Minutes for January 22nd LDAS meeting at NCEP

 

 

1) Next meeting: March 1st 2001 at NASA/GSFC after CEOP workshop

time and place TBD

 

2) Dan Tarpley (Dan.Tarpley@noaa.gov), GOES/GEWEX talked about

solar insolation and skin temperature products. The three

WWW sites below cover most of his talk.

The first is comparisons of the Eta radiation

with ground truth, the second is comparisons of Eta insolation

with GOES insolation and Eta Tsfc with GOES Tsfc, and the third

is comparisons of GOES radiation with ground truth.

 

http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/gcip/html/eta_surfplots.html

 

http://orbit35i.wwb.noaa.gov/goes/gcip/html/scatter.html

 

http://orbit35i.wwb.noaa.gov/goes/gcip/html/surfmatch.html

 

3) John Janowiak (jjanowiak@ncep.noaa.gov) provided participants

with hand-outs of CMAP (CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation)

and GPCP (Global Precipitation Climatology Project). For more

information visit:

 

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products

 

4) Jin Huang presents methods and pilot year results for 50-year

retrospective N-LDAS forcing, with emphasis on precipitation

forcing algorithms. She uses the EMC NOAH model driver and

all the parameters from the real time runs.

 

5) Dag put routing model and forcing quality control program on

 

http://lnx69.ncep.noaa.gov

 

6) Brian

- RUC is now operationally ftp'ed to NASA/GSFC

- MOSAIC writes output in standard grib as defined

by group.

- presents precipitation blending mask for all models.

- progress on 1996 to present forcing

- notices that GOES radiation is valid 15 min after the hour.

 

7) Yun and Dag put spatial parameters into Sacramento model

 

8) Lifeng shows OK Mesonet data and useage for LDAS verification

Rutgers University requests grib output from models.