ESMF Joint Executive Board & Interagency Working Group Meeting March 10, 2020

Logistics

The 2020 Joint ESMF Executive Board / Interagency Working Group meeting will be held March 10, 2020 at the NOAA Center for Weather & Climate Prediction (NCWCP) in College Park, MD.

• Room: 2552-2553 (This is an internal conference room, so you will be required to go through security).

• Lunch order: All participants should please click here to place their lunch order BEFORE the meeting.

• Remote connection:

  Google Hangout: https://meet.google.com/xjb-iejk-pog

  Phone: ‪ +1 316-302-5987‬ PIN: ‪257 825‬#

Agenda (Eastern timezone)

• 8:30am - Coffee/tea/pastries
• 9:00am - Welcome and introductions
• 9:15am - State of ESMF and financials (Dunlap) (slides)
  • Overview of ESMF and the NUOPC Layer and applications
  • Update on major agency applications and milestones
  • ESMF 8.0 release - October 2019
  • ESMF 8.1 development (priorities from Change Review Board)
  • User support metrics
  • Team members and roles
  • Financial report
• 10:15am - Break
• 10:30am - Working with Partners: Recent Optimizations for Asynchronous I/O (Theurich) (slides)
• 11:00am - Presentation and discussion of draft ESMF Strategic Plan - 2021-2024 (Dunlap) (draft)
• 12:00pm - Lunch
• 1:00pm - Application Reports: Land/hydro coupled DA and Hurricane system (Rosen) (slides)
• 1:30pm - National Earth System Prediction Capability (ESPC) Update (McCarren) (slides)
• 2:15pm - ESMF Project Plan 2020-2025 - review of approved changes (Dunlap)
• 2:45pm - ESMF Regridding Update (Oehmke) (slides)
• 3:15pm - Break
• 3:30pm - Q&A and Conclusions