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Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere CIRA Colorado 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.
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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@cira.colostate.edu
CIRA HIGHLIGHTS, 2004-05 • CIRA Today • New Research Results and Applications • Response to NOAA SAB Review of CIRA • Some Future Plans
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
MSPPS data from NESDIS are reformatted, mapped, and made available to researchers at CIRA, NESDIS, and elsewhere: http://amsu.cira.colostate.edu AMSU Data Products (Kidder et al., 2005)
1-km resolution GOES products to match NWS radar coverage: http://amsu.cira.colostate.edu/GOES GOES Products
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.
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.)
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
NOAA’S 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 CSU’s 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
Progress on NOAA’s Nov. 2003 Peer Review Challenge for CIRA • All Science Themes under review vis-à-vis NOAA’s 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
Launch Sept ‘05 Funding from CSA and NASA First multi-satellite mission First cloud radar
Established New Center for Accelerating Research Results into Operations (CARRO) • With ORA and other CI’s (other CARRO’s?) • 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)
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 R&D (no porting science-to-ops code)
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/TPW
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