuejian Zhu) 3:00 pm Break 3:15 pm Test Beds (.pdf) - (Paula Davidson/Suru Saha) 3:45 pm Verification and Validation (Ivanka Stajner/Glenn White) 4:15 pm Global Modeling Test Bed (.pdf) - (Ligia Bernardet) 4:45 pm Wrap-up and next steps/Future Priorities - (Fred Toepfer/Ivanka Stajner) 5:00 pm Adjourn
2015
PI Meeting
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and Presentations
NGGPS External FFO
PI Meeting
Thursday, July 16, 2015 and Friday July 17, 2015
Conference Rooms
NCWCP, 5830 University Research Court
College Park, MD 20740
Overall Objective
The goal of the R2O initiative is to design and develop the Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) to provide improved weather prediction accuracy and warnings, and extend the US weather forecast to 30 days. Targeted improvements will be achieved through:
- Accelerated development and implementation of improved global weather prediction models.
- Improved data assimilation techniques.
- Nested regional prediction capabilities.
- Post-processing forecast tools and techniques.
- Improved software architecture and system engineering.
Principal investigators/co-investigators will present an overview, status, and direction of their current work, funded through the federally funded opportunity to accelerate critical research for the advancement of a fully-coupled NGGPS. NGGPS Team Leads will provide any needed feedback and/or directions to investigators.
Agenda Day 1 - NGGPS Modeling Projects 8:00 am - 5:35 pm EDT
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Conference Rooms
Agenda Day 2 -NGGPS Testbed Projects - 8:00 am - 2:00 pm EDT
Advanced Forecaster Tools and Applications for NGGPS
Friday, July 17, 2015
Conference Rooms
Annual Meeting
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and Presentations
NGGPS Annual Meeting
Tuesday and Wednesday, July 14 - 15, 2015
NCWCP Conference Rooms
5830 University Research Court
College Park, MD 20740
Remote Access information listed at end of agenda
Overall Objective
Provide a status update of the first year of the R2O Initiative for the development of a Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS). The NGGPS implementation teams will present a review of their efforts including priorities and overall team/subject direction along with a summary of current work and near-term plans. Discussions will include priorities and focus areas for the next year.
Agenda Day 1, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Conference Rooms
Welcome/Status of NGGPS 9:00am Welcome/R2O Initiative (.pdf) - Fred Toepfer 9:15am NCEP/EMC Welcome (.pdf) - (EMC) 9:30am Overview/Status of NGGPS (.pdf) - Ivanka Stajner Team Plans 9:45am Overarching system - NEMS (.pdf) - Cecilia DeLuca 10:30am Software Architecture and Engineering (.pptx) - John Michalakes 11:15am Break 11:30am Atmospheric Prediction - Physics (.pptx) - Jim Doyle/Bill Kuo 12:30pm Lunch 1:30pm Aerosols and Atmospheric Composition (.pptx) - Ivanka Stajner 2:15pm Atmospheric Prediction - Dynamics (.pptx) - Jeff Whitaker 3:00pm Break 3:15pm Atmospheric Data Assimilation (.pptx) - Tom Auligne 4:00pm Ocean Prediction (incl. wave and ice) (.pptx) - Avichal Mehra 5:00pm Adjourn Unofficial dinner gathering Tuesday evening at 5:30 pm Agenda Day 2, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Conference Rooms
9:00am Announcements/Recap of first day - Fred Toepfer/Ivanka Stajner 9:15am Land Prediction (.pptx) - Helin Wei 10:00am Nesting/Convective Systems (.pptx) - Vijay Tallapragada 10:45am Break 11:00am Post-Processing/Ensemble Development (.pptx) - Tom Hamill 11:45am Verification and Validation (.pptx) - Ivanka Stajner 12:30pm Lunch 1:30pm Global Modeling Test Bed (.pptx) - Bill Kuo 2:15pm Test Beds (.pptx) - Paula Davidson 3:00pm Wrap-up and next steps - Future Priorities - Fred Toepfer
Teams break out - Cross Team Discussions5:00pm Adjourn
