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15th JCSDA Workshop Agenda (May 17-19, 2017)

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Registration

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM - Management Oversight Board – Introduction

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM - Overview of JCSDA Status and Plans –Thomas Auligné, JCSDA Director

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM - USAF Overview and Plans – Jeffrey Cetola, USAF 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM - NRL Overview and Plans – Ben Ruston, NRL

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

COFFEE BREAK

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM

- NESDIS Overview and Plans – Fuzhong Weng, NESDIS, STAR

11:15 AM – 11:30 AM - NCEP Overview and Plans – John Derber, NCEP, EMC

11:30 AM – 11:45 AM - NASA Overview and Plans – Ron Gelaro, NASA

11:45 AM – 12:00 PM - OAR Overview and Plans – Stan Benjamin, OAR

12:00 PM – 13:00 PM

LUNCH BREAK

Session One: Atmospheric Composition and Aerosols Data Assimilation

13:00 PM – 13:25 PM - Testing a chemical forecasting system in the GMAO - Steven Pawson, GMAO

13:25 PM – 13:50 PM - Improving NCEP global aerosol forecasting by assimilating VIIRS aerosol retrievals – Sarah Lu, SUNY-Albany

13:50 PM – 14:15 PM - Using Multi-Sensor Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals to Improve Infrared Radiance Assimilation – Aaron Naeger, University of Alabama in Huntsville

14:15 PM – 14:40 PM - Aerosol Data Assimilation at GMAO – Arlindo da Silva, NASA, GSFC, GMAO

14:40 PM – 15:10 PM COFFEE BREAK

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Session Two: Data Assimilation System Improvements

15:10 PM – 15:35 PM - A Common Format and Infrastructure for Observations and Feedbacks in Data Assimilation – Will McCarty, GMAO, NASA

15:35 PM – 16:00 PM - JEDI Project Overview – Yannick Trémolet, JCSDA

16:00 PM – 17:00 PM Poster Session (1/2)

1. The Naval research Laboratory Ocean Surface Flux (NFLUX) System – (Clark Rowley, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory/Co-author: Jackie May)

2. A Fortran Object-Oriented Interface Layer for GSI Generic Background States – (Jing Guo, NASA, GMAO)

3. Assessment of Ensemble Forecast Sensitivity to Observation (EFSO) Quantities for Satellite Radiances Assimilated in the 4DEnVar GFS – (David Groff, EMC/ Co-authors: Kayo Ide, Yanqiu Zhu, Rahul Mahajan, and Andrew Collard)

4. Linear filtering of sample covariance for ensemble data assimilation: application of optimality criteria for the estimation of 4-dimensional localization functions – (Francois Vandenberghe, NCAR / Co-authors: Josh Hacker, Benjamin Menetrier, Anthony Weaver and Thomas Auligné)

5. Impact of aerosol on the simulation of brightness temperature in the NASA

Goddard Earth Observing System Atmospheric Data Assimilation – (Jong Kim, SSAI/GMAO/GSFC/NASA / Co-authors: Santharam Ram Akella, Arlindo M da Silva, and Ricardo Todling)

6. Assimilating Infrared Sounder Observations with Correlated Errors –

(Kristen Bathmann, IMSG/NOAA/NCEP/EMC / Co-authors: Andrew Collard, Ricardo Todling, Wei Gu, and John Derber)

7. Validation of SNPP VIIRS Green Vegetation Fraction phenology using PhenoCam data - (Zhangyan Jiang, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR / Co-author: Marco Vargas)

8. Development of Advanced Data Assimilation Techniques for Improved use of Satellite-Derived Atmospheric Motion Vectors – (Agnes Lim, Sharon Nebuda, James Jung, Jaime Daniels, Mingjing Tong, Andrew Collard, Vajay Tallapragda, John Derber, and John Le Marshall)

9. Inter-comparison of CRTM and RTTOV in NCEP Global Model – (Emily

Huichun Liu, NOAA/NCEP/EMC)

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Thursday, May 18, 2017

Session Three: Radiative Transfer Modeling

9:00 AM- 9:25 AM - CRTM Development Status and Future Plans – (Benjamin Johnson, JCSDA)

9:25 AM – 9:50 AM - CRTM Microwave Scattering Coefficients for Snow and Graupel – (Patrick

Stegmann, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University / Co-author: P. Yang)

9:50 AM – 10:15 AM - Ultrafast solvers for enhanced CRTM performance in cloudy atmospheres – (Tom Greenwald, U. of Wisconsin-Madison / Co-author: Ralf Bennartz)

10:15 AM – 10:45 AM COFFEE BREAK

10:45 AM – 11:10 AM - Evaluation of OSS Node-Based Assimilation – (Alan Lipton, Atmospheric

and Environmental Research, Inc. / Co-authors: Jean-Luc Moncet, and Pan Liang)

11:10 AM – 11:35 AM - Radiative transfer modeling studies in support of GMAO data assimilation –

(Issac Moradi, NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office/ Co-author: Will McCarty)

11:35 AM – 12:00 PM - CRTM applications to support sensors’ Cal/Val and EDRs generations – (Quanhua (Mark) Liu, NOAA/STAR)

12:00 PM – 13:00 PM

LUNCH BREAK

Session Four: Sensor-specific Improvements to Data Assimilation

13:00 PM – 13:25 PM - Impacts of Assimilation of GPM Microwave Imager Radiances on Hurricane

Forecasting – (Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah/ Co- authors: ChauLam Yu, Vijay Tallapragada, Jianjun Jin, and Will McCarty)

13:25 PM – 13:50 PM - Satellite Radiance Assimilation Enhancements for RAP Version 4 – (Haidao

Lin, CIRA/CSU and NOAA/ESRL/GSD / Co-authors: Steve Weygandt, Yuanfu Xie, and Stan Benjamin)

13:50 PM – 14:15 PM - OAR support for the launch of COSMIC-2 – (Lidia Cucurull, NOAA/OAR/AOML)

14:15 PM – 14:40 PM

- Assimilating and Validating GPS Radio Occultation Observations from CubeSats – (Dusanka Zupanski, Spire Global, Inc /Co-authors: Razvan Stefanescu, Christina Holt, Vladimir Irisov, Tim Duly, Alexander MacDonald, and Dave Ector)

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14:40 PM – 15:10 PM COFFEE BREAK

Session Five: Land Data Assimilation

15:10 PM – 15:35 PM - An Optimization Method to Precipitation Products for Land Surface

Modeling – (Dr. Abheera Hazra, George Mason University/ Co-authors: Dr. Viviana Maggioni, Dr. Harbir Antil, and Dr. Paul Houser)

15:35 PM – 16:00 PM - Application of Satellite Land Surface Observations in NCEP Models – (Weizhong Zheng, NOAA/NCEP/EMC / Co-author: Mike Ek

Session Six : Ocean Data Assimilation

16:00 PM – 16:25 PM - 4DVAR Ocean Data Assimilation at NRL – (Hans Ngodock, Naval Research Lab/Co-authors: Matthew Carrie, and Scott Smith)

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16:25 PM – 17:25 PM Poster Session (2/2)

10. Assimilating Clouds and Rain Impacted GCOM/AMSR-2 Radiance Observations with GEOS-5 –(Jianjun Jin, GESTAR,USRA/GMAO/NASA)

11. Assimilation of JPSS direct readout data in regional scale models – (Yuanfu Xie, NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD)

12. Aerosol EnKF at GMAO – (Virginie Buchard, NASA/USRA/ Co-authors: A. da Silva, R. Todling)

13. Assimilation of Himawari AHI and GOES-R ABI radiance in Hybrid 4D

Ensemble-Var – (Ling Liu, AER/JCSDA / Co-authors: Benjamin Johnson, Thomas Auligné)

14. Conditioning, Convergence, and Reconditioning for Correlated Observation

Error of Satellite Radiances – (William Campbell, NRL/ Co-authors: Elizabeth Satterfield, Benjamin Ruston, Nancy Baker)

15. Aerosols on a Cube: Development of an Aerosol Model and Assimilation for the Future NOAA Forecasting System – (Mariusz Pagowski, NOAA/ESRL/GSD)

16. Preparing Release of CRTM REL-2.3.0. and its New Features – (Tong Zhu, CIRA/CSU/JCSDA /Co-authors: Benjamin Johnson, Mark Liu, Yong Chen, Ming Chen, Emily Liu, David Groff, Yingtao Ma)

17. Land Surface Emissivity in the GSI – (Biljana Orescanin, STAR/JCSDA)

18. Radar Simulation in CRTM – (Benjamin Johnson, JCSDA)

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Friday, May 19, 2017

Session Seven: Observing System Assessment and Optimization

9:00 AM – 9:25 AM - The GMAO OSSE produced with the high-resolution GEOS-5 NR – (Ronald

Errico,GMAO/NASA/MSU/GESTAR/Co-authors: Nikki Prive and David Carvalho)

9:25 AM – 9:50 AM - OSSE System Predictability in Preparation for 4DEnVar OSSEs – (Sean

Casey, CIMAS/AOML/HRD/ Co-authors: Ross N. Hoffman, Robert Atlas, Lidia Cucurull)

9:50 AM- :10:15 AM

- Preliminary results from a comparison of the adjoint-based approaches to observation impact on forecasts using the GMAO data assimilation system – (Ricardo Todling, NASA/GMAO/ Co-authors: Fabio R. Diniz, and David Groff)

10:15 AM – 10:45 AM COFFEE BREAK

Session Eight:

Assimilation of Clouds and Precipitation

10:45 AM – 11:10 AM

- Progress on Assimilation of Cloud and Precipitation Affected Microwave Radiance Data in NASA GEOS-5 – (Min-Jeong Kim, NASA/GMAO /Co-authors: J. Jin, A. El Karoui, W. McCarty, R. Todling, W. Gu, D. Haldaway, and R. Gelaro)

11:10 AM – 11:35 AM - All-sky infrared radiances assimilation of selected humidity sensitive IASI

channels at NCEP/EMC – (Li Bi, NWS/NCEP/EMC/IMSG /Co-authors: Andrew Collard, Emily Liu, James Jung, John Derber)

11:35 AM – 12:00 PM - Further developments in all –sky microwave radiance assimilation and expansion to ATMS in the GSI at NCEP – (Yanqiu Zhu, IMSG/NCEP/EMC)

12:00 PM – 12:30 PM - Open Discussion and Wrap-up

12:30 PM - Adjourn