NOAA Community Modeling Workshop & Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) Coordination Workshop

Dates/Location:

April 18-20, 2017 at NCWCP in College Park, MD (NCEP Conference Center)

About

NOAA’s vision for the Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) Modeling Community is to engage with the public, private and academic sectors to seize an unprecedented opportunity to develop and advance a world-class operational modeling system that is unified across time and space scales.  Anchored by NOAA’s FV3-based operational forecast system, the community will work together to improve operational environmental forecast guidance and enable and empower the research community.

OBJECTIVES
Through a two-part workshop, NOAA seeks to engage with the community to form and shape the community, and to consider how to best execute shared infrastructure, support, management, and governance.  Other topics addressed include identifying “best practices”, discussing how a community-based unified modeling system will actually work, and to evolve and coordinate between SIP/NGGPS Working Groups.

OUTCOMES
These workshops are parts of an open and transparent process of ongoing engagement, and will provide an important vehicle for NOAA to listen to the community regarding how it wants to engage. Outcomes include timely sharing of vital information (e.g. how people can plug in and contribute, timelines and status, etc.), generating a greater sense of community and mutual trust, and for NOAA, tapping the wisdom of the community. Output from the workshops will help NOAA to plan and establish the NOAA Modeling Community and to refine and improve its Strategic Implementation Plan for the FV3 model.

Part 1: The "Community Modeling Workshop is an opportunity for the community to tell NOAA how they would like to engage with us. A brief remark on the format of this part of the workshop: the goal is to keep prepared remarks brief (provided for context and as fodder for discussion) and to allow for maximum dialogue. Outcome notes linked here

Part 2: The Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) Coordination Workshop seeks to delve into the topical issues associated with the SIP/Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) Working Groups. Outcome notes linked here

Workshop Summaries

• Summary Part 1
• Summary Part 2

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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), Christa Peters-Lidard (NASA), Dave McCarren (Navy/DoD)

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:

1. Best practices: What are the major things that we’re getting right?
2. Gaps: What are the major things that we’re missing, or that we’re heading down the wrong tracks on?

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

GROUP A-H REPORTS

GROUP A-H NOTES

12:00  ADJOURN – Part 1 Complete

12:00 - 1:00  Lunch (on your own -or- pre-order box lunches)

Remote Attendees