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NOAA Operational Satellite SVW winds requirements workshop">HEADER1

Agenda (June 1, 2006)

June 5-7, 2006

Steering committee:

Rick Knabb, Joe Sienkiewicz, Mike Freilich, Dudley Chelton, Bob Atlas, Mark DeMaria

Monday June 5, 2006

  • Workshop Objectives/Overview
  • Current Status of satellite SVW missions and data utilization (research and ops)
  • Current Missions (Brief overview of mission status)
Paul Chang 8:30
Rob Gaston/Ernesto Rodriguez 9:00
Peter Gaiser 9:20
  • Use in research (highlights/overview summary)
    • A brief overviews of how satellite SVW data has been utilized in the research community and what advances has SVW helped achieve.
Mike Freilich/Dudley Chelton 09:40
Dudley Chelton/Ralph Millif 10:00
Break (15 minutes) 10:20
Mark DeMaria 10:35
  • Discussion
10:55
  • Use and experience in operational weather forecasting and warning
    • Brief overviews of how satellite SVW are utilized in the utilized in the operational weather community and what advances has SVW made possible
  • TPC
    • include TPC tour/demonstration of SVW utilization ~45mins
Mike Brennan/Rick Knabb 11:15
  • Lunch
12:30
Joe Sienkiewicz 13:30
Pete Stamus and Ralph Millif 14:00
Capt Caroline Bower 14:30
Roger Edson 15:00
  • Break (15 minutes)
15:30
Aimee Fish 15:45
Melinda Hinojosa 16:15
John Lovegrove 16:45
  • NWP models
    • (to be covered the following day)
Mark Freeberg (OCENS) 17:15
  • Discussion
17:45

Tuesday June 6, 2006

  • Looking ahead
08:30
  • Operational weather forecasting requirements
    • Based on experience with 6 years of
    • QuikSCAT SVW winds what are actual operational requirements and why
Rick Knabb 09:00
Joe Sienkiewicz 09:30
Pete Stamus and Ralph Millif 10:00
  • Break (15 minutes)
10:30
Capt Caroline Bower 10:45
Roger Edson 11:15
  • Lunch
11:45
Aimee Fish 13:00
Steve Lord via VTC 13:30
Melinda Hinojosa 14:00
John Lovegrove 14:30
  • Break (15 minutes)
15:00
  • Discussion
15:15
  • Review requirements and define gaps (measurement and sensor)
    • Working session to distill the discussions/presentations from the past 2 days
15:45

Wednesday June 7, 2006

  • Review requirements and gaps (measurement and sensor)
  • Next SVW mission requirements and overall sensor options review
    • (based on Monday and Tuesday)
08:30
  • Advanced SVW experimental techniques/results
Daniel Esteban-Fernandez 08:40
Simon Yueh 09:00
Ernesto Rodriguez 09:20
  • Technology options to address new requirements
    • - Panel discussion/presentations led by David Long
    • Panel – L. Jones, D. Long, R. Gaston, E. Rodriguez, D. Fernandez, S. Yueh, J. Carswell, P. Gaiser
    • Identify key technology challenges/issues:
      • finer spatial resolution
      • model function issues
      • frequency and polarization selection
      • active and passive
      • retrievals in all-weather including rain
      • others...
09:40
  • New SVW requirements and sensor/mission concept discussion
  • Next steps
Kevin Schrab 10:30
  • Discussion
11:30
  • Workshop Summary
Paul Chang 12:00
  • Workshop report action items/tasks/schedule

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