Discussion Topics
 

• Schedule for data collection/operational demonstration
• tasks that need to be completed before data collection can begin
• beginning date for KOUN polarimetric data collection
• other deadlines

• Operational demonstration goals
• meteorological
• hydrological

• NWS engineering and product requirements
• engineering design
• product needs/requirements
• meteorological (hydrometeor identification)
• hydrological (rainfall estimation)
• scanning strategies
• evaluation procedures
• acceptance criteria

• Product development/delivery schedule
• what is needed
• warm season
• cold season
• who will do the work
• what type of hardware is needed

• Documentation
• what needs to be prepared
• who will do the work

• Data collection/dissemination
• web-based product distribution
• tapes/CD-ROMs
• data formats

• Interaction with operational forecasters
• pre-JPOLE forecaster interaction/training
• who will be participating from the NWS side
• who will be participating from the NSSL side
• organization and logistics
• feedback

• Product evaluation requirements
• real-time comparison
• post-analysis
• requirements
• evaluation criteria

• How the proposed field experiment can tie into the operational demonstration
• cold-season project goals
• warm-season project goals
• other possible real-time radar/data sources that might be available to forecasters.

• Potential funding support for research radar deployment/verification data set collection
• Need for verification data sets to test data and product quality