2023 GLM Annual Science Team Meeting

2023 GLM Science Meeting Schedule/Agenda (All Times Eastern - UTC−05:00)

Monday, 13 November

10 am - 12 pm – Plenary Session - Program, Instrument, Science (Chair: Steve Goodman)

Start Presenter Title
10:00 Scott Rudlosky, Chris Schultz, and Steve Goodman Welcome and meeting Logistics
10:10 Dan Lindsey, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R GOES-R Program Update
10:20 Elizabeth Kline, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R GOES-R Ground System Status and Gridded Product Update
10:30 Rafal/Heath, GOES-R/Lockheed Status of GOES-U
10:40 Andrew Heidinger, NESDIS GeoXO Status and Plans
10:50 Bartolomeo Viticchie, EUMETSAT MTG LI Commissioning Status
11:00 Bruning/Bitzer, TTU/UAH Characterizing GLM Data Quality
11:10 Tim Lang, NASA/MSFC The ALOFT Airborne Campaign: Relevance to Spaceborne Lightning Sensor Validation and Science Applications
11:20 Geoffrey Stano, UAH Cloud-based User Services for Lightning Data at GHRC DAAC
11:30 Group Discussion
12:00 Lunch Break

 

2 - 4 pm – GLM Validation Studies (Chair: William Koshak)

Start Presenter Title
2:00 Eric Bruning, TTU Optical, VHF, and slow antenna measurements alongside rapid-scanning polarimetric radars
2:10 Michael Peterson, LANL A 30 Minute Lightning Flash? Clustering and Counting Flashes in Very High Flash Rate Thunderstorms
2:20 Yanan Zhu, AEM/Earth Networks Continuing Current Observed by the GLM and High-Speed Video Cameras
2:30 Katrina Virts, UAH Bayesian Absolute Detection Efficiency of the Geostationary Lightning Mappers
2:40 Monte Bateman, UAH Recent Val Analyses for GLM 16 and GLM 18
2:50 Sven-Erik Enno, EUMETSAT MTG LI performance assessment
3:00 Daile Zhang, UMD/CISESS Developing a Raspberry Pi-based Camera Network and Its Applications
3:10 Erin Lay, LANL Radio Frequency Sensor: 1.5 years of RF lightning detection from GEO
3:20 Guangyang Fang, UMD/CISESS Update on the Development and Performance of the Mid-Atlantic Lightning Mapping Array (MALMA)
3:30 Group Discussion
4:00 Adjourn

 

Tuesday, 14 November

10 am - 12 pm – Operational Uses of GLM Part 1 (Chair: Scott Rudlosky)

Time Presenter Title
10:00 Gockel/Byerle, NOAA/NWS TBD
10:10 Kevin Thiel, CIWRO/SPC Characterizing GLM First Flash Events: A Bulk Study Perspective
10:20 Joseph Patton, UMD/CISESS GLM Training Resources Revisited: Modules, Presentations, and Forecaster Development
10:30 Charlie Woodrum, NOAA/NWS Applications for GLM with NOAA's Lightning Safety Toolkits
10:40 Larissa Sperk, KSU Expanding Aviation Applications for the GLM
10:50 Steve Goodman, GeoXO/TGA WMO GCOS Task Team for Lightning Observations and Climate Applications
11:00 Jeffrey C. Smith, SETI Institute Advancements in Detecting Bolides in GLM
11:10 Marion Mittermaier, UK Met Aspects of using lightning observations for lightning forecast verification
11:20 Robert Holzworth, UW Arctic Lightning in Hottest Year on Record
11:30 Group Discussion
12:00 Lunch Break

 

2 - 4 pm – Operational Uses of GLM Part 2 (Chair: Joseph Patton)

Time Presenter Title
2:00 Scott Rudlosky, NOAA/NESDIS Characterizing the Relation between Lightning and Wildfires in the Western United States
2:10 Kristopher White, NWS/HUN GLM utilization for warning decision-making during the March 31-Apr 1 severe weather event at NWS Huntsville
2:20 Levi Boggs, GTRI Automated Pipeline for Detecting Gigantic Jets
2:30 Michael Stock, CIWRO Comparisons between GLM and the Long Wavelength Array
2:40 Jonathan Wynn Smith, NOAA/OAR/GFDL Flash Frequency Parameterization Insights from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper
2:50 Kelley Murphy, UAH/NASA/SPoRT NASA SPoRT's New Lightning Viewer and its Capabilities
3:00 Amanda Back, NOAA/GSL Assimilation of GLM Flash Extent Density for Operational Numerical Weather Prediction
3:10 Federico Cutraro, NMS Argentina Development of a forward operator for lightning data assimilation
3:20 Rong Kong, CAPS/OU Direct Assimilation of GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Data within JEDI LETKF and Hybrid System for Operational UFS Convection-Allowing Predictions
3:30 Group Discussion
4:00 Adjourn

 

Wednesday, 15 November

10 am - 12 pm – Science and Applications Part 1 (Chair: Chris Schultz)

Time Presenter Title
10:00 Phillip Bitzer, UAH The Variety of Optical Pulses from Lightning
10:10 Jacquelyn Ringhausen - CIWRO/NSSL Lightning and Radar Characteristics of Tornadic Cells in Landfalling Tropical Cyclones
10:20 Samantha Edgington, Lockheed Martin Lightning: A Secondary Mission for a New Bolide Sensing Instrument
10:30 Earle Williams, MIT Impact of cold air outbreaks on GLM lightning
10:40 Stephanie Weiss, TTU Comparison of WTLMA Lightning Climatology to GLM Climatology for the Region
10:50 Mason Quick, NASA/MSFC FEGS measurements during the 2023 ALOFT campaign
11:00 Carlos Augusto Morales, USP Evaluation of IC and CG ratio in South America
11:10 Patrick Gatlin, NASA/MSFC Efforts towards developing a new low-Earth orbiting lightning mapper
11:20 John Trostel, Georgia Tech Use of GLM data during the LEE field project
11:30 Group Discussion
12:00 Lunch Break

 

2 - 4 pm – Science and Applications Part 2 (Chair: Eric Bruning)

Time Presenter Title
2:00 William Koshak, NASA/MSFC Ongoing GLM16/NLDN National Climate Assessment Analyses
2:10 Elise Schultz, CFD Research TBD
2:20 Doug Mach, NASA/USRA The Impact of Single Group Flashes on GLM Detection Efficiency and False Alarm Rate Values
2:30 Randolph Longenbaugh, Sandia National Laboratories Utility of Using Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Level 0 Data Products for Meter-size and Larger Impactors
2:40 Kristin Calhoun, NSSL TBD
2:50 Rachel Albrecht, USP Proposal for GLM and MTG-LI intercomparisons over the Amazon under TUPÃ (ThUnderstorm, Precipitation and Aerosol interactions) Project
3:00 Chris Slocum, NOAA/NESDIS Lightning-Based Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification Guidance
3:10 Christopher Sterpka, GTRI Optical Signatures of Cloud-to-Ground Strokes Observed by High-Speed Video Camera and the GLM
3:20 Thom R. Edwards, Sandia National Laboratories Initial Findings from the Sandia 1600 FEGS channel
3:30 Group Discussion
4:00 Adjourn
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