Steve Albers' NOAA/ESRL & CIRA Research Projects

LAPS / STMAS Data Ingest:

• Surface Obs, Profiler, ACARS, Pireps
• Satellite Soundings / Cloud Drift Winds
• RAOBs, Towers, Radiometers
• Wide-band Doppler Radar
• Topography & Map projections (Static file)

LAPS (& STMAS) Analyses:

• Model first guess interpolation - improving efficiency
• Surface
• Wind
  • Parallelizing with MPI
  • Weighting Strategy
• Temperature / Height
• Clouds (including variational hot-start)
• Precipitation (including gauge bias correction)
• Derived fields (e.g. stability)
• Analysis summary for 2001 LAPS Review HTML or PPT
• Science Seminar (originally given April 2002, then updated through 2009): The Fusion of Radar Data and Satellite Imagery with other information in the LAPS analyses.

LAPS / STMAS Implementation:

• Maintain Software Tree - Periodic Automated Multi-platform builds
• WWW analysis and forecast displays as well as the "On-the-fly" Page.

Projects (most are funded):

• Hurricane - Running LAPS & STMAS on Real-time and Archive cases (Tech Review)
• HMT/DWR - Running LAPS analyses, moisture flux product, model forecast post-processing
• HWT - Set up analyses for Hazardous Weather Testbed
• Windsor Tornado Case Study (project manager)
• GTAS/DHS - LAPS analyses, evaluate and learn from verification results
• Fire Weather - LAPS analyses
• ESRL Renewable Energy - Solar and Wind Energy Analysis / Forecast
• Precision Wind - LAPS ingest and analyses
• Science On a Sphere - SOS
  • Realtime weather models (Global LAPS, FIM, GFS)
  • Earthquakes and planetary datasets
• GLOBE / VAST - land cover validation (advisor)
• NextGen - 1km run (Branch Machine + JET?)
• Other LAPS users
  • AWIPS
  • Taiwan CWB
  • Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) - general consulting including precipitation
  • Mauna Kea Weather Center
  • Inst. for Atmos. Sciences and Climate, Leece, Italy (paper on MSG use in LAPS cloud analysis)
• STMAS
  • Support for FAA (CONUS 2KM, other runs for MIT/LL)
  • Port to NWS Southern Region HQ
• AFTAC - LAPS ingest for AFWA data, analysis software reorganization
• Range Standardization and Automation - RSA (2005 LAPS Review)

Other:

• Daily Weather Briefer
• CIRA manager