Papers Presented at the 7th WRF Users' Workshop

National Center for Atmospheric Research
June 19-22, 2006

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SESSION 1: WRF Updates
1.1   
THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECAST MODEL VERSION 2: 2006 UPDATE.    Jimy Dudhia (NCAR/MMM)
1.2   
A Package to Produce WRF Initial, Lower, and Lateral Boundary Conditions.     Dave Gill, Mike Duda, Jim Bresch, Wei Wang, Jordan Powers, Kevin Manning and Jimy Dudhia (NCAR/MMM)
1.3   
WRF Software.   John Michalakes (NCAR/MMM)
1.4   
The WRF Developmental Testbed Center: Current and Future Activities.    Louisa Nance (NCAR/DTC), Ligia Bernardet (DTC/NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory/Systems Research Group, Inc.), Meral Demirtas (NCAR/DTC) , Robert Gall (NCAR/DTC), and Steven Koch (DTC/NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory)
1.5   
Update on WRF in NCEP Operations.    Geoff DiMego (NCEP)
   
SESSION 2: Convection-Resolving Modeling
2.1   
Systematic Boundary-layer Biases in the WRF-ARW Real-time Convective Forecasts.    Morris L. Weisman, Jimmy Dudhia, Wei Wang (NCAR/MMM)
2.2   
Numerical Simulation of Heavy Snowfall over the Ho-Nam Province of Korea in December 2005 using WRF.   Kyo-Sun Lim and Song-You Hong (Yonsei University, Seoul)
2.3   
WRF Simulations of a Heavy Rainfall Event in Taiwan.    Fang-Ching Chien, Yi-Chin Liu, and Cheng-Shang Lee (National Taiwan Normal University)
2.4   
WRF Model Simulations of a Quasi-Stationary, Extreme-Rain-Producing Mesoscale Convective System.    Russ S. Schumacher and Richard H. Johnson (Colorado State University)
2.5   
A sensitivity of squall-line structure and intensity to environmental stability and shear.   Tetsuya Takemi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
   
SESSION 3: Hurricane Studies
3.1   
Advanced Research WRF Developments for Hurricane Prediction.    Christopher Davis, Wei Wang, Yongsheng Chen, Kristen Corbosiero, Jimy Dudhia, Greg Holland, Joe Klemp, John Michalakes, Richard Rotunno, Chris Snyder, Qingnong Xiao (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Mark DeMaria (NOAA NESDIS) and Shuyi Chen (University of Miami)
3.2   
Impact of microphysics on hurricane track and intensity forecasts.    Robert G. Fovell (UCLA)
3.3   
Initializing a Hurricane Vortex with an Ensemble Kalman Filter.   Yongsheng Chen and Chris Snyder (NCAR)
3.4   
Five Years of Idealized Hurricane Simulations with WRF.    David S. Nolan (University of Miami)
3.5   
The Hurricane WRF (HWRF): Addressing our Nation's Next-Generation Hurricane Forecast Problems.    N. Surgi, S. Gopalakrishnan, Qingfu Liu, Robert Tuleya and W. OConnor (NCEP)
     
POSTER SESSION
  Convection-Resolving Modeling
 
P2.1   
Paper withdrawn
 
P2.2   
Verification of WRF for the 4-5 December 2001 IMPROVE-2 Event over the Central Oregon Cascades.     Yanluan Lin, Brian A. Colle (Stony Brook University), Christopher Woods, Bradley F. Smull (University of Washington)
P2.3   
Challenges in Using WRF as an Operational and Research Tool for High Resolution NWP in Alaska and Montana.    Don Morton (Arctic Region Supercomputing Center / University of Montana), Anna Klene (University of
Montana), Eugene Petrescu (NOAA NWS, Missoula, Montana), Eric Stevens (NOAA NWS, Fairbanks, Alaska), Greg Newby (Arctic Region Supercomputing Center), Peter Webley and Rorik Peterson (laska Volcano Observatory)
     
  Hurricane Studies
 
P3.1   
High-resolution Vortex-following WRF for Hurricanes Forecasting.    Shuyi S. Chen(University of Miami), W. Zhao, and J. Michalakes
P3.2   
Genesis of Tropical Cyclone Agni: Physical Mechanisms.    Amit Kesarkar, Sudipta Banerjee, J Venkata Ratnam (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
 
P3.3   
High Resolution Simulations of typhoon RUSA, 2002 over Korea.   Dong-Kyou Lee (Seoul National University) and Suk-Jin Choi
 
P3.4   
Numerical Studies on flooding Events Associated with the Passage of Typhoon Mindulle.   Pay-Liam Lin (National Central University)
 
P3.5   
What is the trigger for tropical cyclogenesis?   David S. Nolan (University of Miami)
 
P3.6   
Numerical simulations of tropical cyclones during TCSP: The impact of data assimilation and sensitivity to cumulus and microphysical schemes in the WRF model.    Zhaoxia Pu and Xuanli Li (University of Utah)
     
  Data Assimilation
 
P4.1   
Paper moved to P7.3
 
P4.2   
Impact of WRFVar (3DVar) Background Error Statistics on Typhoon analysis and Forecast .    Y.-R. Guo, H.-C. Lin, X. X. Ma and X.-Y. Huang (NCAR), C.T. Terng (Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan) and Y.-H. Kuo (NCAR)
 
P4.3   
Impact of Doppler Velocities Assimilation on the Initialization and Simulation of three different precipitation systems.   Hsin-Hung Lin (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, NCU), Pay-Liam Lin, Bill Kuo and Qingnong Xiao
 
P4.4   
Observation Error Statistics of Spaced-based GPS RO in WRF-Var system and Numerical Experiments for Tyhoon Dujuan.    X.-X. Ma (Shanghai Meteorological Bureau & NCAR), Y.-R.Guo, Y.-H.Kuo, H.-C.Lin (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
 
P4.5   
THE IMPACT OF MODIS WINDS ON AMPS WRF FORECASTS.    Jordan G. Powers, Syed R.H. Rizvi, and Michael G. Duda (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
P4.6   
A hybrid ensemble transform Kalman filer-3DVAR data assimilation scheme for WRF.    Xuguang Wang (NOAA, earth system research lab), Dale Barker, Chris Snyder, Tom Hamill
 
P4.7   
Doppler Radar Data Assimilation with WRF-Var: Current Status and Future Plan.    Qingnong Xiao, Juanzhen Sun, Wen-Chau Lee (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Eunha Lim (National Center for Atmospheric Research & Korean Meteorological Administration), Soichiro Sugimoto (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry), Jianfeng Gu (Shanghai Weather Forecast Center), Xiaoyan Zhang, Yong-run Guo, Dale M. Barker, Xiang-Yu Huang, and Ying-Hwa Kuo (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
     
  Physics Development
P5.1   
MODIS land surface parameters for improved MM5 simulations in the Mexico City basin during the MILAGRO field campaign.    Benjamin de Foy (Molina Center for Energy and the Environment), Luisa T. Molina
 
P5.2   
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RAMS CLOUD MICROPHYSICS PARAMETERIZATION IN THE ADVANCED RESEARCH WRF.    Laura D. Fowler and Thomas H. Vonder Haar (Colorado State University)
 
P5.3   
WRF simulations of the November 11, 2003 AIRS II field experiment.    William Hall, P. R. Field, Roy M. Rasmussen, and Gregory Thompson (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
 
P5.4   
WRF Single-Moment 6-Class Microphysics Scheme (WSM6).    Song-You Hong, Kyo-Sun Lim, Ju-Hye Kim (Yonsei University), Jeong-Ock Jade Lim (Korea Meteorological Administration), Jimy Dudhia (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
 
P5.5   
The influence of aerosols on precipitating systems: Analysis of Results from the WRF-SBM.    Barry H. Lynn (Columbia University & The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Alexander Khain (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
 
P5.6   
Implementation of the dynamic reconstruction turbulence model and the immersed boundary method for improved large-eddy simulation of flow over complex terrain using WRF.    J.D. Mirocha (Lawrence Livermore National laboratory), J. K. Lundquist, F. K. Chow and K. A. Lundquist
 
P5.7   
A COMPARISON OF MICROPHYSICAL SCHEMES IN THE WRF MODEL DURING A SEVERE WEATHER EVENT.   Jason Otkin, Hung-Lung Huang (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies), and Axel Seifert (German Weather Service)
 
P5.8   
WRF MODEL SIMULATIONS USED IN SUPPORT OF INFRARED HYPERSPECTRAL FORWARD MODEL AND PRODUCT ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT.   Jason Otkin, Erik Olson, Hung-Lung Huang, Chian-Yi Lui and Steve Wanzong (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies)
 
P5.9   
WRF core comparison tests with fully matched physical parameterizations towards WRF-Rapid Refresh.    Tanya Smirnova (NOAA Earth System Research Lab, and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado), Ligia Bernardet, Louisa Nance, Tom Black, Jimy Dudhia, Greg Thompson, Stan Benjamin and John M. Brown
     
  WRF Chemistry
 
P6.1   
Chemical Species Redistribution by Deep Convection and Its Sensitivity to Different Types of Storms.    Kaylee Acuff, Mary Barth (NCAR)
P6.2   
A Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model Compatible with WRF.    Jerome Fast and Richard Easter (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
P6.3   
Evolution of Particulates and Direct Radiative Forcing Downwind of Mexico City during the 2006 MILAGRO Field Campaign.    Jerome D. Fast, J. Christopher Doran, James C. Barnard, and Michael L. Alexander (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Lawrence I. Kleinman and Stephen R. Springston (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
P6.4   
Coupling of WRF and AERMOD for Pollutant Dispersion Modeling.    Amit P Kesarkar and Mohit Dalvi (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)), A. Venkatram (University of California at Riverside), A. Cimorelli (EPA (Region –III) Office, Philadelphia), Akshara Kaginalkar (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)) and Ajay Ojha (Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC))
 
P6.5   
Impact of Power Plant NOx Emission Controls on NO2 and O3 in the Eastern US.    S.-W. Kim (NOAA/ESRL/CSD & CIRES), A. Heckel, S. A. McKeen, G. J. Frost, E.-Y. Hsie, M. K. Trainer, A. Richter, J. Burrows, S. E. Peckham, and G. A. Grell
 
P6.6   
High Resolution WRF forecasts for the 2006 MIRAGE/MILAGRO Experiment.   Bill Skamarock (NCAR)
 
P6.7   
On-line Tracer Simulation with Signal Technique Using WRF Model.    Zhan Zhao (UC, Davis)
 
P6.8   
Air quality modelling at regional scale using WRF/Chem and a GIS based system for emission inventory in southeast Italy.    Umberto Rizza, Dario Conte, Gian Paolo Marra, Mario Marcello Miglietta, Cristina Mangia (CNR-ISAC, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Italy)
 
P6.9   
Cloud resolving studies of trace gas scavenging and photochemistry.    M. Salzmann and M. G. Lawrence (Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry), V. T. J. Phillips and L. J. Donner (Princeton University)
     
  Regional Climate Modeling
 
P7.1   
Mechanism of diurnal cycle of convective activity over Borneo Island.    Masayuki Hara and Takao Yoshikane ((Frontier Research Center for Global Change, JAMSEC)) and Fujio Kimura JAMSEC and University of Tsukuba)
P7.2   
A Mesoscale Nature Run for Predictability, Turbulence, and Parameterization Studies.    Joshua Hacker, Janice Coen, and John Michalakes (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
 
P7.3   
AN IMPLEMENTATION OF SPECTRAL NUDGING TECHNIQUE TO THE WRF MODEL.    Dong-Hyun Cha, Dong-Kyou Lee (Seoul National University), and Ying-Hwa Kuo (NCAR)
     
  Model Verification
P8.1   
Sensitivity of the WRF Simulated Low-Level Winds in Central California to the Atmosphere and Soil Initialization.    Sara A. Michelson (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory & CIRES, University of Colorado) and Jian-Wen Bao (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory)
 
P8.2   
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF POLAR LOW DEVELOPMENT OVER THE JAPAN SEA USING THE WRF MODEL.    H. Kusaka, S. Kataniwa, H. L. Tanaka, F. Kimura (University of Tsukuba), and M. Hara (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC))
 
P8.3   
The Impact of High-Resolution SSTs on Mesoscale Forecasts.   Katherine M. LaCasse (University of Alabama in Huntsville), Mike E. Splitt, Steven M. Lazarus, and William M. Lapenta
 
P8.4   
Paper moved to P5.9
 
P8.5   
Paper withdrawn
 
P8.6   
U.S. Army Research Laboratory WRF ARW Modeling for T-REX.    Robert E. Dumais Jr. and Teizi Henmi (US Army Research Laboratory) and Edward Colon (Army High Performance Computing Research Center)
P8.7   
Orographic Vortex Shedding – Comparisons using Different Nested Grid Options in ARW WRF.    JOHN LINDEMAN and ZAFER BOYBEYI (George Mason University) and DAVE BROUTMAN (Computational Physics, Inc.)
P8.8   
RANGE FORECASTER IMPRESSIONS AND USE OF THE WRF-RTFDDA.    Joshua Hacker (NCAR), Ming Ge, and Yubao Liu
P8.9   
SIMULATION OF A HIGH IMPACT WEATHER EVENT OVER ISRAEL WITH THE WRF-RTFDDA SYSTEM – A CASE STUDY.     Dorita Rostkier-Edelstein (IIBR & NCAR), Yubao Liu, Ming Ge, Tom Warner and Scott Swerdlin (NCAR), Adam Pietrkowski and Yoav Segev
 
P8.10   
Use of WRF for Winter Precipitation Enhancement Studies.    Tara Jensen, Roelof Bruintjes, and Dan Breed (NCAR)
 
P8.11   
Simulation of snow storm over Japan.    Koji WADA (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry), Hiroyuki Kusaka and Hromaru Hirakuchi
 
P8.12   
Evaluation of WRF Precipitation Forecasts over India during the Summer Monsoon.    Amanda E. Hopkins (Florida State University)
 
P8.13   
Sensitivity test and validation of WRF model simulations during 2004 Mei-Yu season in Taiwan.   Shyuan- Ru Miaw (Department of Atmospheric Science, NCU), Pay-Liam Lin, Fan-Chin Chien, Ben J.-D. Jou, Jing-Sun Hong
 
P8.14   
Heavy rainfall events during Indian summer monsoon season: Satellite observations and numerical simulations using WRFV2.1.2.   Mukul Tewari (NCAR) and C.M. Kishtawal
 
P8.15   
Verification of WRF forecast over Northeastern United States.    Shing Yoh (Kean University)
 
P8.16   
Weathernews’ Operational Implementation Of The WRF-ARW Model For Global Operations.    Brent Shaw, Robert Lee, and Kohei Sakamoto (Weathernews Inc.)
     
  Ensemble Forecasting
P9.1    Using model physics and lower boundary perturbations in short-range ensemble simulations of hurricane Isabel.    So-Young Ha and Chris Snyder (NCAR)
   
Advanced Computing
P10.1   
WRF performance tuning for Intel® platforms.   A. Semenov (intel Corp.), T. Kashevarova, P. Mankevich, D. Shkurko
 
P10.2   
Deployment of WRF Model Using Bootable Cluster CD (BCCD) on Heterogeneous PC System.    Shing Yoh and Braden Ward (Kean University)
   
SESSION 4: Data Assimilation
4.1   
Status Report on WRF's Variational Data Assimilation System (WRF-Var).    D. M. Barker, J. R. Bray, Y. -R. Guo, H. Huang, S. R. H. Rizvi, and Q. -N. Xiao (NCAR), Z. Liu (MMM Visitor, on leave from the Chinese National Satellite Meteorological Center), H. C. Shin, and M.-S. Lee (Korean Meteorological Administration)
4.2   
Radiance Assimilation in WRF-Var: Implementation and Initial Results.   Zhiquan Liu (NCAR & National Satellite Meteorological Center, Beijing) and Dale Barker (NCAR)
4.3   
Study of MODIS Retrieved Total Precipitable Water Data and Their Impact on Weather Simulations.    Shu-Hua Chen, Zhan Zhao, Jennifer Haase, Aidong Chen, and Francois Vandenberghe (University of California, Davis)
4.4   
Development of Unified 3DVAR for Global and Regional Application in KMA.     Mi-Seon Lee, Hyun-Cheol Shin and Ki-Han Youn ( Korea Meteorological Administration), D. M. Barker , S. Rizvi, W-Huang, and Y.-R. Guo (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
4.5   
Preliminary results of WRF 4D-Var.    Xiang-Yu Huang, Qingnong Xiao, Wei Huang, Dale Barker, John Michalakes, John Bray,
Zaizhong Ma, Yongrun Guo, Hui-Chuan Lin and Ying-Hwa Kuo (NCAR)
4.6   
Tuning of 3DVAR and its Application to High Resolution Radar Data Assimilation System.   Dong-Kyou Lee, Hyun-Ha Lee and Johan Lee (Seoul National University)
4.7   
AN UPDATE ON “OBSERVATION-NUDGING”-BASED FDDA FOR WRF-ARW: VERIFICATION USING OSSES AND PERFORMANCE OF REAL-TIME FORECASTS.    Yubao Liu, Alfred Bourgeois, Tom Warner, Scott Swerdlin and Wei Yu (NCAR)
4.8   
Exploring the Application of Radio Occultation Data in Improving Analyses of Temperature and Moisture over Traditional Data Void Regions with the WRF/DART Ensemble Data Assimilation System.   Hui Liu, Jeffrey Anderson, Ying-Hua Kuo, Chris Snyder, and Alain Caya (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
4.9   
The Performance of WRF-based EnKF and 3DVAR for an MCV event during BAMEX.    Fuqing Zhang and Zhiyong Meng (Texas A&M University)
   
SESSION 5: Physics Development
5.1   
WRF physics: Issues and future directions.    John M. Brown (NOAA/Earth System Research Lab) and Physics Working Group 5
5.2   
Inter-comparisons of Physics Schemes in COAMPS and WRF.    Yi Jin, Sue Chen, James Doyle, Chi-Sann Liou, Jason Nachamkin, Jerome Schmidt, Shouping Wang, Wei Wang, and Richard Hodur (Naval Research Lab and NCAR)
5.3   
A New Bulk Microphysical Parameterization in WRF.    Greg Thompson, Bill Hall, Paul Field, Roy Rasmussen (NCAR)
5.4   
Implementation of NASA/GSFC Cloud Microphysics Schemes into WRF.    Jainn J. Shi and Wei-Kuo Tao (NASA GSFC)
5.5   
Noah LSM used in the operational mesoscale NAM (WRF-NMM) model.    Michael Ek*+, Ken Mitchell*, Vince Wong*#, George Gayno*# (affiliations: *NCEP/EMC, +UCAR/VSP, #SAIC
5.6   
Implementation and Evaluation of a Single – Layer Urban Canopy Model in WRF/Noah.   Mukul Tewari (NCAR/RAL), Fei Chen (NCAR/RAL), Hiroyuki Kusaka (University of Tsukuba)
5.7   
Interaction between the boundary-Layer and precipitation processes in WRF.    Song-You Hong, Yign Noh, and Jimy Dudhia (Yonsei University and NCAR)
5.8   
Behavior of WRF PBL schemes and land-surface models in 1D simulations during BAMEX.    M. Pagowski (NOAA-ESRL/CIRA), J. Hacker (NCAR), and D. Rostkier-Edelstein (IIBR & NCAR)
5.9   
A new combined local and non-local boundary layer model: ACM2.    Jonathan E. Pleim (ARL/NOAA)
     
SESSION 6: WRF Chemistry
6.1   
New developments and applications for WRF/Chem.    Georg Grell, Steven Peckham, Stuart McKeen, Jerome Fast, William Gustafson (CIRES/NOAA/SRL/GSD)
6.2   
Implementation and Testing of the 2005 Version of Carbon Bond Mechanism in WRF/Chem.    Jian-Ping Huang (North Carolina State University)
6.3   
Effect of Cloud-Aerosol-Chemistry Interactions on Aerosol and Cloud Optical Depths in Western Pennsylvania During August 2004.    William I. Gustafson Jr., Elaine G. Chapman, Jerome D. Fast, Richard C. Easter, and Steven J. Ghan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
6.4   
Automatic coding of chemistry solvers in WRF-Chem using KPP.    Marc Salzmann and Mark Lawrence (Max-Planck-Institiute for Chemistry)
6.5   
Results of Coupling the WRF-Chemistry model with the SMOKE Emissions Processing/Modeling System.    John McHenry and Carlie Coats (Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems)
6.6   
The sensitivity of ozone and its precursors to planetary boundary layer transport parameterizations within the WRF-Chem model.    Stuart McKeen, Si-Wan Kim, Greg Frost, Eirh-Yu Hsie, Georg Grell and Steven Peckham (NOAA/CIRES)
6.7   
Off-line Air Quality Coupling System: WRF-CMAQ Simulations of a High Ozone Episode in Houston.    Fong Ngan, Daewon Byun and Soontae Kim (University of Houston)
   
SESSION 7: Regional Climate Modeling
7.1   
Understanding Error in the Long-term Simulation of Warm Season Rainfall using the WRF Model.    J.M.Done (NCAR), L.R.Leung (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) and B.Kuo (NCAR)
7.2   
Analysis and Evaluation of WRF Tropical Channel Simulations.    L. Ruby Leung, Bill Kuo, Joe Tribbia, Greg Holland, Jimy Dudhia, James Done, Bill Collins, Jim Hack, Bill Large, Jim Hurrell, Rick Anthes, Mitch Moncrieff, John Michalakes, Tom Henderson, Julie Caron, Cindy Bruyere, Wei Wang (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and NCAR)
7.3   
Development of the Regional Climate-Weather Research and Forecasting Model (CWRF): Treatment of Subgrid Topography Effects.    Xin-Zhong Liang, Min Xu, Hyun IL Choi and K.E. Kunkel (Illinois State Water Survey, DNR, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Laura Rontu (Finnish Meteorological Institute), Jean-Francois Geleyn (Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques), Mathias D. Müller (University of Basel), Everette Joseph (Howard University) and Julian X.L. Wang (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
7.4   
Simulation with the WRF model of anomalous East Asia summer monsoon in 1993: Sensitivity to shortwave radiation schemes and ozone absorption.    Hyung-Jin Kim, Bin Wang (University of Hawaii) and Yign Noh (Yonsei University)
7.5   
Development and Testing of Polar WRF.    Keith M. Hines and David H. Bromwich (Ohio State University)
   
SESSION 8: Model Verification
8.1   
Verification of WRF Over Complex Terrain and Coastal Regions Using Field Data and Ensembles.    Brian A. Colle, Yanluan Lin, Joseph B. Olson (Stony Brook University), Bradley F. Smull and Nicholas A. Bond (University of Washington)
8.2   
DTC/ESRL-GSD Core Test for Rapid Refresh: Preliminary Results.    Stan Benjamin, NOAA/Earth System Research Lab, J. M. Brown, T. G. Smirnova, A. Loughe, R. Collander, L. Bernardet and L. B. Nance
8.4   
Penn State-DTRA High-Resolution Meteorological Modeling for the Torino Winter Olympics.    David R. Stauffer, Glenn K. Hunter, Aijun Deng, Young Kwon (Pennsylvania State University), Patrick Hayes (Northrop Grumman Corporation) and Jimmie Trigg, Jr. (U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency)
8.5   
A comparison of very short-term QPFs for summer convection over complex terrain areas, with the NCAR/ATEC WRF and MM5-based RTFDDA systems.    Wei Yu, Yubao Liu, Tom Warner, Randy Bullock, Barbara Brown and Ming Ge (NCAR/RAL)
8.6   
Working with WRF netCDF data in GIS.    Jennifer Boehnert (NCAR)
8.7   
Implementation of WRF at AFWA.    Jerry Wegiel, Steve Rugg, Jeff DeLotelle, and Mike Horner (AFWA)
 
Breakout Sessions
  Convection-Resolving Modeling   
Hurricane Studies  
Data Assimilation  
Physics Development  
WRF Chemistry
Regional Climate Modeling  
Model Verification   
Ensemble Forecasting   
Advanced Computing  
 
 
Instructional Session: Introduction of the New WRF Preprocessing Program

 



 
 
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