GRIP Science Meeting #2

GRIP Science Meeting #2
May 9-10, 2012
Building E-100, Wallops Flight Facility, VA

Wednesday May 9

• 7:00-8:00 Badging (for those without NASA hard badges)
• 8:00-8:15 Introduction / Greeting (Kakar)
• 8:15-8:35 Overview of GRIP data and scientific analysis (Braun/Zipser)
• 8:35-8:55 Overview of PREDICT scientific analysis (Montgomery, Smith)
• 8:55-9:15 Overview of IFEX scientific analysis (Rogers)
• 9:15-10:00 Brief reports from GRIP instrument scientists on performance and status of data processing (15 minutes each)
  • HIWRAP: G. Heymsfield
  • HAMSR: B. Lambrigtsen/S. Brown
  • APR-2: S. Durden/Tanelli
• 10:00-10:30 BREAK
• 10:30–12:00 Brief reports from GRIP instrument scientists on performance and status of data processing (15 minutes each)
  • LASE: S. Ismail
  • DAWN: M. Kavaya
  • HIRAD: T.Miller
  • LIP: R. Blakeslee
  • LARGE: L. Ziemba or B. Anderson
  • Cloud Microphysics: A. Heymsfield
• 12:00-1:30 LUNCH
• 1:30-3:00 Poster session I
  1. "HIWRAP Analysis of Tropical Cyclones"
     Stephen Guimond
  2. "Science investigations facilitated by the Tropical Cyclone Information System"
     S. Hristova‐Veleva, H. Sue, F. J. Turk, B. Lambrigtsen, M. Montgomery, Z. Haddad,T. Vukicevich, S. Gopalakrishnan, P. P. Li, B. Knosp, Q. Vu, J. Steward
  3. “LASE measurements of precipitable water vapor and aerosol extinction profiles during GRIP”
     Rich Ferrare and Susan Kooi
  4. “EnKF OSSE experiments of HIRAD wind speed and HIRAD + HIWRAP radial velocity data on intensity prediction of Hurricane Karl (2010)”
     C. Albers, J. Sippel, S. Braun, and T. Miller
  5. “Assessing AMSU Tropical Cyclone Intensity Algorithms using High Resolution HAMSR TB Observations”
     S. Brown
  6. “Role of large scale forcing and parameterizations on the modeling of Hurricane Karl genesis”
     A. Comellas, A. Parodi, S.Tanelli, and S. L. Durden
  7. “GRIP‐LIP Contributions to the Ongoing Study of the Sources and Currents in the Global Electric Circuit”
     D. Mach
  8. “Observations of C‐band brightness temperature from the Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) on board the NASA WB‐57 during GRIP in Hurricanes Earl and Karl (2010)”
     Tim Miller, M. James, B. Roberts, S. Biswas, C. Buckley, E. Uhlhorn, P. Black, L. Jones, C. May, and C. Ruf
  9. "HIRAD Instrument Calibration and Brightness Temperature Image Accuracy, Precision and Resolution"
     C. Ruf, B. Roberts, S. Biswas, T. Miller, M. James, E. Uhlhorn, L. Jones
  10. “The impact of Saharan Air Layer on Early Developing Tropical Cyclones”
      Yi‐ Chin Liu
  11. “The Use of Gamma Functions to Quantify the Dependence of Hurricane Cloud Particle Size Distributions on Total Water Content, Vertical Velocity, Temperature and Tropical Cyclone Development Stage”
      J. Mascio, G.M. McFarquhar, A. Dooley and T.‐L. Hsieh
  12. "Necessary conditions for RI as derived from 11 years of TRMM Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Feature (TCPF) Database"
      H. Jiang and E. Ramirez
• 3:00-3:30 BREAK
• 3:30-4:45 Oral presentations (15 min each including discussion)
  • The benefits of assimilating HIWRAP radial velocity with an ensemble Kalman filter
    Sippel/Braun
  • Necessary and sufficient conditions for TC genesis: Will we get an answer from
    GRIP/PREDICT/IFEX?
    Zipser/Zawislak
  • Analysis of Kelvin waves during the GRIP Field Campaign
    Thorncroft
  • Evolution of Hurricane Earl During Rapid Intensification
    Molinari
  • The Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Earl (2010): Analysis of Intense Convection, Lightning and Warm Core Evolution
    Halverson
• 4:45- 5:00 Summary of GRIP data availability
  • Available GRIP Datasets and RTMM Animations
    Goodman
• 5:00-5:30 Discussion
• 5:30 End of session

 

Thursday May 10

• 8:00-8:15 Greeting, comments on Day 1 (Kakar)
• 8:15-9:15 Oral presentations (15 min each including discussion)
  • Radar Echo Structure in Relation to Shear - Some Limitations of the GRIP Data
    Houze
  • Impacts of Rain rate initialization on hurricane forecasts from Ground Based and Airborne Radar during GRIP
    Krishnamurti
  • The Impact of Saharan Air Layer and Dust on Tropical Cyclone Genesis and Intensification
    Chen
  • The Precipitative Ring Pattern and Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification
    Jiang
• 9:15-9:45 BREAK
• 9:45-11:15 Oral presentations (15 min each including discussion)
  • Investigating Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change using WRF Simulations, In-situ Field Data and Satellite and Aircraft Remote Sensing Observations
    McFarquhar
  • Observed Oceanic and Atmosphere Interactions During Hurricane Earl (2010) From Satellite and In Situ Data
    Shay
  • The JPL Tropical Cyclone Information System: A 12-year global archive of multi-satellite hurricane observations and the 2010 GRIP portal of the Atlantic
    Hirstova-Veleva
  • The relationship of vorticity tilt in genesis and eyewall tilt post-genesis to TC structural and intensity change from GRIP and related remotely sensed data
    Hart
  • Investigating the 'G' and 'RI' Using Numerical Modeling and a Host of In Situ GRIP Data
    Fuelberg
  • How have the tropical storms over the Arabian Sea intensified recently?
    Shieh
• 11:15-1:00 LUNCH BREAK
• 1:00-2:30 Poster session II
  1. Using high‐resolution WRF simulations and satellite simulators and to understand passive microwave signatures in rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones
     S. W. Nesbitt, D. S. Harnos, G. M. McFarquhar, B. F. Jewett
  2. Convective evolution, heating structures, and spin-up during rapid intensification under varying shear
     D. S. Harnos, S. W. Nesbitt
  3. An Ensemble Approach to Examining the Role of Cloud Condensation Nuclei on the Evolution of Idealized Tropical Cyclones
     R.J. Maliawco Jr., G.M. McFarquhar and B.F. Jewett
  4. The Role of Deep Convection in Moistening the Inner Core Regions of Developing Tropical Cyclones: Evidence from GRIP 2010
     J. Zawislak and E. Zipser
  5. Title: Estimating Momentum and Enthalpy Fluxes During Hurricanes Earl and Karl
     Lynn (Nick) Shay, Benjamin Jaimes, Jodi Brewster, Patrick Meyers
  6. "Tropical Upper-Tropospheric Troughs and Tropical Cyclones: Past, Present, and Future"
     O.Shieh
  7. “Understanding the Relationships Between Lightning, Cloud Microphysics, and Airborne Radar‐Derived Storm Structure during Hurricane Karl (2010)”
     B. J. Reinhart, H. E. Fuelberg, A. J. Heymsfield, R. J. Blakeslee, and S. L. Durden
  8. "Evaluating tropical cyclogenesis forecasts from four global numerical models"
     D. Halperin
  9. “Analysis of Tropical Cyclone Eye Slope Using Airborne Radar Reflectivity Data”
     A. Hazelton and R. Hart
  10. “The Evolution of Dropsonde‐derived Vorticity in Developing and Non‐ developing Tropical Convective Systems"
      C. Helms and R. Hart
  11. "Comparison of TC size metrics between recon and satellite datasets and their relationship with intensity and intensity change”
      J. Cossuth and R. Hart
  12. "Lagrangian flow boundaries present during cyclogenesis"
      B. Rutherford and M. Montgomery
• 2:30-3:00 Oral or additional poster presentations
• 3:00-3:30 BREAK
• 3:30-4:00 Data systems, field catalog, websites, ground servers, remote presence, effective use of data archives by science team and collaborators?
• 4:00-5:00 Discussion/Action Items/Publication plans
  Zipser/Braun
• 5:00-5:30 Summary and Marching Orders
  Kakar
• 5:30 Adjourn