David Skaggs Research Center
Boulder, Colorado
Co-Organized by NOAA OAR/ESRL/GSD and NWS/OCWWS
Workshop Objectives
Review progress, share experiences, and provide a forum for discussions on:
- Recent LAPS developments
- Review of / response to recommendations from 1st Workshop
- Update on recent changes in algorithms / strategies
- Use of LAPS / Applications
- User experiences - successes, problems, suggestions
- Role of LAPS in operations and research
- Emerging new applications
- New user requirements
- Data and software
- New sources of data (observations, background, fixed files)
- Output requirements (user needs)
- LAPS in AWIPS2
- Scientific Opportunities
- Making LAPS variational
- Community Outreach
- Major and minor updates to codes - Change Management
- Community testing and evaluation prior to code releases
- International collaboration - Input into central code repository
- Training and documentation
- Role of LAPS in NOAA NWP infrastructure
Reference Information
- Report from First LAPS User Workshop:
Feb 2012, Toth, Z., S. Albers, Y. Xie, 2012: Analysis of fine-scale weather phenomena. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93 3pp. abstract - 2010 Workshop LAPS Workshop 2010 Summary Slides (pdf)
- 2010 Workshop Agenda Schedule and Presentation Slides (links)
Contact Information
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