SIP Coordination 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 accomplishments, and address issues and dependencies requiring resolution.   SIP working group co-leads will receive information and direction needed to return to their working groups and coordinate updates to their respective SIP Annexes for the annual update of the SIP.

Day 1

9:00 am Welcome/General NGGPS/SIP Overview and Status (Ming Ji/Fred Toepfer)

• Meeting Goals/Approach

• FY2018 Spend Plan Priorities

9:20 am Charge to Group (Brian Gross/Fred Toepfer/Ivanka Stajner)

9:40 am UFS Governance Briefing (Fred Toepfer/Hendrik Tolman)

10:00 am Break

10:15 am 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)

11:15 am EMC Implementation Plan (and Alignment with SIP) (Brian Gross)   

12:00 pm Lunch

12:15 pm           Lunchtime Presentation on CAPS effort (FV3 at CAM resolutions) (Ming Xue)

1:00 pm              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

1:15 pm NGGPS Global Model Suites Planned for NCEP/EMC Operations  (Vijay Tallapragada)

1:30 pm System Architecture (Cecelia DeLuca)

1:45 pm Infrastructure (Rusty Benson)

2:00 pm Dynamics and Nesting (Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan)

2:15 pm Model Physics (Jack Kain)

2:30 pm Data Assimilation (Tom Auligne)

2:45 pm Mesoscale/Convection Allowing Models (CAM) (Curtis Alexander)

3:00 pm Break

3:15 pm Marine Models (Avichal Mehra/Pat Burke)

3:30 pm Aerosols and Atmospheric Composition (Ivanka Stajner)

3:45 pm Ensembles (Tom Hamill)

4:00 pm Post-Processing (Jeff Craven)

4:15 pm Verification/Validation (Tara Jensen)

4:30 pm Land Surface Models (LSM) and Hydrology (Christa Peters-Lidard)

4:45 pm First Day Wrap-Up

5:00 pm Adjourn

DAY 2

8:30 am Networking/Beverages

9:00 am Data Assimilation Planning for the Unified Forecast System (Panel)

10:25 am Break

10:40 am CAM Discussion (Panel)

Website presented during Adam Clark’s discussion: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/href/index.php?model=href&product=cref_members&sector=ne&rd=20180201&rt=1200

12:00 pm Lunch

12:45 pm Verification, Validation and Test Plan for the Unified Forecast System (Panel)

2:15 pm 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

3:00 pm Break

3:15 pm Review/Way Ahead (Brian Gross/Fred Toepfer/Ivanka Stajner)

• Path to SIP V2

• Team Coordination Dynamics

• Next Meeting Schedule

4:15 pm Adjourn

Liz Hoswell
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Research Applications Lab
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO  80307-3000
(303) 497-1535 - phone
(303) 497-8401 - fax