Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere CIRA Colorado State University

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Cooperative Institute for Research in the
AtmosphereCIRAColorado State University

• Overview for the 4th Annual NESDIS Cooperative
  Institute Directors Meeting
• New York City, New York
• June 2-3, 2005
• Professor Thomas H. Vonder Haar, Director

www.cira.colostate.edu vonderhaar_at_cira.col
ostate.edu
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CIRA HIGHLIGHTS, 2004-05

• CIRA Today
• New Research Results and Applications
• Response to NOAA SAB Review of CIRA
• Some Future Plans

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CIRA in 04/05 the 25th Year

• Operates under a 5-year, renewable Cooperative
  Agreement (CA) with NOAA
• NOAA CI co-sponsored by NESDIS and ORA with good
  NWS interaction
• Complementary CAs with DOI/NPS and DoD/ARL
• 180 scientists, staff and students (144 FTE)
• Including 6 NESDIS, RAMM Team scientists on site
• Including 12 postdocs, 25 graduate students, 16
  undergraduates supported by NOAA
• Including 15 academic faculty (part time)
• 12M/year in research and outreach funding
• 8M/year from NOAA

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CIRAs 8 Theme Areas
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AMSU Data Products

• MSPPS data from NESDIS are reformatted, mapped,
  and made available to researchers at CIRA,
  NESDIS, and elsewhere http//amsu.cira.colostate.
  edu

(Kidder et al., 2005)
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GOES Products

• 1-km resolution GOES products to match NWS radar
  coverage http//amsu.cira.colostate.edu/GOES

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Tropical Rainfall Potential (TRaP)

• Two papers in press
• Kidder, S. Q., S. J. Kusselson, J. A. Knaff, R.
  R. Ferraro, R. J. Kuligowski, and M. Turk, 2005
  The Tropical Rainfall Potential (TRaP) Technique.
  Part 1 Description and Examples. Weather and
  Forecasting, in press.
• Ferraro, R., P. Pellegrino, M. Turk, W. Chen, S.
  Qiu, R. Kuligowski, S. Kusselson, A. Irving, S.
  Kidder, and J. Knaff, 2005 The Tropical Rainfall
  Potential (TRaP) Technique. Part 2 Validation.
  Weather and Forecasting, in press.

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New Wind Probability Product for the National
Hurricane Center

• Track, intensity and wind radii forecasts have
  uncertainty
• Monte Carlo model estimates probabilities of 34,
  50 and 64 kt wind
• Random sampling from observed error distributions
• Will replace old probability products that only
  accounted for track errors
• Versions developed for NHC, Central Pacific
  Hurricane Center and Joint Typhoon Warning Center
• Funding from NOAA Joint Hurricane Testbed

5-day Cumulative Probability of 50 kt Winds For
Hurricane Charley (2004)
(DeMaria et al.)
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CIRA contribution to

• Mission Accelerate the transfer of research
  results into NWS operations via teletraining
• Participants from NOAA (NWS, NESDIS), DOD,
  international
• Since April 1999
• 57 courses offered
• 966 teletraining sessions administered
• 15,037 certificates of completion awarded
• 19 of 57 teletraining courses developed at CIRA
• Collaborative effort with CIMSS
• rammb.cira.colostate.edu/visit

• Topics include severe weather, tropical
  cyclones, winter weather, with a focus on
  satellite applications

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• NOAAS 5-YEAR REVIEW OF CIRA
• NOVEMBER 2003
• Final report approved March 16th 2004 by the
  Science Advisory Board of NOAA

• CIRA was judged to be a successful Joint
  Institute based on
• the quality of its research
• the strength of CSUs commitment to CIRA
• the vision and leadership of the CSU
  administrators
• strong relationships between CIRA and
  collaborating departments at CSU, particularly
  Atmospheric Science
• strong partnership with the partnering NOAA labs
• the value of the RAMM Team with its cadre of
  NOAA/NESDIS employees

• 4 Challenges
• Review science themes
• Improve strategic planning and self-assessment
• Increase education, diversity, outreach
• Leadership transition

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Progress on NOAAs Nov. 2003 Peer Review
Challenge for CIRA

• All Science Themes under review vis-à-vis NOAAs
  Goals and Objectives and CSU Capabilities and
  Infrastructure
• New focal point for CIRA/NOAA Strategic Planning
  and Self-Assessment Metrics (Ken Eis, Deputy
  Director)
• New Education and Outreach Coordinator (David
  Cismoski) and New Activities New Diversity
  Coordinator (Mary McInnis-Efaw) and New
  Activities
• Strong University and Faculty Support for a New
  CIRA Director in 2008-09 Developing Candidate
  Pool

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Launch Sept 05 Funding from CSA and NASA First
multi-satellite mission First cloud radar
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Established New Center for Accelerating Research
Results into Operations (CARRO)

• With ORA and other CIs (other CARROs?)
• Lessons learned best practices new mechanisms
• CARRO Algorithm Incubator Program (CAIP) for
  local CI and joint CI research activities
  interface to Satellite Products Testbed (SPT) at
  NESDIS

(Contacts Andy Jones and Stan Kidder)
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Back-ups
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Data Processing Center at CIRA

• Provide 7 CloudSat data products to science
  community
• Developed prototype small mission satellite
  processing center (generic)
• Flexible
• Allows new data/satellite sources to be included
  in days, not years.
• Provides standard system for operations,
  prototyping, and scientific RD (no porting
  science-to-ops code)

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Blended TPW
TPW data, acquired from NESDIS, for three NOAA
satellites and three DMSP satellites are blended
every hour and made available to SAB forecasters
and researchers. http//amsu.cira.colostate.edu/TP
W
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The Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Team at
CIRA

• Established Aug 1980 to foster research on
  satellite applications to short-term forecasting
• 5 original federal employees
• J. Purdom, B. Green, R. Phillips, J. Weaver, R.
  Zehr
• 5 current federal employees
• M. DeMaria, D. Hillger, D. Molenar, J. Weaver, R.
  Zehr
• Two team leaders since 1980
• J. Purdom 1980-1997, M. DeMaria 1998-present
• Current emphasis
• Applied research and training on satellite
  applications to severe weather, tropical cyclones
  and mesoscale aspects of mid-latitude cyclones