NWS / NCEP JTOP Projects
|
Title |
Description |
Principal Investigator / Point of Contact |
E-Mail |
Fiscal Year 2011 |
1 |
High Performance Computing and Communications |
Conduct testing necessary to ensure a successful operational implementation research gains |
W. Baker |
james.g.yoe@noaa.gov |
2 |
Forecast System Maintenance |
Provides code support and mentoring for JCSDA users of the NCEP Global Forecast System |
J. Derber, M. Lueken |
john.derber@noaa.gov |
3 |
Community Fast R/T Model |
Support the CRTM for community users |
P. Van Delst |
paul.vandelst@noaa.gov |
4 |
Community Emissivity Model |
Run experiments to evaluate surface emissitivity |
-- |
-- |
5 |
LDAS |
Provide support for users of the Noah Land Surface Model and the Land Surface Data Assimilation System (LDAS) |
W. Zheng |
weizhong.zheng@noaa.gov |
6 |
NPOESS Preparation |
Preparation for NPOESS system with users; execute experiments for impact of current and future instruments |
M. Masutani
Y. Song |
michiko.masutani@noaa.gov |
7 |
Data Impact Studies |
-- |
-- |
-- |
8 |
Ocean Data Assimilation |
Provides code support for JCSDA users of the NCEP Global Ocean Data Assimilation System |
S. Nadiga |
sudhir.nadiga@noaa.gov |
9 |
AIRS/MODIS |
-- |
-- |
-- |
10 |
GOES Imager Radiances |
Testing SEVIRI radiances, supported by GOES-R |
H. Liu |
haixia.liu@noaa.gov |
11 |
GOES-R |
Studies to influence GOES-R sensor design, and to prepare for GOES-R satellite data assimilation |
-- |
-- |
12 |
AMSR Products |
Evaluate accuracy and develop use of AMSR SST retrievals |
B. Katz |
bert.katz@noaa.gov |
13 |
AMSU |
-- |
-- |
-- |
14 |
GOES Winds |
-- |
X. Su |
xiujuan.su@noaa.gov |
15 |
Polar Winds |
-- |
-- |
-- |
16 |
Wind Lidar |
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S. Melchoir |
shelley.melchior@noaa.gov |
17 |
Precipitation and Clouds |
-- |
-- |
-- |
18 |
Clouds (water and ice) |
Collaborate with JCSDA scientisits to produce prototype satellite look-alike imagery and implement into NCEP operations |
B. Ferrier |
brad.ferrier@noaa.gov |
19 |
TRMM |
-- |
-- |
-- |
20 |
Ozone |
Add data assimilation of experimental and operational ozone measuring instruments to NCEP data assimilation systems; evaluate ozone forecasts |
S. Zhou |
-- |
21 |
Aerosols |
Add aerosol prediction using NASA GOCART software to NCEP Global Forecast System |
S. Lu |
sarah.lu@noaa.gov |
22 |
SST |
Continue to improve physical SST retrievals based on Variational Technique; improve Real-Time Global SST analysis; use additional instruments in physical retrieval algorithms as appropriate |
X. Li, B. Katz |
xu.li@noaa.gov |
23 |
Sea Ice |
-- |
-- |
-- |
24 |
Ocean surface winds, waves and roughness |
-- |
-- |
-- |
25 |
Ocean properties (salinity, currents, color, height) |
-- |
-- |
-- |
26 |
Snow Cover and Snowpack Content |
Run experiments using new snow cover algorithms and analyses |
G. Gayno |
george.gayno@noaa.gov |
27 |
Vegetation |
Provide new tools for initialization of land surface fields in NCEP Data Assimilation Systems and Forecast Models; test tools in global and WRF systems |
V. Wong |
vince.wong@noaa.gov |
28 |
Albedo, skin temperature, soil moisture |
Run experiments with new algorithms and model physics to improve surface properties and soil moisture distributions |
V. Wong |
vince.wong@noaa.gov |
29 |
Tropical Cyclone Initialization |
-- |
-- |
-- |
30 |
Bias Removal |
-- |
-- |
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31 |
Data Selection Techniques |
-- |
-- |
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32 |
EMC Omnibus Directed Research |
-- |
-- |
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33 |
R2O |
-- |
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