2nd PECAN Planning Meeting Presentations, March 2-3, 2015
PECAN Planning Meeting
Location: FL2 1022, NCAR Foothills Lab, on Mitchell Lane in Boulder, CO.
NOTE: The presentations are password protected for PECAN Investigators only. For access, please contact the Principal Investigators listed in the PECAN Contacts Section below.
Monday, 2 March | |
07:30 - 08:00 | Registration begins |
08:00 - 08:30 | Light refreshments, coffee for purchase from FL2 cafeteria |
08:30 - 08:35 | Welcome by Dr. Vanda Grubišić, EOL Director |
08:35 - 09:15 | Meeting agenda, introduction of issues to be discussed (Salazar, Geerts) |
08:45 - 11:45 | Parallel session on Aircraft Coordination (Moore). Facility managers and pilots. |
09:15 - 09:30 | Real Time Data Assimilation and Ensemble Forecast Plan in support of PECAN (X. Wang) |
09:30 - 10:00 | Thermodynamic Profile Uncertainty Characterization (Turner) |
10:00 - 10:15 | PECAN’s Integrated Sounding Array (PISA) Stations (Turner) |
10:15 - 10:30 | Break |
10:30 - 11:00 | Radiosonde Sounding Systems (Lim, Young) |
11:00 - 11:15 | Other sounding issues (launch frequency at FP sites, at MP and MS sites) (Turner) Plans for the mobile sounding units (MGAUS)( Schumacher) |
11:15 - 11:45 | Mobile radar site characterization (Ziegler) |
11:45 - 12:00 | PECAN Aircraft Coordination Update (Plans and Challenges) (Moore) |
12:00 - 01:00 | Lunch |
01:00 - 01:30 | PECAN Forecasting and Nowcasting Plans |
01:30 - 02:00 | PECAN Field Catalog Support (Stossmeister) |
02:00 - 02:15 | S-Pol Scanning Strategy and Fixed Radar Mosaics (Weckwerth) |
02:15 - 02:25 | PECAN NOAA P-3 Aircraft Component (Jorgensen, McFarquhar) |
02:25 - 02:35 | NASA DC-8 for PECAN (Ferrare, Nehrir) |
02:35 - 02:45 | Lidar Measurements from King Air during PECAN (Wang, Geerts) |
02:45 - 03:00 | Lidars and eye safety issues (French) |
03:00 - 03:15 | Break |
03:15 - 03:30 | PECAN Logistics Operations Center Responsibilities and Staffing (Salazar, Geerts) |
03:30 - 03:45 | Communication to Ops Center (Salazar) GOES-14 Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) (Roberts) |
03:45 - 04:15 | Timeline for all platforms (Weckwerth) DeLorme Specs (Stossmeister) |
04:15 - 04:45 | Mission Selection Process (Rauber) |
05:00 - 05:30 | PECAN Data Policy Considerations (Williams, Loehrer) |
05:30 | Adjourn |
Tuesday, 3 March | |
07:30 - 08:00 | Light refreshments, coffee for purchase from FL2 cafeteria |
08:00 - 09:30 | Breakout sessions (Each group should appoint a note-taker to assist the facilitator in preparing a list of action items and a report to the plenary group) |
Group 1 | Aircraft operations (lead: French, Geerts, Jorgensen). Issues: timeline for flight proposals, procedures for delay; UWKA pre-deployment; flight plans; what-if scenarios; communication between aircraft before and during flights. Location: FL1 2198 |
Group 2 | Coordination of the mobile radars, soundings, mesonet (lead: Parker, Wurman, Ziegler). Issues: communication amongst mobile units; site selection; scanning strategies, pre-deployment procedures; what-if scenarios. Location: FL2 1001 |
Group 3 | Thermodynamic profiling (M-PISA and F-PISA) (lead: Turner). Issues: calibration, retrieval consistency, uncertainty characterization, and intercomparisons. Location: FL2 1003 |
Group 4 | Forecasting and nowcasting (lead: Gallus). Issues: display tools, bore forecasting evaluation, staffing. Location: FL1 2198 |
Group 5 | Data assimilation and other numerical experiments (lead: X. Wang). Issues: input data requirements (uncertainties), radiosonde launch frequency, FP operations, EOL data archive requirements, etc. Location: FL0 2512 |
Group 6 | Logistics, ops center operations, media coverage, etc. (lead: Salazar). Location: FL3 2072 |
09:30 - 10:20 | Reports from the breakout group facilitators (~10 min each) |
10:20 - 10:30 | Break |
10:30 - 11:00 | Staffing, vacancies, opportunities (Kosiba, Weckwerth) |
11:00 - 11:15 | Operating safely in severe weather at night (Wurman) |
11:15 - 11:30 | Housing at Fort Hays University (Wurman) |
11:30 - 11:45 | All-Hands meeting and Media Day in Hays (Kosiba) |
11:45 - 12:00 | Education and Outreach Activities, NWS participation (Rauber, Kosiba) |
12:00 - 12:15 | PECAN Action Items: things to do between now and 1 June (Geerts) |
12:15 | Adjourn |
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