18th JCSDA Technical Review Meeting and Science Workshop

June 7 - 11, 2021
Held virtually

Agenda and presentation schedule

All listed times are in MT. Please use the main meeting link to join all meeting sessions except for breakout sessions. The breakout session debrief on Friday morning will take place in the main meeting room.

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Presentation Q/A Document

Monday
June 7, 2021
Day Emphasis: JCSDA Partners

8:00 - 8:10 AM Welcome

8:10 - 8:25 AM Introduction from JCSDA Director (Auligné) and Management Oversight Board (Pawson)

8:25 - 8:40 AM Auligné, JCSDA Overview

8:40 - 8:55 AM Baker, Navy

8:55 - 9:10 AM Kleist, NWS

9:10 - 9:25 AM Gelaro, NASA

9:25 - 9:35 AM BREAK

9:35 - 9:50 AM Garrett, NESDIS

9:50 - 10:05 AM Benjamin, OAR

10:05 - 10:20 AM Schubeck, Air Force

10:20 - 10:35 AM Simonin, UK Met Office

10:35 - 10:40 AM Wrap up

10:40 AM ADJOURN

Tuesday
June 8, 2021
Day Emphasis: JEDI

8:00 - 8:05 AM Welcome

JEDI Full-length Presentations
Session Chair: Barker

8:05 - 8:25 AM Trémolet, JEDI Project Overview

8:25 - 8:45 AM Abdi-Oskouei, Continuous Integration in JEDI

8:45 - 9:05 AM Ménétrier, Recent Developments of the BUMP Software

JEDI Lightning Talks
Session Chair: Yoe

9:05 - 9:10 AM Herbener, New Features and Possibilities Offered by IODA Version 2

9:10 - 9:15 AM Vandenberghe, A Shared Infrastructure for Exploring and Diagnosing Observations and Their Impact

9:15 - 9:20 AM Schweiker, Interactive JEDI Diagnostic Notebooks in the Cloud

9:20 - 9:25 AM Frolov, Family of Local Volume Solvers in the JEDI Data Assimilation Framework

9:25 - 9:35 AM BREAK

JEDI Full-length Presentation
Session Chair: Barker

9:35 - 9:55 AM Gas, Block Method Minimizer for Solving Ensemble of Data Assimilation

Breakout Sessions

9:55 - 11:00 AM Topic 1: Future of Coupled DA Through the JEDI Lens
Session Chair: Mahajan, Rapporteur: Shlyaeva

Breakout Session 1: Slides
Breakout Session 1: Summary
Breakout Session 1: Notes

Topic 2: Computational Challenges and Opportunities
Session Chair: Cipriani, Rapporteur: Miesch

Breakout Session 2: Slides
Breakout Session 2: Summary/Notes

Topic 3: JCSDA Training and Community Support
Session Chair: Shanahan, Rapporteur: Gallo

Breakout Session 3: Summary
Breakout Session 3: Notes

11:00 AM ADJOURN

Wednesday
June 9, 2021
Day Emphasis: Applications

8:00 - 8:05 AM Welcome

Applications Full-length Presentations
Session Chair: Gelaro

8:05 - 8:25 AM Vernières, An Overview of the JCSDA Sea ice Ocean Couples Assimilation Project (SOCA)

8:25 - 8:45 AM Abdalla, Assimilation of Ocean Wave Data at ECMWF

8:45 - 9:05 AM Snyder, Progress and Plans for MPAS-JEDI

Applications Lightning Talks
Session Chair: Yoe

9:05 - 9:10 AM Bhargava, A JEDI-Based Regional Ocean Data Assimilation System for HAFS

9:10 - 9:15 AM L. Liu, Impact of Superobbing High Resolution Marine Glider and HF Radar Data in Regional Ocean Assimilation Using Marine JEDI

9:15 - 9:20 AM X. Liu, Integrating Ocean Biogeochemistry in JCSDA’s Sea-ice Ocean Coupled Assimilation (SOCA)

9:20 - 9:25 AM Guerrette, Progress Toward Cycling EDA and All-sky IR Radiance Assimilation with MPAS-JEDI

9:25 - 9:35 AM BREAK

Applications Full-length Presentations
Session Chair: Gelaro

9:35 - 9:55 AM Huang, Development of Global Ensemble-based Aerosol Data Assimilation System using JEDI for Aerosol Forecasting in the NOAA's GEFS-Aerosols Model

9:55 - 10:15 AM Honeyager, The Infrastructure Behind Observation Data

Applications Lightning Talks
Session Chair: Yoe

10:15 - 10:20 AM Martin, Regional NO2 DA for RRFS-CMAQ using JEDI

10:20 - 10:25 AM da Silva, Aerosol Data Assimilation at GMAO

10:25 - 10:30 AM Tang, Develop and Evaluate Assimilating AIRNow Observation with JEDI for RRFS-CMAQ

10:30 - 10:35 AM Thompson, Developments Towards a Unified Naming Convention for Observations Used in JEDI

10:35 - 10:40 AM Flynn, Cooperative Exploitation of GSICS and NWP Level 1 Bias Monitoring and Performance Alerts

10:40 - 10:45 AM Diniz, Deriving Observation Impact Measures Through the FV3-JEDI Interface

10:45 - 10:50 AM Wrap Up

10:50 AM ADJOURN

Thursday
June 10, 2021
Day Emphasis: CRTM

8:00 - 8:05 AM Welcome

CRTM Full-length Presentations
Session Chair: Flynn

8:05 - 8:25 AM Johnson, Advances in the Community Radiative Transfer Model

8:25 - 8:45 AM Yang, Hydrometeor Optical Property Models in Support of CRTM

8:45 - 9:05 AM Stegmann, An Overview of the CRTM Transmittance Regression Process

CRTM Lightning Talks
Session Chair: Yoe

9:05 - 9:10 AM Dang, Recent Developments in CRTM Aerosol Simulations

9:10 - 9:15 AM Pu, CYGNSS Data Assimilation with HWRF

9:15 - 9:20 AM Jin, An Update in Assimilating Microwave Imager Radiance Data in All-sky Conditions in GEOS and JEDI

9:20 - 9:25 AM Saunders, Assimilation of New Satellite Precipitable Water Measurements at the Met Office

9:25 - 9:35 AM BREAK

CRTM Full-length Presentation
Session Chair: Flynn

9:35 - 9:55 AM Moradi, Assimilation of Satellite Microwave Observations Over the Rainbands of Tropical Cyclones

Breakout Sessions

9:55 - 11:00 AM Topic 4: How to Most Effectively Set Up Joint Testbed Applications
Session Chair: Alexander, Rapporteur: Fox

Breakout Session 4: Summary
Breakout Session 4: Notes

Topic 5: Integration of AI/ML with JEDI
Session Chair: Ruston, Rapporteur: Kumar

Breakout Session 5: Slides
Breakout Session 5: Summary
Breakout Session 5: Notes

Topic 6: JCSDA Communications and Outreach
Session Chair: Yoe, Rapporteur: Honeyager

Breakout Session 6: Summary
Breakout Session 6: Notes

11:00 AM ADJOURN

Friday
June 11, 2021
Day Emphasis: Observations

8:00 - 8:05 AM Welcome

Observations Full-length Presentations
Session Chair: Weygandt

8:05 - 8:25 AM Shao, Development and Validation of JEDI Unified Forward Operator (UFO)

8:25 - 8:45 AM Harlow, Update on Radiance Observation Processing Using JEDI at the Met Office

8:45 - 9:05 AM Wang, Online Nonlinear Bias Correction in Ensemble Kalman Filter to Assimilate GOES-R All-sky Radiances for the Analysis and Prediction of Rapidly Developing Supercells

Observations Lightning Talks
Session Chair: Yoe

9:05 - 9:10 AM Apodaca-Martinez, Refining the assimilation of Aeolus Doppler wind LiDAR observations in NOAA/FV3GFS by adopting VarQC

9:10 - 9:15 AM Hoffman, A New Observations Operator for AMVs

9:15 - 9:20 AM Rani, An Evaluation of the INSAT Radiances: Past - Present - Future

9:20 - 9:25 AM Zhang, GNSSRO Observation Operator Comparison with JEDI

9:25 - 9:35 AM BREAK

Observations Full-length Presentation
Session Chair: Weygandt

9:35 - 9:55 AM Han, Assimilation of Geostationary Hyperspectral Sounders: Lessons and Opportunities

9:55 - 10:50 AM Breakout Session Debrief

10:50 - 11:00 AM Wrap Up

11:00 AM ADJOURN