Papers Presented at the 5th WRF / 14th MM5
Users' Workshop NCAR
June 22-25, 2004

SESSION 1: PHYSICS DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING

1.1

THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECAST MODEL VERISON 2.0: PHYSICS UPDATE. Jimy Dudhia (NCAR)

1.2

PHYSICS PARAMETERIZATION PROBLEMS IN THE MM5 AND WRF: A REAL-TIME PERSPECTIVE. Cliff Mass, David Ovens, Mark Albright, Richard Steed, and Jeff Baars

1.3

PREDICTION OF WARM SEASON CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS USING A MATRIX OF 19 WRF PHYSICAL CONFIGURATIONS. William A. Gallus, Jr. and Isidora Jankov (Iowa State University)

1.4

POLAR OPTIMIZED WRF FOR ARCTIC SYSTEM REANALYSIS. David H. Bromwich and Keith M. Hines (Ohio State University)

1.5

MESOSCALE MODELING OF AN ARCTIC MIXED-PHASE STRATUS. H. Morrison and J. O. Pinto

1.6

NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS WITH MM5 AND WRF USING THE UPGRADED UNIFIED NOAH LAND SURFACE MODEL. M. Tewari, F. Chen, W. Wang, J. Dudhia, M. LeMone, (NCAR), K. Mitchell, M. Ek, (NCEP), J. Wiegel (AFWA) and R. Cuenca (OSU)

1.7

IMPACT OF LAND SURFACE PROCESS IN MM5 OVER HONG KONG AND PEARL RIVER DELTA. Jeff Chun-Fung Lo (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & NCAR), Kai-Hon Lau (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Fei Chen (NCAR) and Jimmy Fung (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

1.8

LAND SURFACE MODEL COMPARISONS FOR COMPLEX TERRAIN FLOW. B. de Foy, L.T. Molina, M.J. Molina (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

1.9

IMPROVEMENTS TO SURFACE FLUX COMPUTATIONS IN THE MRF PBL SCHEME, AND REFINEMENTS TO URBAN PROCESSES IN THE NOAH LAND-SURFACE MODEL WITH THE NCAR/ATEC REAL-TIME FDDA AND FORECAST SYSTEM.  Yubao Liu, Fei Chen, Tom Warner, Scott Swerdlin (National Center for Atmospheric Research/RAP, Boulder, Colorado)

1.10

ON IMPROVING 4-KM MODEL SIMULATIONS. Aijun Deng and David R. Stauffer (Penn State University)

1.11

CHALLENGE OF FORECASTING URBAN WEATHER WITH NWP MODELS. Fei Chen (NCAR), Yubao Liu (NCAR), Hiroyuki Kusaka (NCAR & CRIEPI), Mukul Tewari (NCAR), Jian-Wen Bao (NOAA), Chun Fung Lo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), and Kai Hon Lau (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

1.12

A NEW NON-LOCAL BOUNDARY LAYER MODEL. Jonathan Pleim

1.13

SOME COMMENTS ON PBL PARAMETERIZATIONS IN WRF. Mariusz Pagowski (NOAA Research – Forecast System Laboratory)

1.14

IMPACT OF A NEW DIFFUSION SCHEME IN IMPROVING SIMULATION OVER STEEP TOPOGRAPHY. Cindy Bruyère (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Colorado) and Günther Zängl (Meteorologisches Institut der Universität München, Germany)

SESSION 2: VERIFICATION METHODS

2.1

OBJECT-BASED VERIFICATION OF WRF PRECIPITATION FORECASTS. Chris Davis (NCAR/MMM/RAP), Barbara Brown (NCAR/RAP) and Randy Bullock (NCAR/RAP)

2.2

EVALUATING HIGH-RESOLUTION NWP MODELS USING KINETIC ENERGY SPECTRA. William C. Skamarock (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado), Michael E. Baldwin (NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory Norman, Oklahoma), and Wei Wang (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado)

2.3

BIAS REMOVAL ON A MESOSCALE FORECAST GRID. Richard C. Steed and Clifford F. Mass (University of Washington, Seattle, Washington)

SESSION 3: MODEL EVALUATION FOR MESOSCALE PROCESSES

3.1

THE 12 NOVEMBER 2003 LOS ANGELES HAILSTORM.  Robert G. Fovell (University of California)

3.2

EVALUATION OF REAL-TIME HIGH-RESOLUTION MM5 PREDICTIONS OVER THE GREAT LAKES REGION. J. In (University of Houston, Houston), S. Zhong (University of Houston, Houston), X. Bian (USDA Forest Service), J. Charney (USDA Forest Service), W. Heilman (USDA Forest Service), and B. Potter (USDA Forest Service)

3.3

THE SIMULATION OF PRECIPITATION IN CONVECTIVELY STABLE ENVIRONMENTS. Mark T. Stoelinga (University of Washington, Seattle, WA)

3.4

NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF TYPHOON TORAJI (2001) AND TYPHOON DUJUAN (2003): MM5 VS WRF. Jhih-Ying Chen and Pay-Liam Lin

3.5

MM5 AND WRF INTERCOMPARISON FOR TRADE WIND SHEAR ZONE IN THE LEE OF KAUAI. Duane Stevens, John Porter and Sheldon Kono (University of Hawaii at Manoa) and Kevin Roe (Maui High Performance Computing Center)

3.6

AN OBJECTIVE INTER-COMPARISON OF WRF, MM5, AND NCEP ETA SHORT-RANGE QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL H2O PROHECT (IHOP) DOMAIN. Brent Shaw (NOAA Research/Forecast Systems Laboratory)

3.7

EXPLICIT CONVECTIVE FORECASTING WITH THE WRF MODEL. Morris L. Weisman, Chris Davis and James Done (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO)

3.8

EVALUATING THE UTILITY OF WRF AS A SEVERE WEATHER FORECASTING TOOL. Jack Kain (CIMSS/NSSL) and Steve Weiss (SPC)

SESSION 4: AIR CHEMISTRY

4.1

FULLY COUPLED “ONLINE” CHEMISTRY WITHIN THE WRF MODEL: DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATIONS. Georg A. Grell (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado/NOAA Research-Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado), Steven E. Peckham (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado/NOAA Research-Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado), Rainer Schmitz (Department of Geophysics, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Forschungszentrum Karslruhe, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany), and Stuart A. McKeen (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado/NOAA Research – Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado)

4.2

EVALUATION OF NEW TRACE GAS AND AEROSOL MODULES IN WRF-CHEM USING MEASUREMENTS FROM TEXAQS 2000. Jerome D. Fast (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Richard C. Easter (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), William I. Gustafson Jr. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Elaine G. Chapman (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), James. C. Barnard (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Rahul A. Zaveri (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), and Georg A. Grell (CIRES)

4.3

COMPARISONS OF MODEL AEROSOL MASS AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION WITH OBSERVATIONS FROM THE 2002 NEW ENGLAND AIR QUALITY STUDY.  G. J. Frost (NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory), S. A. McKeen (NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory), A. Middlebrook (NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory), J. deGouw (NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory), E. Williams (NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory), S. E. Peckham (NOAA - FSL), G. Grell (NOAA - FSL), R. Schmitz (University of Chile, and IMK-IFU), R. Talbot (University of New Hampshire), P. K. Quinn (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory), T. S. Bates (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory), M. Canagaratna, D. Worsnop (Aerodyne Research Inc)

4.4

WRF MODEL SIMULATIONS OF AQUEOUS CHEMISTRY IN THE JULY 10 STERAO DEEP CONVECTIVE STORM. Si-Wan Kim, Mary C. Barth, and William C. Skamarock (NCAR)

4.5

MODELING OF MEXICO CITY AIR POLLUTION AND OUTFLOW WITH WRF-CHEM. Xuexi Tie and Sasha Madronich (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO)

4.6

EVALUATION OF THE WRF/CHEM AIR QUALITY FORECAST MODEL WITH OBSERVATIONS FROM THE NEAQS 2002 FIELD STUDY. S. A. McKeen, S. Peckham, G. Grell, G. J. Frost, E. Williams, R. Talbot

4.7

TRANSITIONING TO OPERATIONAL AIR QUALITY FORECASTING WITH WRF. Jeff McQueen, Pius Lee, Marina Tsidulko and Geoff DiMego (NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD)

4.8

MASS CONSISTENT ON-LINE AND OFF-LINE AIR QUALITY PARADIGMS: WRF LINKED WITH CMAQ. Seung-Bum Kim (University of Houston), Daewon Byun (University of Houston), Soon-Tae Kim (University of Houston), Fong Ngan (University of Houston), and William Skamarock (NCAR)

4.9

PROGRESS IMPLEMENTING THE SMOKE EMISSIONS PROCESSING/MODELING SYSTEM INTO WRF-CHEMISTRY. John N. McHenry (Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, North Carolina), Carlie Coats (Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, North Carolina), Ken Schere (NOAA Office of Research and Development, NC), Robert Imhoff (Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, North Carolina)

4.10

THE USE OF MM5 FOR OPERATIONAL OZONE/NOX/AEROSOLS PREDICTION IN EUROPE: STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF MM5. R. Vautard (Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, CNRS, Paris, France), M. Beekmann (Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, CNRS, Paris, France), B. Bessagnet (INERIS, Verneuil en Halatte, France), N. Blond (Laboratoire interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, CNRS, Créteil, France), A. Hodzic (Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, CNRS, Paris, France), C. Honore (INERIS, Verneuil en Halatte, France), L. Malherbe (INERIS, Verneuil en Halatte, France), L. Menut (Laboratoire interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, CNRS, Créteil, France), L. Rouil (INERIS, Verneuil en Halatte, France), J. Roux (Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, CNRS, Paris, France)

SESSION 5: DATA ASSIMILATION

5.1

WRF VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION DEVELOPMENT AT NCAR. D. M. Barker, M.-S. Lee, Y.-R. Guo, W. Huang, Q.-N. Xiao, and R. Rizvi (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

5.2

TROPICAL CYCLONE INITIALIZATION WITH DOPPLER RADAR DATA USING A REGIONAL 3D-VAR SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATION TO TYPHOON RUSA (2002) CASE. Qingnong Xiao (NCAR), Jianfeng Gu (NCAR & Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences), Dale M. Barker (NCAR) and Ying-Hwa Kuo (NCAR)

5.3

FIRST GUESS AT APPROPRIATE TIME (FGAT) WITH WRF 3DVAR. Mi-Seon Lee, Dale Barker, Wei Huang, and Ying-Hwa Kuo (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO)

5.4

THE USE OF NASA GEOS GLOBAL ANALYSIS IN MM5/WRF INITIALIZATION: CURRENT STUDIES AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS. Zhaoxia Pu (Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Wei-Kuo Tao and Mian Chin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

5.5

COMPARISON OF DATA ASSIMILATIONS AND MODEL SIMULATIONS FOR HURRICANE LILI FROM WRF AND MM5. Shu-Hua Chen and Aidong Chen (University of California, Davis,)

5.6

IMPACTS OD MODEL ERROR AND ENSEMBLE INITIATION ON MESOSCALE DATA ASSIMILATION WITH AN ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER. Zhiyong Meng and Fuqing Zhang (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas)

5.7

THREE DIMENSIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION FOR HIGH RESOLUTION WEATHER AND POLLUTION FORECASTING IN THE LOS ANGELES BASIN. Michael D. McAtee, James F. Drake, Leslie O. Belsma (Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California)

5.8

IMPACT OF DOPPLER VELOCITIES ASSIMILATION ON THE SIMULATION OF A SEVERE WINTER HAILSTORM EVENT. Hsin-Hung Lin , Po–Zong Chen and Pay-Liam Lin (National Central University, Taiwan)

5.9

MM5 3D-VAR DATA ASSIMILATION AND FORECAST SYSTEM OVER INDIAN SUBCONTINENT – RESULTS FROM RECENT EXPERIMENTS. M. Das Gupta, Someshwar Das, R. Ashrit (National Centre for Meduim Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), India)

5.10

APPLICATION OF MM5/3DVAR AT HIGH LATITUDE: RESOLUTION SENSITIVITY. Xingang Fan (Geophysical Institute/University of Alaska Fairbanks), Jeffrey S. Tilley (Regional Weather Information Center/University of North Dakota) and John E. Walsh (International Arctic Research Center/University of Alaska Fairbanks)

SESSION 6: USER SUPPORT / COMMUNITY UPDATES

6.1

MM5 MODEL STATUS AND PLANS. Jimy Dudhia (NCAR)

6.2

THE ADVANCED RESEARCH WRF (ARW) EFFORT AT NCAR. Jordan G. Powers and Joseph B. Klemp (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado)

6.3

NESTING IN WRF 2.0. David Gill, John Michalakes, Jimy Dudhia, William Skamarock (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado) and S.G. Gopalakrishnan (SAIC and NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Spring, Maryland)

6.4

WRFSI 2.0: NESTING AND DETAILS OF TERRAIN PROCESSING. John R. Smart, Brent L. Shaw and Paula McCaslin (NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado)

6.5

AN UPDATE ON POST-PROCESSING AND VISUALIZATION TOOLS FOR THE WRF MODEL. Mark T. Stoelinga (University of Washington)

6.6

WRF USER SUPPORT. Wei Wang (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO)

SESSION 7: FORECASTING SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING

7.1

THE WRF PROCESS: STREAMLINING THE TRANSITION OF NEW SCIENCE FROM RESEARCH INTO OPERATIONS. Nelson Seaman (NOAA/NWS/Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD), Robert Gall and Louisa Nance (DTS, NCAR, Boulder, CO), Steven Koch and Ligia Bernardet (NOAA/OAR/Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO), Geoffery DiMego (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center, Camp Springs, MD), Jordan Powers (NCAR, Boulder, CO), and Frank Olsen (Northrup-Grummann, Inc., at Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NB)

7.2

RETROSPECTIVE TESTING OF THE WRF MODELING SYSTEM AT THE DTC - AN OVERVIEW. Nelson Seaman (NOAA/NWS/Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD), Ligia Bernardet (NOAA/OAR/Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO), Geoffery DiMego (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center, Camp Springs, MD) and Chris Davis (NCAR, Boulder, CO)

7.3

AN OVERVIEW OF REAL-TIME WRF TESTING AT NCEP. Matthew Pyle (Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)), Zavisa Janjic (National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Camp Springs, MD), Tom Black (National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Camp Springs, MD), and Brad Ferrier (Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC))

7.4

NCEP'S WRF POST PROCESSOR AND VERIFICATION SYSTEMS. Hui-Ya Chuang (SAIC/NCEP), Geoff DiMego (NCEP/EMC), Mike Baldwin (NSSL/CIMMS) and WRF DTC team

7.5

THE NCEP WRF CORE. Zavisa Janjic, Tom Black, Matthew Pyle, Hui-Ya Chuang, Eric Rogers and Geoff DiMego (National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Camp Springs, Maryland)

7.6

WRF-NMM: AN OPERATIONAL MULTISCALE HURRICANE FORECASTING SYSTEM. S.G.Gopalakrishnan and Robert Tuleya (SAIC and NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Spring, Maryland), Naomi Surgi, Thomas Black, Zavisa Janjic and Geoff DiMego (NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Spring, Maryland) and John Michalakes (National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, Colorado)

7.7

RESULTS OF THE AFWA MM5 OPTIMIZATION PROJECT. Carlie J. Coats (Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC)

7.8

PERFORMANCE OF THE FSL RUC-INITIALIZED WRF OVER THE CONUS DOMAIN. Tanya G. Smirnova (CIRES & University of Colorado), John M. Brown and Stanley G. Benjamin (NOAA Research – Forecast Systems Laboratory)

7.9

WSI'S OPERATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WRF MODEL. Todd A. Hutchinson, Steven F. Marshall, Peter J. Sousounis (Weather Services International, Andover, Massachusetts)

7.10

INTEGRATION OF COAMPS AND WRF. Richard M. Hodur, Sue Chen, James D. Doyle, Teddy R. Holt, and Jerome Schmidt

SESSION 8: SOFTWARE/COMPUTATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

8.1

WRF 2.0 SOFTWARE.  John Michalakes, David Gill, Jennifer Abernethy (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado)

8.2

PERFORMANCE STUDY OF HDF5-WRF IO MODULE. MuQun Yang, Robert E. McGrath and Mike Folk (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

8.3

COUPLING HIGH RESOLUTION EARTH SYSTEM MODELS USING ADVANCED. Joseph L. Eastman, Christa Peters-Lidard, Paul Houser;Sujay Kumar; James Geiger;Yudong Tian

8.4

EXAMINATION OF THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECAST (WRF) MODEL ON HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS. Wei Huang (National Center for Atmospheric Research) and Jennifer Abernethy (University of Colorado at Boulder)

8.5

THE WRF PORTAL EFFORT. Brian F. Jewett, Robert B. Wilhelmson and Matt Gilmore (University of Illinois Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences & NCSA), Jay Alameda, Shawn Hampton and Al Rossi (National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA))

8.6

PORTALS, CYBERSERVICES AND TOOLS IN SUPPORT OF WEATHER, POLLUTION AND REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING WITH WRF: THE LEAD EXPERIENCE. Robert Wilhelmson

SESSION 9: OTHER MODEL APPLICATIONS

9.1

"GLOBALIZING" WRF: A WRF GCM. Anthony Toigo, Mark Richardson, Claire Newman, and Shawn Ewald

9.2

COUPLING THE CWRF WITH THE CICE FOR ARCTIC CLIMATE APPLICATIONS. Xin-Zhong Liang, Jianping Pan, Kenneth Kunkel (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Julian X.L. Wang (Air Resources Laboratory), Elizabeth C. Hunke and William H. Lipscomb (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

9.3

WRF-FIRE: A COUPLED ATMOSPHERE-FIRE MODULE FOR WRF. Edward G. Patton and Janice L. Coen (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO)

9.4

WRF MODEL APPLICATION EXPERIMENTS AT C-DAC. Akshara Kaginalkar, K.Sreekumar, Mohit Dalvi (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune University Campus, India)

POSTER SESSION

P.1

A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE EFFECTS OF SOFTWARE DEFECTS IN WEATHER SIMULATION. Dongping Xu (Iowa State University), Daniel Berleant (Iowa State University), Gene Takle (Iowa State University), and Zaitao Pan (St. Louis university)

P.2

VERIFICATION STATISTICS FOR THE NCEP WRF PRE-IMPLEMENTATION TEST. PART 1: DETERMINISTIC VERIFICATION OF ENSEMBLE MEMBERS. Ligia R. Bernardet (NOAA - FSL), Louisa Nance (NCAR), Hui-Ya Chuang (NCEP), Andrew Loughe (NOAA - FSL), Steven Koch (NOAA - FSL)

P.3

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DIFFUSION IN IDEALIZED SQUALL LINE SIMULATIONS BY THE WRF MODEL. George Bryan and Jason Knievel (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado)

P.4

PARAMETERS CONTROLLING PRECIPITATION ASSOCIATED WITH A CONDITIONALLY UNSATURATED, UNSTABLE FLOW OVER A TWO-DIMENSIONAL MESOSCALE MOUNTAIN. Shu-Hua Chen (UC Davis, California) and Yuh-Lang Lin (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina)

P.5

A REAL-TIME MM5/WRF FORECASTING SYSTEM IN TAIWAN. Fang-Ching Chien (National Taiwan Normal University), Ben Jong-Dao Jou (National Taiwan University), Pay-Liam Lin (National Central University) and Jing-Shan Hong (Central Weather Bureau)

P.6

WRF FORECASTS OF RECENT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER EVENTS: A COMPARISON OF ARM AND NMM CORES. Christopher Davis NCAR/(MMM/RAP), Louisa Nance (NCAR/DTC), Ligia Bernardet (NOAA/FSL), Hui-Ya Chuang, (NOAA/NCEP)

P.7

VERIFICATION STATISTICS FOR THE NCEP WRF PRE-IMPLEMENTATION TEST: PART 2 ENSEMBLE RESULTS. Geoff DiMego, Marina Tsidulko, Keith Brill, Hui-Ya Chuang, Ligia Bernardet, Dan Lohaus, Louisa Nance, Chris Davis, S. Gopalakrishnan and DTC TEAM

P.8

REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION USING THE WRF MODEL. J. Done (NCAR), L. R. Leung (Pacific Northwest National Labratory), C. Davis (NCAR) and B. Kuo (NCAR)

P.9

MM5 PREDICTED WIND VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION IN KAI COUNTRY. Yang Duo-xing, Zhao Xiao-hong, Xing Ke-jia, Yang Mu-shui, Liu Min and Qiu Nei (Appraisal Center For Environment & Engineering, Beijing)

P.10

EVALUTAION OF REAL-TIME MM5 PERFOMANCE OVER SCANDINAVIAN AREAS. Gard Hauge (Storm Weather Center, Norway)

P.11

INITIALIZATION OF 3DVAR USING INCREMENTAL ANALYSIS UPDATES (IAU). Mi-Seon Lee (Korea Meteorological Administration, Korea), Dale Barker (National Center for Atmospheric Research, CO), Ying-Hwa Kuo (National Center for Atmospheric Research, CO), and Eun-Ha Lim (Korea Meteorological Administration, Korea)

P.12

A THREE-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION AND FORECASTING SYSTEM. Zhijin Li, Yi Chao and James C. McWilliams

P.13

THE OBSERVATIONAL AND 3D-VAR DATA ASSIMILATION STUDIES ON THE PRECIPITATION SYSTEM OF TAIWAN AND SURROUNDING AREA. Hsin-Hung Lin and Pay-Liam Lin

P.14

COMPARISON OF THE REAL-TIME WRF AND MM5 FORECASTS FOR THE US ARMY TEST RANGES. Yubao Liu and Tom Warner (NCAR)

P.15

THE ROLE OF MESOSCALE DYNAMICS IN THE PREDICTION OF BACKGROUND NOISE OF XENON-133. Christophe Millet and Philippe Heinrich (LDG-CEA, Bruyeres-le-Chatel, France)

P.16

SIMULATIONS OF HURRICANE ISABEL (2003) WITH THE WRF, GFDL, AND ZETAC MODELS. David S. Nolan (University of Miami), Morris Bender (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA), Timothy Marchok (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA), Steve Garner (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA), and Chris Kerr (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA)

P.17

WRF-CHEMISTRY AS A COMPONENT OF A SMOKE AND AIR QUALITY FORECASTING SYSTEM. Wei Min Hao, Bryce Nordgren, J. Meghan Salmon

P.18

MM5- AND WRF-SIMULATED CLOUD AND MOISTURE FIELDS DURING A CONVECTIVE INITIATION EVENT. Jason A. Otkin (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

P.19

MESOSCALE MODELING INVESTIGATION OF A SEVERE WEATHER EVENT OVER NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI USING WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODEL (WRF). R. Suseela Reddy, Alexander Schwartz and Ashton Cook (Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi)

P.20

HIGH-RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS OF PRECIPITATION DURING THE REYKJANES EXPERIMENT (REX). Ólafur Rögnvaldsson (University of Bergen, Institute for Meteorological Research
& The Icelandic Meteorological Office), Jian-Wen Bao (NOAA/ETL) and Haraldur Ólafsson (University of Iceland, Institute for Meteorological Research & The Icelandic Meteorological Office)

P.21

SIMULATIONS OF PRECIPITATION IN THE COMPLEX TERRAIN OF ICELAND AND COMPARISON WITH GLACIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. Ólafur Rögnvaldsson (University of Bergen, Institute for Meteorological Research & The Icelandic Meteorological Office), and Haraldur Ólafsson (University of Iceland, Institute for Meteorological Research & The Icelandic Meteorological Office)

P.22

SIMULATION OF INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON CIRCULATION AND RAINFALL USING DIFFERENT CONVECTIVE SCHEMES IN MM5. M. S. Shekhar and S. K. Dash

P.23

LGM SUMMER CLIMATE OF THE LUARENTIDE ICE SHEET SIMULATED BY POLAR MM5. E. Richard Toracinta (Ohio State University), David H. Bromwich (Ohio State University), Robert J. Oglesby (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center/ National Space Science and Technology Center), James L. Fastook (University of Maine), and Terence J. Hughes (University of Maine)

P.24

THE ABILITY OF MM5 TO SIMULATE THIN CLOUDS: SYSTEMATIC COMPARISONS WITH LIDAR/RADAR MEASUREMENTS. M. Chiriaco, R. Vautard, H. Chepfer, M. Haeffelin, Y. Morille, A. Protat and Y. Wanherdrick (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France)

P.25

MM5 RAINFALL AND CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION SENSITIVITY EXPERIMENT. Yoshihiro Yamasaki , Maria de los Dolores Manso Orgaz (University of Aveiro – Portugal)

P.26

IMPACT OF UPDATED VEGETATION FRACTION ON MESOSCALE FORECAST. Vince Wong

P.27

MODELING STUDY OF ARCTIC STORM WITH THE COUPLED MM5-SEA ICE-OCEAN MODEL. Jing Zhang and Xiangdong Zhang (University of Alaska Fairbanks,)

P.28

INTERACTION BETWEEN CONCENTRIC EYEWALLS IN SUPER TYPHOON WINNIE (1997). Qinghong Zhang (Peking University,) and Ying-Hwa Kuo (NCAR)

P.29

APPLICATION OF MM5 IN CHINA NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL CENTER AND A COMPARISON WITH WRF. Bin Zhou, Jianjie Wang