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Weather and Water Theme Introduction and Overview

This presentation by Michael Kalb provides an in-depth look at the 5-year plan to enhance weather forecast accuracy, improve water resource forecasting, and support NOAA's research in coasts, estuaries, and oceans. Priority research activities include advancing data assimilation, improving hurricane intensity forecasts, and monitoring air quality. Discover how utilizing satellites, employing remote sensing technologies, and incorporating multi-sensor algorithms contribute to the progress in weather and water research. Oral and poster presentations demonstrate the operational impact of these research activities on predicting severe weather, monitoring soil moisture, and enhancing forecasting capabilities in coastal regions and oceans.

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Weather and Water Theme Introduction and Overview

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  1. Weather and Water ThemeIntroduction and Overview Presented by Michael Kalb

  2. Weather & Water Research Areasfrom 5-Year Research Plan • Improve weather forecast / warning accuracy & lead-time • Improve water resource forecasting capabilities • Improve NOAA’s understanding and forecast capability in coasts, estuaries and oceans • Provide information to air-quality decision makers and improve NOAA’s national air quality forecast capability • Science & Technology Infusion

  3. Weather & WaterPriority Research Activities Improve Weather Forecast and Warning Accuracy and Amount of Lead-time Improve predictions of high-impact weather (fire weather, hurricanes, heavy precipitation, floods ) Advance data assimilation and transfer of research and technology into operations through testbeds Improve understanding of hurricane force extra-tropical cyclones, supporting W&W and C&T objectives Link larger-scale global circulation fluctuations to local severe weather outbreaks Increase knowledge of space environment and advance solar & geomagnetic prediction models MW Products from NOAA/METOP/NPOESS Satellites (FuzhongWeng)  IR Temperature and Water Vapor Sounding (Chris Barnet) Satellite wind products (Jaime Daniels)  Using the GOES Sounder to Nearcast Severe Convection (Bob Aune)  Retrieved GOES Vertical Temperature & Moisture Profiles and Real-Time Products (Gary Wade)  Validation of sounding products - NOAA Products Validation System (Tony Reale) Precipitation and flash flood monitoring (Bob Kuligowski )  Improving Hurricane Intensity Forecasts (Mark DeMaria)  Fire Monitoring (Ivan Csiszar & ShobaKondragunta)  • Oral Presentation • Poster Presentation • Operational / Prediction 3

  4. Weather & WaterPriority Research Activities Improve water resources forecasting capabilities Leverage satellites to observe precipitation, snow water content, and soil moisture, and incorporate satellite information to fill gaps in ground-based radar Research and develop MW remote sensing of snow and ice to improve estimates of drought severity, regional water supplies, soil moisture, and snowmelt flood forecasting Improve multi-sensor precipitation algorithms using digital radar mosaics and dual-polarimetric variables. Improve Hydrologic Prediction Services to monitor and predict snow levels, snow-melt runoff, soil moisturewhich can precondition run-off rates. Soil moisture monitoring (Jerry Zhan) Precipitation and flash flood monitoring (Bob Kuligowski )  Land surface temperature (Bob Yu) • Oral Presentation • Poster Presentation • Operational / Prediction 4

  5. Weather & WaterPriority Research Activities 5 • Improve NOAA’s understanding & forecast capability in coasts, estuaries, & oceans • Supportocean, coastal, and Great Lakes observing system networks to improve accuracy, resolution, and coverage in nation’s ports, bays, estuaries, and open oceans. • Developenhanced sensors and monitoring techniques forobserving coastal regions from existing and new satellite sensors • Improve understanding through research integrating erosion, flood, riverine, hydrodynamic, wind, ocean circulation, storm surge, and related processes • Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO) (John Sapper) • Improved Cloud Mask and Quality Control for SST Retrievals (Boris Petrenko, & Sasha Ignatov) • Physical Retrieval Algorithms (Andy Harris & Eileen Maturi) • New Approach to Calibration of Broadband IR Sensors on NOAA Satellites (Jon Mittaz & Eileen Maturi) • Blended POES/GOES Ocean SST Products (Eileen Maturi) • In situ SST for satellite Cal/Val and Quality Control (Feng Xu & Sasha Ignatov) • NOAA/NESDIS Operational Satellite OSVW Products (Paul Chang)  • Impact of Satellite OSWV data on NWS Operations (Khalil Ahmad)  • Improved High Wind Retrievals from ASCAT Wind Vector Measurements (S. Soisuvarn) • Multi-platform satellite surface wind analysis for tropical cyclones (John Knaff) • Water Quality & Optical Property Characterizations for China’s Lake Taihu (Menghua Wang) • Marine environmental responses to a Land Reclamation project in South Korea (S-H Son, Menghua Wang)

  6. Weather & WaterPriority Research Activities 6 • Provide Information to Air Quality Decision Makers and Improve NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability • Provide Air Quality decision makers with tools & information with health / economic consequences • Advancemodel development, regional AQ assessments, and improved tools to monitor long-term trends. • Develop new approaches to more accurate and timely prediction of O3 and particulate matter • Develop air quality assessments of tropospheric O3 and particulates to support forecasts, policies & planning • Support regional assessments to characterize atmospheric processes that control pollution transport & transformation • Air Quality Products from NOAA Operational Satellites (ShobaKondragunta)  • Impacts of background O3 production on Houston & Dallas Air Quality during TexAQS field mission (Brad Pierce) • Fire monitoring (Ivan Csiszar & ShobaKondragunta) 

  7. Oral Presentations ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDINGS • MW Products from NOAA/METOP/NPOESS Satellites (Fuzhong Weng)  • IR Temperature and Water Vapor Sounding (Chris Barnet) • Using the GOES Sounder to Nearcast Severe Convection (Bob Aune)  • Satellite Wind Products (Jaime Daniels)  OCEAN REMOTE SENSING & SST • Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO) (John Sapper) • Blended POES/GOES Ocean SST Products (Eileen Maturi) OCEAN SURFACE SCATTEROMETER WINDS • NOAA/NESDIS Operational Satellite OSVW Products (Paul Chang)  PRECIPITATION AND TROPICAL STORMS • Precipitation and flash flood monitoring (Bob Kuligowski)  • Improving Hurricane Intensity Forecasts (Mark DeMaria)  LAND SURFACE • Soil moisture monitoring (Jerry Zhan) AIR & WATER QUALITY • Air Quality Products from NOAA Operational Satellites (Shoba Kondragunta)  • Water Quality & Optical Property Characterizations for China’s Lake Taihu (Menghua Wang)

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