2023 HFIP Annual Meeting

Nov 14 - 17, 2023 ET

We are excited to announce that the HFIP Annual Meeting 2023 will be a hybrid meeting held from Nov 14-17, 2023 in Miami Florida USA and via online link-up. 

What: 2023 Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP) Annual Meeting

When: November 14 to 17, 2023

Meeting Objectives: The primary objective of this meeting is to discuss key HFIP strategies and present Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS) preliminary operational assessments from the Initial Operating Capability (IOC) release utilized in 2023 and early results & lessons learned from real-time developmental experiment results for future upgrades to HAFS. This information will be used to inform and outline the work required to progress HAFS toward Full Operating Capacity (FOC) anticipated in 2027. These data will foster developing efficient pathways forward to progressing a world-leading, reliable, and skillful model guidance on TC track and intensity (including rapid intensification), storm size, genesis, storm surge, rainfall, and tornadoes associated with TCs and Socio-Economic impacts. Additional objectives will include further development of ideas to be included in the next generation goals for HFIP as part of the upcoming new 5-yr (2025-2030) and 10-yr (2025-2035) strategic plans. These goals will focus on advancing forecast and communication of all hazards from TCs; and incorporate risk communication research to create more effective watch & warning, and probabilistic risk products with a focus on vulnerable communities and industries through the use of social, behavioral, and economic sciences. As well as approaches for further enhancement of the HAFS role as the UFS Hurricane application while fostering even deeper integration of ideas and potential from other aspects of the larger UFS community both inside and outside of the TC realm.

We thank you for your continued support of the HFIP,

HFIP Management Team

Agenda

Title Presenter Presentation
Day 1 - Tues 11/14
9:00 - 9:15am 2023 Annual Meeting Opening Aaron Poyer
9:15 - 11:00am 1A: Leadership Remarks and Updates Chair: Aaron Poyer
9:15 - 9:30am 1A.1: OSTI-Modeling Opening Remarks Kevin Garrett
9:30 - 9:45am 1A.2: NHC Remarks and Updates Mike Brennan / Jamie Rhome
9:45 - 10:00am 1A.3: EMC Remarks and Updates Vijay Tallapragada / Avichal Mehra
10:00 - 10:15am 1A.4: HRD Remarks and Updates Gopal / Frank Marks
10:15 - 11:00am 1A.5: A TC Career Retrospective Frank Marks
11:00 - 11:15am Break
11:15am - 1:00pm 1B: Forecaster Needs and Activities Supporting Operations Chairs: Jamie Rhome / Jessica Schauer
11:15 - 11:30am 1B.1: NHC season summary, analysis, and forecasting challenges Lisa Bucci
11:30 - 11:45am 1B.2: NHC Verification John Cangialosi
11:45am - 12:00pm 1B.3: NHC Technical Round Up Dave Zellinsky
12:00 - 12:15pm 1B.4: Operational storm surge modeling Andrew Penny/Laura Alaka
12:15 - 12:30pm 1B.5: WPC Rainfall/Flooding Jim Nelson
12:30 - 12:45pm 1B.6: Case Studies of HAFS-A Utility at JTWC Levi Cowan
12:45 - 1:00pm 1B.7: Discussion Q&A
1:00 - 2:00pm Lunch (On Site)
2:00 - 2:15pm Group Photo or Transition to Afternoon
2:15 - 4:00pm 2A: Challenging storm working group Chairs: Vijay Tallapragada / Jim Doyle
2:15 - 2:25pm 2A.1: Issues identified by NHC Forecasters Jamie Rhome
2:25 - 2:35pm 2A.2: EMC/HRD Developer identified HAFS challenges Zhan Zhang / Xuejin Zhang
2:35 - 2:45pm 2A.3: Updates from UKMO Julian Hemming
2:45 - 2:55pm 2A.4: Updates from ECMWF Linus Magnusson
2:55 - 3:05pm 2A.5: Updates from NCEP Vijay Tallapragada
3:05 - 3:15pm 2A.6: Update from NRL Jim Doyle
3:15 - 3:25pm 2A.7: Updates from DWD Michael Denhard
3:25 - 3:35pm 2A.8: Challenges in Ensembles Predictions of Genesis Sharan Majumdar
3:35 - 4:00pm 2A.9: Discussion Q&A
4:00 - 4:15pm Break
4:15 - 5:45pm 2B: Impact of Recon Data on TC Forecasts Chairs: Chris Landsea / Lisa Bucci
4:15 - 4:30pm 2B.1: Jason Sippel Jason Sippel
4:30 - 4:45pm 2B.2: Ryan Torn Ryan Torn
4:45 - 5:00pm 2B.3: Xingren Wu EMC (G-IV and Windborne Balloon) Xingren Wu
5:00 - 5:15pm 2B.4: Impact of UxS Data on TC Forecasts & Future CONOP Jason Sippel / Lisa Bucci
5:15 - 5:45pm 2B.5: Discussion/Q&A
5:45pm Adjourn Day 1
Day 2 - Wed 11/15
9:00 - 9:15am Opening Remarks
9:15 - 11:00am 3A: HAFS Implementation 23/24 Chairs: Avichal Mehra / Frank Marks
9:15 - 9:35am 3A.1: HAFS 20233 IOC Performance Zhan / Xuejin
9:35 - 9:45am 3A.2: HReX 1 Bin Liu (EMC)
9:45 - 9:55am 3A.3: HReX 2 Andy Hazelton (AOML)
9:55 - 10:05am 3A.4: HReX 3 Hyun-Sook Kim (AOML) & Lew Gramer
10:05 - 10:15am 3A.5: HReX 4 Joe Olson / Georg Grell GSL
10:15 - 10:25am 3A.6: HReX 5 Tim Marchok (GFDL)
10:25 - 10:40am 3A.7: HAFS Ensemble in the Cloud Raj Panda/Jiayi Peng (EMC)
10:40 - 11:00am 3A.8: Discussion/Q&A – Challenges from 2023 in moving into Operations
11:00 - 11:15am Break
11:15am - 12:15pm 3B: HFIP R2O & O2R Chairs: Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan / Aaron Poyer
11:15 - 11:30am 3B.1: Progress with Dynamics / Multiple Moving Nests Bill Ramstorm & Ghassan Alaka
11:30 - 11:45am 3B.2: Progress in Physics Fanglin Yang & Andrew Hazelton
11:45am - 12:00pm 3B.3: Progress in DA Jing Cheng & Younghui Weng
12:00 - 12:15pm 3B.4: Ocean Coupling and Waves Hyun-Sook Kim & Maria Aristizabal
12:15 - 1:30pm Lunch (on site)
1:30 - 1:45pm Group Photo or Transition to Afternoon
1:45 - 1:55pm Panelist Introductions
1:45 - 3:15pm 4A: Hurricane Observations Panel Chair: Joe Cione / Greg Foltz
1:45 - 1:55pm 4A.1: NHC & EMC Stephanie Stevenson/John Cangialosi
1:55 - 2:05pm 4A.2: AOML Jason Dunion, Heather Holbach or Rob Rogers
2:05 - 2:15pm 4A.3: HRD: showcase new tech, high res obs. Joe Cione
2:15 - 2:25pm 4A.4: NCAR George Bryan
2:25 - 2:35pm 4A.5: Navy Jim Doyle
2:35 - 2:45pm 4A.6: Ocean Greg Foltz (AOML) or Cheyenne Stienbarger (GOMO)
2:45 - 2:55pm 4A.7: Supporting the CHAOS Hurricane Field Campaign with GeoCollaborate Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications
2:55 - 3:15pm 4A.8: Discussion/Q&A
3:15 - 3:30pm Break
3:30 - 4:50pm 4B: DA and Impacts Chair: Jason Sippel / Daryl Kleist
3:30 - 3:45pm 4B.1: Background Avichal, Zhan, Xuejin
3:45 - 3:55pm 4B.2: EMC Global DA Daryl Kleist
3:55 - 4:05pm 4B.3: JCSDA JEDI Daryl Kleist
4:05 - 4:15pm 4B.4: RRFS DA Curtis Alexander
4:15 - 4:25pm 4B.5: HAFS DA (UMD) Jon Poterjoy
4:25 - 4:40pm 4B.6: HAFS DA Xuguang Wang
4:40 - 4:50pm 4B.7: Marine JEDI Hyun-Sook Kim
4:50 - 5:05pm Break
5:05 - 6:00pm 4C: Focused DA Discussion & Lessons Learned Chair: Daryl Kleist
6:00pm Adjourn Day 2
Day 3 - Thurs 11/16
8:30 - 8:45am Opening Remarks
8:45 - 10:30am 5A: Social and Economic Impacts Chairs: Aaron & Gopal
8:45 - 9:15am 5A.1: Hurricane Ian Social Science Studies Laura Myers & Chandra Clark
9:15 - 9:30am 5A.2: NWS/AFS: Integration of Trigangulated Social Science Recommendations Into Local Tropical Cyclone Products & Services Jessica Schauer
9:30 - 9:45am 5A.3: OAR/WPO: Leveraging Social Science to Improve Tropical Cyclone Risk Communication: A Journey Through Past, Present, and Future Social Science Research and Development Castle Willamsberg / Gina Eosco
9:45 - 10:00am 5A.4: OSTI - SBES Valerie Were
10:00 - 10:15am 5A.5: The Social Value of Forecasting Hurricanes Renato Molina (UM/RSMAS)
10:15 - 10:30am 5A.6: Panel Discussion NHC, AFS, OSTI, WPO
10:30 - 10:45am Break
10:45am - 12:30pm 5B: Coastal impacts & Vulnerability Brainstorming Chairs: Cody Fritz / Jamie Rhome
10:45 - 11:00am 5B.1: Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines Craig Setzer
11:00 - 11:10am 5B.2: University Research Dev Niyogi
11:10 - 11:20am 5B.3: NOS: An update on the NOAA National Ocean Service Storm Surge Modeling Team Research, research-to-operation and operational activities Saeed Moghimi
11:20 - 11:30am 5B.4: UFS Coastal Application Team perspective Shachak Pe’eri
11:30 - 11:40am 5B.5: Lee County Emergency Management Sandra Tapfumaneyi
11:40 - 11:50am 5B.6: FEMA Hurricane Liason Team Michael Spagnolo
11:50am - 12:00pm 5B.7: Dynamical Communication of Weather Risk: A User-Centered Design Approach Brian McNoldy
12:00 - 12:30pm 5B.8: Vulnerability Brainstorming NHC (Fritz), AFS (Schauer?), NOS, OWP, Presenters
12:30 - 1:45pm Lunch
1:45pm Transition to Afternoon
1:45 - 2:30pm 6A.1: Supplementals Chairs: Ben Woods / Chris Spells / Renee Richardson
1:45 - 1:50pm 6A.1A: Introduction/Background Session chairs split time
1:50 - 2:00pm 6A.1B: Ben Woods Ben Woods
2:00 - 2:10pm 6A.1C: Renee Richardson Keller Renee Richardson Keller
2:10 - 2:20pm 6A.1D: Chris Spells Chris Spells
2:20 - 2:30pm 6A.1E: Discussion/Q&A
2:30 - 3:45pm 6A.2: JTTI Program and Funded Projects Chair: Chandra Kondragunta
2:30 - 2:50pm 6A.2A: JTTI Programmatic Overview Chandra Kondeagunta
2:50 - 3:00pm 6A.2B: Galina Chirokova Galina Chirokova
3:00 - 3:10pm 6A.2C: Altug Aksoy Altug Aksoy
3:10 - 3:20pm 6A.2D: Zhaoxia Pu Zhaoxia Pu
3:20 - 3:30pm 6A.2E: Ping Zhu Ping Zhu
3:30 - 3:45pm 6A.2F: Discussion/Q&A
3:45 - 3:55pm Break
3:55 - 5:45pm 6B: WPO Testbeds: H.O.T. Chairs: Jordan Dale / Wallace Hogsett
3:55 - 4:10pm 6B.1: WPO Testbeds overview Jordan Dale
4:10 - 4:25pm 6B.2: NHC HOT overview Wallace Hogsetet & Jason Sippel (NHC/HRD)
4:25 - 4:40pm 6B.2A: NOFO 1 Jonathan Vigh
4:40 - 4:55pm 6B.2B: NOFO 2 Mark DeMaria
4:55 - 5:10pm 6B.2C: NOFO 3 Ryan Torn
5:10 - 5:25pm 6B.2D: NOFO 4 Sarah Ditchek
5:25 - 5:40pm 6B.2E Q&A/Discussion
5:45pm Adjourn Day 3
Day 4 - Fri 11/17
8:35 - 8:40am Opening Remarks
8:40 - 10:45am 7A: Developer Support and HPC Chairs: Avichal Mehra / Will Komaromi
8:40 - 9:00am 7A.1: DTC Support transition out Kathryn Newman
9:00 - 9:20am 7A.2: EPIC Support tranition in Maoyi Huang
9:20 - 9:40am 7A.3: Next Generation WSP Benefits and meeting critical needs Pablo Santos & Mark DeMaria
9:40 - 10:00am 7A.4 Physics across scales Mike Ek
10:00 - 10:30am 7A.5: R&D HPC Radhika Subramanian (DDir HPC) and Frank Indiviglio (CTO)
10:30 - 10:45am 7A.6: Discussion/Q&A
10:45 - 10:55am Break
10:55am - 1:30pm 7B: Future and Strategic Planning Chair: Aaron Poyer
11:00am - 11:50pm Discussion 1: Future plans for HPC: CTO Vision and User needs Frank Indivigilio, Radhika Subramanian
11:50am - 12:00pm Break
12:00 - 1:30pm Discussion 2: Strategic Goal Planning: 5-year (Required) and 10-year (Stretch) Strategy Ideas Frank Marks, Gopal
1:30pm Day 4 Adjourn