CRTF Telecon - 05-25-2016

NOAA Climate Reanalysis Task Force

25 May 2016, 2-3pm EDT

Rapporteur: Jack Woollen

Recording: https://mapp.adobeconnect.com/p5zxb8mgcd3/

2:00-2:01 Introduction and Welcome, Gil Compo

To Do for 29 June 2016 telecon

Projects prepare 5-7 summary of project status and outlook for 29 June 2016 telecon. Current plans call for this to be the last telecon.

Upcoming: Planning telecon for BAMS paper steering committee. Proposal has been accepted. 

2:02-2:45 IARPC Reanalysis White Paper and Overview of Global Weather Reanalysis for NCEP GEFS system, Tom Hamill, NOAA/ESRL/PSD



Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee white paper draft and comments page (Comments due by 10 June).

2:45-3:00 2 minutes per project to provide feedback on Task Force process:

with responses to questions: what went well, what went poorly, what could be improved? Please include the good, bad, and the ugly, and any other comments you would like to share

Research towards the next generation of NOAA Climate Reanalyses - PI: Kumar

Improving the Prognostic Ozone Parameterization in the NCEP GFS and CFS for Climate Reanalysis and Operational Forecasts - PI: Compo

Strategies to Improve Stratospheric Processes in Climate Reanalysis - PI: Long

Evaluating CFSR Air-Sea Heat, Freshwater, and Momentum Fluxes in the context of the Global Energy and Freshwater Budgets - PI: Yu

Improving the Land Surface Components of the CFS Reanalysis - PI: Ek and Mo

Exploration of advanced ocean data assimilation schemes at NCEP - PI: Carton

Diagnosing and quantifying uncertainties of the reanalyzed clouds, precipitation and radiation budgets over the Arctic and SGP using combined surface-satellite observations-PI: Dong