Atmospheric River Reconnaissance Workshop
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| Tuesday, 27 June 2023 | Speaker(s) | |
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| 08:30 – 09:30 | Opening | |
| 08:30 – 09:15 | Arrival and registration | |
| 09:15 – 09:30 |
Opening remarks
Video recording |
Florian Pappenberger (ECMWF)
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| 09:30 – 14:00 |
Session 1: AR Recon in Water Year 2023 - Part I
Moderator: David Lavers (ECMWF) |
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| 09:30 – 10:00 |
AR Recon Motivation and Achievements
Presentation slides Video recording |
Marty Ralph (CW3E)
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| 10:00 – 10:20 |
US Air Force Reserve Command Perspective on AR Recon: Past, Present, and Future
Presentation slides Video recording |
Ryan Rickert (53 WRS Hurricane Hunters)
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| 10:20 – 10:40 |
AR Recon 2023 Airborne Radio Occultation (ARO) Observations in Zonal ARs and Cutoff Lows
Presentation slides Video recording |
Jennifer Haase (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD)
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| 10:40 – 11:10 | Group photo and coffee break | |
| 11:10 – 11:25 |
Mesoscale Analysis of Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers in California during December 2022 and January 2023
Presentation slides Video recording |
Brian Kawzenuk (Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes)
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| 11:25 – 11:45 |
Impacts of Long-Duration Weather Balloon Observations on North American Forecasts
Presentation slides Video recording |
Todd Hutchinson (WindBorne Systems)
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| 11:45 – 12:00 |
Overview of US West Coast Observations: Radiosondes and Ground-Based Hydrometeorological Networks
Presentation slides Video recording |
Anna Wilson (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD)
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| 12:00 – 12:30 |
Discussion
Video recording |
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| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 |
Session 2: AR Recon in Water Year 2023 - Part II
Moderator: Anna Wilson (Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes) |
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| 14:00 – 14:15 |
NOAA G-IV Status Review
Presentation slides Video recording |
Richard Henning (NOAA Aircraft Operations Center)
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| 14:15 – 14:30 |
Diagnosing Forecast Sensitivity of Atmospheric Rivers Using an Adjoint
Presentation slides Video recording |
James Doyle (Naval Research Laboratory)
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| 14:30 – 15:00 |
Application of Ensemble Sensitivity during the 2022/2023 AR-Recon Season
Presentation slides Video recording |
Ryan Torn (University at Albany, SUNY)
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| 15:00 – 15:30 |
Importance of AR Recon Observations to Water Management
Presentation slides Video recording |
Cary Talbot (US Army Corps of Engineers)
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| 15:30 – 16:00 |
Discussion
Video recording |
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| 16:00 – 16:30 | Break | |
| 16:30 – 18:30 |
Session 3: Poster session
Location: Weather Room
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| 16:30 – 18:30 | Reception and poster session | |
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| Wednesday, 28 June 2023 | Speaker(s) | |
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| 09:15 – 09:30 |
Welcome
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| 09:20 – 09:30 | Welcome to day 2 |
Marty Ralph (CW3E)
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| 09:30 – 14:00 |
Session 4: Modeling, DA and Impact Studies - Part I
Moderator: Jon Rutz (Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes) |
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| 09:30 – 10:00 |
NOAA Aircraft AR support: now and future
Presentation slides Video recording |
Nancy Hann (NOAA)
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| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Unifying Targeted Aircraft Reconnaissance Observations for Improving Atmospheric River and Winter Storm Forecasts
Presentation slides Video recording |
Vijay Tallapragada (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC)
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| 10:30 – 10:50 |
Impact of Dropsonde Data on NCEP Operational GFS Forecasts from 2022-2023 Atmospheric River Reconnaissance
Presentation slides Video recording |
Xingren Wu (Axiom at EMC/NCEP/NOAA)
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| 10:50 – 11:05 | Coffee break | |
| 11:05 – 11:25 |
Atmospheric River Analysis and Forecast System (AR-AFS): Atmospheric River Reconnaissance 2023 Dropsonde Data Impact Study
Presentation slides Video recording |
Keqin Wu (Lynker at ECM/NCEP/NOAA)
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| 11:25 – 11:45 |
Sub-Seasonal Prediction skill of GEFSv12 for Atmospheric Rivers and Associated Precipitation Forecasts over the U.S. West Coast
Presentation slides Video recording |
Murali Nageswara Rao Malasala (NOAA)
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| 11:45 – 12:15 |
Improving Sampling Strategies for Atmospheric River Reconnaissance
Presentation slides Video recording |
Luca Delle Monache (CW3E/SIO/UCSD)
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| 12:15 – 12:30 |
A Review of AR RECON Modeling, DA and Impact Studies at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory
Presentation slides Video recording |
Carolyn Reynolds (Naval Research Laboratory)
James Doyle (Naval Research Laboratory)
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| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 – 17:00 |
Session 5: Modeling, DA and Impact Studies - Part II
Moderator: Xingren Wu (NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Prediction/Environmental Modeling Center) |
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| 13:30 – 14:00 | The Utility of a Two-dimensional Forward Model for Bending Angle Observations in Regions with Strong Horizontal Gradients |
Michael Murphy (GMAO, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
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| 14:00 – 14:20 |
Observing System Experiments for the 2023 AR Recon Season
Presentation slides Video recording |
David Lavers (ECMWF)
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| 14:20 – 14:30 |
Special presentation
Video recording |
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| 14:30 – 15:00 |
ARO at ECMWF: current activities and future plans
Presentation slides Video recording |
Sean Healy (ECMWF)
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| 15:00 – 15:45 | ECMWF 48r1 celebration | |
| 15:45 – 16:30 |
The World Weather Research Programme: Activities and Plans Relevant to AR Recon
Presentation slides Video recording |
Chris Davis (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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| 16:30 – 17:00 |
Ocean surface and subsurface measurements for AR Recon and subseasonal AR predictability
Presentation slides Video recording |
Timothy Higgins (University of Colorado Boulder)
Aneesh Subramanian (University of Colorado Boulder)
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| 19:00 – 22:00 | Workshop dinner | |
| 19:00 – 22:00 | Bel and the Dragon, Reading town centre | |
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| Thursday, 29 June 2023 | Speaker(s) | |
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| 10:00 – 10:05 | Welcome | |
| 10:00 – 10:05 | Welcome to day 3 |
Vijay Tallapragada (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC)
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| 10:05 – 14:00 |
Session 6: Scientific Advances in Physical Process Understanding
Moderator: Sam Bartlett (Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes) |
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| 10:05 – 10:35 |
Precipitation efficiencies in a climatology of extratropical cyclones
Presentation slides Video recording |
Helen Dacre (University of Reading)
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| 10:35 – 11:05 |
The effects of diabatic heating in WCBs on jet stream perturbations and predictability
Presentation slides Video recording |
John Methven (University of Reading)
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| 11:05 – 11:35 |
The North Atlantic Waveguide, Dry Intrusion, and Downstream Impact Campaign (NAWDIC)
Presentation slides Video recording |
Christian Grams (IMK-TRO, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
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| 11:35 – 12:00 |
Aircraft dropsonde observation of atmospheric rivers associated with tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific
Presentation slides Video recording |
Kazuhisa Tsuboki (Nagoya University)
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| 12:00 – 12:30 | Discussion | |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 |
Session 7: The Future of AR Recon
Moderator: David Lavers (ECMWF) |
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| 14:00 – 15:45 |
Panel discussion on new directions and closing remarks
Video recording |
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| NAWDIC Workshop 2023, 30 June 2023 | Speaker(s) | |
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| 09:00 – 15:45 |
NAWDIC Workshop 2023
Moderator: David Lavers (ECMWF)
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| 09:00 – 09:20 |
NAWDIC-HALO and NAWDIC-KITcube: Seamless observation strategy from synoptic- to micro-scale
Presentation slides Video recording |
Christian Grams (IMK-TRO, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
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| 09:20 – 09:40 |
AR Recon and potential collaborations with NAWDIC
Presentation slides Video recording |
Marty Ralph (CW3E)
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| 09:40 – 10:00 |
CAPRI - The UK contribution to NAWDIC
Presentation slides Video recording |
John Methven (University of Reading)
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| 10:00 – 10:10 |
French contribution to ground-and airborne measurements of the lower troposphere during NAWDIC
Presentation slides Video recording |
Julian Quinting (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
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| 10:10 – 10:30 |
U.S. plans for contributions to NAWDIC
Presentation slides Video recording |
Steven Cavallo (University of Oklahoma)
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| 10:30 – 10:50 |
Hydrological Perspective
Presentation slides Video recording |
Andrew Wade (University of Reading)
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| 10:50 – 11:20 | Coffee break | |
| 11:20 – 12:30 |
Breakout Groups (Assigned)
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| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00 – 15:20 | Case Study | |
| 15:20 – 15:45 |
Breakout Groups Report Out and Closing Discussion
Christian Grams (IMK-TRO, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) |
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