PSL — CREST Research and Education Collaboration Meeting

August 13-15, 2018  |  NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO

Meeting Goals

Engagement of NOAA ESRL scientists, leadership/management in creating and/or enhancing existing research and educational collaborations focused on water cycle and resource issues with NOAA Cooperative Science Centers students, faculty and researchers – including NOAA's Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies (CREST)* and other CSCs.

Presentations

• Advanced Quantitative Precipitation Information (AQPI) Project (Cifelli)
• Analysis and Modeling of Water Resources in the Caribbean and Surrounding Coastal Regions (E. Glenn)
• AQPI Hydromet Observations, Products and Benefits (L. Johnson)
• AQPI Radar-Derived Quantitative Precipitation Estimation (H. Chen)
• CREST Overview (Khanbilvardi)
• CREST Overview (Merchant)
• Development of Prototype National Water Model Soil Moisture Products for Drought Monitoring (Hughes)
• Doppler Lidar Studies Masters Project (Fernandez)
• Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) (Hobbins)
• Flood Risk Assessment Using In-Situ and Remote Sensing Products: Development of Flash Flood Forecasting System for Puerto Rico (Valle)
• Hydroclimatic Extremes and Ecosystem Services (Pal)
• National Water Model Assessment for Reclamation Water Management Needs (Cifelli)
• NOAA National Water Model for the San Francisco Bay Area (Kim)
• Overview of the ESRL Physical Sciences Laboratory (Webb)
• Proposed Crest-PSL Collaboration Themes (Cifelli)
• PSL’s Contribution to the Famine Early Warning System Nework (FEWS NET) (Hoell)
• Soil Moisture and Surface Flux Observations (Zamora)
• Understanding the Role of Forecast Forcings in National Water Model Errors (Mahoney)
• Urban Boundary Layer Studies - NERTO (Melecio-Vazquez)
• Water Prediction and Ecosystem Services (Devineni and Lakhankar)

*NOTE: Since the time of this meeting, the name CREST was changed to CESSRST