Date: March 21, 2024

Time: 7:30 am MT/ 2:30 pm CET


Participants: 17 people

  • NOAA
    • NCEI:
      • Eric Kihn
      • Jennifer Webster
      • Rob Redmon
      • Douglas Rao
    • EO-DT:
      • Beau Backus - NOAA Affiliate - JV Partnerships lead
      • Ramesh Rangachar - NOAA Affiliate 
  • U.S. State Department
    • Jillian Mannino
  • OSTP
    • Sylvia Gayle
  • European Commission - CNECT:
    • Grazyna PIESIEWICZ
    • Stephan Siemen
    • Charalampos Babis TSITLAKIDIS
    • Helen Kopman - DG CNECT - coordinator
    • Joanna Symonowicz
    • Jakub Dabrowski 
    • Mara Bubberman 
  • ECMWF:
    • Florian Pappenberger
    • Joern Hoffmann 

Agenda

Introductions

Agency Updates:

Discussion of TC DT idea

  • Use Case Kickoff / Urgency/ Ultimate tool for end users - develop an actual use case instead of just a theoretical exercise
    • Eric K. - Urban heat is more of a concept but TC is more tangible.
    • Florian P - they work with NHC - currently using ML AI2FS implementation but more
  • User engagement
    • Identifying potential users and how to engage
    • Output - improved track or total rainfall - start with standard products
      1. Uncertainty propagation is further down the line
      2. White Paper on uncertainty - co-production with user community use case representation
    • Understanding of the impact - may need several partners (from both U.S. and EU Caribbean islands)

 

  • Needed and Available Data sources (real-time and retrospective)
  • Data access, usage and exchange
    • Exchanges/standards for interoperability/integration of DTs, including for AI-ready data
  • Subjects originally on agenda not discussed at this meeting (ran out of time)
    • Data fusion (e.g. overlays) and assimilation (e.g. integration into product generation like AI4NWP)
    • Compute resources for AI/DT - Collaboration on AI/DT frameworks and software tools
    • Details around setting up a community of practice

 

Next Steps

 

  1. Connect on both sides (State department and EU) - how to engage with users in the Caribbean
  2. Jen to get NHC contacts from Florian
  3. Stephan and Jen - Draft Use case descriptions for both by the end of April
    1. Write a 2-page summary of project for users - why is this different from what is already available, and how aligned with current efforts
    2. Stephan and Jen to tag up before Easter
  4. Set up platform for Community of Practice (CoP) - ESIP or other organization (Jen and Stephan to discuss)

           

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