7th NCEP Ensemble Users Workshop | Agenda

National Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP) at College Park, Maryland

- | WCP, 5830 University Research Ct. College Park, MD 20740

AGENDA (pdf)

Day 1 

08:00    Arrival and Registration

08:30    Bill Lapenta/Hendrik Tolman- Welcoming Remarks  

08:35    Yuejian Zhu & Walter Kolczynski- Introduction/Logistics                                                                                        

Session 1 - Current State of Global Ensembles                                                             

08:40    Hendrik Tolman            UMAC Recommendations and NGGPS Plan       

09:00    Roberto Buizza              Current State of ECMWF Ensemble                                     

09:30    Dingchen Hou               Current State of NCEP Global Ensemble              

10:00    BREAK

Session 2 - Current State of Regional Ensembles // Ensemble Training                                                                                      

Chair: Mark Klein

10:20    Jun Du- Current State of NCEP Regional Ensembles                                    

10:50    Zhan Zhang-  HWRF Ensemble                                     

11:10    Henrique Alves- Wave Ensemble Review EMC

11:30    Bill Bua- Training on EPS: Keeping abreast of new applications                         

11:45    Jordan Alpert- NCEP Data Distribution                                 

12:00    LUNCH / POSTER SESSION

Session 3 - Current Use and Requirements of Ensembles by Regions                                                                                      

Chair: Israel Jirak

13:30    Dave Novak- Efforts to Expand Probabilistic Hazard Information                                 

14:00    Jack Settelmaier- Using GIS to Display, Assess, and Convey Ensemble Model Output 

14:15    Richard Grumm-  Ensemble use and requirements at Eastern Region                            

14:30    Jeff Craven- Ensemble use and requirements at Central Region                             

14:45    Andy Edman- Ensemble use and requirements at Western Region                         

15:00    BREAK

Session 4 - Current Use and Requirements of Ensembles by NCEP Service Centers                                      

Chair: John Wagner

15:15 Dan Collins- Ensemble use and requirements at CPC for S2S climate forecasting: Predictability and uncertainty

15:30 Yu Zhang- Ensemble Postprocessing at the National Water Center

15:45 Joseph Sienkiewicz- Ensemble use and requirements at OPC

16:00 Mark Klein Ensemble use and requirements at WPC

16:15 Eric Blake Ensemble use and requirements at NHC

16:30 Matt Kucas Applications of Ensemble Forecast Data at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center

16:45 Israel Jirak Ensemble use and requirements at SPC

17:00 Jung-Hoon Kim Ensemble-based Global Aviation Turbulence Forecasting Techniques and Verifications

17:15 ADJOURN FOR DAY

Day 2 

Session 5 - Future Ensemble Plans at NCEP                                                                                           

Chair: Jon Gottschalck

08:30    Dave DeWitt- Community Requirements for Sub-Seasonal Forecasts                     

09:00    Suranjana Saha- Coupled DA and modeling at NCEP & Development of the EMC Unified Global Coupled System (UGCS

09:15    Yuejian Zhu- NCEP Plans for Week 3-4 Forecasts                                      

09:30    Wei Li-GEFS Experiments to 35 days     

09:45    Jun Du/Geoff DiMego- HREF Plan                                                                                                                        

10:00    Zoltan Toth- Initial Perturbations: Problem Solved?

10:15   BREAK

10:30    Session 6 - Open Discussion on User Requirements and NCEP Plans

Chairs: Yuejian Zhu & Walter Kolczynski

12:00    LUNCH

Session 7 - Ensemble Development I                                                                                                   

Chair: Dingchen Hou

13:00    Glen Romine- Review of Storm-Scale Ensemble Research                                      

13:25    Nigel Roberts- Science and Strategy for Probabilistic Forecasting from a Convection-Permitting Ensemble                                     

13:50    Isidora Jankov- A Performance Comparison Between Multi-Physics and Stochastic Approac13hes Within a North American RAP Ensemble

14:05    Curtis Alexander- Development of HighResolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Ensemble Data Assimilation, Forecasts and Post Processing

14:20    Ping Li- Predictability of persistent maxima of 500-hPa geopetential height in the GEFS Reforecast

​​14:35    Phillip Pegion- Stochastic Parameterization Development in the Global Forecast System                         

14:50    BREAK

Session 8 - Ensemble Development II // Post-processing & Verification                                                                               

Chair: Isidora Jankov

15:10    Shan Sun- Subseasonal Forecasting with CFSv2 and FIM-HYCOM Ensemble      

15:25    Ben Green- Extending MJO Predictability Using a Multi-Model Ensemble              

15:40    Tom Hamill- Post-Processing Workshop Summary                                      

15:55    John Wagner- The National Blend of Models MDL

16:10    Yuejia Zhu- Multi-model Ensemble Forecast Using Recursive Bayesian Model Process EMC

16:25    Hui-ya Chuang- nceppost Unification                                   

16:40    Brian Colle- Validation of Extra-tropical and Tropical Cyclones in the Global Ensembles Along the U.S. East Coast and Western Atlantic

16:55    Minghua Zheng- Scenario-Based Forecast Verification of U.S. East Coast Winter Storms in Multi-model Ensembles

17:10    ADJOURN FOR DAY

 

Day 3 

Session 9 - Ensemble Applications I                                                                                                   

Chair: Yu Zhang

08:30    John Schaake- Hydrological Applicaions

08:45    James Porter- Ensemble Forecasts and Decision Making for the NYC Water Supply and Downstream Stakeholder

09:00    Tijana Jovanovic- Hydrologic ensemble forecasting across the U.S. middle Atlantic region Penn Stat

09:15    Justin Schulte- The Stevens Flood Advisory System. Super-ensemble flood forecasts for the New York / New Jersey Harbor and the surrounding region.

09:30    Jack Kain- Using a frequently updated, storm-scale ensemble prediction system (EPS) for quantitative precipitation nowcasting

09:45     Adam Clark- Application and Evaluation of The Community Leveraged Unified Ensemble (CLUE) during the 2016 NOAA/HWT Spring Forecasting Experiment

10:00     BREAK

Joint Session 1 - International Ensembles Chair: Zoltan Toth 

10:20     Yuejian Zhu- NAEFS Review

10:40     Stéphane Gagnon- NAEFS Applications at CMC 

11:00     River Chen- Ensemble Development at CWB  

11:20     Medha Deshpande- Preliminary results of GEFS implemented for short range prediction at IITM   

11:40    Jing Chen- CMA's Global Ensemble        

12:00    LUNCH

Joint Session 2 - Ensemble Applications II                                                                                                  

Chair: Jun Du

13:00    Huiling Yuan- Prediction of Extratropical and tropical cyclones by TIGGE Ensemble Prediction Systems           

13:15    Jonq-Gong Chern- The Applications of Ensemble GFS at Taiwan Central Weather Bureau

13:30     Piers Buchanan- Ensemble Forecast Applications at the Met Office UK

13:45     Jian Tang- Recent progress on ensemble applications and verifications at NMC of China

14:45     BREAK

Joint Session 3 - Ensemble Applications III

Chair: Walter Kolczynski

15:00     Hong Guan- GEFS reforeacst and its applications

15:15     Michael Sestak- NAEFS Applications at Navy

15:30     Evan Kuchera- Delivering Decision Superiority to the Warfighter

15:45     Malaquias Peña- EMC seasonal ensemble forecasting: the NMME and the IMME projects

16:00     Open Discussion on Improving the Research-to-Operations-to-Research Loop