2011 HFIP Annual Review Meeting & HFIP Regional GSI-Hybrid Data Assimilation Workshop

Nov 8, 2011, 2:00am - Nov 10, 2011, 1:59am ET

Homewood Suites by Hilton® Miami-Airport/Blue Lagoon
5500 Blue Lagoon Drive Waterford Office, Miami, Florida 33126

Purpose

HFIP Annual Review Meeting

Each year, the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program has a review meeting. The emphasis this year will include reports from each of the HFIP teams and a session to discuss the HFIP real-time system—results from this summer and plans for next. The real-time system next summer is planned as a major demonstration of what can be accomplished in hurricane forecast guidance given sufficient computer resources and so needs to be carefully planned. Computing resources next summer may be approximately twice that available this summer.

HFIP Regional GSI-Hybrid Data Assimilation Workshop

The HFIP Regional GSI-Hybrid Data Assimilation Workshop is part of the effort of the DTC to build a unified GSI-hybrid community system and helping accelerate transitions from research to operations on such a system. Specifically, the purposes of this workshop (tentatively) include:

  • Collect information and assess ongoing hybrid related research
  • Facilitate discussion on building a GSI-hybrid framework
  • Work with HFIP management to focus HFIP research community on a single regional hybrid system for hurricane forecast operations.

The workshop will host invited speakers. We are open to proposals for lectures and talks. More information will be sent out later.

Agenda

Title Presenter Presentation
2:00 - 1:59am Day 1, Tuesday November 8, 2011
10:30am Welcome, State of the Program, Administrative changes Toepfer  
10:45am Overview of HFIP FY10 activities and results Gall  
11:00am Preliminary FY11 verification Franklin  
11:20am Stream 1 Lead: Gall
11:20am HWRF in FY11 Tallapragada  
11:35am Prioritized Stream 1.0 needs for FY12 Tallapragada & Pasch  
11:50am Discussion  
1:00pm HFIP Development—Team Reports Lead: Marks
1:00pm Team Reports (20 min each) •Global Model/Physics (Benjamin, Brown)
• Regional model/physics (Bender, Kwon)
• Ensemble Systems (Toth, Reynolds)
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3:00pm Continue Team Reports (20 min each) • Data Assimilation/Vortex Initialization (Whitaker, LaPenta)
• Verification (Marchok, Brown)
• Applications/Diagnostics (DeMaria, Rappaport)
• Hurricane Observations (Aberson, Knaff)
• Coupled Ocean/wave models (Tolman, Halliwell)
• Socio-Economics (Sprague, Read)
• Summary of AO awards (Melendez)
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6:00pm Community Diagnostics Effort
6:00pm Discussion DeMaria & Talapragada
2:00 - 1:59am Day 2, Wednesday November 9, 2011
10:00am Visitor program Reports Lead: Gall
10:00am NHC visitor program Landsea  
10:15am HRD aircraft visitor program Aberson  
10:30am Ensemble reports Lead: Gall
10:30am GFS/FIM Ensemble results Whittaker & Benjamin  
10:50am GFDL ensemble results Marchok  
11:45am Stream 1.5 Lead: Rappaport
11:45am Reflections on FY11 from a TCMT perspective Nance & Kucera  
12:00pm Reflections on FY11 from a NHC perspective Rappaport, Franklin & Pasch  
12:15pm Initial community expressions of interest/justification for FY12 Stream 1.5 candidacy (10min presentations/discussion each by respondents to prior open invitation) Lead: Pasch
(a) PSU AHW
(b) HRD HWRF
(c) U. Wisconsin
(d) TC-COAMPS
(e) FSU multi-model ensemble
(f) MMM-AHW
(g) GFDL ensemble
(h) High Resolution GFS ensemble
(i) High resolution FIM Ensemble
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2:30pm Group discussion of community presentations; resource requirements for FY12; related issues Co-Leads: Pasch & Nance
4:00pm HFIP 2010 Experimental Forecast system Lead: Toepher
4:00pm Proposal for FY 2012 Experimental forecast System Gall
4:15pm Examples of Products from FY2011 season
4:30pm Group Discussion—Identify priorities for FY2012 Experimental Forecast system Possible presentations for alternative proposals
4:30pm Day 2 Wrap-up and next steps Gall
2:00 - 1:59am HFIP Regional GSI-Hybrid Data Assimilation Workshop - Agenda
2:00 - 1:59am Day 3, Thursday November 10, 2011
10:00am MORNING SESSION 1 – Overarching/Introductory Comments/Operational requirement and capability Chair: Hans Huang
10:00am Welcome and background from HFIP Fred Toepfer & Bob Gall  
10:20am DTC: A unified framework and/or questions to discuss Hui Shao  
10:40am NHC: hurricane forecast requirement Chris Landsea  
11:00am NCEP/EMC: operations requirement, ongoing efforts and plan Vijay Tallapragada & Mingjing Tong  
11:25am NOAA: Global GSI-hybrid system implementation with EnKF and how it could be extended to regional Jeff Whitaker  
12:00pm MORNING SESSION 2 – Ongoing efforts, requirements and plans for transitions from current real-time ensemble/DA to a unified operational hybrid system Chair: Jeff Whitaker
12:00pm NOAA/AOML Tomi Vukicevic  
12:15pm NOAA/ESRL/GSD Zoltan Toth  
12:30pm NAVY/NRL Alex Reinecke  
12:45pm PSU Fuqing Zhang  
1:00pm Suny Albany Ryan Torn  
1:15pm University of Oklahoma Xuguang Wang  
1:30pm NCAR/MMM Arthur P. Mizzi  
2:30pm AFTERNOON SESSION 2 – Discussion Chair: Brian Etherton, Vijay Tallapragada)
2:30pm Targeted discussion Summary of the presentations (Brian) and requirements (Vijay)

• How would our collaboration be?
o What is the current system? How to work based on it? How many
contributors are we expecting? What are the EMC requirements?
Community requirements?
• How can we manage the collaboration and monitor the progress?
• Who will make decisions? A committee? What procedure to follow?
• What development work needs to be done in the short term to make
the GSI-hybrid system a viable alternative for those folks to run next
year.
o GSI system – EMC baseline, how to let others build on it?
o Ensemble system – EMC baseline, how to let others build on it?
o Hybrid system- What are the common parts to be generalized?
How to do it? By whom? How to incorporate community
contributions (especially those using different packages)
o How to test the system and incorporate contributions from
community
• Testing metrics
• Distributed testing or centered
o Milestones/deliverables – goals realistic? Computational resources?
Timeline? POCs?
• How will the development of the GSI-hybrid system interact with
development of the existing system(s), e.g., GSI.
4:15pm Summary and steps towards formalizing the plan A list of requirements, and a development and testing plan (timeline,
POCs, etc)