2009 ATEC Forecasters’ Training

Agenda

Section 1: 24–26 February 2009

Locations: Center Green Building 2, Room 3024 (lunches in lobby, hot breakfast in dining room above cafeteria in Center Green Building 1)

Day 1: Tue	Center Green Building 2
08:30–09:00	Continental breakfast
09:00–09:15	Welcome, introductions, and overview of training	Callaway
09:15–10:15	History and overview of NCAR and RAL	Knievel
10:15–10:45	Break
10:45–11:30	Demonstration of gridded bias correction	Rife
11:30–12:30	Radar meteorology and theory	Kessinger
12:30–13:30	Lunch
13:30–14:30	People's attitudes about weather forecasts and forecast uncertainty information	Demuth
14:30–15:00	DPG’s use of ensembles, part 1	Halvorson, Krippner
15:00–15:30	Break
15:30–16:00	DPG’s use of ensembles, part 2	Halvorson, Krippner
16:00–17:00	Verifying and interpreting ensemble products	Hopson, Hacker
17:30–20:00	Dinner at Walnut Brewery, 1123 Walnut St., Boulder
Day 2: Wed	Center Green Building 2
08:30–09:00	Continental breakfast
09:00–10:30	Web Portal, part 1	Burek, Ruttenberg
10:30–11:00	Break
11:00–12:30	Web Portal, part 2	Burek, Ruttenberg
12:30–13:30	Lunch
13:30–14:30	MetVault	Searight, Margolis
14:30–15:00	IDV, part 1	Searight
15:00–15:30	Break
15:30–17:00	IDV, part 2	Searight
Day 3: Thu	Center Green Building 2
08:30–09:30	Hot breakfast
09:30–10:00	Restarting and verifying operation of MACs	Borst, Fisher
10:00–10:45	Implications of security and accreditation for 4DWX	Halvorson
10:45–11:15	Break
11:15–12:15	Open discussion of unmet range needs	All
12:15–12:30	Surveys	Callaway
12:30	End of training

Attendees from ATEC ranges

7 total as of 10 February

ATC: Padovani

CRTC: none

DPG: Reynolds, Kimball, Krippner, Halvorson

EPG: none

NVL: none

RTTC: none

WSMR: Hatfield

YPG: Cioffi