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Workshop Host Committee: Marty Ralph, Chair
NOAA/OAR/ESRL

Bob Atlas
NOAA/OAR/AOML

Don Berchoff
NOAA/NWS/OST

Al Powell
NOAA/NESDIS/CSAR

1st NOAA Testbed USWRP Workshop

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Agenda

Tuesday, April 28th

OAR & NWS Welcome

Sandy MacDonald, Director, ESRL & OAR DAA Labs & Coop Institutes

Don Berchoff, Director, NWS Office of Science and Technology

USWRP Director Welcome – Marty Ralph

Overview of Testbeds – Testbed Leads

The Developmental Testbed Center: Past, Present & the Future - Steve Koch (ESRL)
Societal Impacts Program - Rebecca Morss (NCAR)
An Overview of the Hydrometeorology Testbed - Tim Schneider (ESRL)
Collaborative Science, Technology, & Applied Research - Sam Contorno (NOAA)
Joint Hurricane Testbed - Jiann-Gwo Jiing (NWS)

Testbed Roundup 1 – HMT & CSTAR
Selection of science items from HMT & CSTAR

CSTAR Activities at the University of Utah: Estimating Optimal Distributions of Surface Observing Stations For Existing Networks & Testbeds - John Horel (University of Utah)
High-Resolution Global Precipitation Analyses Based on Multiple Satellite Observations and In Site Measurements - Pingping Xie (NCEP)
A Review of Recent UAlbany CSTAR Research on Warm-Season Precipitation Systems Including Predecessor Rain Events Ahead of Tropical Cyclones - Tom Galarneau (SUNY)
Evaluation and Comparison of Microphysical Algorithms in WRF-ARW Model Simulations of Atmospheric River Events Affecting the California Coast - Isidora Jankov (ESRL)

Testbed Roundup 1 – HMT & CSTAR (cont.)
Selection of science items from HMT & CSTAR

ALPS Workstation Development for HMT and Other Workstation Testbed Activities in GSD - Woody Roberts (ESRL)
A Wind Profiler and GPS-Based Water Vapor Flux Tool for Precipitation Forecasting in Coastal Mountains - Paul Neiman (ESRL)
Developing a Performance Measure for Snow-Level Forecasts - Allen White (ESRL)
Status and Plans for the Hydrometeorological Testbed at the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center - Edwin Danaher (NWS)

Testbed Roundup 2 – DTC
Selection of science items from DTC

Verification at the DTC - Tressa Fowler (NCAR)
Hurricane WRF at the DTC - Shaowu Bao (ESRL)
The HFIP High-Resolution Hurricane Test - Ligia Bernardet (ESRL)

Testbed Collaborations – Joint Efforts between the DTC and the HMT - Barb Brown (NCAR)

Day 1 Wrap-up – Marty Ralph

Adjourn

Wednesday, April 29th

Connections to other NOAA Programs, Projects & Activities that Involve R2O

Research to Operations in the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation - Steve Goodman (NOAA/NASA)
THORPEX - John Gaynor (NOAA)
SPoRT – An End-to-End R2O Activity - Gary Jedlovec (NASA)
The Hazardous Weather Testbed - Jack Kain (NSSL)
The GOES-R Proving Ground - Steve Goodman (NOAA/NASA)

Testbed Roundup 3 – JHT
Selections of science items from JHT

Evaluation and Improvement of Ocean Model Performance for Coupled Hurricane Forecast Models - George Halliwell (NOAA)
URI contribution towards improving the GFDL and HWRF operational hurricane models under JHT funding and future plans - Richard Yablonsky (University of Rhode Island)
Impact of Sea Spray on the Balance of Turbulent Kinetic Energy in the Hurricane Surface Boundary Layer - Jian-Wen Bao (ESRL)
Pacific Ocean Tropical Synoptic Regimes and their effect and importance on the Globe - Bill Ward (NWS)

Testbed Roundup 4 – SIP
Selection of science items from SIP

The U.S. public's perceptions of weather forecasts and forecast uncertainty: Results from a survey - Rebecca Morss (NCAR)

Socio-Economic Research on Hurricane Forecasts and Warnings: A Discussion of Results and Research Plans - Jeff Lazo (NCAR)

Break Out Discussions

Wrap-up – moderator, Marty Ralph

Adjourn workshop