SIP Coordination Meeting

1:30 pm MST
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)
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Meeting Goals/Approach
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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)
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:
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Significant project milestone accomplishments
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Project milestone issues
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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§or=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)
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Role, Priorities and Communication
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Operating plan for UFS Steering Committee and Working Groups
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Relationship between the Steering Committee and Working Groups
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Scheduling of Communications
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm Review/Way Ahead (Brian Gross/Fred Toepfer/Ivanka Stajner)
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Path to SIP V2
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Team Coordination Dynamics
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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