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Workshop Program for the Eleventh PSU/NCAR MM5 Users' Workshop
Foothills Laboratory
NCAR
June 25 - June 27 2001


PROGRAM

Monday, June 25

Session 1: MM5 Modeling System Development

8:30 - 9:45

Recent development and plans for MM5 Version 3.5 and beyond
Jimy Dudhia, NCAR/MMM
 

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Current status and plans for MM5 V3.5 on MM5 pre- and post- processors
Wei Wang, NCAR/MMM
 

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A modified diffusion scheme for simulations over complex terrain
Guenther Zaengl, Meteorological Institute University of Munich, Germany
 

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Idealized baroclinic wave simulation with MM5 and its applications
Fuqing Zhang, Rich Rotunno, Chris Snyder, Chris Davis, and Wei Wang, NCAR

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10:15 - 11:00

Solar and thermal infrared radiation parameterizations for use in atmospheric models (Invited talk)
Ming-Dah Chou, Climate and Radiation Branch, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

  

 

Session 2: Climate Applications

11:00 - 12:30

Development of the MM5 for climate modeling over Africa
Edward K. Vizy and Kerry H. Cook Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Cornell University
  

 

Modeling African easterly waves using MM5
Jen-Shan Hsieh and Kerry Cook Cornell University
 

 

Toward High Resolution Climate Simulations of the Last Glacial Maximum Using the Polar MM5
E. Richard Toracinta, David H. Bromwich Byrd Polar Research Center,
John J. Cassano CIRES University of Colorado, and Zhichang Guo Byrd Polar Research Center

 

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Effects of soil moisture anomalies on the North American Monsoon System
Jianjun Xu and Eric Small, Dept. of Earth Environmental Science,
New Mexico Institute of Mining Technology
 

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Assessment of the Sensitivity in Moisture Transport and Regional Climate Statistics to Convective Parameterization in the North American Monsoon
David J. Gochis, W.James Shuttleworth, and Zong-Liang Yang,
Dept. of Hydrology and Water Resources Univ. of Arizona

Session 3: Numerical Weather Prediction

1:30 - 3:00

Current MM5 Development and Operations at Headquarter Air Force Weather Agency
Scott A. Hausman, AFWA
  

 

Operational MM5 Mesoscale Data Assimilation System (MDAS) Using Parallelized Multi-Variate Optimal Interpolation (MVOI) At Air Force Weather Agency
Robert T. Swanson Jr, Michael D. McAtee, Richard L. Ritz, AFWA
 

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MM5-based mesoscale modeling and model output statistics (MOS) for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games
W. James Steenburgh, Daryl J. Onton, Andrew J. Siffert, and Linda Cheng, University of Utah Department of Meteorology
 

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Using an Operational MM5 in the Fire Weather Forecast Process within West Texas and Southeast New Mexico
Chris Smallcomb, National Weather Serivce Midland TX
 

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High Resolution Weather Modeling in the Hawaiian Islands
Roe Kevin P., Stevens Duane and McCord Carol, Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC)
 

Verification of the Eta and real-time MM5 over the Eastern U.S.
Brian A. Colle, Joseph B. Olson, Jeffrey S. Tongue, State University of New York at Stony Brook

3:30 - 4:45

Streamflow and snowpack forecasting in the Pacific Northwest using MM5 and a distributed hydrological model.
Westrick, K., P. Storck, and C. Mass, Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, UW
 

Long-Term MM5 Verification Implications for Physical Parameterizations
Cliff Mass, David Ovens, Mark Albright, U. of WA.and Brian Colle SUNY Stony Brook
 

Ensemble Forecast during the Mei-Yu Season
Ming-Jen Yang Chinese Culture Univ. Ben J.-D. Jou National Taiwan Univ. Pay-Liam Lin National Central Univ. Fang-Ching Chien National Taiwan Normal Univ. Jen-Hsin Teng Central Weather Bureau Hui-Chuan Lin Civil Aeronautic Administration
 

Real-Time MM5 Forecasting for Antarctica
J.G. Powers, J.F. Bresch, Y-.H. Kuo, NCAR/MMM, J.J. Cassano and D.H. Bromwich

Session 4: Poster Session Introduction

4:45 - 5:00

An improved upper radiative boundary condition
Guenther Zaengl, Meteorological Institute University of Munich
 

Evaluation of a nonlocal K-Scheme using the MM5
Kiran Alapaty (MCNC) and Madhavi Alapaty (MASC)
 

Evaluation of a Surface Data Assimilation Technique using the MM5
Kiran Alapaty (MCNC) Nelson Seaman (PSU) et al.
 

Evaluation of the timing and strength of MM5 and Eta surface trough passages over the Eastern Pacific
Brian A. Colle, State University of New York at Stony Brook, C. F. Mass, and D. Ovens, University of Washington

5:00 - 6:30 Reception and Poster Session (continued)


Tuesday, June 26

Session 5: Model Physics for Moist Processes. Part I.

8:30 - 10:00

Explicit microphysical parameterization (Invited talk)
Bill Hall, MMM/NCAR
 

 

Evaluation of MM5 precipitation and microphysics over the Wasatch Mountains during IPEX IOP3
Brian A. Colle, W. James Steenburgh, Justin A. W. Cox, and David E. Kingsmill 
 

Explicit initialization of clouds and precipitation and
implications for microphysical parameterizations
Brent L. Shaw and Paul J. Schultz, Forecast Systems Lab, NOAA
 

The Impact of Microphysics and radiation on Simulation of Heavy Precipitation Events
W.-K. Tao, NASA/GSFC

Session 5: Model Physics for Moist Processes. Part II.

10:30 - 12:30

Convective parameterizations: Problems and approaches, now and then (Invited talk)
Georg Grell, Forecasting System Laboratory, NOAA
 

Track and Intensity Prediction of Tropical Cyclone Diana (1984) Sensitivity to MM5 Physical Parameterizations
C. A. Davis and J. G. Powers NCAR L. F. Bosart University at Albany SUNY
 

Parameterization Impacts on a Simulation of Hurricane Opal(1995)
Romine Glen S. and Wilhelmson Robert B. of the University of Illinois
 

A comparison study of precipitation processe schemes in simulation of
East Asia heavy rainfall
Dong-Kyou Lee, National University of Seoul, Korea

 

High-resolution simulation of Hurricane Danny (1997): Comparison with radar observations
Y.-H. Kuo, W. Wang, Q.-H. Zhang, MMM/NCAR, W.-C. Lee and M. Bell, ATD/NCAR

Session 6: Model Physics for PBL and Surface (8)

1:30 - 3:30

Boundary Layers and Their Models: A Taxonomy (Invited talk)
Bjorn Stevens, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of California Los Angeles

 

Updates and evaluation of the PX-LSM in MM5
J. Pleim (NOAA/ARL) and A. Xiu (MCNC)

 

Observational evaluation of PBL parameterizations modelled by MM5
Vila-Guerau de Arellano J., Vellinga O., Holtslag A.A.M, Wageningen University, Bosveld F. C.(KNMI), Duivendaal
 

On the sensitivity of simulated subArctic wintertime inversions to PBL parameterization
Jeffrey S. Tilley and Cynthia Weatherby, University of Alaska Fairbanks


High Resolution Simulations of Hurricane Floyd using MM5 Coupled with a Wave Model
Joseph Tenerelli, Shuyi Chen, Wei Zhao, and Mark Donelan, RSMAS, University of Miami
 

Impact of land surface fluxes simulation on meteorological modeling for an air pollution episode in the Lower Fraser Valley
Dazhong Yin, Weimin Jiang, Helmut Roth, and Don Singleton, Institute
for Chemical Process and Environmental Technology National Research Council Canada 
 

The influence of boundary layer and surface parameterizations on simulations of terrain-induced flows in the Salt Lake Valley
S. Zhong and J. D. Fast Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
 

Toward improvement of sea-ice physics in MM5 for the Arctic regional modeling
Jing Zhang, Jeffrey S. Tilley, Geophysical Institute University of Alaska Fairbanks, Xiangdong Zhang, International Arctic Research Center University of Alaska Fairbanks
 

Initialization of soil fields for MM5 LSM simulations
Kevin Manning (NCAR/RAP), and Fei Chen (NCAR/RAP)

 

4:45 - 5:30

Discussion (PBL and other physics in the model)


Wednesday:

Session 7: Data Processing and Assimilation

8:30 - 10:30

Development of a Tropical Cyclone Bogussing Scheme for the MM5 System.
S. Low-Nam and C. Davis - NCAR/MMM
 

An impact study of supplementary soundings on MM5 simulations
Fang-Ching Chien, Dept. of Earth Sciences National Taiwan Normal University 
 

High-resolution MM5 simulation with refined land use categories for Hong Kong.
J. Sai-Lap LAM, Alexis K.H. LAU and Jimmy C.H. FUNG, Center for Coastal and Atmospheric Research, Hong Kong University of Science Technology
 

An Inverse Technique for Indirect Assimilation of Soil Moisture Availability using the MM5
Kiran Alapaty (MCNC) Devdutta Niyogi(NCSU) and Madhavi Alapaty(MASC)
 

An Observing-System Simulation Experiment to Evaluate NPOESS Impact
Joel B. Mozer (AFRL/VSBL) Susan Triantafillou (Radex Inc. for AFRL/VSBL)
 

Effect of the penalty terms on MM5 4DVAR system
Yong-Run Guo, and Bill Kuo, NCAR/MMM

 

An MM5V3-based 4DVAR system developed for distributed-memory parallel computers
Frank H. Ruggiero, Space Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, George D. Modica, Thomas Nehrkorn, Mark Cerniglia, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., Xiaolei Zou, Department of Meteorology, Florida State University, and John G. Michalakes, NCAR/Argonne National Laboratory


Session 8: General Discussion

WRF Update - Klemp, J., NCAR

General Discussion

12:30 Meeting Adjourned

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