Below are Acrobat (pdf), PowerPoint (ppt or pptx), Excel (xls or xlsx) or Word (doc or docx) versions of several of the presentations made during the LWG meeting.

DAY ONE - Tuesday May 1st

Introduction

Welcome and Introduction - Robert Atlas

Action items

NASA Earth Science - a Headquarters Perspective - George J. Komar

ORS Program Status - 1 May 2012 - Thomas Adang

Wind Lidar OSSEs in the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation - Lars Peter Riishojgaard, Zaizhong Ma, Michiko Masutani, Jack Woollen, Dave Emmitt, Sid Wood, Steve Greco

Update and Plans for a Joint OSSE System - Michiko Masutani

Quick Update on Aeolus Preparations - Will McCarty Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA GSFC

Major Discrepancies in the Analyzed Wind in the Tropics - Oreste Reale

NOAA Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project - Frank Marks

HWRFV3.X System: Transition of the High-Resolution, Research Version of HWRF to Operations S.G.Gopalakrishnan (NOAA/AOML)

DATA ASSIMILATION FOR HURRICANE PREDICTION - Update on data assimilation developments and improvements with particular reference to ability to test Lidar impacts in OSSEs - Tomislava Vukicevic, Altuğ Aksoy, Kathryn Sellwood, Sim Aberson, Sylvie Lorsolo, Xuejin Zhang and Frank Marks

DAY TWO - Wednesday May 2nd

Status of ADM-Aeolus - Lars Peter Riishojgaard and Mike Hardesty

Status of the TWiLiTE Direct Detection Doppler Lidar - Bruce Gentry, Huailin Chen, Jaime Cervantes, Steve Mitchell, Roman Machan, Daniel Reed

Status of the Hybrid Doppler Wind Lidar Transceiver ACT Project - Cathy Marx, Bruce Gentry, Patrick Jordan, Michael Kavaya, Ed Faust, Pete Dogoda

DAWN Update - Michael Kavaya

Status of TWOLF, TODWL and P3DWL - G. D. Emmitt

Successes of the OAWL IIP and next steps (with a FIDDL) - Sara C. Tucker, Thomas Delker, & Carl Weimer

Hydrometeor/Air Velocity Discrimination - G. D. Emmitt and K. Godwin