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Date: March 21, 2024

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

Participants: 17 people

Agenda

Introductions

Agency Updates:

S. Department of State
- Looking for timelines for bringing another (Caribbean) partner
- What technological level is needed for a partner?
NOAA
- Joint Venture (JV) projects (3) - Digital Twin for Earth Observations (EO-DT) Using Artificial Intelligence | NESDIS
- Project 1 of 3 is complete: Joint Venture Digital Twin Report from Science and Technology Corp. (STC) https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/joint-venture-digital-twin-report
- Projects 2 & 3 scheduled for completion this fall
Destination Earth
- Platform will open by June 11, 2024

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)
- Input data - Tropical Cyclone PRecipitation, Infrared, Microwave, and Environmental Dataset (TC PRIMED) - on AWS, netCDF format, EODT,
  1. For information on the TC PRIMED dataset see the NCAI Website: Learning Journey Library | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  2. TC PRIMED access details: https://rammb-data.cira.colostate.edu/tcprimed/products.html
  3. NOAA’s Open Data Dissemination (NODD) program via AWS S3 buckets of NetCDFs: https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nesdis-tcprimed-pds/
  4. AI-ready Interoperable data exchange is a key ingredient to an ecosystem of interoperable Digital Twins. - RR
- DestinE - DestinE system, including the first two Earth-system Digital Twins, Digital Twin Engine, Data Lake and Core Service Platform
  1. Digital Twin on Climate Change Adaptation
  2. Digital Twin on Weather-induced Extremes
- ECMWF Data products available in Data Lake - go through platform to access
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

Connect on both sides (State department and EU) - how to engage with users in the Caribbean
Jen to get NHC contacts from Florian
Stephan and Jen - Draft Use case descriptions for both by the end of April

Write a 2-page summary of project for users - why is this different from what is already available, and how aligned with current efforts
Stephan and Jen to tag up before Easter

Set up platform for Community of Practice (CoP) - ESIP or other organization (Jen and Stephan to discuss)

Next meetings:

Virtual meeting of possible interest: NIHHIS annual meeting - https://www.heat.gov/pages/nihhis-national-meeting - April 16-18, 2024
ECMWF-NOAA Bilateral Meeting, Silver Spring, MD - June 26-27, 2024
Check in over the summer - TBD
6th NOAA AI Workshop (2024) | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - September 16-19, 2024 - focused on a broad “heat” marine, land, etc theme; good opportunity to leverage for initial development of the EC-NOAA heat use case
Possible in person meeting (Brussels?) in the fall - TBD