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Papers Presented at the 6th WRF / 15th MM5
Users' Workshop
National Center for Atmospheric Research
June
27-30, 2005 |
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SESSION 1: MM5 UPDATE AND MM5/WRF COMPARISON STUDIES
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MM5 VERSION 3.7 (THE FINAL VERSION). J. Dudhia (National Center
for Atmospheric Research) |
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1.2
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WIND GUST FORECASTING IN MM5. Hálfdán Ágústsson and Haraldur
Ólafsson (Institute for Meteorological Research, Iceland)
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1.3* |
TOWARDS IMPROVED 4-KM MESOSCALE MODEL SIMULATIONS. Aijun Deng
and David R. Stauffer (Penn State University) |
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1.4
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COMPARISON OF MM5 AND WRF FORECASTS OF THE 25 DECEMBER 2002
NORTHEAST U.S. BANDED SNOWSTORM. David R. Novak1
and Brian A. Colle2 (1Stony Brook University,
State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York/NOAA/NWS
Eastern Region Headquarters, Scientific Services Division, Bohemia,
New York and 2Stony Brook University, State University
of New York, Stony Brook, New York) |
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1.5
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INTERCOMPARISON OF FORECASTS FROM VERY-HIGH RESOLUTION MM5 AND
WRF PHYSICS-BASED ENSEMBLES: THE DRYLINE/PACIFIC FRONTAL MERGER
DURING STORM-FEST IOP 17. Jeffrey S. Tilley, Crystal M. Paulsen,
Mark A. Askelson (Regional Weather Information Center and Dept.
of Atmospheric Science, University of North Dakota) |
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1.6* |
WRF VERSUS MM5 OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: AN INITIAL LOOK.
Cliff Mass, David Ovens, Richard Steed and Jeff Baars (University
of Washington) |
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SESSION 2: DEVELOPMENT OF FORECASTING MODELS |
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2.1* |
OPERATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING
(WRF) SYSTEM AT THE AIR FORCE WEATHER AGENCY. Wegiel, J. (HQ
Air Force Weather Agency), K. LaCroix, S. Rugg, J. DeLotelle,
G. Harris, R. Craig, M. Sittel, M. McAtee, C. Finnigsmier, C.
LeMay, R. Peck, C. Franks, R. Nieman, A. Stalcup, J. Benson,
J. Clarke, W. Bonitz and S. Elliott |
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2.2
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WRF ENHANCEMENTS FOR OPERATIONAL SIMULATIONS. Todd A Hutchinson,
Peter J. Sousounis, Stephen Marshall (Weather Services International,
Massachusetts) |
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2.3
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INTEGRATING THE WRF MODEL INTO EXISTING FORECASTING AND CLIMATE
SYSTEMS. Glenn E. Van Knowe1, Kenneth T. Waight
III1, Matthew B. Alonso, John W. Zack1
and Karl W. Schulz2 (1MESO Inc. and 2Texas
Advanced Computing Center)
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2.4
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AN EXPERIMENT WITH WRF MODEL FOR TROPICAL DEPRESSION OVER BAY
OF BENGAL AND ARABIAN SEA – A PRELIMINARY STUDY. Y.V. Rama
Rao1, Y. Sudhakar2 and H.R. Hatwar1
(1India Meteorological Department, India and 2Hinditron
Infosystems, India) |
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2.5
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AN ENSEMBLE OF WRF AND MM5 CONFIGURATIONS FOR WINTER WEATHER
FORECASTING. Paul Schultz (NOAA Research - Forecast Systems
Laboratory) |
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2.6
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EVALUATION OF THE RUC-INITIALIZED WRF FOR ITS APPLICATION IN
THE RAPID REFRESH AT NCEP. Tanya G. Smirnova2,
John M. Brown1, Stanley G. Benjamin1
(1NOAA Research – Forecast Systems Laboratory, 2
in collaboration with the Cooperative Institute for Research
in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado)
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2.7* |
RECENT PROGRESS OF THE COUPLED OCEAN/ATMOSPHERE MESOSCALE PREDICTION
SYSTEM (COAMPS) PHYSICS AND I/O INTEGRATION TO THE WEATHER RESEARCH
AND FORECAST MODEL (WRF). Sue Chen (Naval Research Laboratory),
Jerome Schmidt, Yi Jin, Chi-Sann Liou, Teddy Holt, Ming Liu,
James Doyle, and Richard Hodur |
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2.8
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THE WRF DEVELOPMENTAL TESTBED CENTER: A STATUS REPORT. Louisa
Nance1+2, Ligia Bernardet2+3+4, Hui-Ya
Chuang5, Geoff DiMego5, Meral Demirtas1+2,
Robert Gall1+2, Steven Koch2+3, Ying Lin5,
Andrew Loughe2+3+6, Jennifer Mahoney2+3,
and Matthew Pyle5 (1National Center for
Atmospheric Research, 2Affiliated with the Developmental
Testbed Center, 3NOAA Research – Forecast Systems
Laboratory, 4Systems Research Group, Inc., 5National
Centers for Environmental Prediction, and 6Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Studies) |
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2.9
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THE NCEP WRF CORE. Zavisa Janjic, Tom Black, Matthew Pyle,
Hui-ya Chuang, Eric Rogers and Geoff DiMego (National Centers
for Environmental Prediction) |
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2.10
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WRF FORECASTS OVER THE SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES: DOES A LARGER
DOMAIN LEAD TO BETTER RESULTS? Ligia R. Bernardet1,
Peter Bogenschutz2, John Snook13, Andrew
Loughe14 (1NOAA Research – Forecast Systems
Laboratory, Boulder, CO, 2The Florida State University,
Department of Meteorology, Tallahassee, FL, 3ATMET
LLC and 4Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental
Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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2.11
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HURRICANE MODEL TRANSITIONS TO OPERATIONS AT NCEP/EMC. R.
Tuleya1, S. Gopalkrishnan1, N. Surgi2,
D. Jovic1, D. Johnson1, W.O’Connor1
(1SAIC/NOAA/NCEP/EMC and 2NOAA/NCEP/EMC)
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2.12
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NMM-WRF NESTING. S.G.Gopalakrishnan1, Naomi Surgi2,
Robert Tuleya1, Dusan Jovic1, Thomas Black2,
John Michalakes3 and Z.I.Janjic1 (1
SAIC and NOAA/NCEP/EMC, 2 NOAA/NCEP/EMC, 3
National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
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SESSION 3: POSTERS |
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3.1
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SIMULATION OF THE GENESIS OF HURRICANE JAVIER (2004) IN THE
EASTERN PACIFIC. Scott Braun ( NASA/GSFC) |
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3.2* |
COMPARISON OF WRF AND MM5 SIMULATIONS FOR AIR-QUALITY APPLICATIONS.
J.-W. Bao (NOAA/Environmental Technology Laboratory) and S.
A. Michelson |
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3.3
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THE ASSIMILATION OF RAIN RATES ON MM5 AND WRF WITH LATENT HEAT
NUDGING METHOD. Jong-Chul Ha, Dong-Eon Chang, Kwang-Deuk Ahn
and Chun-Ho Cho (Meteorological Research Institute/KMA, Korea)
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3.4
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NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF HEAVY RAINFALLS IN THE BAIU FRONT BY
THE WRF AND MM5. Hiroyuki Kusaka1 , Andrew Crook2,
Koji Wada1 and Hiromaru Hirakuchi1 (1Central
Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Japan
and 2National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA)
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3.5
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COMPARISON OF THE REAL-TIME MM5 AND WRF OVER THE NORTHEASTERN
UNITED STATES. Yanluan Lin1, Brian A. Colle1,
and David R. Novak1,2 (1Institute for
Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, Stony Brook University,
New York and 2NOAA/ NWS Eastern Region Headquarters,
Scientific Services Division, Bohemia, New York) |
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COMPARISON OF MM5 AND WRF MODEL DATA INGESTED INTO A FORWARD
RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL. Jason A. Otkin, Erik R. Olson, and
Allen Huang (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite
Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
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3.7
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A REAL-TIME MM5/WRF FORECASTING SYSTEM IN TAIWAN. Fang-Ching
Chien ( Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal
University), Ben Jong-Dao Jou (Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
National Taiwan University), Pay-Liam Lin (Department of Atmospheric
Sciences, National Central University) and Jing-Shan Hong (Central
Weather Bureau) |
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3.8
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INTERCOMPARISON OF WIND AND AIR TEMPERATURE FIELDS OF WRF, MM5
AND RAMS FOR FORECASTING AIR QUALITY IN KOREA. Y. S. Moon1,
Y. K. Kim2, Y. S. Koo3, J.H. Jung2
(1Department of Environmental Education, Korean National
University of Education, 2Department of Atmospheric
Sciences, Pusan National University and 3Department
of Environmental Engineering, Anyang University) |
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3.9* |
REAL TIME WEATHER FORECASTING EXPERIMENTS USING WRF MODELS AT
CDAC, INDIA. Amit Kesarkar, J.Venkata Ratnam, Mohit Dalvi,
Akshara Kaginalkar (CDAC, India) |
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3.10
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ANALYSIS OF HIGH-RESOLUTION WRF SIMULATIONS DURING A SEVERE
WEATHER EVENT. Jason A. Otkin (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological
Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
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3.11
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REGIONAL CLIMATIC SIMULATION FOR HYDROLOGICAL MODEL USING WRF
MODEL AROUND YELLOW RIVER BASIN. T. Yoshikane1,
X. Ma1, F. Kimura2, and M. Hara1 (1Frontier
Research Center for Global Change (FRCGC), Japan Agency for
Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan and 2University
of Tsukuba, Japan) |
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3.12* |
WRF PERFORMANCE WITH THE FLORIDA SEA BREEZE AND CONVECTION.
Pat Welsh and Pete Bogenschutz (University of North Florida)
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3.13
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EVALUATION OF QPF FROM A WRF ENSEMBLE SYSTEM DURING THE SOUTHWEST
MONSOON. Melissa A. Goering (NOAA/NWS Tucson, Arizona) and
Steven L. Mullen (University of Arizona) |
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3.14
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THE EFFECT OF URBAN BUILDING ON PBL 3-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE
SIMULATED BY WRF. Jiong Chen (National Meteorological Center,
Beijing) |
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3.15
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THE UTILITY
OF 6TH-ORDER, MONOTONIC, NUMERICAL DIFFUSION IN THE ADVANCED
RESEARCH WRF MODEL. Jason C. Knievel, George H. Bryan, and
Joshua P. Hacker (National Center for Atmospheric Research,
USA) |
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3.16* |
THE IMPACT OF RADIATION UPDATE FREQUENCY ON WRF NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS.
J.L. Eastman, Christa Peters-Lidard, S. Kumar,Y. Tian (UMBC/GEST)
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3.17
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THE WRF MODEL APPLICATION IN NMC/CMA. Deng Liantang, Hao
Min and Wang JianJie (CMA / National Meteorological Center,
China) |
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3.18
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HIGH RESOLUTION COUPLED LAND-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM USING LAND INFORMATION
SYSTEM AND WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODEL ENABLED BY
ESMF. S.V. Kumar1 , C.D. Peters-Lidard2
, J.L. Eastman3 and P.R. Houser4 (1UMBC/GEST,
NASA-GSFC, 2 NASA-GSFC, 3UMBC/GEST, NASA-GSFC,
4Climate Dynamics Program, George Mason University)
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3.19* |
STUDY OF MODIS RETRIEVED DATA AND THEIR IMPACT ON WEATHER SIMULATIONS.
Shu-Hua Chen (University of California), Aidong Chen, Jennifer
Hasse, Zhan Zhao, and Francois Vandenberghe |
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3.20
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BACKGROUND ERROR STATISTICS IN 3DVAR DERIVED FROM WRF ENSEMBLES.
Mi-Seon Lee (Korea Meteorological Administration) and Dale
M. Barker (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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3.21
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ON THE IMPACT OF MODIS WINDS ON THE ARW IN ANTARCTICA. Jordan
G. Powers (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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3.22
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COUPLING OF WRF/NMM WITH THE COMMUNITY MULTISCALE AIR QUALITY
(CMAQ) MODEL. Daewon Byun1, Chang-Keun
Song1, Peter Percell1 , Seung-Bum Kim1+,
Fong Ngan1 (1Institute for Multi-dimensional
Air Quality Studies, University of Houston, and +Laboratory
for Atmospheric Modeling Research (LAMOR), Yonsei University,
Korea) |
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3.23
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THE DEVELOPMENTAL TESTBED CENTER VERIFICATION SYSTEM. Meral
Demirtas1,2, Louisa Nance1,2, Ligia Bernardet1,2,6,
Ying Lin3, Hui-Ya Chuang3, Andrew Loughe4,5,
Jennifer Mahoney2,4, Robert Gall1,2 and
Steven Koch2,4 (1National Center for Atmospheric
Research, 2Affiliated with Developmental Testbed
Center, 3National Centers for Environmental Prediction,
4NOAA Research – Forecast Systems Laboratory, 5Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), and
6Contract with Systems Research Group) |
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3.24
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A REAL-TIME FORECAST OF VOC EMISSIONS, O3 CONCENTRATION, AND
CO2 FLUX FROM VEGETATION WITH MM5 AND CMAQ USING THE UPGRADED
KOREAN LANDUSE. Y. S. Moon1, Y. S. Koo2
(1Department of Environmental Education, Korean
National University of Education, Korea and 2Department
of Environmental Engineering, Anyang University, Korea)
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3.25
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TERRESTRIAL HYDROLOGY OVER THE UNITED STATES DRIVEN BY MM5-BASED
REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL (CMM5) SIMULATIONS. Jianping Pan and
Xin-Zhong Liang (Illinois State Water Survey, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
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3.26
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CLIMATE CHANGE OVER NORTH AMERICA SIMULATED BY A REGIONAL CLIMATE
MODEL FOR DOUBLED CO2. Ming Chen (Climate Change
Research Center University of New Hampshire) |
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3.27
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DIURNAL CYCLE OF RAINFALL AND CONVECTIVE ACTIVITIES OVER THE
TROPICAL MARITIME CONTINENT BY TRMM, CONVECTIVE-CLOUD-RESOLVED
REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL AND HIGH-RESOLUTION AGCM. M. Hara1,
T. Yoshikane1, F. Kimura1,2, T. Tokioka1
and A. Noda3 (1 Frontier Research Center
for Global Change (FRCGC), Japan, 2 Graduate School
of Life and Environmental Sciences, Japan, and 3
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan) |
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3.28
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AN INTERCOMPARISON STUDY OF MM5 AND RAMS SIMULATIONS IN A COASTAL
DESERT AREA OF SAUDI ARABIA. Tomohiro Hara1, Yu
Hozumi2, Zifa Wang3, Ryohji Ohba1,
and Hiromasa Ueda2 (1Nagasaki R&D
center, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,LTD., Japan, 2Acid
Deposition and Oxidant Research Center, Japan, and 3Institute
of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
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3.29
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GRAVITY WAVES IN IDEALIZED MM5 SIMULATIONS. Susan Triantafillou
(Radex, Inc. at Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom Air Force
Base, Massachusetts) |
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3.30
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OFFSHORE WIND MODELLING AND FORECAST. J. Beran,L. Claveri,
B. Lange, Lueder von Bremen (FORWIND, University Oldenburg,
Germany) |
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3.31
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OFFSHORE WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT WITH A MESOSCALE MODEL. L.
Claveri 1 , J. Beran1, F. Durante2,
B. Lange1, M. Strack2 (1ForWind
Center for Wind Energy Research, University of Oldenburg, Germany,
and 2Dewi – German Wind Energy Institute, Germany)
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3.32
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THE MM5 AND PLATE TECTONICS: THE ATMOSPHERE’S ROLE IN SOLID
EARTH SCIENCE. S. Mark Leidner1 , Arthur
E. Niell2 and John M. Henderson1 (1Atmospheric
and Environmental Research Inc., Lexington, Massachusetts, and
2Haystack Observatory, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Westford, Massachusetts) |
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3.33
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A SENSITIVITY STUDY OF INTEGRATION TIME-STEP IN HEAVY RAINFALL
SIMULATION. Dong-Kyou Lee and Kyung-Ho Lee (Atmospheric Sciences
Program, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seoul National
University, Korea) |
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3.34
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WEATHER PREDICTION IN ACCIDENT SCENARIO P.S.Dhekne (BHabha
Atomic Research Centre, India) |
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3.35
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FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION OF SATELLITE
RETRIEVAL DATA FOR HURRICANE LILI (2002). Xiaoyan Zhang1,2,
Qingnong Xiao1, Pat Fitzpatrick3, and
Ying-Hua Kuo1 (1National Center for Atmospheric
Research, Colorado, 2National Meteorological Center,
Beijing, China, and 3Mississippi State University,
Stennis Space Center, Mississippi) |
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3.36
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HYDRO-BIOSPHERIC PROCESSES AND SOIL MOISTURE VARIABILITY. P
Goswami and S Himesh (CSIR, India) |
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3.37
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SOME SENSITIVITY EXPERIMENTS WITH PARAMETERISATION OF PHYSICAL
PROCESSES ON THE SIMULATION A BAY OF BENGAL TROPICAL CYCLONE
USING NCAR MM5. Dodla Venkata Bhaskar Rao and Dasari Hari
Prasad (Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, Andhra University,
Visakhapatnam, India) |
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3.38* |
REGIONAL MODELLING FOR PREDICTION OF ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON.
H.R.Hatwar and Y.V.Rama Rao (India Meteorological Department)
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SIMULATION OF TRACK AND INTENSITY OF THE BAY OF BENGAL CYCLONES
USING NCAR MESOSCALE MODEL. U. C. Mohanty and M. Mandal (Centre
for Atmospheric Sciences Indian Institute of Technology, New
Delhi, India) |
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3.40
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VALIDATION OF MM5 MODEL OVER INDIAN REGION DURING MONSOON 2004.
M. Das Gupta, R. Ashrit, John P. George, Someshwar Das, A. K.
Bohra (National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting
Dept. of Science and Technology Government of India)
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3.41
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IMPROVEMENT OF THE MM5 MODEL PRECIPITATION FORECAST ADDING A
TENDENCY EQUATION FOR THE TOTAL RAINDROP NUMBER CONCENTRATION
WITHIN THE EXPLICIT MICROPHISICAL (REISNER2) SCHEME. Gerardo
de J. Montoya G. (National University of Colombia) |
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3.42
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MM5IDL: A FLEXIBLE FRAMEWORK FOR POST-PROCESSING MM5 DATA.
Ólafur Rögnvaldsson1,2 and Örnólfur Rögnvaldsson1
( 1Institute for Meteorological Research, Iceland,
and 2University of Bergen, Norway) |
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3.43
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OPTIMIZING MM5 ON AN INTEL BASED LINUX BEOWULF CLUSTER. Jonathan
Hurst1, Paul E. Bieringer1, Adam Lewis1,
David Jeannotte2, and Edward Griffin1
(1Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory,
and 2Worcester Polytechnic Institute) |
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3.44
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WRF2GEM: A PROGRAM TO CONVERT WRF NETCDF OUTPUT TO GEMPAK FORMAT.
Steven G. Decker (University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
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3.45
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WRF MODULE OPTIMIZATION STUDY. Thomas Nehrkorn and George
D. Modica (Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.)
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3.46
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WRF PERFORMANCE TUNING FOR PLATFORMS BASED UPON THE INTEL®
ITANIUM® PROCESSOR. A. Semenov, T. Kashevarova,
P. Mankevich, D. Shkurko, K. Arturov, N. Panov (Intel Corp.,
Novosibirsk, Russia) |
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3.47* |
EARTHPORT: A WEB-BASED PORTAL FOR WRF. Mark Govett (NOAA Forecast
Systems Laboratory) and Jeff Smith |
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3.48
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MM5 PRECIPITATION PREDICTABILITY IN THE SIMULATION OF HEAVY
RAINFALL OVER KOREA. Gyun Park, Joo-Wan Kim and Dong-Kyou
Lee (Seoul National University, Korea) |
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3.49* |
GREENLAND
SIMULATIONS IN PREPARATION FOR POLAR WRF Keith M. Hines, David
H. Bromwich, and Jason E. Box (Polar Meteorology Group, Byrd
Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University) |
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SESSION 4: LSM/PBL |
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4.1
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HI-RESOLUTION CONVECTIVE MODELING STUDY USING WRF COUPLED TO
THE LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM. J.L. Eastman, Christa Peters-Lidard,
S. Kumar,Y. Tian (GSFC/NASA) |
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4.2
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IMPACT OF THE URBAN CANOPY MODEL ON THE SIMULATION OF THE HEAT
ISLAND. Hiroyuki Kusaka1 , Fei Chen2,
Mukul Tewari2, Hiromaru Hirakuchi1 (1Central
Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Japan,
and 2National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA)
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4.3
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NUMERICAL MODELING STUDY OF WIND FLOW FOR THE SALT LAKE CITY
REGION USING THE INTEGRATED WRF-NOAH-UCM MODEL AT MESO-GAMMA
SCALE. Mukul Tewari1, Fei Chen1, Thomas
T. Warner1 William J. Coirier2, and Sura
Kim2 (1National Center of Atmospheric
Research and 2CFD Research Corporation) |
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4.4
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EVALUATION
OF SURFACE SENSIBLE WEATHER FORECASTS BY THE WRF AND THE ETA
MODELS OVER THE WESTERN UNITED STATES. William Y.Y. Cheng
and W. James Steenburgh (Department of Meteorology and NOAA
Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction, University
of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah) |
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4.5
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CONTINUED APPLICATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH-RESOLUTION LAND
DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM. Kevin W. Manning, Fei Chen, David
J. Gochis, Mukul Tewari, Andrea N. Hahmann, And Yubao Liu (National
Center for Atmospheric Research) |
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4.6
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BEHAVIOR OF WRF PBL SCHEMES AND LAND-SURFACE MODELS IN 1D SIMULATIONS
DURING BAMEX. M. Pagowski (NOAA Research – Forecast System
Laboratory), J. Hacker (NCAR/Research Applications Laboratory),
and J-W. Bao (NOAA Research – Environmental Technology Laboratory)
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SESSION 5: TROPICAL CYCLONE SIMULATIONS |
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5.1
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HURRICANE SIMULATIONS USING A VORTEX-FOLLOWING NESTED GRID IN
MM5 and WRF. John P. Cangialosi (RSMAS/University of Miami,
Miami, Florida) , Shuyi S. Chen, and John Michalakes
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5.2
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REAL-TIME WRF FORECASTS OF FRANCES, IVAN AND JEANNE (2004).
Christopher Davis, Wei Wang and Greg Holland (National Center
for Atmospheric Research, USA) |
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5.3* |
WRF PRECIPITATION PERFORMANCE-2004 FLORIDA HURRICANES. Pat
Welsh and Pete Bogenschutz (University of North Florida)
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5.4
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SIMULATION ON RAPID INTENSIFICATION OF HURRICANE KENNA (2002)
USING WRF MODEL. Suhong Ma and Bin Wang (Department of Meteorology,
University of Hawaii at Manoa) |
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5.5
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A COUPLED ATMOSPHERE-WAVE-OCEAN FRAMEWORK FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION
MODELING OF TROPICAL CYCLONES AND COASTAL STORMS. Wei
Zhao and Shuyi S. Chen (Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric
Science University of Miami) |
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5.6
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HIGH-RESOLUTION MM5 SIMULATIONS OF HURRICANE ERIN 2001: ROLE
OF MICROPHYSICAL PROCESSES. Henian Zhang1, Greg
M. McFarquhar1, Gerald Heymsfield2, Robbie
Hood3, Jimy Dudhia4, Jeffrey B. Halverson2,
and Frank Marks Jr.5 (1Dept. of Atmospheric
Sciences, University of Illinois, Illinois, 2NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland 3NASA Marshall
Space Flight Center, Alabama, 4National Center for
Atmospheric Research, Colorado, and 5NOAA Hurricane
Research Division, Florida) |
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SESSION 6: MICROPHYSICS |
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6.1
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THE NEW THOMPSON MICROPHYSICAL SCHEME IN WRF. William D. Hall
, Roy M. Rasmussen, and Gregory Thompso n (National Center for
Atmospheric Research) |
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6.2
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A COMPARISON OF BULK MICROPHYSICAL SCHEMES FOR CLOUD RESOLVING
NWP. Axel Seifert and Morris Weisman (National Center for
Atmospheric Research) |
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6.3
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ON THE REPRESENTATION OF SNOW IN BULK MICROPHYSICAL PARAMETERIZATION
SCHEMES. Mark T. Stoelinga, Christopher P. Woods, John D.
Locatelli, and Peter V. Hobbs (University of Washington, Seattle,
WA) |
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6.4
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A SIMPLIFIED EXPLICIT SCHEME OF PHASE-MIXED CLOUD USED IN WRF
MODEL AND PRECIPITATION EXPERIMENTATION. Yan Zhihui and Zhu
Zhenghui (National Meteorological Center, Beijing) |
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SESSION 7: WRF DEVELOPMENT AND NEW RELEASE UPDATES
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7.1
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NON-CONFORMAL PROJECTION, GLOBAL, AND PLANETARY VERSIONS OF
WRF. Mark I. Richardson1, Anthony D. Toigo2,
and Claire E. Newman1 (1California Institute
of Technology, 2Kobe University) |
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7.2* |
WRF SOFTWARE. John Michalakes (National Center for Atmospheric
Research) [12km
& 4km IVAN animation]
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7.3
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THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECAST MODEL VERSION 2: UPDATE.
J. Dudhia (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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7.4
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UPDATES ON WRF PRE- AND POST-PROCESSING PROGRAMS. Wei Wang
(National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
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SESSION 8: CHEMISTRY / AIR QUALITY STUDIES |
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8.1* |
THE WRF-CHEMISTRY AIR QUALITY MODEL: UPDATES, IMPROVEMENTS AND
EVALUATION. Georg A. Grell (CIRES / NOAA-FSL), Steven E. Peckham,
Rainer Schmitz, and Stuart A. McKeen |
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8.2
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EVALUATION OF THE BOUNDARY LAYER CHARACTERISTICS AND PARTICULATES
IN MEXICO CITY PREDICTED BY WRF. Jerome D. Fast (Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory) |
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8.3
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MODELING ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS IN WRF/CHEM. Y. Zhang1,
X.-M. Hu1, G. W. Howell1, E. Sills1,
J. D. Fast2, W. I. Gustafson Jr.2, R.A.
Zaveri2, G. A. Grell3,5, S. E. Peckham3,5,
and S. A. McKeen4,5 (1North Carolina
State University, 2Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
3NOAA-Forecast Systems Laboratory, 4NOAA-Aeronomy
Laboratory) |
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8.4
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TRIUMPHS AND TRIBULATIONS OF WRF-CHEM DEVELOPMENT AND USE.
William I. Gustafson Jr., Jerome D. Fast, Richard C. Easter,
and Steven J. Ghan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
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8.5
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SIMULATION OF THE METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF THE HOUSTON-GALVESTON
AREA WITH WRF FOR THE TEXAQS 2000 EPISODE. Fong Ngan, Daewon
Byun, Seung-Bum Kim (Institute for Multidimensional Air Quality
Studies, University of Houston) |
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8.6
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APPLICATION OF MM5 TO STUDY OF AIR POLLUTION IN CHRISTCHURCH,
NEW ZEALAND – SOME PROBLEMS OF USING MM5 WITH GLOBAL ANALYSIS
DATA. Mikhail Titov, Andrew P. Sturman and Peyman Zawar-Reza
(Centre for Atmospheric Research, University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand) |
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SESSION 9: REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING |
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9.1* |
RESEARCH NEEDS AND DIRECTION OF REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING USING
WRF AND CCSM. L. Ruby Leung (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory),
Bill Kuo, and Joe Tribbia |
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9.2
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SIMULATION OF WARM SEASON RAINFALL USING WRF REGIONAL CLIMATE
MODEL. James M. Done 1 , L. Ruby Leung2,
Christopher A. Davis1 and Bill Kuo 1 (
1 National Center for Atmospheric Research, 2Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory) |
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9.3
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGIONAL CLIMATE-WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING
MODEL (CWRF): TREATMENT OF TOPOGRAPHY. Xin-Zhong Liang, Min
Xu, Jinhong Zhu, and K.E. Kunkel (Illinois State Water Survey,
DNR, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), and
Julian X.L. Wang (Air Resources Laboratory, National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, USA) |
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9.4* |
NORTH AMERICAN SUMMER PRECIPITATION WITH AND WITHOUT TOPOGRAPHY
IN CCM3 AND THE MM5-BASED REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL (CMM5). M.
Ting (Columbia University), X. Liang, J. Pan, H.-P. Huang
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9.5
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SIMULATION OF INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON CIRCULATION AND RAINFALL
USING MESOSCALE MODELS. S. K. Dash (Centre for Atmospheric
Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India)
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9.6
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AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION OF A FLOOD FORECASTING SYSTEM FOR THE
ODRA RIVER. K.-P. Johnsen, J. Pestel, H. Messal, H.-T. Mengelkamp
(GKSS Research Center, Germany) |
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SESSION 10: DATA ASSIMILATION |
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10.1
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WRF-VAR - A UNIFIED 3/4D-VAR DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM FOR WRF.
D. M. Barker, Y. R. Guo, W. Huang, H. Huang, S. Rizvi, Q. Xiao,
and M. S. Lee (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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10.2
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IMPACT OF GROUND-BASED GPS RETRIEVALS ON MOISTURE FIELD AND
RAINFALL FORECAST IN WRF/3DVAR. T Iwabuchi , Y-R Guo, C Rocken,
T Van Hove, and Y-H Kuo (COSMIC Program / UCAR) |
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10.3
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EVALUATION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF RADIAL VELOCITY ASSIMILATION
WITH WRF 3DVAR SYSTEM AND SIMULATED MULTIPLE-DOPPLER RADAR DATA.
Soichiro Sugimoto1,2, N. Andrew Crook2,
Juanzhen Sun2, Dale M. Barker2, and Qingnong
Xiao2 (1Central Research Institute of
Electric Power Industry, JAPAN and 2National Center
for Atmospheric Research, USA) |
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10.4* |
AN ENSEMBER KF FOR WRF AND COMPARISON WITH WRF 3DVAR. C. Snyder,
A. Caya, and D. Barker (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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10.5
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THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODEL BASED 4-DIMENSIONAL
VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM. Xiang-Yu Huang, Qingnong
Xiao, Wei Huang, Dale Barker, Ying-Hwa Kuo, John Michalakes,
Zaizhong Ma (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder,
Colorado) |
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10.6
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE WRF TANGENT LINEAR AND ADJOINT MODELS: NONLINEAR
AND LINEAR EVOLUTION OF INITIAL PERTURBATIONS AND ADJOINT SENSITIVITY
ANALYSIS AT HIGH-SOUTHERN LATITUDES. Qingnong Xiao, Zaizhong
Ma, Wei Huang, Xiang-Yu Huang, Dale Barker, Ying-Hwa Kuo, and
John Michalakes (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder)
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10.7
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IMPLEMENTATION OF OBSERVATION-NUDGING BASED FDDA INTO WRF FOR
SUPPORTING ATEC TEST OPERATIONS. Yubao Liu , Alfred Bourgeois,
Tom Warner, Scott Swerdlin and Joshua Hacker (National Center
for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado) |
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10.8
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UPDATE ON DEVELOPMENT OF NUDGING FDDA FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH
WRF. David R. Stauffer (Penn State University), Aijun Deng,
Jimy Dudhia and Tanya L. Otte |
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SESSION 11: CONVECTIVE MODELING AND EVALUATION |
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11.1
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MODELLING FRONTAL AND CONVECTIVE RAINFALL DISTRIBUTIONS OVER
NORTH WALES. Graham Hall and Roger Cratchley (Centre for Arid
Zones Studies and School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences,
University of Wales, UK) |
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11.2
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QUASI-IDEALIZED SIMULATIONS OF BOW ECHOES. Nolan T. Atkins
(Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Vermont) |
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11.3
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THE 19 JUNE 2002 “MANTLE ECHO” CASE: SENSITIVITY TO MICROPHYSICS
AND CONVECTION INITIATION. Robert G. Fovell and Axel Seifert
(1UCLA Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, USA, and
2 Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany) |
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11.4* |
THE DTC
WINTER FORECAST EXPERIMENT: ANALYSIS OF WRF ARW AND NMM.
William Skamarock (National Center for Atmospheric Research
) and David Dempsey
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11.5
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WARM-SEASON PRECIPITATION SPECTRA OVER NORTH AMERICA: A COMPARISON
BETWEEN RADAR OBSERVATIONS AND WRF FORECASTS. H. Hsu, M. Moncrieff,
W.Tung, J. Tuttle, K. Manning, W. Wang, M. Dixon, C. Liu, and
P. Sullivan (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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11.6
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PROPAGATING NOCTURNAL CONVECTION WITHIN A 7-DAY WRF-MODEL SIMULATION.
Stanley B. Trier and Christopher A. Davis (National Center
for Atmospheric Research) |
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11.7* |
COMPARISONS OF DIFFERENT WRF CONFIGURATIONS IN A SEVERE WEATHER
FORECASTING ENVIRONMENT: THE 2005 SPC/NSSL SPRING PROGRAM.
Jack Kain, Steve Weiss, Greg Carbin, Mike Baldwin, David Bright,
John Hart, Jason Levit (SPC/NSSL/NOAA) |
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11.8
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EXPERIENCES WITH 0-36 HOUR EXPLICIT CONVECTIVE FORECASTING WITH
THE WRF-ARW MODEL. M. Weisman, W. Wang and C. Davis (National
Center for Atmospheric Research) |
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