International Collaborative Experiments for Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (ICE-POP 2018)
Overview
ICE-POP 2018 takes place during the Winter Olympics (February-March) of 2018 and focuses on the measurement, physics, and improved prediction of heavy orographic snow in the PyeongChang region of South Korea. The Korean Meteorological Administration (KMA), as a component of the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) World Weather Research Program (WWRP) Research and Development and Forecast Demonstration Projects (RDP/FDP), leads ICE-POP.
Support and Objectives
Specific to NASA, the MSFC SPoRT Center, NASA's GPM Ground Validation Program, and the GSFC Mesoscale Processes Laboratory are collaborating to achieve the following objectives:
- Validate satellite-based falling snow estimates made by the NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission. https://pmm.nasa.gov/gpm
- Demonstrate, test and improve snowfall forecasting capabilities and physics in the NASA Unified-Weather Research and Forecast model (NU-WRF) and Satellite Data Simulator Unit. https://nuwrf.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Test new NASA Earth Science data products for application in weather-decision support activities during ICE-POP, including newly developed measures of ocean heat and moisture fluxes important to snow storm evolution.
The outcome of NASA’s involvement in ICE-POP will be the contribution of observational and modeling datasets that, as part of the larger international ICE-POP analysis effort will enable a more comprehensive understanding of precipitation processes responsible for heavy mountain snow- a necessary step for development of robust satellite-based snowfall estimation, and improved weather prediction models. The NASA Weather and PMM/GPM Program provide support for this effort.
Satellite Products
- GPM Derived Products
- - IMERG Precipitation
- GPM Constellation Imagery
- - GPM Constellation Products
GPM Meteorological and Surface Retrievals
- Meteorological
- - Air Temperature
- - Air Humidity
- - Wind Speed
- Surface
- - Latent Heat Flux
- - Sensible Heat Flux