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NCEP Modeling Synergy Meeting
Highlights: October 30, 2006
This meeting was led by Peter Manousos and attended
by Geoff Dimego, Jim Hoke,
Dave Plummer, John Ward, Mary Hart, Keith Brill, Bill Bua,
and Ed Danaher. SPC’s Steve Weiss and Gregory Grosshans,
and UCAR/COMET’s Stephen Jascourt
attended by remote conference.
1. CCS
John Ward reported
the CCS upgrade continues and the moratorium is slated to end mid-
January 2007. Recent high-
impact issues relating to data access and processing efficiency
(speed) have been overcome. The new
configuration of the CCS will be “Dew” (primary operational “production” system
located in Fairmont, WV, replacing “White”), “Mist” (development system and
operational “hot spare”/backup located in Gaithersburg, MD, replacing “Blue”),
and “Haze” (NOAA Research and Development system located in Gaithersburg, MD,
replacing “Aqua”). Note - Blue and
White will be decommissioned on Jan 24th 2007, the archive “HPSS”
system will reside on Haze, and all “r” commands (rcp,
rsh) on Mist and Dew will be replaced by “scp and ssh” by the end of
November 2006.
2. NOTES
FROM EMC
2a. Global Modeling Branch:
Geoff Dimego reported
that sometime in the 2nd
quarter, perhaps not until March, the SSI analysis will be replaced by GSI and
the vertical coordinate system will be changed to a sigma-p hybrid. Four
parallels are running to iron out issues about the balance constraint and
external mode in the analysis, among other things.
2b. Mesoscale Modeling Branch:
Geoff Dimego reported lots of work on solving problems with the sound and more universal
fix than some of the summer crisis changes. Work is also being done to adopt
the global model formulation for form drag and momentum drag, which are absent
in the NMM. The Eta had form drag based on subgrid-scale terrain variance and wind direction, but NMM
only had a simple dependence on terrain variance which was ultimately removed
in the NAM WRF-NMM because it was causing near-surface winds to be too light
over mountainous terrain. It is hoped that the global model treatment will
improve trough speed and depth because mountain wave momentum drag had that
effect in the global model. Also, new datasets need to be tested for
implementation, including AIRS and MODIS data, along with an increase in the
vertical resolution of the radiative transfer solver
inside the assimilation.
2c. Global Ensemble Prediction System:
Nothing new to report. The Ensemble Users Workshop takes place
this week.
2d.
Post moratorium upgrades will focus on bias
corrected output (late spring 2007) and upgrading WRF members to the most
current version of the WRF (including running them at a horizontal resolution finer
than 40km). Eventually a transition of
all membership to WRF will occur in 2008-2009. SREF
ensemble output (mean/spread, probability) are already being sent over the SBN
and ingest is part of AWIPS OB7.2.
2e. Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch
(MMAB):
Nothing new to report.
3. The next meeting will
be held Monday January 29 at noon in EMC Rm 209 with remote
conference capability.
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