ICAMS

Interagency Council for Advancing Meteorological Services

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Summary Report

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Session 1: Tropical Cyclone Operations: Challenges in 2019

• NHC: Mike Brennan
• JTWC: Brian Strahl
• AOC: CDR Justin Kibbey
• 53 WRS: Lt Col Anthony Wilmot
• Social Science: Gina Eosco

Session 2: Current and Future Products and Services Planned

• NHC: Mike Brennan
• WFO TBW OR MLB, FL - Dan Noah
• OFCM/Disaster Impact Assessments and Plans (DIAP) - Forrest Masters
• Coastal Act - Dorothy Koch
• JTWC - Dr. Brian Belson
• Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project: Mark DeMaria
• UAS: Joe Cione

Session 3: Observations

• HRD - Jon Zawislak
• Working Group for Air Reconnaissance Equipment: Chris Dyke
• NESDIS - Thomas Renkevens
• AOC - Jack Parrish
• Ocean Obs (NDBC) – Karen Grissom
• NASA - Kathy Rice, Kristen Smith
• NCAR/EOL Airborne Phased Array Radar (APAR) Dr. Wen-Chau Lee

Session 4: Working Group for Tropical Cyclone Operations and Research

Record of Actions

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Session 5: Invited Speaker

John Murphy, National Weather Service

Session 6: Observations

• Hurricane Forecaster Improvement Program HFIP (NOAA) – Frank Marks
• Hurricane Supplemental - Dorothy Koch
• Regional Model on Hurricane Supplemental (HAFS) Avichal Mehra
• ONR - Ron Ferek

Session 7: Global Model Advances and Plans

• EMC - Vijay Tallapragada
• HWRF v GFS v ECMWF - HRES/ERA5 - Mike Fiorino
• FNMOC - Jon Moskaitis, Jim Doyle
• 16th Weather Squadron - Evan Kuchera

Session 8: Regional Model Advances and Plans

• EMC - Vijay Tallapragada
• NRL COAMPS-TC Jim Doyle
• NASA - Tsengdar Lee
• NASA CYGNSS satellites - Chris Ruf, David Mayers

Session 9 Research Supporting Operations: JHT Project Status

• Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT) Program Update: Brian Zachry
• JHT 2019-22 Ensemble TC Sensitivity: Ryan Torn
• JHT 2019-22 M-PERC/PERC: Derrick Herndon
• JHT 2019-22 TCLOGG: Bob Hart
• JHT 2017-19 (extension) AI: Andrew Mercer Kim Wood
• JHT 2017-19 (extension) TC Intensity: Galina Chirokova
• JHT 2017-19 (extension) EP Intensity: Paul Roebber
• JTTI 2018-20: Dan Halperin