Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere

CIRA main building, 3925 Laporte Ave., Fort Collins, CO

Director’s Conference Room (upstairs, end of south wing)

Download a .pdf of the schedule: summer_workshop_full_agenda_v12

Monday, July 8 – Radiative Transfer
7:45 am – Buses depart from Hilton
8:00 – 8:45 – Breakfast at CIRA
8:45 – 9:00 – Welcome, Safety Briefing, Introductions
9:00 – 11:00 – Sat Orbits & Instruments, Planck radiance, BTs in mixels, refl solar & thermal emiss, 4 vs 11 um– Lecture, Paul Menzel
11:00 – 11:15 – Break
11:15 – 12:00 – Intro to HYDRA, refl solar & earth emission – Lab, Menzel
12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 – RTE, land-ocean-atm spectral signatures – Lecture, Menzel
3:00 – 3:15 – Break
3:15 – 4:00 – ABI spectral bands – Lab, Menzel
4:00 – 5:00 – Student Presentations
– 4:00 – 4:15 – Kelcy Brunner
– 4:15 – 4:30 – Hyunglok Kim
– 4:30 – 4:45 – Christopher Hartman
– 4:45 – 5:00 – Kristan Morgan

Tuesday, July 9 – Radiative Transfer
8:15 am – Buses depart from Hilton
8:30 – 9:00 – Breakfast at CIRA
9:00 – 11:00 – Review, Hyperspectral IR – Lecture, Menzel & Students
11:00 – 11:15 – Break
11:15 – 12:00 – MW Sounder– Lecture, Menzel
12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 – VIIRS, CrIS & ATMS estimates of TPW – Lab, Menzel
3:00 – 3:15 – Break
3:15 – 4:00 – Review – Lecture, Menzel & Students
4:00 – 5:00 – Student Presentations
– 4:00 – 4:15 – Chuck White
– 4:15 – 4:30 – Allyson Rugg
– 4:30 – 4:45 – Joseph Chan
– 4:45 – 5:00 – Jonathan Smith

Wednesday, July 10 – GOES-R Satellite Series
8:15 am – Buses depart from Hilton
8:30 – 9:00 – Breakfast at CIRA
9:00 – 10:00 – GOES-R Intro – Pam Sullivan
10:15 – 11:00 – ABI Intro and time for questions – Tim Schmit
11:00 – 11:15 – Break
11:15 – 12:00 – ABI Hands-on Exercises – Tim Schmit
12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 – Reading/Manipulating ABI data with Exercises – Kyle Hilburn and Dan Lindsey
2:00 – 3:00 – GLM Intro – Steve Goodman
3:00 – 3:15 – Break
3:15 – 4:00 – GLM Hands-on Exercises – Steve Goodman
4:00 – 5:00 – Student Presentations
– 4:00 – 4:15 – Diego Salazar Martinez
– 4:15 – 4:30 – Shanice Whitehall
– 4:30 – 4:45 – Martin Rugna
– 4:45 – 5:00 – Paula Hobouchian

Thursday, July 11 – JPSS Satellite Series
7:15 am – Buses depart from Hilton
7:30 – 8:00 – Breakfast at CIRA
8:00 – 8:05 – Introduction – Jorel Torres
8:05 – 8:30 – JPSS Overview – Greg Mandt
8:30 – 9:00 – JPSS Science Foundation and Project Applications – Mitch Goldberg
9:00 – 10:30 – Microwave Remote Sensing – Sid Boukabara
10:30 – 10:45 – Break
10:45 – 12:00 – IR Remote Sensing – Chris Barnet
12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 – VIIRS Day Night Band – Steve Miller
2:00 – 3:00 – Fire & Smoke and Land Applications – Ivan Csiszar
3:00 – 3:30 – Break
3:30 – 4:30 – Tropical Cyclone Applications – Josh Cossuth
4:30 – 5:00 – Open Discussion – Mitch Goldberg
5:00 – 5:10 – Educational Resources – Jorel Torres

Friday, July 12 – NASA Satellites (aka, “Chris Day”)
8:15 am – Buses depart from Hilton
8:30 – 9:00 – Breakfast at CIRA
9:00 – 10:30 – Precipitation Measurement Missions – Chris Kummerow
10:30 – 10:45 – Break
10:45 – 12:00 – Carbon Measurement Missions – Chris O’Dell
12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 – Evapotranspiration, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data – Chris Hain
2:30 – 2:45 – Break
2:45 – 4:00 – Aerosol Remote Sensing — Application to Wildfire Smoke, Volcanic Plumes, Desert Dust, and Pollution Particles – Ralph Kahn

Monday, July 15 – EUMETSAT
8:15 am – Buses depart from Hilton
8:30 – 9:00 – Breakfast at CIRA
9:00 – 10:30 – Explain an RGB – Mark Higgins
10:30 – 10:45 – Break
10:45 – 12:00 – Phases of convection and the microphysics RGBs – Mark Higgins
12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 – What makes for “Useful products” – Mark Higgins
2:30 – 2:45 – Break
2:45 – 4:00 – Future EUMETSAT programmes – Mark Higgins
4:00 – 5:00 – Student Presentations
– 4:00 – 4:15 – Ines Simone
– 4:15 – 4:30 – Amanda Rehbein
– 4:30 – 4:45 – Miguel Perpina
– 4:45 – 5:00 – Anna del Moral

Tuesday, July 16 – NWP and Satellite Data Assimilation
8:15 am – Buses depart from Hilton
8:30 – 9:00 – Breakfast at CIRA
9:00 – 9:45 – The challenge of R2O and O2R in Transferring NWP Research Activities into Operations – Sid Boukabara
9:45 – 10:30 – The Emerging use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Earth Observation and NWP – Sid Boukabara
10:30 – 10:45 – Break
10:45 – 12:00 – Introduction to Numerical Weather Prediction – Curtis Alexander
12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 – Variational Data Assimilation 1 – Steve Fletcher
2:00 – 2:15 – Break
2:15 – 3:15 – Variational Data Assimilation 2 – Steve Fletcher
3:15 – 5:00 – Student Presentations
– 3:15 – 3:30 – William Agyakwah
– 3:30 – 3:45 – Lena Heuscher
– 3:45 – 4:00 – Camila Lopes
– 4:00 – 4:15 – Hallan Souza
– 4:15 – 4:30 – Ivan Arias
– 4:30 – 4:45 – Naufal Razin
– 4:45 – 5:00 – Chandra Pasillas

Wednesday, July 17 – Field trip to Boulder
(Breakfast on your own)
8:30 am – Bus departs from Hilton to UCAR CG-1 3150
10:00 – 12:00 – COMET – Online Training Resources for Environmental Satellites and Applications – Patrick Dills and Amy Stevermer
12:00 – 1:30 – Walk to Foothills Lab, Lunch at Cafeteria (students pay for themselves), Antenna Viewing, Return to CG
1:30 – 4:00 – Unidata Overview – Tom Yoksas (at CG)
– GOES-R/S data ingest and dissemination
– GOES-R/S data serving
– Unidata supported analysis and display applications: AWIPS, GEMPAK, IDV, McIDAS, MetPy
– GOES-R/S data proximate analysis and display – Juypter notebooks example use “the cloud”
4:00 – 5:30 – Bus returns to the Hilton

Thursday, July 18 – NWP and Satellite Data Assimilation
8:15 am – Buses depart from Hilton
8:30 – 9:00 – Breakfast at CIRA
9:00 – 10:30 – Ensemble Variational Data Assimilation – Steve Fletcher
10:30 – 10:45 – Break
10:45 – 12:00 – Global Satellite Data Assimilation – John Derber
12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 – Regional modeling and Data Assimilation – Steve Weygandt
2:30 – 2:45 – Break
2:45 – 4:00 – Regional modeling and Data Assimilation – Terra Ladwig
4:00 – 5:00 – Tropical Cyclone Data Assimilation – Ting-Chi Wu

Friday, July 19 – NWP and Satellite Data Assimilation
8:15 am – Buses depart from Hilton
8:30 – 9:00 – Breakfast at CIRA
9:00 – 10:30 – Data Assimilation Exercises – Ben Ruston
10:30 – 10:45 – Break
10:45 – 12:00 – Future of Satellite Data Assimilation – Jim Yoe
12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch and Course Surveys
1:00 – Course Dismissal

Monday 7/8 – Radiative transfer – Please download and decompress this file in advance (3.8 GB): ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/Lindsey/summer_workshop_menzel.tar

Monday/Tuesday Presentation files:

ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/Lindsey/lecture-08Jul2019-RSS-SatOrbits-VisIRW.pptx

ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/Lindsey/lecture-08Jul2019-RTE-LandOceanAtmRS.pptx

lecture-09Jul2019-HighSpectralResIR-MW

End of session quiz: Menzel_Quiz

Wednesday 7/10, 9:00 am – GOES-R Overview – Pam Sullivan presentation: ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/Lindsey/workshop/GOES-R%20Overview%20For%20Satellite%20Summer%20Workshop%20July%202019.pptx

Wednesday 7/10, 10:00 am – ABI – Tim Schmit presentation: ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/Lindsey/workshop/summer_workshop_Schmit_ABI_updated.pptx

Wednesday 7/10, 11:15 am – Hands-on presentation: ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/Lindsey/workshop/summer_workshop_Schmit_ABI_hands_on_updated.pptx

Useful ABI link: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/goesdata.html . Recommended but not required download: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/csppgeo/geo2grid_v1.0.0.html

Wednesday 7/10, 1:00 pm – Reading and manipulating ABI data – Instructions and links here – please follow these instructions prior to departing for Colorado: Hilburn_Satellite_Summer_School_2019

Wednesday 7/10, 2:00 – GLM – Steve Goodman presentation: ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/Lindsey/workshop/SatMet%20Workshop%202019_Week1_Wednesday_GOES-R_GLM%20Lecture%20FINAL-Goodman.pptx

Wednesday 7/10, 3:15 – GLM Quiz: glm_NA_examples2_tests

Thursday 7/11 – JPSS Day – All talks can material can be found here: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/training/visit/links_and_tutorials/2019_noaa_nasa_jpss_workshop.asp

Friday 7/12 – NASA Day – 9:00 am – Precipitation Measurement Missions – Chris Kummerow presentation: ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/Lindsey/workshop/kummerow_NASA.NOAA.pptx

Friday 7/12 – NASA Day – 10:45 am – Carbon Measurement Missions – Chris O’Dell presentation: ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/Lindsey/workshop/ODell_CIRA_Workshop_2019.pptx

OCO-3 Movie: ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/Lindsey/workshop/OCO3_movie.pptx

Friday 7/12 – 1:00 pm – Evapotranspiration, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data – Chris Hain presentation: ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/Lindsey/workshop/csu_summer_school_sport_et_big_data.pptx

Monday 7/15 – EUMETSAT – Download materials here: https://training.tools.eumetsat.int/course_material/noaa2019/

Tuesday 7/16 – 9:00 am – R20 – Sid Boukabara presentation: Presentation_R2O_2019_Boukabara

Tuesday 7/16 – 9:45 am – Artificial Intelligence – Sid Boukabara presentation: ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/Lindsey/workshop/Emerging_AI4NWP_Boukabara_v1.pptx

Tuesday 7/16 – 10:45 am – Intro to NWP – Curtis Alexander presentation: ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/Lindsey/workshop/Intro_to_NWP_Alexander.pptx

Tuesday 7/16 – Intro to Variational Data Assimilation – Steve Fletcher presentation: Intro_Variational_DA_Fletcher

Tuesday 7/16 – Intro to Non-Gaussian DA – Steve Fletcher presentation: NonGaussian_DA_Fletcher

Tuesday 7/16 – Non-Gaussian DA Applications – Steve Fletcher presentation: NonGaussian_DA_Applications_Fletcher

Thursday 7/18 – 9:00 am – Ensemble Variational DA – Steve Fletcher presentation: Ensemble_DA_Fletcher

Thursday 7/18 – 1:00 pm – Regional modeling and Data Assimilation – Steve Weygandt presentation: ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/Lindsey/workshop/Mesoscale_DA_Weygandt.pptx

Thursday 7/18 – 2:45 pm – Clouds and Precipitation Data Assimilation – Terra Ladwig presentation: https://drive.google.com/a/rams.colostate.edu/file/d/1TVOApAqp9nsWYOPVW8SFUVEH3UursZQk/view?usp=sharing

Thursday 7/18 – 4:00 pm – Tropical Cyclone DA – Ting-Chi Wu presentation: ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/Lindsey/workshop/tropical_cyclone_DA_Wu.pptx

Friday 7/19 – 9:00 am – Evaluating a satellite in assimilation – Ben Ruston presentation: Ruston_new_radiance_assimilation

Friday 7/19 – 10:45 am – Future of DA – Jim Yoe presentation: ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/Lindsey/workshop/Future_of_Data_Assimilation_Yoe.pptx