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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span
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Seminar</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The
GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (<st1:stockticker w:st="on">GLM</st1:stockticker>)
and Opportunities for Assimilation of the Data into NWP Models<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Steve
Goodman<br>
NOAA GOES-R Program Senior Scientist</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size: 14pt;">Date, Time & Place</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Wednesday,
May 26, 2010<br>
</span></b>2:00 – 3:00 P.M.<br>
World Weather Building, <b><span style="color: red;">Room 707</span></b>,
5200 Auth Road, Camp Springs, MD 20746<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt;">Abstract</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">The next generation Geostationary Operational
Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) series with a planned launch in 2015
includes an advanced imager and a new capability for total lightning
detection (cloud and cloud-to-ground flashes).<span style=""> </span>The
Geostationary Lightning Mapper (<st1:stockticker w:st="on">GLM</st1:stockticker>)
will map total lightning activity continuously day and night with
near-uniform spatial resolution of 8 km and with a product latency of
less than 20 sec over the western hemisphere from the west coast of
Africa (GOES-E) to New Zealand (GOES-W) when the constellation is fully
operational.<span style=""> </span>Near global coverage will be
possible by the end of the decade with operational lightning imagers
planned by EUMETSAT and the Chinese Meteorological Agency.<span style="">
</span>C</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">loud-resolving
numerical models, such as the Weather Research and Forecasting</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(WRF)
model, now have the capability of computing fields of</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">mixing
ratios of multiple species of hydrometeors, including several important
ice-phase</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">species known to be associated with lightning
flash rate (graupel, hail, ice water content).<span style=""> </span>In
this presentation, we review the past decade of data assimilation
experiments using proxy relationships for lightning and present new
methodologies and opportunities to demonstrate how regional
cloud-resolving forecast simulations can be exploited to create
quantitatively calibrated, time-dependent and specific short-term
forecasts of lightning flash rates in convective environments.<span
style=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Video:</span></b><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> 1.</span>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Go
to </span><a
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</span><span
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your name and email address. <br>
3. Enter the meeting password: JCSDAseminar2010 <br>
4. Click "Join Now". <br>
5. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen. <br>
<b>Audio: </b><st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region>
participants: 1-866-715-2479, Passcode: 9457557<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="">If you would like to present a
seminar contact <a href="mailto:George.Ohring@noaa.gov">George.Ohring@noaa.gov</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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