Date: 25 September 2024
Time: 8:30 MT/ 16:30 - 17:30 CET
Participants:
- NOAA:
- Jennifer Webster
- Douglas Rao
- European Commission - CNECT:
- Jakub Dabrowski
- ECMWF
- Stephan Siemen
- Michael Maier-Gerber
- Linus Magnusson
Agenda:
- Upcoming deadlines for project outreach - AGU and AMS and other meetings
- AGU - on Urban Heat Stress topic → brainstorming after NOAA AI workshop end of this week
- AMS - on TC use case → define asap what we can show - main theme on 2024 season review & preparation on next hurricane season
- HFIP Nov 12-15, 2024
- TCORF Mar 3-7, 2025 → good opportunity to showcase what we can offer for 2025 Hurricane season
- Confluence Wiki is now open
- Reminder on links on TC web pages on existing resources: Use case - Tropical Cyclone tracking
- Discussion of attainable initial goals
- Training AIFS with TCPRIMED data
- Zarr format needed for data vs netCDF
- ECMWF progress on identifying necessary work (Michael Maier-Gerber)
- Kate Musgrave - NOAA POC for TCPRIMED
- More to report on by early March
- Best (existing) forum to do it? - NOAA AI Workshop Slack channel
- ECMWF gave update on latest TC activities - (Linus Magnuson)
- Also available - GitHub Repo
- S3 Bucket : Three year archive of the AIWP models (FCN1, FCN2, GCST, PANG) run from GFS initialization (00z and 12z runs) , as well as updating with real-time runs https://noaa-oar-mlwp-data.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
- Overview on current TC storms (Helene, John)
- Suggestion of next steps (Mark DeMaria): Take 2024 AIFS forecast work and run through verification steps for comparison study with the NHC verification
- Some visualization from Jacob Radford (CIRA)- https://aiweather.cira.colostate.edu/
- CIRA paper on TC track and intensity evaluation from AIWP models submitted to AMS; preprint available: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.06735
- GraphCAST trained on GDAS (EMC running): https://noaa-nws-graphcastgfs-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#graphcastgfs.20240827/00/forecasts_13_levels/
- Getting TCPRIMED data into DestinE
- Benchmarks on TC model output.
- Next Steps
- On EU side: KNMI & Red Cross as part of Paratus project
- NOAA communication to local users
- Engagement efforts with Southeastern and Caribbean groups are being planned after hurricane season
- NOAA AI Workshop for a slack channel - Douglas Rao (POC) started a channel and will send invitation to individuals - #ai-for-good
- Outreach plans to Caribbean Stakeholders after 2024 hurricane season
- How can DestinE/AIFS work can feed into 2024 season review & 2025 season prep on NOAA side?