ICAMS

Interagency Council for Advancing Meteorological Services

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Summary report

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Session 1: Tropical Cyclone Operations: Challenges in 2018

• NHC: Eric Blake
• TAFB: Eric Christensen
• CPHC: Tom Birchard, Ashley Evans, Bob Ballard
• JTWC: CDR Corey Cherrett
• AOC: CDR Justin Kibbey
• 53 WRS: Col Brian May

Session 2: Future Products and Services Planned; New/Revised Requirements for Research Panel.

• NHC: Dan Brown
• WFO Tallahassee, FL: Tom Johnstone
• JTWC: Matt Kukas
• Improving In-Flight Situational Awareness and Science through an SBIR Phase III Technology: Dave Jones
• Dynamics of strongly tilted Hurricane Vortices: Professor Rupert Klein, Freie Universität Berlin

Session 3: Observations

• HRD: Jon Zawislak
• 53 WRS: Lt Col Kaitlyn Woods
• New Air Recon Equipment Working Group (WG-ARE) – Lt Col Kaitlyn Woods and UAS ICCAGRA Kristie Twining
• AOC: Jack Parrish
• Ocean Observations (NDBC): Karen Grissom
• NASA: Kathy Rice, Kristen Smith

Session 4: Hurricane Working Group

TCOR action items

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Session 6: Research Supporting Operations Forum (Presentations and Discussion): Current Research and Plans for the Future

• HFIP (NOAA) – Frank Marks
• Hurricane Supplemental – Sheema Lett
• ONR – Coastal Impacts of Hurricanes - Reggie Beach
• RMS – Mark Powell
• HRD – Recent Observations in Tropical Cyclones Using Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems and a look into NOAA’s sUAS future – Joe Cione

Session 7: Global Model Advances and Plans

• EMC: GFS/FV3 – Vijay Tallapragada
• ECMWF – Fernando Prates
• FNMOC “Global Model Advances and Plans” – Jon Moskaitis
• 557th Weather Wing: GALWEM (Global Air-Land Weather Exploitation Model) – Steve Rugg

Session 8: Regional Model Advances and Plans

• EMC – HWRF/HMON – Avichal Mehra
• NRL – COAMPS-TC – Jim Doyle

Session 9 Research Supporting Operations: JHT Project Status

• “The Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT): A 2019 Update” Jason Sippel (NOAA/HRD), Mark DeMaria (NWS/NHC)
• JHT Project 1: Evolutionary Programming for Probabilistic Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecast – Paul Roebber, Clark Evans, Jesse Schaffer (UW-Milwaukee)
• JHT Project 2: Improvements to Operational Statistical Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecast Models Using Wind Structure and Eye Predictors – Galina Chirokova (CSU/CIRA), John Kaplan (AOML/HRD)
• JHT Project 3: Improvements and Extensions to an Existing Probabilistic TC Genesis Forecast Tool Using and Ensemble of Global Models – Bob Hart and Dan Halperin (FSU)
• JHT Project 4: Estimation of Tropical Cyclone Intensity Using Satellite Passive Microwave Observations – Haiyan Jiang (Florida Intl Univ.)
• JHT Project 5: Transition of Machine-Learning Based Rapid Intensification Forecasts to Operations – Andrew Mercer and Kimberly Wood (MSU)
• JHT Project 6: Ensemble-based Pre-genesis Watches and Warnings for Atlantic and North Pacific Tropical Cyclones – Russ Elsberry (UC-CS)