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====== James Klinman's Thesis Research Meeting Notes ======

===== October 3, 2023 =====

==== Discussion ====
  * Form Thesis Committee, maybe Jake as member with David Delene and Andy Detwiler.
  * Update Topic proposal, get done and sent out this week.
  * Working on updating script for converting aircraft data to ADPAA format to work on 2000 data set.

Next meeting Tuesday, October 10, 2023. 

===== October 10, 2023 =====

==== Discussion ====
  * Discussed classes, no Measurement System and No Radar.
  * Topic proposal revised. Need committee review topic.
  * Try 12 CT on Friday for meeting.
  * Working on Flight 757, which is June 22, 2000.
    * Did before June 22, 1995, Flight 668.
    * High concentration, overloaded the computer. No HVPS, use Hail Spec.
  * My travel update. Best time for meeting is probably 10 am CST, 7 pm KSA, there is time change.
  * Keep looking at data for quality assurance.

==== Tasks ====
  * David - Review Topic proposal.
  * James - Get third person on committee.
  * James - Do training. 
  * James - Work on software (convert), backup software.

Next meeting 2 pm Tuesday, October 17, 2023 (No Andy next week). 

===== May 14, 2024 (9 am CT) ======

==== Discussion ====
  * Spectrum discussion.  Uses time interval of 5 seconds (GNU), Aaron uses a correction, which is 1.1. Now the *.txt file from SODA Hail Spectrometer agrees with the *.dat counts file data exacted with ADPAA. The *Disp is 1-D counts and _SODA is the 2-d. 
  * Names should be HVPS-2D, HAIL-1D, HAIL-2D.
  * Next meeting with Colorado is 5/21/2024 at 11 AM, no 9 am.

==== Tasks ====
  * James - Use names HVPS-2D, HAIL-1D, and HAIL-2D.
  * James - Add HAIL-1D counting statistics uncertainty, see Shawn Wagner's 2023 paper (David's Website).
  * James - Get HVPS processing to match, which should be similar to HAIL Spectrum..
  * James - Make plots/tables for each 5 sections for different time segments, where we have radar data.
  * David/Andy - Annual report.

===== May 21, 2024 (11 am CT) ======
 
==== Discussion ====
  * James - Particle size distribution much better now.
  * James - Documenting workflow on Wiki page.
    * Has thing changed previous analysis?
      * Used 1D and HVPS.
      * James the 1D has not changed. HVPS data 
  * Andy, some analysis with and without hearing things.
  * Chandra - HVPS is good for poster.
  * Andy, the 1995 data is processed. Have to find and organize things.
  * Chandra - 452 - Old book.  See if James can reproduce. 1995 data.
  * Meet in two weeks, June 4, Tuesday 10 am.
  * Compare to times with less hail, in 2000.

==== Tasks ====
  * James - Get uncertainties in spectrum plots.
  * Andy - Change 2D method, standard is 1D all-in processing. Get a comparison between methods.
  * Andy - Starting draft of report.
  * James - Set of images, with diameter, having individual images. Something for poster.

===== June 4, 2024 (10 am CT) ======

==== Attending ====
  * Pat Kennedy, Andy Dewiler, James Klinman, Ivan Arias.

==== Discussion ====
  * Pat has nothing.
  * James - Slides.
    * David - Talk about counting statistics.
    * David - Talked about combining spectrum.

  Next Meeting - June 14, 11 CT.
  
===== July 29, 2024 =====

==== Attending ====
  * Pat Kennedy, Andy Dewiler, James Klinman, Ivan Arias.

==== Discussion ====
  * ICCP 2024
    * James - Update.
    * David - Update.
    * James - Uncertainty is interesting. How close was the plane and radar observations? Matching up data/.  Why Tmatix, dis-dipolar, why not use.  We have Tmaxtix setu.
    * Andy - What were they doing with radar processing? Create particle size distribution.
    * Pat - Exactly what were they doing.
    * David - Find paper on their work and send to group.
    * Pat - Nothing major, expand on things.
    * Chandra - Comments.
  * Pat - Next steps.  Processing all data from STEPS project (2000).
  * Pat - At T-28 level. Will use 10 second data, in good format to get scattering from radar.
  * Ivan - Finds the closest distance in time.
  * James - Aaron new file with individual pbp data. Works with HVPS3 data, still working. There is issue with displaying the pbp images correctly.
  * Andy - There is a factor of 4/1 scaling that is not applied to the pbp display, currently. 
  * James - Set the NetCDF file to 2. Set to 2 to get image data.
  * David - Add the NetCDF options to ADPAA, set to default of 2.
  * Andy - How long, does it take to processing.
  * Ivan - Takes a 2-3 minutes processing for spectrum.  Adjusting only air and ice.  Working on getting the water amount. Use LDR to match aspect ratio.
  * Andy - Size distribution with uncertainty bars.  Can you use uncertainty to get radar uncertainty.  Something good.
  * Ivan - Yes, something to do.
  * Andy - Want we have is a range of valves.
  * James - Updated aspect averaging code. Can generate table of aspect ratio.
  * Ivan - Can you use size bin aspect ratio?  Yes.
  * David - Can you weight the aspect ratio.
  * Andy - Use LDR and Reflectivity, use anything else?
  * Ivan - Yes, only LDR and reflectivity.
  * Andy - An afternoon, can do a flight to see if water on the 
  * David - Drop off early.

==== Tasks ====
  * James - Add NetCDF option to ADPAA SODA processing. 
  * James - Different file for defining streaker file.
  * David - Send file format to use.
  * Ivan - Do AMS abstract draft.

===== August 29, 2024 =====

==== Attending ====
  * Andy Dewiler, James Klinman, David Delene

==== Discussion ====
  * 2 or 3 pm meet next week, Thursday September 5.
  * Area ratio < 0.3, manually classified as Not Looked at / good / bad
    * Lots of particles between 0.1 to 0.3 are not good particles.
  * What to do with two particles in the image.
  * How to get size uncertain of particle to reflectivity.

==== Tasks ====
  * Select only large particle (>0.8), then make histogram of area ratio.  Include particles < 0.1.  Maybe use bin of 0.05 area ratio. Do histogram for whole hail time period.
  * Get another meeting with Colorado setup.

===== September 5, 2024 =====

==== Attending ====
  * Andy Dewiler, James Klinman, David Delene

==== Discussion ====
  * Histrogram of area ratios. Looked at some plots.  Looks like 0.4 area ratio to remove particles.
  * Need to figure out how many of the < 0.4 are real data.
  * Maybe work on code at 1 pm tomorrow.

===== October 22, 2024 =====
  * Andy Dewiler, James Klinman, David Delene

==== Discussion ====
  * James will start giving weekly update on writting.
  * Andy - Look at 10 second segments of data for all the passes.
  * James - Fixed pbp program so everything is working again.
  * James - Talked about combining the two errors.  Use the larger error, instead of add them.

==== November 7, 2024 ====
=== Attending ===
  * James Klinman, David Delene, Ivan Arias, P. Kennedy, Andrew Detwiler

  * Group meeting
  * Andrew - Get an idea of images. Get an idea of what is going. Is the 1D and 2D are close together. Will work on this.
  * James - Using 0.3 area to filter out bad data.
  * Ivan - Removed threshold. How to handle uncertainty.

==== November 12, 2024 ====
=== Attending ===
  * James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Dewiler

=== Discussion ===
  * Software identification, on Hail Spec.
    * The PbP has several methods defined within the file.
    * SODA decides if there are more than one particle.
  * Uncertainty.
    * Discussed uncertainty.  Having larger 

=== Tasks ===
  * James - Figure out blog finding methods, so we can example how it works.
  * James - Find reference for the 1995 Hail Sizing method, x-extent.

==== November 19, 2024 ====
=== Attending ===
  * James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Dewiler

=== Discussion ===
  * Aaron Email - No reply yet.
  * Writing Update.  Will send update, but doing some.
  * Compare 1D and 2D Concentrations, All sizing methods.
  * Compare concentration from Hail Spec with published spectrum.
  * Andy - Share stuff from Pat.  Been looking at area with not too much hail. Should at other area, should look at some place without lots of cloud water.

  * Meeting next Tuesday at 3 pm.

==== November 26, 2024 ====
=== Attending ===
  * James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Dewiler

=== Discussion ===
  * Andy - Sent some papers with image of hail.
  * Andy - File has all period identified by Paul Field.  Size distribution. So we can check with their 10 second time period for time distribution.
  * James - Tried one time period 2000 June 22 flight.
  * Andy - Sometime there high counts in 2.5-3.0 cm bin, Paul took out. Not sure why this happen.
  * James - Looking on papers I left in mail box.
  * Aaron talked with James
    * Talked about how SODA draw circles around particles. There is an option (Keep Largest Particle), to exclude satellite particle (small particle).
    * James - Talked about how you get 1-D data from 2-D images.

==== December 12, 2024 ====
=== Attending ===
  * James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Dewiler

=== Discussion ===
  * David - Used James Code to display HVPS3 from lab droplet.
  * James - Manual counting of Hail paper.  Counted 10 seconds of data manually.  Will have code to count them. Have been doing with HailSpec, but could work with HVPS3.
  * David - Manual/program, get the best method and best spectrum. Get SODA to match by adjust parameters, which means doing a similar thing.  Get the 1D data to match. Then process all the 1D data using this method Use that for Radar Comparison.
  * David - Some idea of the range of uncertain.
  * James - Will write a lot over break.

==== January 2, 2025 ====
=== Attending ===
  * James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Dewiler

=== Discussion ===
  * James - Review Pointer point 20250101_Manual_Counting.pptx
    * Wanted to get 1D counts 
    * disp - 1D counts less in less particles. Have for all flights.
    * SODA copycat - 2D is more in smaller bins, and less in larger bins.  Only have for some flights.
    * Difference impacts radar calculations.
    * recreated w/ images - James - In between the other two methods.
  * James is going to look at the South Dakota Thesis.
  * James - Will do 1D processing to check how well it reprocess the 1D data.

=== Next Week - Meeting? ===

==== January 7, 2025 (10:30 am CT) ====
=== Attending ===
  * James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Dewiler, Ivan Aria, Pat Kennedy

=== Discussion ===
  * Ivan Presentation
    * Scattering Simulations - Tmaxtrix
      * 11 Minutes - Outline (Note necessary)

==== February 4, 2025 (10:30 am CT) ====
=== Attending ===
  * James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Dewiler, Ivan Aria, Pat Kennedy

=== Discussion ===
  * James did a little writing.
  * Processed all 2D, 2000 - 2003 (SODA processing)
  * Talked about fixing data, eliminating number of bin or size range.


==== February 13, 2025 (10:0 am CT) ====
=== Attending ===
  * Ivan Arias
  * James Klinman 
  * David Delene
  * Pat Kennedy
  * Andrew Detwiler

=== Discussion ===
  * James - Fitting data.  3 minute data. 24:18:30 24:22:00 Time. 3 minutes.
  * James - Fitting between the 2D and 1D methods is not companionable even with a limited size range.
  * Ivan - New plots from AMS. 2D concentration.  Adding water can get agreement.
  * Pat - Seeing the amount of water.


Next Meeting 10 am CT - Feb 27. Focus with 2D and good agreement with radar.

==== February 18, 2025 (10:0 am CT) ====
=== Attending ===

=== Discussion ===
  * Next focus on flights with 2D data available. These are 11 flights,3-4 field projects. Had engined issues at the end. Looks all hail storms.  Use water processing, with like 5% and nothing to compare. kdp look at to get some water information.  Kdp really really response to droplets in the air, maybe see water coming off the hail, kdp pick up large waterdrops.
  * Sent Terry email about powersupply on Calgary.  
  * Once, Calgary, plan to setup rsync script to backup on Littlestorm.
  * Have group meeting next Thursday, meeting on Tuesday to see what data we have. David can not join. 


==== February 27, 2025 (10:00 am CT) ====
=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Ivan Arias, Andrew Detwiler, Pat Kenndey.

=== Discussion ===
  * Need to update Korea Abstract.
  * Where were we.
  * List of flights. Spreadsheet. Time period that Andrew has identified time periods based on flight notes and audio.
  * James working on reprocessing data. Did not back-up code like should of. Not too much done.
  
  * Meeting - 11 am Central. March 20, Thursday 
  
==== March 11, 2025 (1:00 pm CT) ====
=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Ivan Arias, Andrew Detwiler, Pat Kenndey.

  * Working on getting everything off Calgary.
  * Can you run software on Calgary? 
  * Aaron - Powerpoint, comparison. 1D and 2D comparison. Lot of good 2D Spectrum data before 2000.
  * James - Good data - means good data from the 10 minute.

=== Tasks ===
  * David Delene - Get backup system for Littlestorm.
  * David Delene - Global ADPAA/SODA on Littlestorm. 
  * James - Update with what you have at end of week.
  * Andy - Missing a lot of data.
  * James - Qualification is Good - Userable, O.K. Maybe, Bad - Not usable.
  * Andy - Could calculate reflectivity. (D^6)
  * David - Case, SODA has reflective so can low/high.
  * James - Let us know if we should meet.

==== March 20, 2025 (1:00 pm CT) ====
=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Ivan Arias, Andrew Detwiler, Pat Kenndey.

=== Discussion ===
  * Have June 20, 2000 flight processed. Can have shared with radar. Having the average and uncertain for all methods, and counting uncertainty. 
  * David - How many more cases? 
    * Needs list periods, need radar available.
  * Andy - Pre-2000, June 22, 1995.  Looked at. HVPS-first version.  Hail 2D images and 5 minutes of good images.
  * Pat - What James will do.
    * James - Look at all data after 2000 to see what good cases we have.  Look at the images data.
    * James - Make Hail spectrum extract script.
  * Chandra - Comments.
  * Andrew - Close to melting layer, range of temperatures.
  * Next meeting Thursday, April 3, 1 pm CT.

=== Issue ===
  * List of good hail cases. 
  * Script to create all Hail buffer images.

==== March 25, 2025 (1:00 pm CT) ====
=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Detwiler.

=== Discussion ===
  * Looked over Aaron B. Slides.
  * Look at 1995 data, 1D and 2D and HVPS.
  * Calculate Reflectivity time series.

==== April 1, 2025 (1:00 pm CT) ====
=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Detwiler.

=== Discussion === 
  * 1D DBZ > 35. 10 seconds. 
  * What do we want to use for the 2D, x-size
  * Flight 757, 2000/06/22 Data.
  * One plot with two flights, F757 and F761.

==== April 3, 2025 (1:00 pm CT) ====
=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Detwiler, Ivan Arias, Pat Kennedy

=== Discussion === 
  * James - Presentation
    * Do you need more lat, lon, alt files?  No
    * There is a netcd file. Additional files?  Code works with *.txt.
  * Flight 670 Hail Image, Pat - 1527:22
  * James can look at HVPS data for this period.
  * PSD - xsize - A Little lower reflective than the average of methods.

  * Next meeting - 2 pm CST Tuesday, 22.

==== April 8, 2025 (1:00 pm CT) ====
=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Detwiler, Ivan Arias, Pat Kennedy

=== Discussion === 
  * Andy, help with the report and extension.
  * Software Repository.
  * James - Plots, Plot all reflectivity.  A couple of comments. 15 Flights, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003.
    * Plot - Processing information in the title.
  * x-size diameter is less than the average of the methods.
  * 668, two vertical white lines.
  * Repeats images, bad bits in the timing bars.

==== April 15, 2025 (1:00 pm CT) ====
=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Detwiler

=== Discussion === 
  * James Update - Review single particle image figure.

==== April 15, 2025 (1:00 pm CT) ====
=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Detwiler, Pat Kennedy, Ivan Arias

=== Discussion === 
  * Pat - Looked at the Spreadsheet. Usable data from 1995, all three flights seem to have good radar data, June 20, June 22, June 27.  Had usable radar data.
  * James - Has the best 10-second files, but updating code to specific times. 
  * David - How to determine the best 10-second intervals.
  * Pat - Running tracking scan. 
  * David - We can just go with the 10-second interval that starts at the beginning of the flight. Get the random sample.
  * David - Use 5 seconds early and 5 seconds use to get uncertainty.  Use the largest uncertainty of all uncertainties.
  * Next meeting May 8 at 11 CT.

==== May 6, 2025 (1:00 pm CT) ====
=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Detwiler

=== Discussion ===
  * James - Data Section - Email Data Section, tomorrow morning.
  * James - Use color on the uncertain bar for type.

==== May 8, 2025 (11:00 am CT) ====
=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Detwiler, Ivan Arias, Pat Kennedy

=== Discussion ===
  * Andy - How to match radar and aircraft.  
    * Ivan - Manually select the closest scan.
    * Pat - Check to see how much difference with using different scans or gates.
  * Andy - How things changes with time/space differences.
  * James - Uncertainty Update.
  * Pat - Ivan sound spectrum stuff.
  * Next Meeting - May 21, 2025 3 pm CT.

==== May 13, 2025 (11:00 am CT) ====
=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Detwiler
 
==== Discussion ====
  * Signed committee changed form.
  * Planning Defense - June 25 or June 27: 10 am?

==== May 20, 2025 (11:00 am CT) ====

=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Detwiler

==== Discussion ====
  * Committee form is done.
  * Discussed uncertainty plots, how to do.


==== May 21, 2025 (11:00 am CT) ====

=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Detwiler, Ivan Arias, Pat Kennedy

=== Discussion ===
  * Ivan - In Colorado, running radar.
  * Ivan - Texted Pat to join.
  * Chandra - Nothing new for testing.
  * Maybe Not Pat
  * James - Uncertainty.  Send new plots via email.
  * Ivan - New 1995 files, have you sent me?
  * David - Next Meeting June 4, 3 pm Central.

==== May 27, 2025 (1:00 am CT) ====

=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Detwiler

=== Discussion ===
  * Get done with Data Section and show with Andy.
  * Has an Airforce report that gives spectrum for 1 D, which we see.

==== June 3, 2025 ====
James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Detwiler

=== Discussion ===
  * Draft 1 and 2 chapters.
  * Andy - Send paper about JW and King Probe comparison.


==== June 4, 2025 (3:00 am CT) ====

=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Ivan Arias, Pat Kennedy, Chandra.

=== Discussion ===
  * James, 1995 files.  Ivan has the file. Will analyze them.
  * James, Uncertainty. Update. Is working on doing, gives different uncertainty. James needs to get files with all the different types of uncertainties.  The biggest one, the use of the overall aircraft uncertain. James analyzes the different types of uncertainty.
  * The base line is 2D sizing, best.
  * Pat - Why such large sizing uncertainty for low reflectivity?  20 dBZ reflectivity has +/- 20 dBZ.  This is from the hail spec probe.
  * Plots for deference.  June 25, 10 or 11 am. 
  * Next meeting 3 pm CT July 2.

=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Andrew Detwiler

=== Discussion === 
  * James - July 16, Wednesday, 2 p.m. Ryan 111.
  * Put as much as you can into the draft/paper.
  * Get Chapter 3 done, David will look at Chapter 3, while you review Chapters 1 and 2.
  * Next Tuesday at 1 pm, June 17.


==== July 8, 2025 (6:30 pm CT) ====

=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Daile Zhang, Andy Detwiler.

=== Discussion === 
  * Good connection.
  * Thesis Defense. 
  * James - Has everything been written but not revised?  More work, more organization.  Present everything.
  * Gave my opinion, Hard to get the presentation and Thesis revisions done.
  * More likely to finish in the Fall. Could do continuing enrollment.
  * Public Presentation is likely. Beginning of September for Defence. Plan to finish in early September, first week. 
  * Daile - Up-to-student.Help with presentation review. 
  * Possible deference - September 5 at 1 pm.
  * Put together an abstract for a public talk to send out an announcement.
  * 3 pm on July 16 for public presentation.


==== July 15, 2025 (4:00 pm CT) ====

=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Andy Detwiler.

=== Discussion === 
  * Focus on Thesis.
  * How do you get the 10 second interval, Andrew?
  * What about out of cloud? Only when 1D and 2D are greater than 30 dbz.
  * Andy, Tech Report, Use of the Discussion.
  * David - What about the deference?  In person, or remote. Will try in-person.
  * David - Figure out employment.
  * No - Meeting next week.  Leaving July 27.


==== August 7, 2025 (4:00 pm CT) ====

=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene, Andy Detwiler.

=== Discussion === 
  * Remote work. Nothing possible for remote work. Travel, payment.
  * AMS abstract, look for best session.
  * Reviewing Thesis, methodology reviewing. Will send when you finish.
  * James - Thesis when, two weeks after getting draft. 
  * Andy - Think of focus on the measurement methods.

  * Next meeting. 1 pm CT, Zoom.

==== August 14, 2025 (4:00 pm CT) ====

=== Attending ===
James Klinman, David Delene

=== Discussion ===
  * AMS deadline extended.
  * Talked Thesis and what is in Methods and Discussion.
  * Will send first 3 chapters soon.

  * Next meeting August 28 1 pm.