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RFC Short-Term Ensemble Workshop Agenda (Updated Nov 28)

Nov 28-30, 2006

NOAA/NWS/Office of Hydrologic Development
1325 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910



Nov 28, 2006 (Tue) SSMC2 Rm 8246


Introduction
09:00 – 09:10 am Welcoming remark Gary Carter
09:10 – 09:20 am Workshop objectives Geoffrey Bonnin
09:20 – 09:30 am Logistics, Overview of Agenda DJ Seo,
Satish Regonda

RFC/Region Presentations (Chair Julie Demargne)
09:30 – 09:50 am MARFC Ned Pryor
09:50 – 10:10 am OHRFC Tom Adams
10:10 – 10:30 am CNRFC Eric Strem
10:30 – 10:50 am Break
10:50 – 11:10 am NCRFC Mike DeWeese
11:10 – 11:30 am WR Kevin Werner

Status Update (Co-Chairs Ned Pryor, Eric Strem)
11:30 – 11:50 am Overview of Short-term Ensemble Activities DJ Seo
11:50 – 01:00 pm Lunch
01:00 – 01:20 am Ensemble Pre-Processor (EPP) DJ Seo, Limin Wu
01:20 – 01:50 pm Ensemble Hindcaster Julie Demargne
02:10 – 02:20 pm Break
02:20 – 02:40 pm Verification Team activities Julie Demargne
02:40 – 03:10 pm Ensemble verification DJ Seo,
Julie Demargne
03:10 – 03:30 pm Ensemble Post-Processor DJ Seo,
Satish Regonda
03:30 – 03:50 pm Probabilistic flood mapping
STEWksp_Prob_flood_mapping
JB_flood_future
DJ Seo,
Satish Regonda
03:50 – 04:10 pm Q&A, discussion All
04:10 – 04:20 pm Break
04:20 – 04:40 pm VAR DJ Seo, Haksu Lee (Moved)
05:00 – 05:30 pm Data Assimilator (DA) for Research Distributed Hydrologic Model (RDHM) DJ Seo, Haksu Lee (Moved)
03:50 – 04:10 pm Q&A, discussion All
05:30 pm Adjourn

Nov 29, 2006 (Wed) SSMC2 Rm 8246


Presentations by New Personnel (Chair Tom Adams)
08:30 – 09:00 am Data uncertainties James Brown
09:00 – 09:30 am Statistical ensemble seasonal forecasting Satish Regonda
09:30 – 10:00 am Predictive uncertainty analysis Haksu Lee
10:00 – 10:20 am Break

NCEP Presentations (Chair DJ Seo)
10:20 – 10:40 am Ensemble directions at NCEP Zoltan Toth
10:40 – 11:00 am NAEFS and global ensembles Yuejian Zhu
11:00 – 11:20 am Short-range ensemble Jun Du
11:20 – 11:40 am HPC confidence factor Jung-Sun Im
11:40 – 11:50 am Q&A, discussion All
11:50 – 01:00 pm Lunch

Data Assimilation
01:00 - 01:20 am VAR DJ Seo, Haksu Lee
01:20 – 01:40 pm Data Assimilator (DA) for Research Distributed
Hydrologic Model
DJ Seo, Haksu Lee

Planning
01:40 - 02:20 pm Short-Term Ensemble Concept of Operations DJ Seo (lead)
02:20 – 02:30 pm Q&A, discussion All
02:30 – 02:40 pm Break
02:40 – 03:30 pm Short-Term Ensemble R&D and RTO plan DJ Seo (lead)
03:30 – 03:50 pm Q&A, discussion All
03:50 - 04:00 pm Break
04:00 – 05:00 pm Action items All
05:30 pm Adjourn
06:00 pm Group Dinner at Mi Rancho

Nov 30, 2006 (Thu) SSMC2 Rm 8246


Training
08:30 – 08:40 am Organization of presentations DJ Seo
08:40 – 09:30 am Ensemble Pre-Processor Limin Wu (lead)
09:30 – 09:40 am Break
09:40 – 10:30 am Ensemble Hindcaster Julie Demargne (lead)
10:30 – 11:50 am Hydrologic verification Julie Demargne,
DJ Seo,
Satish Regonda
11:50 – 01:00 pm Lunch
01:00 – 01:30 am Interactive Verification Program (IVP) Hank Herr
01:30 – 03:00 pm Ensemble verification I James Brown (lead)
03:00 – 03:10 pm Break
03:10 – 04:40 pm Ensemble verification II
STEWksp_Training_Verif_Results_ABRFC_EPP2
STEWksp_Training_Verif_Results_ABRFC_GFSvsEPP2
verification_results_precip_abrfc
verification_results_precip_marfc
verification_results_temp_marfc
James Brown (lead)