Program for the 2019 Joint WRF/MPAS Users’ Workshop

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, June 10

WRF Lecture Series: An Overview of Atmospheric Model Visualization and Analysis Tools and Approaches

1:30 - 5:00 P.M.

 

 

1:30-2:05

Visualization best practices for geosciences.

Pearse, Scott, CISL/NCAR

2:05-2:40

The NCL pivot to Python.

Clyne, John, CISL/NCAR

 

 

 

2:40-3:10

Coffee Break

 

 

 

3:10-3:45

The integrated Data Viewer: A 3d visualization and analysis tool for atmospheric and oceanic research and education.

Chastang, Julien, Unidata/UCP

3:45-4:20

MetPy: Python tools for meteorological data analysis and visualization.

May, Ryan, Unidata/UCP

4:20-4:55

Visualization of WRF and MPAS forecast datasets with Python.

Sobash, Ryan, MMM/NCAR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, June 11, 8:30 - 8:45

Welcome Remarks

 

 

Session 1:  Annual Model Development Updates

8:45 - 9:50 Tuesday, June 11

Chair:  Jordan Powers, NCAR

1.1

The Weather Research and Forecasting Model: 2019 Annual Update.

Dudhia, Jimy, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
presentation

1.2

WRFDA 2019 Update.

Liu, Zhiquan, Jonathan Guerrette, Jamie Bresch, Juanzhen Sun, Junmei Ban, Yali Wu, Wei Sun, and Chris Snyder, MMM, National Center for Atmospheric Research
presentation

1.3

MPAS Update.

Skamarock, Bill, MMM, National Center for Atmospheric Research
presentation

1.4

Using the Coupled-Ocean-Atmosphere-Waves-Sediment-Transport (COAWST) Modeling System to Investigate Storm Dynamics.

Warner, John C., U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal/Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole, MA, Joseph B. Zambon, Ruoying He, North Carolina State University, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC, Maitane Olabarrieta, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, and Christie Hegermiller, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
presentation

 

 

 

9:50 - 10:15

Coffee Break

 

 

 

Session 2:  Other Model Developments

10:15 - 12:00 Tuesday, June 11

Chair:  Ligia Bernardet, CIRES and NOAA

2.1

Atmospheric modeling of the high southern latitudes with Polar WRF.

Bromwich, David H., Jianjun Xue, Lesheng Bai, and Keith M. Hines, Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University
presentation

2.2

Results from the implementation of an implicit-explicit vertical advection scheme in WRF-ARW for CAM systems.

Wicker, Lou, NOAA/NSSL
presentation

2.3

The final Rapid Refresh and High-Resolution Rapid Refresh operational implementation and the bridge to a Unified Forecast System.

Alexander, Curtis, David Dowell, Steve Weygandt, Stan Benjamin, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Ming Hu, Tanya Smirnova, Joe Olson, Jaymes Kenyon, NOAA and University of Colorado/Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Georg Grell, NOAA, Eric James, NOAA and CIRES, Haidao Lin, NOAA and Colorado State University/Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Terra Ladwig, Jeff Duda, NOAA and CIRES, John Brown, Trevor Alcott, NOAA, and Isidora Jankov, NOAA and CIRA
presentation

2.4

The MAD-WRF solar irradiance nowcasting model: model overview and evaluation of the cloud initialization system.

Jimenez, P.A , G. Thompson, J. Dudhia and J.A. Lee, National Center for Atmospheric Research
presentation

2.5

Augmenting MPAS with online diagnostics.

Wong, John, Todd Hutchinson, Brett Wilt, and James Cipriani, The Weather Company, an IBM Business
presentation

2.6

Using hierarchical time-stepping to utilize MPAS-A computational resources for customized extreme variable-resolution meshes.

Ng, Ka-Ki, Kwan-Shu Tse, Yuk Sing Lui, Wai-Nang Leung, Chi Chiu Cheung, and Sze-Chuan Suen, ClusterTech Limited, Hong Kong
presentation

2.7

A machine learning surface layer parameterization for WRF.

Gagne, David, Tyler McCandless, Branko Kosovic, Amy DeCastro, Thomas Brummet, Sue Haupt, Richard Loft, National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Bai Yang, NOAA
presentation

 

 

 

12:00 - 1:30

Lunch

 

 

Session 3:  Software Development

1:30 - 3:00 Tuesday, June 11

Chair:  Todd Hutchinson, The Weather Company, an IBM Business

3.1

Performance evaluation of numerical weather prediction and climate models on Intel architecture.

Ovsyannikov, Andrey, Intel Corporation
presentation

3.2

MPAS on GPUs.

Suresh, Supreeth, NCAR/UCAR, and Raghuraj Kumar, NVIDIA
presentation

3.3

GPU performance study for the WRF model on the Summit supercomputer.

Adie, Jeff, NVIDIA, Gökhan Sever, Rajeev Jain, DOE Argonne NL, and Aide, Jeffrey, NVIDIA
presentation

3.4

Challenges and techniques to port MPAS on to GPUs.

Kumar, Raghuraj, NVIDIA, S. Suresh, NCAR/UCAR
presentation

3.5

Quantifying “these results should be almost the same”; for differences: how big is too big?

Gill, David, National Center for Atmospheric Research
presentation

3.6

Automated testing in MPAS and WRF models.

Abdi-Oskouei, Maryam, MMM/JCSDA, UCAR, David Gill, Michael Duda, MMM/UCAR, and Yannick Tremolet, JCSDA/UCAR
presentation

 

 

3:00 - 3:30

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 4:  Data Assimilation - Development and Testing

3:30 - 4:30 Tuesday, June 11

Chair:  Jake Liu, NCAR

4.1

Data assimilation for MPAS.

Snyder, Chris, and Zhiquan Liu, National Center for Atmospheric Research
presentation

4.2

Implementation of incremental analysis updates (IAU) in 1-hr updated cycling forecasting system.

Chen, Min, Institute of Urban Meteorology, CMA, Beijing, China, and Xiang-yu Huang, Centre for Climate Research Singapore, Singapore
presentation

4.3

Retrospective analysis of 2015-2017 winter-time PM2.5 in China: response to emission regulations and the role of meteorology.

Chen, Dan, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China, Zhiquan Liu, Junmei Ban, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Pusheng Zhao, and Min Chen, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
presentation

4.4

Improving forecasts of the record-breaking Guangzhou “57” rainstorm by assimilating every 10-min AHI radiances with WRF 4DVAR.

Wu, Yali, Zhiquan Liu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Deqin Li, Institute of Atmospheric Environment, Shenyang, China
presentation

 

 

 

 

4:30 - 5:30 Tuesday, June 11

Plenary Discussion: User Support Update and How to Use Git and GitHub

Chair:

 

 

 

5:30 - 7:00 Tuesday, June 11

Information Exchange

 

 

 

 

 

Session 5:  WRF-Chemistry – Development and Testing

8:30 - 10:00 Wednesday, June 12

Chair:  Georg Grell, GSD/ESRL/NOAA

5.1

Modeling diurnal variation of surface PM2.5 concentration over East China with WRF-Chem: Impacts from boundary mixing and emission.

Du, Qiuyan, Chun Zhao*, Mingshuai Zhang, Xue Dong, Yu Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, Zhen Liu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Zhiyuan Hu, Siyu Chen, Lanzhou University, China, and Qiang Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
presentation

5.2

Prediction of acidity in WRF-Chem.

Barth, Mary C., National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Rahul Zaveri, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
presentation

5.3

Numerical simulation of an extreme haze pollution event over North China Plain based on initial and boundary condition ensembles.

Liu, Hongbo, Xiaobin Li, JuanJuan Liu, LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, China, and Ziyin Zhang, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, China
presentation

5.4

Scavenging of ozone precursors in convective clouds observed during a SEAC4RS case study.

Cuchiara, Gustavo C., NCAR and University of Colorado, Mary C. Barth, NCAR, Alan Fried, University of Colorado
presentation

5.5

Impact of topography on aerosol transport from the southern Tibetan Plateau and its implication for aerosol climatic impact.

Zhao, Chun, Meixin Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China, Zhiyuan Cong, Institute of Tibetan Plateau research, China, Qiuyan Du, Mingyue Xu, Yu Chen, Rui Li, Yufei Fu, USTC, Ming Chen, and Jimy Dudhia, NCAR
presentation

5.6

Assimilation of GOCI AOD retrievals to improve air-quality forecasting during the KORUS-AQ period.

Ha, Soyoung, MMM/NCAR
presentation

 

 

 

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

 

 

 

Session 6:  Model Evaluation (Part 1): 

10:30 - 12:00 Wednesday, June 12

Chair: Lou Wicker, NSSL/NOAA

6.1

Partitioning between deep and shallow convection in MPAS.

Fowler, Laura D., and Mary C. Barth, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
presentation

6.2

Mechanisms improving tropical rainfall diurnal cycle in convection-permitting WRF.

Argüeso, D., Department of Physics, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain, A. Di Luca, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia, and R. Romero, Department of Physics, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
presentation

6.3

The representation of precipitation characteristics in high resolution WRF simulations over western Canada.

Erler, Andre R., Aquanty Inc., Canada, and Brian Menounos, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
presentation

6.4

Evaluating simulated microphysics using GPM satellite observations in the Pacific Northwest.

Conrick, Robert, and Clifford F. Mass, University of Washington
presentation

6.5

Revisiting sensitivity to horizontal grid spacing in convection-allowing models over the central–eastern United States using a large dataset.

Schwartz, Craig S., and Ryan A. Sobash, National Center for Atmospheric Research
presentation

6.6

Convective system structure, evolution and severe weather potential in 1 versus 3 km WRF forecasts.

Weisman, Morris, National Center for Atmospheric Research
presentation

 

 

 

12:00 - 1:30

Lunch

 

 

 

Session 7 (Poster Session):  Wednesday, June 12

            Poster Set-up:  1:15 P.M.

            Odd-numbered Posters:  1:30 - 2:30

            Even-numbered Posters:  2:30 – 3:30

            Free Poster Viewing:  3:30-4:30

 

 

Session 7 (Posters):  Data Assimilation

P1

L1 estimation of fire arrival time using satellite data.

Hearn, Lauren, Angel Farguell, James Haley, and Jan Mandel, University of Colorado Denver, and Adam Kochanski, University of Utah

P2

Recovering fire arrival time from satellite data by machine learning.

Farguell, Angel, James Haley, Lauren Hearn, and Jan Mandel, University of Colorado Denver, and Adam Kochanski, University of Utah
Poster

P3

Data assimilation cycling in a coupled fire-atmosphere model.

Haley, James, Angel Farguell, Jan Mandel, and Lauren Hern, University of Colorado Denver, and Adam Kochanski, University of Utah

P4

Testing the radial wind data assimilation for 3-km high resolution convective forecasts.

Zhou, Chunhua, NCAR, Ming Hu, Guoqing Ge, NOAA/ESRL, Ying Zhang, Michael Kavulich, and Lindsay Blank, NCAR

P5

Presentation Withdrawn

P6

All-sky infrared radiance assimilation using GOES-16 ABI in WRFDA.

Guerrette, Jonathan (JJ), Zhiquan (Jake) Liu, and Chris Snyder, NCAR/MMM

P7

PBL thermodynamic profile assimilation and impacts on land-atmosphere coupling.

Santanello, Joseph, NASA-GSFC, Sara Zhang, SAIC/NASA-GSFC, Dave Turner, NOAA-ESRL, and Patricia Lawston, ESSIC/NASA-GSFC

P8

Continuously Cycled Surface and Radar Data Assimilation and its influence on Afternoon Thunderstorm Prediction in Taiwan.

Chen, I-Han, Jing-Shan Hong, and Ya-Ting Tsai, Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan

P9

Towards operational data assimilation with global MPAS at convective-allowing resolution.

Cipriani, James, Ken Dixon, and Brett Wilt, The Weather Company, an IBM Business

P10

2015 and 2016 winter-time air pollution in China:  SO2 emission changes derived from a WRF-Chem/EnKF coupled data assimilation system.

Chen, Dan, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, China, Zhiquan Liu, Junmei Ban, National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Min Chen, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, China

P11

NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Project: Evaluating the impact of assimilating additional GNSS-RO data into operational forecast models.

Newman, Kathryn, Chunhua Zhou, Julia Pearson, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), Hui Shao, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA), and Louisa Nance, NCAR and DTC

 

 

 

 

Posters:  Chemistry Development and Testing

P12

A comparison of simulated dust over Southwest Asia produced by the three dust-emission schemes currently implemented in the community WRF-Chem model.

LeGrand, Sandra, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)

P13

Sensitivity analysis of aerosol chemical mechanisms in air quality modeling (WRF-Chem).

Lee, Hyo-Jung, Hyun-Young Jo, Yu-Jin Jo, Shin-Young Park, Geum-Hee Yang, Jong-Min Kim, and Cheol-Hee Kim, Pusan National University, South Korea, Young-Hee Lee, and Lim-Seok Chang, National Institute of Environmental Research, South Korea

P14

Emissions, transport, and chemistry of smoke from Western U.S. wildfires.

Bela, Megan M., University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research Laboratory Chemical Sciences Division (NOAA-ESRL-CSD), Natalie Kille, CU Boulder Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Stuart A. McKeen, Ravan Ahmadov, CIRES and NOAA-ESRL-CSD, Gabriel Pereira, Federal University of São João del-Rei, Brazil, Chris Schmidt, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), R. Bradley Pierce, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Susan M. O'Neill, United States Forest Service, Xiaoyang Zhang, South Dakota State University, Shobha Kondragunta, NESDIS, Christine Wiedinmyer, CIRES, and Rainer Volkamer, CU Boulder Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

P15

A numerical and observational study on the particulate matters from extremely high temperature condition in 2018 in Busan, Korea.

Yang, Geum-Hee, Hyo-Jung Lee, Hyun-Young Jo, Shin-Young Park, Yu-Jin Jo, Jong-min Kim and Cheol-Hee Kim, Pusan National University, Korea

P16

Modeling for KORUS-AQ 2016 – Influence of long-range transport on air quality in the Seoul metropolitan area.

Pfister, Gabriele, Louisa Emmons, National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Christoph Knote, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich

P17

The evaluation of precipitation susceptibility from satellite and WRF-Chem model over Northeast Asia.

Park, Shin-Young, Hyo-Jung Lee, Hyun-Young Jo, Yu-Jin Jo, Geum-Hee Yang, Jong-Min Kim and Cheol-Hee Kim, Pusan National University, Republic of Korea

 

 

 

 

Posters:  Physics Development and Testing

P18

Fuel moisture model in WRF-Fire and assimilation of RAWS data.

Mandel, Jan, University of Colorado Denver, Adam Kochanski, University of Utah, and Martin Vejmelka, CEAI, Czech Republic
Poster

P19

Adjoint sensitivity analysis of FARMS for Forecasting Variables of WRF-Solar.

Yang, Jaemo, Manajit Sengupta, Yu Xie, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Pedro A. Jimenez, and Ju-Hye Kim, National Center for Atmospheric Research

P20

Sensitivity of boundary layer structure in complex terrain to land use and land surface models.

Pattantyus, Andre, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Poster

P21

Mass-flux parameterization of turbulent downdrafts in marine stratocumulus clouds.

Wu, Elynn, Handa Yang, Jan Kleissl, Center for Renewable Resource and Integration, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Kay Suselj, Marcin J. Kurowski, and Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

P22

Moist convection on Jupiter simulated by a new global circulation model – PlanetMPAS.

Lian, Yuan, Mark I. Richardson, Aeolis Research, and Adam P. Showman, The University of Arizona

P23

Sensitivity of microphysics parameterizations to aerosol loading.

Grell, Evelyn, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Bao, Jian-Wen, NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Michelson, Sara, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA/ESRL/PSD

P24

Two moment coupled microphysics on Mars.

Lee, Christopher, University of Toronto, Canada

P25

Recent development of the MYNN turbulence parameterization for RAPv5 / HRRRv4.

Kenyon, Jaymes, Joseph Olson, Wayne Angevine, CIRES and NOAA/ESRL, and John Brown, NOAA/ESRL

P26

WRF explicit surface wave modeling experiments beneath Hurricane Florence (2018).

Zambon, Joe, Ruoying He, North Carolina State University - Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, John C. Warner, United States Geological Survey (USGS), and Christie Hegermiller, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

P27

Facilitating development of physical parameterizations for NOAA’s Unified Forecast System.

Bernardet, Ligia, University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CU/CIRES) and NOAA ESRL Global Systems Division (NOAA/ESRL/GSD) and Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), G. Firl, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and DTC,  D. Heinzeller, CU/CIRES, DTC and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, L. Carson, NCAR and DTC, M. Zhang, CU/CIRES, DTC and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, J. Wolff, NCAR and DTC, J. Henderson, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and DTC, W. Li, T. Hertneky, NCAR and DTC, L. Pan, CU/CIRES, DTC and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, L. Blank, M. Harrold, J. Dudhia, and L. Nance, NCAR and DTC
poster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Posters:  Regional Climate Studies

P28

Using Noah-MP-Crop to study cropland impact on regional climate in the Northern Great Plains.

Scott, Aaron, and Aaron Kennedy, University of North Dakota

P29

Characteristics of 2016 and 2018 heat wave events over South Korea and their predictability in the operational prediction system of KMA.

Yoon, Donghyuck, Dong-Hyun Cha, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, and Ki-Hong Min, Kyungpook National University, South Korea

P30

Relationship between Indian Ocean SSTs and the East African Short Rains.

Liu, Weiran, Kerry H. Cook and Edward K. Vizy, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas

P31

Changes in precipitation and snowpack across Alaska in a high-resolution future climate change simulation.

Newman, Andrew J., Research Applications Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Monaghan, Martyn P. Clark, Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship, University of Colorado, Kyoko Ikeda, Lulin Xue, Research Applications Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Jeff. R. Arnold, Climate Preparedness and Resilience Program, US Army Corps of Engineers

P32

Contrasting responses of urban and forest surface temperature to heat waves.

Wang, Liang, and Dan Li, Boston University

P33

Sub-km WRF configuration for testing over the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Meteorological Sensor Array in the Jornada Experimental Range.

Dumais, Robert, Brian Reen, Chris Hocut, Andre Pattantyus, and Andre Pattantyus, U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command –Army Research Laboratory, Computational Information and Sciences Directorate, Battlefield Environment Division, WSMR, NM.
poster

 

 

 

 

Posters:  Model Evaluation

P34

Development of new tropical cyclone tools within METplus.

Newman, Kathryn, John Halley Gotway, Randy Bullock, David Fillmore, Tracy Hertneky, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), Evan Kalina, U. of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the Global Systems Division (GSD) of the national Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research laboratory (NOAA ESRL) and DTC, Mrinal Biswas, NCAR and DTC, Evelyn Grell, CIRES at Physical Sciences Division of NOAA ESRL and DTC, and Tara Jensen, NCAR and DTC

P35

Increased momentum toward unified verification and diagnostic evaluation of NCAR community models.

Jensen, Tara L., John Halley Gotway, Michael Ek, NCAR/RAL, Chris Davis, Jimy Dudhia, NCAR/MMM, and Andrew Gettleman, NCAR/CGD
Poster

P36

IBM GRAF: A rapidly-updating global NWP system.

Hutchinson, Todd, Brett Wilt, James Cipriani, John Wong, Ken Dixon,
The Weather Company, an IBM Business, Rich Loft, Bill Skamarock, and Michael Duda, National Center for Atmospheric Research

P37

Modeling extreme precipitation over East China with a global variable-resolution modeling framework (MPASv5.2): Impacts of resolution and physics.

Xu, Mingyue, Chun Zhao, Yu Wang and  Meixin Zhang, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Jianping Guo, State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China, Zhiyuan Hu, Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, Gansu, China, L. Ruby Leung, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Michael Duda and William Skamarock, National Center for Atmospheric Research

P38

Extended range severe weather forecasts using WRF and MPAS.

Sobash, Ryan, and Craig Schwartz, NCAR/MMM

P39

Reproduction analysis of detailed rainfall distribution by WRF using Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA55).

Inaba, Naoki, Shigeto Ando and Nozomu Takada, Meteorological Engineering Center, Inc., Japan

P40

Impact of cumulus parameterization schemes on the simulation of heavy rainfall event over the Korea Peninsula on 16 July, 2017.

Park, Haerin, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

P41

Removed - Duplicate

P42

Adapting MPAS FDDA to use analysis nudging with 3-hour updates.

Bullock Jr., Russell, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Poster

P43

Spatiotemporal coastal-urban boundary-layer performance of a high-resolution urbanized-WRF: Comparisons with ground-based remote sensing during a heat event.

Melecio-Vazquez, David, Department of Mechanical Engineering and NOAA-CREST Center, The City College of New York (CCNY), Jaymes Kenyon, Joseph Olson, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, and NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Prathap Ramamurthy, Department of Mechanical Engineering and NOAA-CREST Center, CCNY, Mark Arend, Department of Electrical Engineering and NOAA-CREST Center, CCNY, and Jorge E. Gonzalez-Cruz, Department of Mechanical Engineering and NOAA-CREST Center, CCNY

P44

Sensitivity experiments of urban canopy parameterizations using ensemble WRF simulations over the Chicago metropolitan.

Sever, Gökhan, Rob Jacob, Rajeev Jain, Aleks Obabko, Rao Kotamarthi, and Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory

P45

Evaluation of a hierarchy of urban canopy parameterizations in the WRF model during the passage of a cold front in Houston.

Hendricks, Eric A., Jason C. Knievel, and Yi Wang, National Center for Atmospheric Research

P46

Effect of the land surface hydrologic processes on land-air interactions in Taiwan using WRF-Noah and WRF-NoahMP.

 Tzu-Ying, Chen, and Fang-Yi Cheng, Graduate institute of Atmospheric Physics, National Central University, Taiwan
Poster

P47

Influence of Near Real-Time Green Vegetation Fraction Data in WRF on the Prediction of Surface Variables over Northern China.

Lu, Bin, Jiqin Zhong, Institute of Urban Meteorology; China Meteorological Administration, W. Wang, MMM/NCAR, Zhaojun Zheng, National Satellite Meteorological Center, CMA, and Min Chen, IUM/CMA

P48

Application of WRF-Hydro v5.0 for an operational, highly localized land surface and streamflow predictions in the Lake George, NY watershed.

Tewari, Mukul, Campbell D. Watson, IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and Alvaro B. Buoro, IBM Research, Brazil

P49

WRF model resolution impacts on a hydrodynamic model in near-shore environments.

Watson, Campbell D., Guillaume Auger, Harry R. Kolar, and Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Center

P50

Forecasting intense summer synoptic-scale cyclones over the Arctic Ocean.

Bromwich, David H., Lesheng Bai, Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Zhiquan Liu, NCAR, and Hailing Zhang, COSMIC Program Office, UCAR

P51

Low-level jets in the Autumnal Marginal Ice Zone: Sensitivity to sea ice extent and the influence of coupling on surface turbulent heat fluxes.

Hughes, Mimi, Ola Persson, Amy Solomon, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder and NOAA/ESRL/PSD and Janet Intrieri, NOAA/ESRL/PSD

P52

Predicting wet snow and freezing rain icing events over Vermont using a WRF ensemble.

Siuta, David, and Jason Shafer, Northern Vermont University - Lyndon

P53

Operational air quality forecast for the Gulf of Mexico. Phase 1: meteorological evaluation.

Garcia, Agustin, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, CCA, Mexico, Victor Almanza, Cuauhtemoc  Turrent,  and Favio Medrano, Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education (CICESE), Mexico

P54

Impact of spectral nudging on real-time tropical cyclone forecast.

Moon, Jihong, Dong-Hyun Cha, Minkyu Lee, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, and Joowan Kim, Kongju National University, South Korea

P55

Near real-time forecasting experiment of typhoon in the South China Sea with a high resolution regional fully-coupled model.

Wang, Donghai, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Poster

P56

Meteotsunamis in the Gulf of Mexico and eastern United States during hurricane seasons 2016-2018.

Olabarrieta, Maitane and Luming Shi, University of Florida, David S. Nolan, University of Miami, and John C. Warner, US Geological Survey

P57

Large-eddy simulation of idealized hurricanes at different sea surface temperatures.

Ren, Hehe, Key Lab of Smart Prevention and Mitigation for Civil Engineering Disasters of the Ministry of Industry and Information, and Key Lab of Structures Dynamic Behavior and Control of the Ministry of Education, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, Jimy Dudhia, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Hui Li, Key Lab of Smart Prevention and Mitigation for Civil Engineering Disasters of the Ministry of Industry and Information, and Key Lab of Structures Dynamic Behavior and Control of the Ministry of Education, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Poster

P58

Evaluation of the MYNN planetary boundary layer scheme in the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast (HWRF) system.

Kalina, Evan, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/Global Systems Division (GSD), Robert Fovell, State University of New York-Albany, Mrinal Biswas, Kathryn Newman, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Evelyn Grell, CIRES and NOAA/Physical Sciences Division, Laurie Carson, NCAR, and James Frimel, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere and NOAA/GSD
Poster

P59

Evaluation of the MYNN PBL scheme for predicting tropical cyclones with HWRF model.

Biswas, Mrinal K., National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), Evan Kalina, University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CU/CIRES) at the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory/Global Systems Division (NOAA/ESRL/GSD) and DTC, Kathryn Newman, DTC/NCAR, Evelyn Grell, CU/CIRES at the NOAA/ESRL/Physical Systems Division and DTC, Laurie Carson, DTC/NCAR, and James Frimel, Colorado State University Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at the NOAA/ESRL/GSD and DTC

P60

Impact of cloud microphysics schemes on typhoon forecast over the western North Pacific.

Park, Jinyoung, Minkyu Lee, Jihong Moon, and Dong-Hyun Cha, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

P61

Evaluation of a scale separation technique for assessing WRF forecasts of radar reflectivity.

Raby, John W., Brian P. Reen, Huaqing Cai, Jeffrey Smith, and Robert Dumais, Army Research Laboratory
poster

P62

Characterization of the boundary layer structures and local airflow over the complex terrain in Taiwan using high resolution WRF model.

Wang, Yu-Tzu, Fang-Yi Cheng, National Central University, Taiwan, and Hyeyum Hailey Shin, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Poster

P63

On the diurnal development of Sundowner winds in coastal Santa Barbara, CA.

Duine, Gert-Jan, Earth Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Charles Jones, and Leila MV Carvalho, Dept. of Geography and Earth Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara
Poster

P64

Applying design of experiments to numerical weather prediction.

Smith, Jeffrey A., US CCDC ARL (USCCDCARL), Judah L. Cleveland, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, John W. Raby, USCCDCARL, Richard S. Penc, Self
poster

P65

MPAS-A sensitivity to floating-point precision, mesh configuration, and interpolation scheme for weather forecasting in western Canada.

Chui, Timothy C. Y., and Roland Stull, University of British Columbia, Canada
Poster

P69

Comparing numerical accuracy of icosahedral A-grid and C-grid schemes for the Shallow Water Model.

Yu, Yonggang G., Ning Wang, Mark W. Govett, NOAA/ESRL/GSD

P70

A comparison of MPAS and WRF meteorological models in California: 2013 winter and 2016 summer case studies.

Gürer, Kemal, Jeremy Avise, and John DaMassa, California air Resources Board, Air Quality Planning and Science Division
poster

P71

A systematic approach for identifying model differences using the Method for Object-based Diagnostic Evaluation (MODE).

Hertneky, Tracy, Tressa Fowler, and Randy Bullock, National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Developmental Testbed Center

 

 

Posters:  Model Development

P66

MarsMPAS: It's MPAS, but for Mars.

Richardson, Mark I., and Yuan Lian, Aeolis Research

P67

WRF-XPY: Numerical modeling framework for operational coupled fire-atmosphere-fuel moisture forecasting.

Kochanski, Adam, Derek V. Mallia, University of Utah, Jan Mandel, Angel Farguell Caus, University of Colorado Denver, Martin Vejmelka, AVAST, and Sher Schranz, NOAA/CIRA

P68

AceCAST GPU-enabled Weather Research and Forecasting model development and applications.

Elliott, Samuel, Paul Maravelias, Daniel Abdi, Christian Tenasescu, and Gene Pache, TempoQuest Inc.




Session 8:  Model Evaluation (Part 2):

8:30 - 10:00 Thursday, June 13

Chair: Joe Olson, CIRES and NOAA

8.1

Mass flux divergence in a Hurricane.

Huang, Wei, Hewlett Packard Enterprises
presentation

8.2

Summer and wintertime variations of the surface and near-surface UHI in a semiarid environment.

Salamanca, Francisco, and Alex Mahalov, Arizona State University
presentation

8.3

Evaluation of surface sensible weather forecasts by the MPAS model.

Cheng, William Y.Y., Wanli Wu, Tom Henderson, Tim Brown, Paul Madden, Christina Holt, Mike Kay, Dusanka Zupanski, Razvan Stefanescu, Alexander MacDonald, Spire Global Inc, and Laura Fowler, NCAR
presentation

8.4

WRF cold bias using NOAH-MP over snow.

Mass, Cliff, and David Ovens, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
presentation

8.5

Evaluation of a scale-aware 3DTKE subgrid mixing parameterization in NWP applications.

Zhang, Xu, Baode Chen, Shanghai Typhoon Institute, Chinese Meteorological Administration, China, Jian-Wen Bao, PSD/ESRL/NOAA
presentation

8.6

Evaluation of HRRR boundary layer structure via high-resolution radiosondes.

Fovell, Robert, University at Albany, SUNY
presentation

 

 

 

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

 

 

 

Session 9:  Physics Development and Testing

10:30- 12:00 Thursday, June 13

Chair:  Rob Fovell, SUNY Albany

9.1

Urban model and Noah-MP land model development and future directions.

Barlage, Michael, and Fei Chen, NCAR
presentation

9.2

Improving cloud and solar radiation forecasts in the RAP/HRRR forecast systems.

Olson, Joseph B., Jaymes S. Kenyon, NOAA/CIRES, Greg Thompson, NCAR, John M. Brown, NOAA, Wayne M. Angevine, NOAA/CIRES, Dave Turner, Stan Benjamin, and Georg Grell, NOAA
presentation

9.3

Scale-aware tests of the MYNN-EDMF PBL and shallow cumulus scheme with a novel framework.

Angevine, Wayne M., and Joseph Olson, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA GSL
presentation

9.4

Development of Bulk cloud microphysics schemes with prognostic hail in WRF.

Bae, Soo-Ya, Song-You Hong, KIAPS, Korea, and Wei-Kuo Tao, NASA/GSFC
presentation

9.5

Evaluating and tuning the orographic gravity wave drag scheme in the RAP model.

Toy, Michael D., Joseph B. Olson, Tanya G. Smirnova, Jaymes S. Kenyon, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory (NOAA/ESRL), and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, Colorado, John M. Brown, and Georg A. Grell, NOAA/ESRL
presentation

9.6

Enhancing WRF-Solar to provide solar irradiance probabilistic forecasts.

Kim, Ju-Hye, Pedro A. Jimenez, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Manajit Sengupta, Jaemo Yang, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Jimy Dudhia, NCAR, Yu Xie, NREL, and Branko Kosovic, NCAR
presentation

 

 

 

12:00 - 1:30

Lunch

 

 

 

Session 10:  Everything Else You Wanted to Know about WRF and MPAS

1:30 - 3:00 Thursday, June 13

Chair:  Cliff Mass, University of Washington

10.1

Can coupled fire-atmosphere models predict smoke-induced inversions from wildfires?

Mallia, Derek V., Adam K. Kochanski, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Jan Mandel, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Colorado, and Tim Brown, Desert Research Institute
presentation

10.2

Best practices for simulating wind farm wakes with the WRF Wind Farm Parameterization.

Tomaszewski, Jessica M., University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder), and Julie K. Lundquist, CU Boulder and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
presentation

10.3

Regional MPAS and WRF: Comparison and Evaluation.

Chen, Ming, May Wong, Bill Skamarock, and Wei Wang, MMM/National Center for Atmospheric Research
presentation

10.4

IBM GRAF - Scale-aware convective forecast evaluation and improvements.

Wilt, Brett, The Weather Company, an IBM Business and Wei Wang, National Center for Atmospheric Research
presentation

10.5

Subseasonal prediction in a global convection-permitting model: insights and challenges in simulating tropical convection and extratropical teleconnections.

Weber, Nick, and Cliff Mass, University of Washington
presentation

10.6

The Common Community Physics Package CCPP: Unifying physics across NOAA and NCAR models using a common software framework.

Heinzeller, Dom, NOAA ESRL – Global Systems Division (NOAA/ESRL/GSD) and University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CU/CIRES) and Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), Grant Firl, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and DTC, Ligia Bernardet, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CU/CIRES and DTC, Laurie Carson, NCAR and DTC, Man Zhang, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CU/CIRES and DTC, Steve Goldhaber, Cheryl Craig, Dave Gill, Michael Duda, and Francis Vitt, NCAR
presentation

 

 

 

3:00 - 3:30

Coffee Break

 

 

 

3:30 - 4:30 Thursday, June 13

Wrap-up Discussion: NCAR’s Model Unification Effort

 

An update on the System for Integrated Modeling of the Atmosphere (SIMA).

Davis, Chris, Jean-Francois Lamarque, Andrew Gettelman, Bill Skamarock, Mary Barth, and Hanli Liu, NCAR

Short Abstract

The current status and future of WRF-Chem.

Grell, Georg, Ravan Ahmadav, NOAA, Mary Barth, Gabi Pfister, NCAR, and Jerome Fast, PNNL

 

 

 

 

4:30 Thursday, June 13

Meeting Adjourned

 

 

 

 

Friday June 14 – Instructional Sessions

 

 

8:30 - 10:00

            VAPOR : CG2 - Corporate Technical Training Center (CTTC Classroom)

            WRF in Amazon Web Services (WRF in the Cloud)

 

 

10:30 - 11:30

            Building a WRF Workflow with Scala Computing (WRF in the Cloud)

 

 

10:30 - 12:00

            WRF-Python

 
 
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