NOAA Hydrometeorology Testbed (HMT) Planning Meeting

1325 East-West Highway, Building 2, Room 2358, Silver Spring, Maryland

3-4 March 2005

THURSDAY, 3 MARCH

Welcome, Introduction and Matrix Program Links to HMT (Chair: Kingsmill)
08:15  Coffee available
08:30  Meeting objectives and HMT overview/progress report (Kingsmill)
09:00  HMT Linkage to Hydrology Program(Carter)
09:15  HMT Linkage to Science & Technology Infusion Program (Ralph)
09:30  Performance Measures for Hydrometeorology and Water Resources (Seguin)
Roles and Interests of HMT Partners (Chair: Restrepo)
09:45  Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (Hoke)
10:00  Office of Hydrologic Development (Kitzmiller)
10:15  BREAK
10:30  National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center(Carroll)
10:45  Western Region (Strem)
11:00  Eastern Region (Waldstreicher)
11:15  Environmental Technology Laboratory (Kingsmill)
11:30  National Severe Storm Laboratory (Howard)
11:45  NESDIS Office of Research and Applications (Kuligowski)
12:00  Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (Black)
12:15  LUNCH (On your own)
13:45  Forecast Systems Laboratory (McGinley)
14:00  Climate Diagnostics Center (Whitaker)
Group Discussions (Chairs: Ralph/Seguin)
14:15  Discussion Topic 1: How should the HMT mission be refined?
15:45  BREAK
16:00  Discussion Topic 2: What are the roles for the different HMT partners?
17:30  ADJOURN FOR THE DAY

FRIDAY, 4 MARCH

08:15  Coffee Available
08:30   Discussion Topic 3: How should HMT evolve and be managed?
10:00  BREAK
10:15  Synthesis of discussions and next steps in the planning/execution of HMT
11:45  ADJOURN