Monitoring Director Rotation

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Monitoring Director Rotation

• Week 1 6-12 June Marco Carrera
• Week 2 13-19 June Kingtse Mo
• Week 3 20-26 June Randy
  Schechter
• Week 4 27 June-3July Wayne Higgins
• Week 5 4-10 July Anthony
  Artusa
• Week 6 11-17 July Wayne Higgins
• Week 7 18-24 July John
  Janowiak
• Week 8 25-31 July Tim Eichler
• Week 9 1-7 August Evgeney
  Yarosh
• Week 10 8-14 August Scott Handel
• Week 11 15-21 August Wei Shi
• Week 12 22-28 August Tim Eichler

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Duties

• Daily
• Review the NAME04 monitoring products (see list
  on slide 6) from Scotts Personal Briefing
  Sequence (see slide 5 for web address) to make
  sure they are updated.
• Participate in the daily FOC-SMN-NCEP briefing
  conference call (see summary on slide 4) for
  about 15 min.
• Weekly
• Attend the hazards briefing at 1000 am on Monday
  AM in Rm. 802 and consult with the CPC 6-10 day
  forecaster
• Write up a summary of key monsoon features and
  post this in the JOSS/NAME Field Catalog (the
  password is cactus04) (see address on slide 7)

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Daily Coordination Call

• Time 1615UTC (12.15PM)
• Frequency Daily (June 21 Aug 31)
• PhoneNWS Tucson WFO [phone]
• pwd 460060
• Responsibility discuss 6-10 flow pattern over
  NAME Tier 1 6-10 day forecast.

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Daily Coordination Call Format

• The call will be led by the NAME FOC briefing
  forecaster of the day.
• Participants the SPC day 2 Outlook Forecaster
• the NHC
  Eastern Pacific Forecaster
• the HPC day
  2 Forecaster
• the CPC
  Monitoring Director
• Agenda
• FOC-overview of days 2-3
• SPC- overview of severe thunderstorm threat
  in Tier 1
• NHC-overview of tropical storm threats to
  Tier 1 and adjacent areas of Tier 2 within the
  next 72 hours
• HPC- QPF over Tier 1 on day 2, days 3-5
• CPC- overall monsoon flow pattern over Tier
  1 6-10 day forecast

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Scotts Personal Briefing Sequence Web page

• From Web http//www.joss.ucar.edu/name
• Click the briefing sequence
• The products are listed in the Table (slide 6)

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CPC web page products
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Location for Filing Weekly Monitoring Summaries
in the JOSS/NAME catalog

• The form is found on the web
• http//www.joss.ucar.edu/name/catalog/other/form
• The summary should include
• -monsoon related features from the perspective
  of NCEP products