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28th Annual Great Lakes Operational Meteorology Workshop - Virtual 2022

The 28th Great Lakes Operational Meteorology Workshop (GLOMW) will be back virtually in 2022! While we wish we could be together in person once again, we will take advantage of a virtual option to come together after nearly two years. GLOMW 2022 will be a mix of both presentations and interactive panel discussions with the following areas of focus:

Tornadoes and Tornado Warning Improvement
Severe Convection
Marine Forecasting
Forecasting Winter Weather and Impacts
Lessons Learned From Pandemic Impacted Operations

Virtual Workshop Dates: May 2-5, 2022 (11 AM-5 PM EDT)

Cost: FREE

Registration Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6935697780473065995 (Good for all four days)

Any questions regarding the 2022 GLOMW or this webpage should be directed to: Patrick Ayd (patrick.ayd@noaa.gov), Science and Operations Officer, NWS Duluth, Minnesota.

Agenda
Registration
Attendees
Brian Murphy Award
Bill Hibbert Award

Agenda

28^th Annual U.S./Canada Great Lakes Operational

Meteorology Workshop

The full agenda and abstracts can be found here.

GLOMW Schedule May 2nd to May 5th, 2022

Monday, May 2nd – Marine Forecasting

Session Chair(s) – Greg Mann and Helen Yang

All times in EDT

11:00AM - 11:15AM	Introduction and Welcome to the 28th GLOMW
	Helen Yang and Ryan Rozinskis, ECCC Toronto, On

11:15AM - 11:45AM	ECCC-NOAA Tiger Team for Marine Forecast and Service Innovation
	Andrew Teakles and Darin Figurskey ECCC Applied Science - Atlantic Region, NOAA – Ocean Prediction Center

11:45AM - 12:15PM	Upgrades and Improvements to the Great Lakes Wave Modeling System
	Andre Van der Westhuysen and Saeideh Banihashemi IMSG @ NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch

12:15PM-12:45PM	Operationalizing Marine "Spot" Forecasts to Support USCG Sector Sault Ste Marie
	Joseph Phillips and CDR Matthew Walter NWS Marquette, MI, US Coast Guard, Sault Sainte Marie

12:45PM - 1:30PM	Lunch Break

1:30PM - 2:30PM	Keynote Speakers: Kevin Berberich, Jonathan Edwards-Opperman - US National Ice Center
	Kevin Berberich and Jonathan Edwards-Opperman NOAA/NWS/NCEP/OPC/Ice Services Branch

2:30PM - 2:45PM	Health Break

2:45PM - 3:15PM	Lakeshore Flooding Over Western Lake Superior: Forecast and Impact Challenges
	Justin Schultz, NWS Duluth, MN

3:15PM - 3:45PM	Description and Evaluation of the NOAA/NOS’s Great Lakes Ocean Forecast System (GLOFS) Experimental Ice Forecasting Guidance
	Robert LaPlante, NWS Cleveland, OH

3:45PM - 4:00PM	Health Break

4:00PM - 4:30PM	Synthetic Aperture Radar Coverage for the Great Lakes: A New Source of Wind and Ice Information
	Christopher Jackson, Tyler Ruff and Sean Helfrich NOAA GOA, NOAA GST, NOAA STAR

4:30PM - 5:00PM	Observations of Wind Using SAR Data from RADARSat Constellation Mission Satellites
	Scott Lindstrom, Christopher Jackson and Tyler Ruff UW-Madison CIMSS, NOAA GOA, NOAA GST

Tuesday, May 3rd – Marine Forecasting

Session Chair(s) – Sherry Williams and Ryan Rozinskis

All times in EDT

11:00AM - 11:10AM	Introduction
	Sherry Williams

11:10AM - 11:40AM	Lake Erie Ice Rescue 22 February 2021
	Kirk Lombardy, NWS Cleveland, OH

11:40AM - 12:40PM	Panel Discussion: Solving Great Lakes Weather Challenges Over The Next 5 Years
	Greg Mann, Ron Williams, Peter Kimbell, Benoit Pouliot NWS, NWS, ECCC and ECCC

12:40PM - 1:30PM	Lunch Break

1:30PM - 2:00PM	Updates From the Weather Prediction Center's Winter Weather Desk
	Tony Fracasso, Alex Lamers and Greg Carbin, NWS WPC

2:00PM - 2:30PM	The Monthly Sea Level Pressure Records and Their Use in the Forecasting Process
	David Roth, NWS WPC

2:30PM - 2:45PM	Health Break

2:45PM - 3:15PM	Evaluating the Lake-Effect Snow Forecasting Capabilities of NOAA’s Unified Forecast System (UFS)
	David Wright et al., University of Michigan

3:15PM - 3:45PM	Collective Lake Disturbances and the Relationship to "Type VI" Lake Effect Snow Events
	Nathan Marsili, NWS Northern Indiana

3:45PM - 4:00PM	Health Break

4:00PM - 4:30PM	Intense NWT Snowsquall Event October 27 2019
	Brennan Allen and Gary Lee ECCC ASPC and ECCC PASPC

4:30PM - 5:00PM	Period for Additional Questions

Wednesday, May 4th – Summer Severe Weather, Tornadoes and Tornado Warning Improvement

Session Chair(s) – John Boris and Ryan Rozinskis

All times in EDT

11:00AM - 11:10AM	Introduction
	John Boris

11:10AM - 11:40AM	S-Band Dual-Polarization Radar Evaluation of the Barrie, Ontario Tornado of July 15 2021
	Arnold Ashton and Daniel Liota, ECCC OSPC Toronto, ON

11:40AM - 12:10PM	Lightning Jump Analysis of the Tornadic Stormsin Southern Ontario on 15 July 2021
	Helen Yang and Lisa Alexander, ECCC Toronto, ON

12:10PM - 12:40PM	Impact of Midlevel Shear Organization on Downdraft Location, Tornado-like Vortex Formation and Storm Longevity in Simulated Supercells
	Kevin Gray, University of Illinois

12:40PM - 1:30PM	Lunch Break

1:30PM - 2:30 PM	Keynote Speaker: David Sills - We're Not in Kansas Anymore - New Insights on Northern Tornadoes
	David Sills, Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP)

2:30PM - 2:45PM	Health Break

2:45PM - 3:45PM	A Comparison of Hail Versus Tornado Environments Using Hodographs
	Cameron Nixon, Central Michigan University

3:45PM - 4:00PM	Health Break

4:00PM - 5:00PM	Panel: Tornadoes Above 40N Science and Service Challenges and Opportunities
	David Sills, Richard Wagenmaker, Crawford Luke, Rich Thompson NTP, NWS, ECCC and SPC

Thursday, May 5th – Summer Severe Weather, Tornadoes and Tornado Warning Improvement, Impact Based Forecasting and Verification and Lessons Learned From Pandemic Impacted Operations

Session Chair(s) – John Boris and Sherry Williams

All times in EDT

11:00AM - 11:10AM	Introduction
	John Boris

11:10AM - 11:40AM	Use of the Modified SHERBE Parameter To Identify Tornadic HSLC Environments - An Examination of the Oct 21, 2021 Event Over OH/PA
	Douglas Kahn and Patrick Saunders, NWS Cleveland, OH

11:40AM - 12:10PM	A Historical Look at Tracking Elevated Mixed Layers Through Satellite Imagery: A Northern U.S. and Southern Canadian Focus
	Christopher M. Gitro, Dan Bikos, Scott Lindstrom and Sheldon Kusselson NWS Duluth, MN, CIRA, UW-Madison CIMMS, CIRA

12:10PM - 12:45PM	Lunch Break

12:45PM - 1:15PM	A Statistical Evaluation of NWS Impact-Based Warnings (IBW)
	Greg Mann and Richard Wagenmaker, NWS Detroit, MI

1:15PM - 1:45PM	Quantified Impact Verification Efforts at the Ontario Storm Prediction Centre
	Ryan Rozinskis, ECCC OSPC Toronto, ON

1:45PM - 2:30PM	Panel Discussion: Impact Based Forecast and Verification
	Greg Mann, Richard Wagenmaker and Ryan Rozinskis NWS, NWS and ECCC

2:30PM - 2:45PM	Health Break

2:45PM - 3:15 PM	The Ontario Storm Prediction Centre During COVID-19
	Ryan Rozinskis, ECCC OSPC Toronto, ON

3:15PM - 3:45PM	NWS Operational Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
	Bruce Smith, NWS Central Region Headquarters

3:45PM - 4:00PM	Health Break

4:00PM - 4:30PM	Open Forum Discussion: Two Years of Pandemic Impacted Operations

4:30PM - 4:45PM	Wrap-Up GLOMW 2022
	GLOMW Planning Committee

Registration:

Registration Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6935697780473065995 (Good for all four days)

Attendees:

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The Brian Murphy Award

The Brian Murphy Award is presented at each Great Lakes workshop in honour of Brian Murphy, an Environment Canada meteorologist who was critical to the inception and success of the Great Lakes Operational Meteorology Workshop. In 1991, Brian opened collaboration with Tom Niziol in Buffalo, NY, and Dick Wagenmaker in Ann Arbor, MI, which resulted in the first small, but successful gathering of operational meteorologists at Pearson Airport in Toronto, ON, between forecasters from the Toronto office of Environment Canada, and the Buffalo and Ann Arbor offices of the U.S. National Weather Service.

Sadly, Brian passed away at a relatively young age on June 30, 2004, in Windsor, ON, after a long illness, but his memory and commitment to operational weather forecasting in the Great Lakes region is celebrated each year with the ongoing success of the Great Lakes Workshop. Beginning with the 2005 Great Lakes Workshop in Grand Rapids, MI, the Brian Murphy Award has been presented to the person with the best operationally relevant presentation at the GLOMW each year.

Environment and Climate Change Canada research meteorologist Dave Sills has composed a tribute to Brian, which you can read here.

Past Recipients of the Brian Murphy Operational Forecaster Presentation:

Note: The Brian Murphy Operational Forecaster Presentation was initiated at the 14th Great Lakes Operational Meteorology Workshop, held in Grand Rapids, Michigan in September of 2005, the first workshop held after Brian's passing.

2022 (28th): Virtual. Nathan Marsili, NWS Northern Indiana Talk Title: "Collective Lake Disturbances and the Relationship to "Type VI" Lake Effect Snow Events"

2019 (27th): Duluth, Minnesota. Greg Mann, NWS Detroit/White Lake Talk Title: "High Amplitude Inertia-Gravity Wave Driven Meteotsunami across the Lake Michigan Basin during the Transition Season"

2018 (26th): Cleveland, Ohio. Eric Lenning, NWS Chicago Talk Title: “Evaluation of a Revised Bourgouin Layer-Energy Technique for Top-Down Precipitation-Type Forecasts”

2017 (25th): Buffalo, New York. Jeff Logsdon, NWS Northern Indiana Talk Title: "The Indiana/Ohio Tornado Outbreak of August 24, 2016"

2016 (24th): Toronto, Ontario. Helen Yang, Ontario Storm Prediction Centre Talk Title: “Exploring the Utility of SOLMA for Severe Thunderstorm Nowcasting of a QLCS Tornado Event”

2015 (23rd): Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dan Thompson and Trent Frey, NWS Detroit/White Lake Talk Title: "Time Evolution of Radar-Derived Rotational Velocity in Supercells: Implications for Impact-Based Warnings"

2014 (22nd): Ann Arbor, Michigan. Justin Arnott, NWS Gaylord Talk Title: "Predictability Horizons: Implications for Operational Forecasters"

2013 (21st): Toronto, Ontario. The Brian Murphy Award was not presented. Conference was hosted via remote webinar presentations due to NOAA travel freeze.

2012 (20th): Chicago, Illinois. Mark A. Thornton, LakeErieWX, LLC Talk Title: "Tragedy Strikes the 2011 Chicago-Mac"

2011 (19th): Ithaca, New York. Co-award Winners Gina Ressler, McGill University Talk Title: “Synoptic-Scale Analysis of Freezing Rain Events in Montreal, Canada” -and- Sophie Splawinski, McGill University Talk Title: “Atmospheric Circulation Anomalies Associated with Freezing Rain in Quebec City, QC and the St. Lawrence River Valley”

2010 (18th): Toronto, Ontario. Dan Miller, NWS Duluth Talk Title: “Observations of Near-Surface Thermodynamic and Wind Shear Profiles on Significant Tornado Days”

2009: Great Lakes Workshop was not held - transition from fall meetings pre-2009, to spring meetings beginning in 2010

2008 (17th): Ann Arbor, Michigan. TJ Turnage, NWS Grand Rapids Talk Title: "A Comparison of Heavy Snowfall Forecast Techniques"

2007 (16th): Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ed Shimon, NWS Central Illinois Talk Title: "The 19 July 2006 Derecho Event - A Meteorology and Radar Review"

2006 (15th): Niagara Falls, Ontario. Mike Evans, NWS Binghamton Talk Title “Correlations Between Snowfall and NAM Forecast Parameters Widely Believed to be Associated with Banded Snowfall: Part 1 - Examination of Time-Height Cross-Sectional Data”

2005 (14th): Grand Rapids, Michigan. Bruce Smith, NWS Gaylord Talk Title: "The Lake-Enhanced Snow Event of December 19, 2000"

The Bill Hibbert Award

The Bill Hibbert Award is presented at each Great Lakes workshop in honor of William Hibbert, a National Weather Service Buffalo, New York meteorologist. Bill was the NWS Buffalo radar program leader, and was heavily involved with the initial operational assessment of polarimetric WSR-88D radar data in 2010.

Sadly, Bill passed away in 2017 after a courageous battle with cancer. Beginning with the 25th Great Lakes Workshop in Buffalo, NY in 2017, the Bill Hibbert Award has been presented to the person with the best presentation in the area of remote sensing application to operational meteorology at the GLOMW each year.

Past Recipients of the Bill Hibbert Remote Sensing Presentation:

Note: The Bill Hibbert Remote Sensing Presentation was initiated at the 25th Great Lakes Operational Meteorology Workshop, held in Buffalo, New York in April of 2017, the first workshop held after Bill's passing.

2022 (28th): Virtual. Christopher M. Gitro, NWS Duluth, MN Talk Title: "A Historical Look at Tracking Elevated Mixed Layers Through Satellite Imagery: A Northern U.S. and Southern Canadian Focus"

2019 (27th): Duluth, Minnesota. Mark Kulie, NOAA/NESDIS Talk Title: "Snowfall Observations @NWSMarquette: A Five-Year Retrospective"

2018 (26th): Cleveland, Ohio. Andy Hatzos, NWS Wilmington Talk Title: “The Six Tornadoes of May 24, 2017”

2017 (25th): Buffalo, New York. Kirk Apffel, NWS Buffalo Talk Title: "Utilizing Dual-Polarization Instantaneous Precipitation Rate to Predict Flash Flooding"