2020 GLM Annual Science Team Meeting

September 8-10, 2020

Virtual Meeting

GLM Science Summary

Agenda (all times are CDT)

Tuesday, September 8

10 am – 12 pm Plenary Session: Program, Instrument, Science Updates (Chair: Steve Goodman)
10:00 Welcome and logistics – Scott Rudlosky, Chris Schultz, and Steve Goodman
10:10 Status of GLM FM3 and FM4 – Marc D. Rafal (NASA / GOES-R)
10:25 GLM Instrument Performance – Tewa Kpulun (Lockheed Martin ATC)
10:40 GOES-R/GEO-XO Program Update – Dan Lindsey (NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R)
10:55 GLM Observations of Extraordinary Lightning Including Two New World Lightning Records – Michael Peterson (Los Alamos National Lab)
11:15 Overview of the GLM Value Assessment – Scott Rudlosky (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR)
11:30 Group Discussion
12:00 Lunch Break
2 – 4 pm GLM Validation Studies (Chair: William Koshak)
2:00 GLM Validation with the RELAMPAGO Lightning Mapping Array – Timothy Lang (NASA MSFC)
2:10 Improving spatial coverage of Lightning Mapping Arrays for GLM validations – Vanna Chmielewski (CIMMS OU)
2:20 Validation of lightning detection and classification beyond GLM – Eric Bruning (Texas Tech University)
2:30 Estimating errors in GLM detection efficiency and false alarm rate – Katrina Virts (UAH)
2:40 GLM optical power compared to RF measurements – Robert H. Holzworth (University of Washington)
2:50 GLM and STARNET/LINET/Tower measurements in South America: Cross validation and IC/CG ratio – Carlos Augusto Morales (University of Sao Paulo)
3:00 Deriving GLM group and flash detection efficiencies from measurable GLM thresholds – Ken Cummins (University of Arizona)
3:10 Exploring the impact of GLM frame time and pixel resolution on group and flash detection – Ken Cummins (University of Arizona)
3:20 A multi-case analysis of GLM detection efficiency in Alabama, Colorado, and West Texas – Adam Clayton (CIRA, CSU)
3:30 Group Discussion
4:00 Adjourn

Wednesday, September 9

10 am – 12 pm Science and Applications Part 1 (Chair: Eric Bruning)
10:00 Overview of Day 1 – Eric Bruning
10:10 Initial GLM climatology and performance assessment – Scott Rudlosky (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR)
10:20 Observations of lightning in relation to transitions in volcanic activity in the 3 June 2018 Fuego eruption – Chris Schultz (NASA MSFC)
10:30 The use of GLM in the tropical cyclone rapid intensification aid – Chris Slocum (NESDIS/STAR)
10:40 GLM flash data trends in tropical cyclone intensification changes – David PeQueen (Texas Tech University)
10:50  
11:00 An update on GLM observations of bolides from NASA’s Planetary Defense program – Randy Longenbaugh (Sandia National Labs)
11:10 Lightning observations from GEO – Alexei Klimenko (Los Alamos National Lab)
11:20 First pre-flight assessment of MTG LI Level 2 performances – Bartolomeo Viticchie (EUMETSAT)
11:30 Group Discussion
12:00 Lunch Break
2 - 4 pm Science and Applications Part 2 (Chair: Chris Schultz)
2:00 Lightning: A new Essential Climate Variable – Steve Goodman (GOES-R Program / TGA)
2:10 Differences in GLM-observed energetics between ground and cloud flashes in June 2020 – William Koshak (NASA MSFC)
2:20 Downscaling of GLM lightning observations using ISS-LIS data – Daile Zhang (University of Maryland)
2:30 Predicting severe storms with ML and GLM – Lightning Team (FDL Challenge)
2:40 A simultaneous observation of lightning by ASIM-MMIA, Colombia-lightning mapping array and GLM – Joan Montanya (UPC: Polytech. University Catalonia)
2:50 VHF broadband interferometer comparisons with fast optical photometry – Mark Stanley (New Mexico Tech)
3:00 GLM data archival and research updates at the Global Hydrology Resource Center DAAC – Geoffrey Stano (GHRC DAAC)
3:10 Optical transmission of lightning through thunderclouds – Kelcy Brunner (ESSC, UAH)
3:20 Applying GLM and ABI observations to severe and convective storms – Kevin Thiel (CIMMS/NSSL)
3:30 Group Discussion
4:00 Adjourn

Thursday, September 10

10 am – 12 pm NWS Integration and Operational Uses of GLM (Chair: Scott Rudlosky)
10:00 Overview of Day 2 – Scott Rudlosky
10:10 Status of GLM gridded products – Jonathan Wynn Smith (University of Maryland)
10:20 Operational displays to maximize GLM utility in QLCS warning environments – Katie Magee (NWS Huntsville)
10:35 Utilizing GLM to diagnose marginal convective events – Linda Gilbert (NWS Marquette)
10:50 Using the GLM to assist in ground-based network differences – Jason Jordan (NWS FDTD)
11:05 Automated and objective thunderstorm identification and tracking using operational GLM data – Kelley Murphy (ESSC, UAH)
11:15 GLM training overview – Joseph Patton (University of Maryland)
11:25 GLM data query tool – Idris Akala and J. W. Smith (University of Maryland)
11:35 Group Discussion
12:00 Lunch Break
2 - 4 pm GLM Data Assimilation (Chair: Amanda Back)
2:00 Real time assimilation of GOES-16 total lightning into the NSSL 3DVAR code to improve 0-12h forecasts of high impact weather events at cloud resolving scales – Alexandre Fierro (CIMMS/OU – NSSL/NOAA)
2:15 Impact as assimilating GOES-R GLM flash extent density in NSSL’s Warn-on-Forecast System for severe weather forecasts – Yaping Wang (CIMMS OU)
2:30 Assimilation of GOES-16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper flash extent density and radar data using GSI EnKF for the analysis and short term forecasts of an MCS case – Rong Kong (CAPS OU)
2:45 Storm-scale model initialization over oceanic regions using GLM convective information: recent experiments at NOAA GSL – Amanda Back (CIRA/NOAA GSL)
3:00 Group Discussion / GLM DA Working Group
4:00 Adjourn

 

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