Meeting of the CIRA Fellows

May 6, 2015

Christian KummerowCIRA Director

Broadly review CIRA activities and solicit advice from Fellows regarding strategic growth areas on which we should focus CIRA resources going forward.

Objectives

On the NOAA side

•No permanent replacement for RAMM branch yet.

•Sandy Supplemental funds are healthy but significant reductions will begin next year

•H.R. 1561, the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2015 has risks and opportunities

•Task 1 budget was not implemented well by NOAA.

•CI-21

On the CIRA side

•Creating WGs within CIRA to better manage manpower

•Continuing work to integrate CIRA work at different locations

•With Help of STAR and VPR, were able to purchase new antenna and hardware to ingest GOES-R data at launch.

•Chris O’Dell is returning to CIRA to lead Carbon effort.

University Changes

•Approved salary increases of 2% Fy14/15 and Fy15/16

•Recent changes in HR and Travel appear to be beneficial

Significant Events

Strengthen interactions between CIRA and the Dept. of Atmos. Science

• Increased funding from 3 to 5 grad. students working jointly on CIRA/ATS projects

One uses Colorado Lightning Mapping Array in preparation for GOES-R

• Continue joint Colloquia/informal meetings with ATS

• Joint CIRA/ATS proposal was designated PRSE.

• Continue to implement overhead return split for joint projects

Strengthen interactions between CIRA, the College of Engineering and the Univ.

• Funding 1 student with Civil Engineering

• Plan to partially fund a graduate student in Sociology

Strengthen interactions between CIRA and International Agencies

• Have good collaborations with JMA related to HIMAWARI-8.

• Saulo Frietas and Karla Longo (INPE) visited GSD for one year

Short Term Goals/Accomplishments

Air Quality

Had a retreat in 2013 to bring together the diverse groups in RAMMB, GSD, ATS and NPS

Water Vapor, Clouds and Precipitation

Leverage NASA/NOAA overlap

Data Fusion/Data Assimilation

Two areas of strengths that we want to continue to grow.

New Intern program

Using Satellite Data to Improve Models

Revisit CIRA’s original mission. Had a retreat in April 2015 to bring together RAMMB, GSD and JCSDA groups.

Long Term Goals/Accomplishments(Strengthen CIRA’s Research portfolio)

9:00 Introduction

9:20 Satellite Algorithm Development – Steve Miller

9:45 Regional to Global Scale Modeling and Data Distribution – Sher Schranz

10:10 Sandy Supplemental Projects – S. Schranz, B. Connell, M. Zupanski

10:30 New Initiatives –Data Assimilation Interns – C. Kummerow/James Taylor/Biljana

OrescaninEvaluating Model Performance – Todd Jones

Examining Model Processes – Janice Bytheway11:15 Break

11:30 Education and Outreach – Matt Rogers

11:45 Budget Overview – Lance Noble

11:55 Closing Remarks – Christian Kummerow

12:00 Feedback from Fellows

**On-site lunch to follow meeting**

Agenda