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

Workshop
Apr. 18 to Apr. 20, 2017

8:00 – 9:45 am MDT

College Park, MD
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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

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Presentations

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)

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.

For details about Part 2, see the agenda. There were no presentations in Part 2. Please see the Part 2 Workshop Summary for more information.

Participants
First Name Last Name Affiliation
Amanda Adams NSF
Farida Adimi NOAA/NWS/EMC
Curtis Alexander NOAA/ESRL
Eric Aligo NOAA/OAR/EMC
Jordan Alpert NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Whit Anderson NOAA/OAR/GFDL
Clarissa Anderson UC-San Diego
Don Anderson Johns Hopkins Univ/APL
Heather Archambault NOAA/CPO
Ghassem Asrar PNNL/JGCRI
Thomas Auligne JCSDA
Mike  Barlage NCAR
Daniel Barrie NOAA/CPO
Stan Benjamin NOAA/ESRL
Rusty Benson NOAA/OAR/GFDL
Ligia Bernardet NOAA/ESRL
Tom Black NOAA/NWS/EMC
Mike Bodner NOAA/NCEP/WPC
William Bua UCAR/COMET
Patrick Burke NOAA/NOS/CO-OPS
Antonio Busalacchi UCAR
Ming Cai NSF
DaNa Carlis NOAA/OAR
Jessie Carman NOAA/OAR/ESPC
Frederick Carr Univ. of Oklahoma 
Nicholas Cavanaugh City Financial
Steve Charles Raytheon
Mike Charles NOAA/CPC
Arun Chawla NOAA/NCEP
Anning Cheng NOAA/IMSG
Jiun-dar Chern NASA/GSFC
Philip Chu NOAA/GLERL
Adam Clark NOAA/OAR/NSSL
John Cortinas NOAA/OAR
Brian Cosgrove NOAA/NWS/OWP
Jeffrey Craven NOAA/SWPC
Jeffrey Craven NOAA/NWS/MDL
Arlindo da Silva NASA/GSFC
Gokhan Danabasoglu NCAR
Paula Davidson NOAA/OAR/STI
Cecelia  DeLuca NOAA ESRL and CU/CIRES
Daniel DePodwin AccuWeather
John Derber NOAA/NWS/EMC
Geoff DiMego NOAA/NCEP/EMC
James Doyle NRL
Jun Du NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Mike  Ek NOAA/NWS/EMC
Mike  Farrar NOAA/NWS/EMC
Brad Ferrier NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Stylianos Flampouris NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Tim Fuller-Rowell NOAA/NWS/SWPC
Ron Gelaro NASA/GMAO
Dave Gill NCAR
Paul Ginoux NOAA/OAR/GFDL
Mary Glackin IBM/The Weather Company
Steve Goldhaber NCAR
Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan NOAA/HRD/AOML
Mark Govett NOAA/ESRL
Mike  Graf NOAA/NWS/AFS
Georg Grell NOAA/ESRL/GSD
Brian Gross NOAA
James Gundy Harris Corporation
Josh Hacker NCAR
Robert Hallberg NOAA/OAR/GFDL
Tom Hamill NOAA/ESRL
Patrick Harr NSF
Lucas Harris NOAA/OAR/GFDL
Pam Heinselman NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Wayne Higgins NOAA/CPO
Patrick Hogan Naval Research Lab
Daniel Holdaway NASA/GMAO
Liz Hoswell NCAR
Yu-Tai Hou NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Jin Huang NOAA/CPO
Elizabeth Hunke Los Alamos National Lab
Tabitha Huntemann NOAA/NWS
Jim Hurrell NCAR   
Todd Hutchinson The Weather Company
Kayo Ide Univ. of Maryland
Mark Iredell NOAA/NCEP/EMC
James Irons NASA/GSFC
Susan Jasko California Univ. of PA
Tara Jensen NCAR
Jack Kain NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Kevin Kelleher NOAA/ESRL/GSD
Young-Joon Kim NOAA/NWS/AFS
Jung-Hoon Kim NOAA/AWC
James Kinter COLA/GMU
Daniel Kirk-Davidoff AWS Truepower
Daryl Kleist NOAA/NWS/EMC
Walter Kolczynski NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Chandra Kondragunta NOAA/OAR/OWAQ
Shobha Kondragunta NOAA/NESDIS
Bill Kuo DTC
Nicole Kurkowski NOAA/NWS
Jean-Francois Lamarque NCAR
William Large NCAR
Sheema  Lett NOAA/NWS/OSTI
Lin Lin UMD/ESSIC
Shian-Jiann Lin NOAA/OAR/GFDL
Carolyn  Lindley NOAA/NOS/CO-OPS
Brent Lofgren NOAA/GLERL
Sarah Lu SUNY-Albany
Zaizhong Ma NOAA/NWS/EMC
Rahul Mahajan NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Geoffrey Manikin NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Michiko Masutani NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Toshihisa Matsui NASA/GSFC
Craig McLean NOAA/OAR
Jeffery McQueen NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Avichal Mehra NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Andrew Meier AWS Truepower
Jessica  Meixner NOAA/NWS/EMC
Christopher Melhauser NOAA/NCEP/EMC
John Michalakes UCAR
Raffaele Montuoro NOAA/ESRL NESII (CIRES)
Shrinivas Moorthi NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Sherrie Morris NOAA/NWS/OSTI
Edward Myers NOAA/NOS/OCS/CSDL
Louisa Nance NCAR
Jason Otkin Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison 
Melissa Ou NOAA/CPC
Steven Pawson NASA/GMAO
Phillip Pegion NOAA/ESRL
Steve Penny NOAA/NCEP
Matthew Peroutka NOAA/NWS/MDL
Christa Peters-Lidard NASA/GSFC
Maria Pirone Harris Corporation
Corey Potvin NOAA/CIMMS/NSSL
William Putman NASA/GMAO
Venkatachalam Ramaswamy NOAA/OAR/GFDL
Brian Reen Army Research Lab
Todd Ringler Los Alamos National Lab
Eric Rogers NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Glen Romine NCAR
Richard Rood Univ. of Michigan
Randy Schauer Raytheon
Jae-Kyung Schemm NOAA/NCEP/CPC
Timothy Schneider NOAA/NWS/STI
Edwin Schneider George Mason Univ.
Hui Shao NCAR
Danny Sims FAA
Travis Sluka NOAA/NCEP
Steve  Smith NOAA/NWS/MDL
Ivanka Stajner NOAA/NWS
Cristiana Stan George Mason Univ.
Ariel Stein NOAA/ARL
Adam Strachn WeatherTap
Matthew Strahan NOAA/AWC
Bonny Strong NOAA/ESRL
Max Suarez NASA/GMAO
Ruiyu Sun NOAA/NWS/EMC
Vijay Tallapragada NOAA/NCEP/EMC
John Ten Hoeve NOAA/NWS
Fred  Toepfer NOAA/NWS/OSTI
Hendrik Tolman NOAA/NWS/OSTI
Samuel Trahan NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Louis Uccellini NOAA/NWS
Andre van der Westhuysen NOAA/NWS/EMC
Mariana Vertenstein NCAR
Rodney Viereck NOAA/SWPC
Zhuo Wang Univ. of Illinois
Steve Warren NOAA/NWS/NGGPS
Elizabeth Weatherhead Univ. of Colorado
Fuzhong Weng NOAA/CSAR
Steve Weygandt NOAA/ESRL
Jeff Whitaker NOAA/ESRL/PSD
Ming Xue Univ. of Oklahoma/CAPS
Yan  Xue NOAA/NCEP/CPC
Fanglin Yang NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Jim Yor NOAA/NCEP/OD & JCSDA
John Zack AWS Truepower
Chidong Zhang NOAA/PMEL
Aijun Zhang NOAA/NOS/COOPS
Binbin Zhou NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Yuejian Zhu NOAA/NCEP/EMC

Remote Attendees

First Name Last Name Affiliation
Alistair Adcroft NOAA/OAR/GFDL
Karina Apodaca NOAA/ESRL
Bob Atlas NOAA/AOML
Morris Bender NOAA/OAR/GFDL
Lance Bosart SUNY-Albany
Jacob Carley NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Yi Chen NOAA/ERT
Jan-Huey Chen NOAA/OAR/GFDL
Xi Chen NOAA/OAR/GFDL
Bruce Cornuelle UC-San Diego
Lidia Cucurull NOAA/AOML
Chris Davis NCAR
Jimy Dudhia NCAR
Brian Etherton NOAA/ESRL/GSD
Mike Fiorino NOAA/ESRL
Alejandro Flores Boise State Univ.
Bryan Flynt NOAA/ESRL/GSD
Greg  Frost NOAA/ESRL/CSD
Henry Fuelberg Florida State Univ.
Jongil Han NOAA/EMC
Michelle Harrold NCAR
Bohua Huang George Mason Univ. 
Haig Iskenderian MIT/Lincoln Lab
Christiane Jablonowski Univ of Michigan
Yongxiao Jian Hampton Univ.
Hongli Jiang NOAA/ESRL
Gerard Ketefian NOAA/ESRL/GSD
Lakshmi Krishnamurthy Princeton Univ.
Vincent Larson Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Hsin-mu Lin NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Bin Liu NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Frank Marks NOAA/OAR/AOML
Cliff Mass Univ. of Washington
Ed Mifflin NOAA/NWS/STI
Brian Motta NOAA/NWS
Kathryn Newman NCAR
Nathan Paldor Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem 
Zhaoxia Pu Univ. of Utah
Narchimha Rao CRIDA
Duane  Rosenberg NOAA/ESRL/GSD
Jimy Rosinski NOAA/ESRL/GSD
Julie Schramm NOAA/ESRL/GSD
Robert Steenburgh NOAA/SWPC
Aneesh Subramanian Scripps/IO
John Truesdale NCAR
Glenn Van Knowe AWS Truepower
Houjun Wang NOAA/SWPC
Xuguang Wang Univ of Oklahoma
Lou Wicker NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Jamie Wolff NCAR
Zizang Yang NOAA/NOS/OCS
Yonggang  Yu NOAA/ESRL/GSD
Niki Zadeh NOAA/OAR/GFDL
Zoltan Toth NOAA/ESRL/GSD