**WINTER T-PARC WORKSHOP**

**TENTATIVE AGENDA**

**Oct 8 (noon) - Oct 10 (5pm) 2008**

**World Weather Building, NCEP/EMC**

**Camp Springs, MD 20855**

**[Wednesday, October 8]{.underline}**

*Joint NAEFS / T-PARC session (afternoon)*

1:00 - 1:15 Opening remarks (Steve Lord) and Logistics (Yucheng Song)

1:15 - 2:15 Overview of NAEFS (Andre Methot & Zoltan Toth)

2:15 - 2:45 Discussion on NAEFS products for T-PARC

2:45 - 3:00 Break

3:00 - 4:00 Overview of Plans for Winter T-PARC (Zoltan Toth & Yucheng
Song)

4:15 - 4:30 Significance of T-PARC in WWRP & THORPEX (WMO) (Dave
Parsons)

4:30 - 5:00 Discussion on synergy between T-PARC & NAEFS

(Brian Mills, Rebecca Morss)

Socioeconomic research applications WG, WWRP

**[Thursday, October 9]{.underline}**

8:30 - 8:55 Coffee

*Adaptive Observing Platforms for Winter T-PARC*

8:55 - 9:30 G-IV Winter T-PARC preparation

(Jack Parrish, CDR Jeff Hagan, LCDR Will Odell)

9:30 - 9:45 C-130 Winter T-PARC preparation (Jon Talbot and Brian
Schroeder)

9:45 - 10:00 Russian Winter T-PARC Campaign (Alexander Kats,
Roshydromet)

10:00 - 10:15 Doppler Wind Lidar: Current Activities and Future Plans
(Wayman Baker)

10:15 - 10:30 Break

*Review of Summer T-PARC*

10:30 - 11:30 Summer phase of T-PARC summary (Pat Harr and Tetsuo
Nakazawa)

11:30 - 11:45 Future plans for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) within
NOAA

(Gary Wick)

11:45 - 12:30 Discussion on other platform issues

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

*Review of science plan for Winter T-PARC*

1:30 - 2:00 Remarks on winter T-PARC (Louis Uccellini)

2:00 - 2:30 Main theme of Winter T-PARC (Yucheng Song & Zoltan Toth)

*Short summary of plans from PIs*

2:30 - 2:45 Explosive cyclogenesis over western Pacific: predictability
and downstream impacts (Edmond Chang)

2:45 - 3:00 Cyclone structure and development (Yoshio Asuma)

3:00 - 3:15 Some thoughts on model errors and fuel efficient component
(Mel Shapiro)

3:15 - 3:30 Break

3:30 - 3:45 GFS Extratropical Cyclone Errors and the Linkage across the
Western

> Hemisphere (Brian Colle, SUNY)

3:45 - 4:00 GFS dropout cases (Jordan Albert and Brad Ballish)

4:00 - 4:15 A GFS dropout case study (Yucheng Song)

4:15 - 4:30 Analysis differences and error variance from different NWP
Centers (Mozeng Wei)

4:30 - 5:00 Discussion

6:30 Informal T-PARC Workshop dinner at a local restaurant

**[Friday, October 10]{.underline}**

8:00 - 8:30 Coffee

*Adaptive targeting guidance*

8:30 - 9:00 ET KF guidance for targeted observations out to 3 - 7 days

(Sharan Majumdar, U of Miami)

9:00 - 9:30 Discussion

*Summary of PI plans (15mins each)*

9:30 - 9:45 Adaptive targeting strategy at NCEP (Yucheng Song)

9:45 - 10:00 Adaptive targeting strategy at ECMWF

10:00 - 10:15 Break

10:15 - 10:30 DTS system review

10:30 - 10:45 Adaptive targeting strategy at NRL (Carolyn Reynolds)

10:45 - 11:15 Discussion

*Winter T-PARC operations*

11:15 - 12:00 Overview of operations / coordination / communication
(Yucheng Song)

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

1:00 - 1:30 Case selection, targeting

1:30 - 2:00 Observing system decision making, data access

2:00 - 2:15 Outreach -- Experimental products etc

Links with T-NAWDEX (Andreas Dornbrack)

2:15 - 2:30 More Realistic OSSE Nature Run for T-PARC (Yuanfu Xie)

2:30 - 2:45 Potential Impacts of NWP with winter-phase data on Winter
Olympic operations (Chris Doyle)

2:45 -- 3:00 Discussion

3:00 - 3:15 Break

*Post-field activities (evaluation, data impact, verification)*

*Coordinated evaluation, including link with Summer T-PARC*

3:15 - 3:45 Potential use of the Winter T-PARC data set for basic
predictability research at Texas A&M (and UMD) (Istvan Szunyogh)

3:45 - 4:00 Expected contributions to THORPEX WG objectives

4:00 - 4:30 Review of open issues, next steps (Action items)

4:30 Adjourn