ICAMS

Interagency Council for Advancing Meteorological Services

Purpose

The WG/MPAR shall be the principal agent within the OFCM coordinating structure for developing a risk-reduction implementation strategy to address the key findings and recommended next steps contained in the report, Federal Research and Development Needs and Priorities for Phased Array Radar (June 2006), and agency comments from the July 18, 2006, ICMSSR meeting. This establishes the interagency partnership to plan and guide the MPAR risk-reduction program and follow-on acquisition. The focus is on a national multifunctional system to be deployed in the 2014 - 2022 timeframe. The WG/MPAR is to be a transitional body to manage risk-reduction research and development until such time as a permanent MPAR Joint Program Office can be established amongst the participating agencies.

Terms of Reference for WG/MPAR

Meetings

The working group meets on a regular basis to discuss important issues. Details of the most recent meetings are linked below.

WG/MPAR Meetings

In 2009, the Second National Symposium on Multifunction Phased Array Radar was held in Norman, OK. Click here to access the presentations.

MPAR Publications

OFCM has published the Multifunction Phased Array Radar Unified Research and Development Plan, which can be found here.

Reference Material

WG/MPAR has a wide variety of reference materials for informational purposes .

WG/MPAR Foundational Materials

• Federal Committee for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research, October 18, 2002, Action Item 2002-4.1
• Interdepartmental Committee for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research, April 30, 2003, Action Item 2003-1.8
• Interdepartmental Committee for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research, May 14, 2004, Action Item 2004-1.1
• Terms of Reference - Joint Action Group for Phased Array Radar Project (JAG/PARP), 2 February 2005
• Interdepartmental Committee for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research, June 18, 2006, Action Item 2006-1.1
• Multifunction Phased Array Radar (MPAR) Symposium Summary Report - Norman, Oklahoma, October 10-12, 2007.
• Multifunction Phased Array Radar (MPAR) Symposium II Summary Report - Norman, Oklahoma, November 17-19, 2009.

AMS-related MPAR Papers

• BAMS Report on MPAR Symposium I
• The Next Generation Multi-Mission U.S. Surveillance Radar Network (Nov 07 BAMS Article -- Weber)
• Agile Beam Phased Array Radar for Weather Observations (Nov 07 BAMS Article -- Zrnic)
• Progress of Multifunction Phased Array Radar (MPAR) Program (AMS, 2009)
• Dual Polarized Slot Dipole Radiating Element Performance (Al-Rashid, et al., AMS (2013))

MPAR Government Studies and Reports

• MPAR Automatic Dependent Surveillance—Broadcast (ADS-B) Backup Requirements
• Future Weather Doppler Radar Feasibility Study, Phase I, February 26, 2004
• Revolutionizing Tornado Warnings--Phased Array Radar, NOAA Long-Term Research Program Plan
• Evaluation of the Multifunction Phased Array Radar Planning Process, National Research Council
• MPAR Program Status and Potential Service Improvements, August 2009
• NOAA 2008 Weather Radar 20-Year Vision Planning (Pre-Decisional), August 2008
• National Weather Radar Testbed Demonstration Spring 2008 Operations Plan
• NSSL-DHS PAR Studies: Wind Farm Mitigation and Simultaneous Weather-Aircraft Surveillance
• Advanced Detection and Mitigation of Wind Turbine Clutter for the Multi-Mission Phased Array Radar (MPAR) Program
• Multi-function Phased Array Radar and Cylindrical Polarized Phased Array Radar—Report to Congress (2014)

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