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?