GHRC 2014 UWG Agenda | Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center (GHRC)

Logistics and Planning Information

Dates	0800 Thursday, September 25 2014 through 1500 Friday, September 26, 2014
Location	National Space Science and Technology Center Bud Cramer Research Hall 320 Sparkman Drive Huntsville, Alabama 35899 Phone: 256-961-7000 (building #26 on campus map, west side of Sparkman Drive)
Documents	UWG Charter

Meeting Agenda and Presentations

Day 1: Thursday, September 25, 2014

0800 - 0830	Coffee; meet and greet
0830 - 0845	GHRC Welcome (Ramachandran) UAH Welcome (Graves)
0845 - 0945	Opening Comments Meeting Overview & Logistics (Harrison) View from HQ (Kakar) View from ESDIS (Berrick)
0945 - 1030	GHRC DAAC Overview Presentation Management & Organization (Conover) Vision (Ramachandran) DISCUSSION
1030 - 1100	Break - SPoRT Tour (Zavodsky)
1100 - 1200	Infrastructure Hardware and Processing Automation (Ellett, Beaumont) Data Search, access and Order Tools (Harrison) DISCUSSION Web presence (Smith, Flynn) DISCUSSION
1200 - 1300	Working Lunch
1300 - 1430	Data and Related Tools Satellite and Airborne Microwave Data & Tools Data overview (Drewry) Regional Air Sea Interactions Tool (Keiser) DISCUSSION Field Campaigns Data overview Hurricane Science (Bugbee) GPM Ground Validation (Hawkins) Mission Coordination Portal (He) HS3 Data System (Maskey) DISCUSSION
1430 - 1500	Break
1500 - 1700	UWG Member presentations (10 minutes each) Microwave Research Assessing Global Water and Energy Budgets (Kummerow) Merging retrievals for passive microwave imagers and sounders (Duncan) Lightning Research Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) for the International Space Station (ISS): Mission description and science goals (Blakeslee) Monitoring the performance of space-based optical lightning sensors (Buechler) Multi-sensor data workflows for lightning science (Bruning) Hurricane Science Global distributions of various types of precipitation systems from radar and passive microwave observations (Liu) The Cyclone Global Navigation System (CYGNSS) Earth Venture Mission (Ruf) Contributions of GHRC datasets to the Zipser Tropical Convection Research Group (Zawislak) GPM Ground Validation GPM Field Campaigns (Wolff) Applications Integration of Earth Science Research and Education at UAH (Griffin) SPoRT/MSFC Applied Science: Disaster Activities (Molthan)
1700 - 1730	Summary, actions, and wrap-up (Ramachandran)
1730	Adjourn
1830	Working Dinner - 1892 East ( Driving Directions)

Day 2: Friday, September 26, 2014

0800 - 0830	Coffee; meet and greet
0830 - 0845	Welcome, recap, plan for day (Ramachandran)
0845 - 0930	Lightning Data and Tools (Regner) Data overview LIS Space Time Search GLM Validation Tool DISCUSSION
0930 - 1000	AMSR SIPS highlights LANCE AMSR2 (Lin) AMSR-E Provenance Browser (McEniry) DISCUSSION
1000 - 1020	ESDIS initiatives (Conover) DISCUSSION
1020 - 1030	Charge to UWG (Ramachandran)
1030 - 1100	Break - SERVIR Tour (Irwin)
1100 - 1330	Executive Session - discussion and report (working lunch provided) (UWG)
1330 - 1430	Board Advice to DAAC - prioritization of current work and future efforts (All)
1430 - 1500	Summary of Actions and Meeting Wrap-up (Ramachandran)
1500	Adjourn

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