NOAA Climate Test Bed Meeting NCWCP, College Park, MD, November 9-10, 2015

Advancing climate science & services at NOAA’s Climate Program Office (Higgins) NOAA CTB overview (Huang) MAPP Program (Mariotti) NGGPS Program (Toepfer) NCEP/EMC operations, gaps and requirements (Tolman) NCEP/CPC operations, gaps and requirements (DeWitt) NWS regional and local service needs (Horsfall) Highlight of CTB recent R2O/O2R accomplishments: NMME (Kirtman) Cloud and boundary layer Climate Process Team (CPT) (Bretherton) A CPT for improving turbulence and cloud processes in NCEP global models (Krueger) Cloud microphysics and their interactions with aerosols (Lu) Improving CFS representation of soil-hydrology-vegetation (Chen) Advances in lake-effect process prediction within CFS for N. America (Jin)Assessment of CFS predictions of U.S. severe weather activity (Tippett) Subseasonal NMME forecasts: skill, predictability, and MME combinations (Delsole) Development of new forecast products for weeks 3 and 4 (Jonnson)

Participant List
The CTB Meeting is organized by CTB Management Team (CTB, MAPP, NCEP, NWS/OSTI). The purpose of the CTB Meeting is: To present CTB ongoing activities and discuss the R2O/O2R process, To discuss potential future CTB directions based on NWS operational requirements and science advances/opportunities to help inform the updated CTB 5-10 year Science Plan and Implementation Strategy, in preparation.
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Day 1 (Nov. 9)
Session 1	Overviews (Chair: Huang)
08:30	Welcome and logistics (Huang)
08:40	NOAA focus on advancing the R2O process: implications for the Climate Test Bed (Uccellini (Uccellini and and McLean)
09:20	Advancing climate science & services at NOAA’s Climate Program Office (Higgins)
09:40	NOAA CTB overview (Huang)
10:00	MAPP Program (Mariotti)
10:20	NGGPS Program (Toepfer)
10:40	Break
Session 1	Overviews - Cont. (Chair: Mariotti)
11:00	NCEP/EMC operations, gaps and requirements (Tolman)
11:20	NCEP/CPC operations, gaps and requirements (DeWitt)
11:40	NWS regional and local service needs (Horsfall)
12:00	Highlight of CTB recent R2O/O2R accomplishments: NMME (Kirtman)
12:20	Lunch
Session 2a	Ongoing CTB project reports – Modeling (Chairs: Tolman and Ek)
13:20	Cloud and boundary layer Climate Process Team (CPT) (Bretherton)
13:40	A CPT for improving turbulence and cloud processes in NCEP global models (Krueger)
14:00	Cloud microphysics and their interactions with aerosols (Lu)
14:20	Improving CFS representation of soil-hydrology-vegetation (Chen)
14:40	Advances in lake-effect process prediction within CFS for N. America (Jin)
15:00	Discussion on progress, issues and overall projects’ contribution to CFSv3 and NGGPS model development
15:30	Break
Session 2b	Ongoing MAPP–CTB project reports – Prediction (Chair: DeWitt)
15:50	Assessment of CFS predictions of U.S. severe weather activity (Tippett)
16:10	Probabilistic forecast products for the NMME seasonal forecast system (Barnston and and van den Dool)
16:30	Subseasonal NMME forecasts: skill, predictability, and MME combinations (Delsole)
16:50	Development of new forecast products for weeks 3 and 4 (Jonnson)
17:10	Discussion on progress, issues and overall projects’ contribution to NWS prediction suite
17:40	Adjourn
18:30	Informal dinner gathering

To Day 2

Past Events  1.  North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) Sub-seasonal Forecast System Exploratory Workshop, 30-31 March 2015   2.  CTB Science Advisory Board (SAB) Meeting, Nov.16, 2012   3.  CFSv2 Evaluation Workshop on April 30 - May 1, 2012   4.  CTB PIs Meeting , 6 October, 2011   5.  Agenda and presentations of the CFSv3 Planning Meeting, August 25-26, 2011   6.  CTB National Multi-Model Ensemble Technical Meeting, April 8, 2011   7.  2011 CTB National Multi-Model Ensemble Planning Meeting, Feb. 18, 2011   8.  CTB Interim Climate Science Team Meeting   9.  Science Advisory Board Meetings 10.  CPO-NWS Dialogue Meeting

 

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