TCI Planning Meeting April 14-15, 2015

TCI Planning Meeting

NOTE: The presentations are password protected for TCI Investigators only. For access, please contact the Principal Investigators listed in the TCI Contacts Section below.

 

Tuesday, 14 April 2015
0800 Arrival and check-in
0830 Welcome, Logistics, Introductions (S. Chang, J. Doyle)
0835 Opening Remarks (R. Ferek, J. Feldmeier)
0840 Meeting organization, goals (J. Doyle, Harr)
0845 Science objectives discussion for TCI DRI (Doyle, Tripoli, Harr, Molinari)
  TCI Science Objectives Hypotheses (Doyle, Laudier, Tripoli, Harr, Molinari)
0945 HDSS Review - Overview of Nov. test flight dataset (Moskaitis) (1-4 slides)
  Science Requirements for HDSS (Discussion)
1015 2015 NOAA SHOUT Objectives (Dunion)
1025 NOAA's Intensity Forecasting Experiment (IFEX) (Rogers)
1035 Break
1045 IOP Preparation and Support
  TCI and Collaborators Project Timeline (Moore)
  TCI Time Line (Doyle)
      Daily meetings, pre- and post-flight briefings etc.
1200 Working Lunch
1215 Mission Planning Organization and Mission Implementation (Doyle; EOL)
  - TCI Organization

- Chief Scientist

- Mission Science Director and Mission Science Team

- Ops Director

- Mission coordination

- Aircraft ops and support

- Facilities

- Forecasting

- Data flow and management

- Field Catalog and MTS

- Action Item: Staff schedule Draft Discussion
  Plan Aircraft Tracks (Creasey)
1315 Operation Centers (EOL Lead)
  Science Operations Centers

Monterey (virtual) (July-24 Aug; 1-31 Oct)

  - Access, Facilities, Contact<

Wallops, VA (22 Aug-30 Sep)

  - Access, Facilities, Contact
  Aircraft Operations Center

Houston, TX (Ellington)

  - Access, Facilities, Contact
  Potential forward bases

MacDill, Wallops, El Paso, ???

- Define base options
1345 Facilities Discussion (Doyle) (1 slide each)
  WB-57 (capabilities, payload, changes, constraints) (WB-57 group)
  HDSS (capabilities, changes, constraints) (Beaubien; Harrison)
  Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) (Cecil)
  Global Hawk (capabilities, payload, changes, constraints) (Dunion)
  NOAA G-IV, P3 (capabilities, payload, changes, constraints) (Rogers)
  Remote Sensing (Velden; Cossuth)
1445 Project Communications (Moore)
  Ops center, IOP ops center, Wisconsin forecasting
1515 Break
1530 Discussion of "Perfect Storm" Scenario I: Bertha (Dunion; Black)
1600 Discussion of "Perfect Storm" Scenario II: WATL (Moskaitis; Doyle)
1630 Discussion of "Perfect Storm" Scenario III: E. Pacific (Moskaitis; Doyle)
1700 Continued discussion of key issues as needed; possible working dinner


Wednesday, 15 April 2015
0800 Arrival and check-in
0830 Aircraft Flight Operations (Doyle, EOL)
  Crew duty for WB-57 (WB-57 group)
  WB-57 Modules (Black, Dunion)
  2015 SHOUT Global Hawk Flight Modules (Dunion)
  Possible IFEX G-IV / P-3 patterns (Rogers)
  Mission coordination in real time (Doyle)
  Division of WB-57 Flights Hours for each Science Objective (Doyle)
  Coordinated flight modules for perfect storm scenario
  (Breakout as needed: Moskaitis, McNoldy, Dunion, Black, Rogers)
0945 Break
1000 Forecasting and Real-time Modeling (Herndon/Velden)
  Forecasting and Nowcasting: Requirements (Herndon/Velden)
  TCI Model Summary (Doyle; Moskaitis)
  Operational Model Timing / Availability (Doyle; Moskaitis; McNoldy)
1100 Data Management (EOL)
  Real time data access

  - HDSS (Harrison)

  - HIRAD (Cecil)
  HDSS XDD Quality Control (Molinari; Bell; Harrison)
  Quick-look data sets (Molinari; Bell; Harrison; Cecil)
  Data portal and archive (Doyle)
  Data policy (EOL)
1200 Lunch/Discussions
1315 TCI Data Management (Williams), NCAR Field Catalog (Stossmeister)
1345 NASA Mission Tools Suite (MTS) (Duley)
1415 WB-57 Test flight plans for May: Discussion (Doyle)
  Set date for test flight
  TCI Dry run and “Shake down” flight plans for July 2015: Discussion (Doyle)
1515 Organization of TCI teams (Doyle; Laudier)
1545 Operations Plan Writing Assignments (Doyle; Laudier)
  Writing session (breakout in groups)
  Deadline for contributions to the plan: 1 May
1645 Actions Items, Wrap Up, Timeline leading to field deployment