Community Meeting on the Future of the US Weather Prediction Enterprise Agenda and Presentations
Dates: July 26-28, 2005
Location: University of Colorado, Stadium Club at Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado
Organized by the American Meteorological Society in Partnership with the Weather Coalition. Financial Support Provided by AMS Commission on the Weather and Climate Enterprise, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the following members of the Weather Coalition: University of Oklahoma, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Reinsurance Association of America, and The Weather Channel.
Objectives
- Examine the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. weather prediction enterprise.
- Discuss who is the weather prediction community and how community decisions should be made.
- Examine the need for a more cooperative and coordinated approach to weather prediction operations and research.
- Discuss concrete next steps, consistent with the consensus of the meeting.
Agenda, Attendees and Presentations
All files are in PDF format.
Meeting Agenda
Attendees
Role of the Commercial Weather Enterprise in the American Weather Enterprise
Elliot Abrams, CCM
US Weather Prediction Enterprise Strengths and Areas needing Attention
Richard A. Anthes
U.S. WEATHER/CLIMATE PREDICTION ENTERPRISE “A” Private Sector Viewpoint
Raymond J. Ban, The Weather Channel, Inc.
Strengths and Weaknesses of the US Weather Prediction and Dissemination Enterprise: A View From the North.
Michel Béland, Director General, Atmospheric and Climate Science Directorate Meteorological Service of Canada
A New Model for the U.S. Weather Prediction Enterprise –A Public Sector View
Richard L. Carpenter, Jr., Ph.D., CCM, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc.
“Design and Development of
Multi-functional Mesoscale
Observing Networks in
Support of Integrated
Forecasting Systems”
Fred Carr, University of Oklahoma (presenter)
Walt Dabberdt, Vaisala Inc.
Tom Schlatter, NOAA/OAR/FSL & CIRES
Analysis of Record: An Opportunity for Community Cooperation
Brad Colman, AMS Commissioner Scientific and Technological Activities Commission
John Horel, Department of Meteorology, University of Utah
Elements of the Weather Prediction-Decision Process Observations Quality
Walter Dabberdt, NCAR
Perspective on Strengthening the U.S. Weather Enterprise
Brig. Gen. David L. Johnson, USAF (Ret.), NOAA Assistant Administrator for Weather Services
How Can the Weather Enterprise Make Decisions?
Edward Johnson, Director of Strategic Planning and Policy, National Weather Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Lessons Learned from the U.S. Global Change Research Program Experience
Jack D. Fellows, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
The NRC “Fair Weather Report”: Implications for the Future and the new AMS Commission on the Weather and Climate Enterprise
George Frederick, Vaisala Inc., Chair, AMS Commission on the Weather and Climate Enterprise
Lessons Learned from the USWRP: from Onset to Reset
John Gaynor, NOAA (presenter) for Bob Gall, NCAR
The Future of the U.S. Weather Prediction Enterprise
Mary M. Glackin, Assistant Administrator, NOAA Program Planning and Integration
WRF Community Model Development:Lessons Learned
Joe Klemp, NCAR
NCEP Operational Prediction:Current status and future plans
Stephen J. Lord, Director, NCEP Environmental Modeling Center
A Vision of the Future for the U.S. Weather Prediction Enterprise
Cliff Mass, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
Regional Weather Prediction: A Developing National Model?
Cliff Mass, University of Washington
Revisiting Six Heretical Notions in 2005
Roger A. Pielke, Jr., University of ColoradoCenter for Science and Technology Policy Research
Who is the Community?
Paul Pisano, Federal Highway Administration Road Weather Management
NOAA and the Weather NOAA and the Weather Research Community Research Community
Richard D. Rosen, Ph.D. Assistant Administrator, NOAA/OAR Assistant Administrator, NOAA/OARChair, NOAA Research Council Chair, NOAA Research Council
Opportunities and Challenges Associatedwith Multiple-Source MesoscaleObservations
Tom Schlatter, CIRES / NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory
The Weather Coalition
Cindy Schmidt (presenter)
Ray Ban, Weather Coalition Co-Chair
John Snow, Weather Coalition Co-Chair
Challenges for the Weather Academic Community
John T. Snow, Dean, College of Geosciences, University of Oklahoma
The Future of the U.S. Weather The Future of the U.S. Weather
Prediction Enterprise
Joel M. Widder,
Government Relations Consultant,
The University Corporation The University Corporation
for Atmospheric Research
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