2005 Q2 Workshop Presentations
Session 1: Needs, Goals and Strategies
- Background and Goals of the
Workshop
- DJ Seo, NOAA/NWS/Hydrology Laboratory
- NOAA Vision and Mission Goals
- Pedro J. Restrepo, Ph.D., P.E., Senior Scientist, Office of Hydrologic
Development, NOAA/NWS
- NEXRAD Product Improvement
& Operations & Services Improvement Process
- Bob Saffle, Mitretek Systems, NWS OST
Session 2: Current Operational Capabilities, Issues and Perspectives
- Quantitative Precipitation Estimation
by WSR-88D Radar
- Dan Berkowitz, Applications Branch, Radar Operations Center
- Multi-sensor QPE: Current Operational
Capabilities, Issues and Perspectives from ABRFC view
- William E. Lawrence, Development and Operations Hydrologist, Arkansas-Red
Basin River Forecast Center
- Current Operational Data Capabilities,
Issues and Perspectives
- Chandra Kondragunta, Hydrometeorology Group, Hydrology Laboratory, Office
of Hydrologic Development, NOAA/National Weather Service
- Flash Flood Monitoring and Prediction:
Current Operational Capabilities, Issues and Perspectives
- Britt Westergard, Service Hydrologist, WFO Jackson, KY
Session 3: Current Operational Capabilities, Issues and Perspectives (cont.)
- CBRFC Issues
- Craig Peterson, Greg Smith, Colorado Basin RFC
- Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting
at the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC)
- Dan Petersen, HPC Forecast Operations Branch
- A Few Issues Regarding the Use of Q2
(and related) products and software at NCEP/EMC
- Curtis H. Marshall NCEP/EMC
Session 4: Science Issues, New Capabilities and Perspectives
- Operational Issues from NCDC Perspective
- Steve Del Greco, Brian Nelson, and Dongsoo Kim, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Dongjun
Seo, NOAA/NWS/OHD
- NOAA-NWS Quantitative Precipitation Estimation
- a NASA perspective
- Matthew Garcia, Research Associate, NASA-GSFC, Hydrological Sciences Branch
(614.3) and UMBC GEST Center
- NASA Precipitation Measuring Missions and
NMQ QPE Products
- Eyal Amitai, George Mason University (GMU), School of Computational Sciences
(SCS), Center for Earth Observing and Space Research (CEOSR) & NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center, Maryland, USA
Session 5: Science Issues, New Capabilities and Perspectives -- QPE
- Unlocking the Scientific Value of
NEXRAD Weather Radar Data
- Witold F. Krajewski, with Anton Kruger, Ramon Lawrence, Allen A. Bradley,
and Grzegorz J. Ciach , IHR and the University of Iowa
- Progress toward a Mesoscale
Analysis of Record
- Brad Colman, Seattle Weather Forecast Office
John Horel, NOAA Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction, Dept. of
Meteorology, University of Utah
Lee Anderson, Office of Science and Technology, NWS Headquarters
- CASA (Collaborative Adaptive Sensing
of the Atmosphere) and NWRT/PAR (National Weather Radar Testbed / Phased
Array Radar)
- Kurt Hondl, DOC/NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory
- The NOAA Hydrometeorological Testbed
Program: Overview and Progress to Date
- David Kingsmill, University of Colorado / CIRES and NOAA Environmental
Technology Laboratory, Boulder, CO
Session 6: Science Issues, New Capabilities and Perspectives -- Short-Term
QPF
- Summary of Heuristic Probabilistic
Forecasting Workshop, McGill University, May 10-12, 2005
- Jian Zhang, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, and DJ Seo, NOAA/NWS/Hydrology
Laboratory
- WDSS-II: An Algorithm Developer's
Tool
- Valiappa Lakshmanan, University of Oklahoma in association with the National
Severe Storms Laboratory
Session 7: NMQ as Community Testbed
- 3-D Radar Mosaic and Initial Q2 Development
Plans
- Jian Zhang, University of Oklahoma, Ken Howard, Steve Vasiloff, DOC/NOAA/OAR
National Severe Storms Laboratory
Animation loop: spcell_W-E_loop.mov (3.5
MB)
- JADE (Joint Applications Development Environment)
-- A Virtual Research Environment for Real Time and Archive Evaluation of
QPE/F and Severe Weather Applications on NMQ
- Steve Vasiloff, DOC/NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory
Session 9: Working Group Reports
- Radar QPE Working Group
- Dan Berkowitz, working group leader
- Satellite QPE: Science Issues, New
Capabilities and Perspectives
- Bob Kuligowski, working group leader
- Dual-Polarization Quantitative Precipitation
Estimation Group Discussion Report
- Ed Brandes, working group leader
- Gauges, Surface and NWP data
- Art Henkel, working group leader
Session 10: Working Group Reports (cont.)
- Multisensor QPE Discussion Notes
- Jian Zhang, working group leader
- Report of the Q2 Short Range QPF
Discussion Group
- John McGinley, working group leader
- Verification
- Harold Brooks , working group leader
- Flash Flood Prediction
- Mary Mullusky, working group leader
- Research To Operations For
Improved Precipitation Estimates and Forecasts
- David Kitzmiller, working group leader
