GRIP Science Meeting June 6-8, 2011

GRIP Science Meeting
June 6-8, 2011
Los Angeles, CA

Day One - June 6, 2011

 

Day Two - June 7, 2011

Day Three - June 8, 2011

• 2:00-2:15   Introduction / Greeting  (Kakar)
  • Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes ( GRIP) Field Experiment
    Ramesh Kakar Earth Science Division NASA Headquarters
• 2:15–2:30 Overview of GRIP scientific objectives, purpose of meeting (Braun)
  • Genesis and Rapid Intensification Process (GRIP) Experiment
• 2:30-3:00 Overview of GRIP research flights (Global Hawk, DC-8, WB-57; (Zipser, Heymsfield)
  • NASA GRIP 2010 -  Overview of research flights
    Ed Zipser, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
    Gerry Heymsfield, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
• 3:00-3:30  Overview of PREDICT scientific objectives, research flights (G-V; Montgomery, Davis and/or Smith)
  • PREDICT
    Lead PI: Michael Montgomery, Naval Postgraduate School & NOAA-HRD
  • Movie from presentation (35MB)
• 3:30-4:00 Break
• 4:00-4:30 Overview of IFEX, NOAA, UAS Scientific Objectives, research flights (Rogers, Wick)
  • Summary of NOAA's 2010 Hurricane Field Program (IFEX)
    Robert Rogers – 2010 HFP Field Program Director
• 4:30 – 6:00 Brief reports from GRIP instrument scientists on performance of HIWRAP, HAMSR. LIP. APR-2, LARGE, LASE, DAWN, Cloud Microphysics, HIRAD (G.Heymsfield, Lambrigtsen, Durden, Anderson, Ismail, Kavaya, A.Heymsfield, Miller)
  • High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP) Measurements During GRIP
    

    Gerry Heymsfield NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
    Lihua Li, Matt Mclinden, Martin Perrine, Lin Tian, Steve Guimond, Jaime Cervantes/ NASA/GSFC
    James Carswell / Remote Sensing Solutions

  • Performance of HAMSR during GRIP
    

    Shannon Brown, Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Richard Denning, Boon Lim,
    Jordan Tanabe, Alan Tanner Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

  • Lightning Instrument Package (LIP): Performance and Status of Data Processing
    Richard J. Blakeslee, Principal Investigator NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

  • 2nd Generation Airborne Precipitation Radar (APR-2)
    

    S. Durden, S. Tanelli, Z. Haddad, E. Im Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • Langley Aerosol Research Group Experiment (LARGE)
    Bruce Anderson (PI), Luke Ziemba, Andreas Beyersdorf, Lee Thornhill, Eddie Winstead, Gao Chen
  • LASE measurements during GRIP: A Brief Overview
    Syed Ismail, Richard Ferrare, Johnathan Hair and
    the LASE Team
  • DAWNDoppler Aerosol WiNd lidar
    Michael J. Kavaya, NASA Langley Research Center
  • GRIP DC8 Microphysical Observations
    

    Andrew Heymsfield and Aaron Bansemer, NCAR
    Yaitza Luna-Cruz, Howard University

  • Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) operations and results from GRIP
    PI:  Timothy L. Miller, NASA/MSFC
    Co-I’s:  Linwood Jones, UCF; Chris Ruf, U Mich; Eric Uhlhorn, NOAA/AOML

  • Dropsonde Data Quality Control: GRIP Data Debrief
    

    Jeff Halverson, UMBC; Junhong Wang, NCAR

• 6:00 Informal discussions over Happy Hour and Dinner
• 8:00-8:45  Brief reports from PREDICT and IFEX representatives on performance of instruments (Montgomery, Rogers)
• 8:45-9:30 Summary of data availability from each program (Tri-agency lead scientists and/or data managers)
  • GRIP Archive Data Set Status
    Michael Goodman NASA/MSFC
• 9:30-11:00 Poster session, discussion, refreshments
  • Overview of Aerosol Measurements from the DC-8 during NASA GRIP
    LUKE D. ZIEMBA, Andreas J. Beyersdorf, Gao Chen, Charlie Hudgins, Syed Ismail, K. Lee Thornhill, Edward L. Winstead, Bruce E. Anderson NASA Langley Research Center
    Chelsea Corr, Jack E. Dibb University of New Hampshire
    Lucas Craig, Suresh Dhaniyala Clarkson University
    Terry Latham, A. Nenes Georgia Institute of Technology
  • LASE measurements of water vapor and aerosol profiles and cloud distributions during GRIP
    Susan Kooi, Marta Fenn, Carolyn Butler, James Collins, SSAI
    Syed Ismail, Richard Ferrare, Johnathan Hair, Anthony Notari, Dave Harper, NASA Langley Research Center
    Amin Nehrir, Montana State University
    Tamer Refaat, Old Dominion University
    Jeff Halverson Univeristy of Maryland Baltimore Campus
  • Understanding the Relationships Between Lightning, Cloud Microphysics,
    and Airborne Radar-Derived Storm Structure During Hurricane Karl
    Brad Reinhart, Henry Fuelberg Florida State University
    Andrew Heymsfield National Center for Atmospheric Research
    Richard Blakeslee NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
    Stephen Durden Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Vortex- and convective-scale structure and evolution during the rapid intensification of Hurricane Earl (2010)
    Robert Rogers, Paul Reasor, NOAA/AOML Hurricane Research Division
    Sylvie Lorsolo, Jun Zhang University of Miami/CIMAS
  • Thermodynamic Differences between Developing and Non-Developing Disturbances using the PREDICT-GRIP-IFEX Dropsonde Database
    Jonathan Zawislak and Ed Zipser
    Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Utah
  • HIRAD Capabilities
    Chris Ruf University of Michigan
    Pete Black NRL/SAIC
    Sayak Biswas, Linwood Jones University of Central Florida
    Courtney Buckley, Mark James, Tim Miller NASA MSFC
    Eric Uhlhorn NOAA / HRD
  • Wind Speed and Rain Rate Retrievals from HIRAD and Comparison with the Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer
    Linwood Jones, Sayak Biswas, Cathy May University of Central Florida
    Eric Uhlhorn NOAA / HRD
    Courtney Buckley, Tim Miller, Mark James NASA MSFC
    Chris Ruf University of Michigan
    Pete Black NRL/SAIC
  • Wind Retrieval Techniques for Downward-Pointing, Conically-Scanning Airborne Doppler Radars
    Stephen R. Guimond, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Greenbelt, MD
    Gerald M. Heymsfield, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
    Stephen Frasier, Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory, Amherst, MA
    Lin Tian, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Morgan State University, Greenbelt, MD
  • Methodology for Wind Retrieval from HIWRAP Conical Scan Data: Preliminary Results from Tropical Storm Matthew
    Lin Tian GESTAR/NASA/GSFC
    Gerry Heymsfield, Lihua Li NASA/GSFC
    Steve Guimond ORAU/NASA/GSFC
    Ramesh Srivastava University of Chicago
• 11:00-11:30 Begin Open Discussion, focus on potential for collaboration among all participants in 2010 field programs
• 11:30-1:00  Lunch break
• 1:00-2:00 Continue Open Discussion, focus on potential for collaboration among all participants in 2010 field programs
• 2:00-3:00 Begin talks by Science Team members (4 X 15 minutes)
  • Microphysical Observations in Hurricane Earl
    Andrew Heymsfield and Aaron Bansemer, NCAR
    Yaitza Luna-Cruz, Howard University
  • The Influence of Dust-radiation-microphysics Processes on Tropical Cyclone Development
    Shu-Hua Chen, H.-H. Lee, Y.-C. Liu, M. Waylonis University of California, Davis
    C.-T. Cheng, J.-P. Chen, Y.-C. Lin, I-C. Tsai National Taiwan University
  • Multi-scale Analysis of Hurricane Earl’s (2010) Rapid Intensification
    J. Halverson and J. Thomas UMBC/NASA
    G. Heymsfield NASA GSFC
    R. Pasken SLC
  • The JPL GRIP Portal: A comprehensive depiction of the 2010 hurricane season with satellite, model and airborne imagery (NASA GRIP, NSF PREDICT, NOAA IFEX)
    S. Hristova-Veleva, P. P. Li , F. J. Turk, B. Knosp , Q. Vu B. Lambrigtsen, Y. Chao, Z. Haddad, D. Vane, H. Su, S. Tanelli
    M. Montgomery, M. Boothe, C. Davis, C. Velden, J. Hawkins, G. Stossmeister, J. Metin, R. Rogers
    F. Marks, S. Gopalakrishnan, T. Quirino, T. Vukicevic
  • The JPL Tropical Cyclone Informa5on System -­ a satellite database and analysis tools to study hurricanes
    S. Hristova-Veleva, P. P. Li , F. J. Turk, B. Knosp , Q. Vu, B. Lambrigtsen, Y. Chao, Z., Haddad, D. Vane, H. Su, S. Tanelli
    M. Goodman, H. Conover (and team)

  • The 37-GHz Ring Pattern As An Early Indicator of  Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification
    Haiyan Jiang, Tie Yuan Florida International University
    Margie Kieper Private Consultant
    Edward J. Zipser University of Utah
    John Kaplan NOAA Hurricane Research Division

  • HAMSR observations of the evolving inner-core structure of Karl during rapid intensification
    

    Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Ali Behrangi, Shannon Brown, Richard Denning, Boon Lim, Jordan Tanabe, Alan Tanner Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

• 3:00-4:30 Poster session, discussion, refreshments
  • Climatology of Recon and Hursat Data to Diagnose Hurricane Core Characteristics: Toward Their Use in Short-Term Intensity Prediction
    Josh Cossuth, Robert Hart Florida State University Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
    Andrew Murray University of South Alabama Department of Earth Sciences
  • TC genesis guidance using pre-development Dvorak climatology
    Josh Cossuth, Robert Hart Florida State University EOAS
    Richard Knabb The Weather Channel
    Daniel P. Brown NOAA/NCEP/NHC
  • A Relationship Between Convectively-Coupled Atmospheric Kelvin Waves and Atlantic Tropical Cyclogenesis
    Michael J. Ventrice, Chris D. Thorncroft
    University at Albany
  • The 13-Year TRMM-Based Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Feature (TCPF) Database
    Haiyan Jiang
    Department of Earth & Environment, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
    Chuntao Liu, Edward J. Zipser
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Factors Affecting Genesis of Hurricane Karl (2010)
    Xiaqiong Zhou, Bin Wang Department of Meteorology, SOEST, University of Hawaii
    Fuqing Zhang Department of Meteorology, Penn State University
  • On the Role of the SAL in the Evolution of Hurricane Helene During NAMMA: Lessons Learned for GRIP
    Scott Braun, Chung-Lin Shie, Jason Sippel, and Ryan Boller, NASA/GSFC
• 4:30-5:30 Talks by Science Team Members (6 X 15 minutes)
  • Application of NASA Field Observations, Satellite Measurements and High-Resolution WRF Simulations for Study of Physical and Dynamical Processes in Tropical Cyclones
    G. M. McFarquhar, B. F. Jewett, S. W. Nesbitt, M. Gilmore, D. Harnos and R. Maliawco University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • The Value of High Time Resolution Data in Tropical Cyclone Studies
    John Molinari and David Vollaro Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
    University at Albany, SUNY
  • Systematically Merged Atlantic Regional Temperature and Salinity (SMARTS) Climatology: Application to Hurricane Earl
    

    Pat Meyers,  Lynn K. “Nick” Shay,  Jodi Brewster, Benjamin Jaimes

  • Development of a WRF-EnKF system for GH: Very preliminary results for Karl (2010)
    

    Jason Sippel and Scott Braun - NASA GSFC

  • The APR-2 algorithm suite and the GRIP experiment dataset
    

    S. Tanelli, S. Durden, Z. Haddad, R. Chen Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • The role of convectively-coupled atmospheric Kelvin waves during the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season
    

    Michael J. Ventrice, Alan Brammer, Chris D. Thorncroft Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, University at Albany, Albany, NY

  • Secondary Eyewall Replacement and Associated Intensity Change
    Xiaqiong Zhou and  Bin Wang Meteorology Department, University of Hawaii

• 5:30-6:00 Summary, discussion, action items (Zipser, Braun)
• 6:00 Informal discussions over Happy Hour and Dinner
  • 8:00-8:10 Greeting / Comments on Days 1,2  ( Kakar)
  • 8:10-9:10 Talks by Science Team members (4 X 15 minutes)
  • 9:10 – 10:00 GRIP Goals / Questions addressed  ( Braun/Zipser)
  • 10:00 – 10:30  BREAK
  • 10:30- 11:30 Data systems      (Goodman, Hristova-Veleva)
    How to Access Data
    Real time data, field catalog
    Websites, ground servers
    Remote presence
    Data Archive
  • 11:30 – 1:00 LUNCH
  • 1:00 – 2:00 GRIP Goals / Questions addressed                     Braun/Zipser
  • 2:00 – 4:00 Lessons Learned (12 min each)
    • Flight planning                                                            Zipser
    • Student roles                                                              Halverson
    • Global Hawk                                                               Fratello
    • Dropsondes; looking ahead to HS3                      Wick, Braun
    • DC-8                                                                             Cutler
    • WB-57                                                                           Baccus
    • Operations and Communications                          Vasques                   
  • 4:30–4:50  Discussion/Action Items/Publication plans              Zipser, Braun
  • 4:50-5:00  Summary and Marching Orders                                   Kakar
  • 5:00 Adjourn