NCEP Synergy Meeting Highlights: August
30, 2010
This meeting was led by David Novak
(HPC) and attended by Geoff Dimego (EMC); John Ward (EMC); Chad Cary (EMC);
Eric Rogers (EMC); Mary Hart (EMC); Joe Carr (NCO); Kelly Malone (NCO); Kathy
Gilbert (MDL); Stephen Jascourt (UCAR/COMET); Steve Weiss (SPC); Andy Dean
(SPC); David Bright (AWC); Steve Silberberg (AWC); Jason Levit (AWC); Ed
Danaher (HPC); Keith Brill (HPC); Joe Sienkiewicz (OPC); Bill Ward (PR); Ken
Pomeroy (WR); Bernard Meisner (SR); Jeff Waldstreicher; David Radell (ER), and Brian
Miretzky (ER)
1. NCO (Chris
Caruso Magee)
RTMA
2.5
km RTMA CONUS upgrade is in a 30 day parallel evaluation and is scheduled for
implementation September 28. This RTMA will be run separate from the 5 km RTMA.
RTMA-Guam is going in as well and the shift in the Hawaii NDFD grid in
RTMA-Hawaii and NAM-DNG is planned to go in later that same week.
Global
Hycom
RFCs
have been submitted for the Global Hycom.
Hurricane
Wave Model.
Final
bug fixes are being made prior to starting a parallel.
Gridded
LAMP
A parallel for Gridded LAMP ceiling and visibility products is scheduled to start September 28.
NOS
has indicated they would like to move the system from parallel to production.
This move is expected in the next 1-2 months.
Air
Quality
Air Quality products for Alaska and Hawaii
NAEFS
A package for downscaling NAEFS sensible weather elements for Alaska
For the latest schedule
updates see: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/changes/
2. NOTES FROM EMC
(
Presentation
given regarding the CCS planed utilization during the next two years. After several
large planed implementations during FY11, the CCS will be near capacity by
Q3FY11. The next computer upgrade is planned for FY14, which represents a two
year delay relative to past upgrade cycles. Thus implementations after Q3FY11
must be resource neutral. Alternative options are being explored, including
off-site research and development computing, later delivery time of real-time parallels so they can run during
non-peak hours, and flexibility in delivery times of operational products.
Overall, the situation is serious and every effort is being made to mitigate
the impact to the extent possible.
3. FEEDBACK FROM MDL/OPERATIONAL
CENTERS/REGIONS
3a.
MDL (Kathy Gilbert)
A parallel for Gridded LAMP ceiling and visibility products is scheduled to start September 28.
3b.
SPC
– Important to let community know of the CCS situation to allow planning.
AWC
– Expressed support for implementation of the HRRR. Operational implementation
of the HRRR is currently beyond planned computing resources until after FY14.
SR
– GFS warm bias seems to be diminishing. May be regime dependent. John Ward
noted additional changes to the GFS might be ready for implementation sometime
in the next 4 months that include
addressing the warm bias. How these
changes are worked into the implementation schedule in FY11 are TBD.
4. The next Synergy Meeting will be
held at 2:30 pm EDT on Monday, September 27, 2010 in room 209, with remote
teleconferencing capability.