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Papers
Presented at the 8th WRF Users' Workshop
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National Center for
Atmospheric Research
June 11-15, 2007
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Follow the link on the paper
number to the electronic version (.pdf file format) of the preprint
volume. The ppt-link points to the power point slides (in .pdf format)
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Session 1: WRF Updates
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1.1
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THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND
FORECASTING MODEL: 2007 ANNUAL UPDATE. J. Dudhia (National Center for Atmospheric
Research)
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1.2
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OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
AND RESULTS FROM WRF-VAR. D.
M. Barker (National Center for Atmospheric Research), J. R. Bray, M.
Demirtas, H. Huang, Z. Liu, H. Shao, Q. Xiao
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1.3
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A GLOBAL IMPLEMENTATION FOR THE
ADVANCED RESEARCH WRF (ARW) MODEL.
M.
Richardson (Cal Teck), A. Toigo, C. Newman, and W.
Skamarock, John Michalakes
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1.4
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WRF SOFTWARE. John Michalakes (National
Center for Atmospheric Research), Thomas Henderson, Dave Gill, Michael Duda
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1.5
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A LOOK AT THE CURRENT STATUS AND
FUTURE OF THE WRF DEVELOPMENTAL TESTBED
CENTER. Robert Gall (National Center
for Atmospheric Research), Steve Koch, Louisa Nance, Ligia Bernardet
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Session 2: Model Evaluation
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2.1
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Surface layer parameterization in
the NCEP operational NAM/WRF-NMM.
Michael Ek (NCEP/EMC, and UCAR/VSP), Ken Mitchell (NCEP/EMC), Vince
Wong (NCEP/EMC, and SAIC), Youlong Xia (NCEP/EMC, and SAIC), Zavisa Janjic
(NCEP/EMC, and UCAR/VSP)
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2.2
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IMPACTS OF LAND INITIALIZATION ON
WRF FORECAST FOR THE AFWA SOUTH-EAST ASIAN DOMAIN. Mukul Tewari (National Center for Atmospheric
Research), Fei Chen, Dave Gill, Christa Peters-Lidard, Charles J. Alonge,
Sujay Kumar, John Eylander
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2.3
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WRF PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION ON KOREAN
PENINSULA DURING THE
MONTH OF JULY 2006. Han,
Sang-Ok (KMA)
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2.4
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RAPID-REFRESH CORE TEST: ASPECTS
OF WRF-NMM AND WRF-ARW FORECAST PERFORMANCE RELEVANT TO THE RAPID-REFRESH
APPLICATION. John M.
Brown (Earth System Research Lab/NOAA), Stan Benjamin, Tanya Smirnova, Georg
Grell, Ligia Bernardet, Louisa Nance, Randy Collander and Chris Harrop
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2.5
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A COMPARISON OF HIGH-RESOLUTION
MESOSCALE SIMULATIONS USING MM5 AND WRF-ARW FOR THE 2006 WINTER
OLYMPICS. Aijun Deng (Pennsylvania
State University),
Jeffrey R. Zielonka, Glenn K. Hunter and David R. Stauffer
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2.6
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EVALUATION
OF WRF PERFORMANCE FOR DEPICTING OROGRAPHICALLY-INDUCED GRAVITY WAVES IN THE
STRATOSPHERE. Douglas C.
Hahn (Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom AFB)
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2.7
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IDEALIZED HURRICANE SIMULATIONS
USING WRF: MICROPHYSICAL INFLUENCES ON TRACK AND INTENSITY. Robert G. Fovell (University
of California) and Hui Su (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of
Technology)
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2.8
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ADVANCED RESEARCH WRF HIGH
RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS OF THE INNER CORE STRUCTURE OF HURRICANES KATRINA AND
RITA (2005). Kristen L.
Corbosiero (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Wei Wang, Yongsheng
Chen, Jimy Dudhia, and Christopher Davis
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2.9
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DOWNSLOPE WINDSTORM IN ICELAND
– WRF/MM5 MODEL COMPARISON – I. lafur Rgnvaldsson(Institute for Meteorological
Research, Iceland and University of Bergen, Norway), Jian–Wen Bao
(NOAA/ESRL), Hlfdn gstsson(Institute for Meteorological Research and University
of Iceland, Iceland) and Haraldur lafsson(Institute for Meteorological
Research and University of Iceland, Iceland; University of Bergen, Norway)
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2.10
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EVALUATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION WRF
ARW MODEL SIMULATIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC RIVER EVENTS DURING HMT-2006. Isidora Jankov (CIRA-NOAA/ESRL/GSD),
Jian-Wen Bao, Paul J. Neiman and Paul J. Schultz
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2.11
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MULTI-SCALE WRF SIMULATIONS OF
BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUD. Ping
Zhu (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Florida International University)
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2.12
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WRF AND VERTICAL NESTING:
MULTI-SCALE RESOLUTION OF T-REX MEASUREMENTS. Mohamed Moustaoui, Alex
Mahalov, Basil Nichols (Arizona State University)
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Session 3: Verification Techniques
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3.1
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APPLICATION OF THE MODE
OBJECT-BASED VERIFICATION TOOL FOR THE EVALUATION OF WRF PRECIPITATION
FIELDS. Barbara G.
Brown (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Lacey Holland,
John Halley Gotway, Randy Bullock, David Ahijevych, Eric Gilleland, and Chris
Davis
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3.2
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A TOOLKIT FOR MODEL EVALUATION. Lacey Holland,
John Halley Gotway, Barbara Brown, and Randy Bullock (National Center for
Atmospheric Research)
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3.3
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ATMOSPHERIC CO2 TRANSPORT
SIMULATION BY WRF-VPRM: A HIGH PRECISION TRACER FOR WRF VALIDATION. R. Ahmadov
(Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry), C. Gerbig, K. Dhanya, R.
Kretschmer, S. Koerner, B. Neininger
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3.4
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USING WRF OUTPUT WITH THE SPATIAL
FORECAST VERIFICATION METHODS INTER-COMPARISON PROJECT (ICP). Eric Gilleland (National Center
for Atmospheric Research) and Dave Ahijevich
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Session 4: Data Assimilation
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4.1
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STATUS OF WRF 4D-VAR. Xiang-Yu Huang, and Qingnong
Xiao (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Xin Zhang (University of
Hawaii), John Michalakes, Wei Huang, Dale M. Barker, John Bray, Zaizhong Ma,
Tom Henderson, Jimy Dudhia, and Xiaoyan Zhang (National Center for
Atmospheric Research), Duk-Jin Won (Korean Meteorological Administration,
South Korea), Yongsheng Chen, Yongrun Guo, Hui_Chuan Lin, and Ying-Hwa Kuo
(National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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4.2
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UPDATE OF RADIANCE ASSIMILATION
IN WRF-VAR. Zhiquan Liu
(National Center for Atmospheric Research), John Bray, Jianjun Xu, Huichuan
Lin, Tomislava Vukicevic and Dale Barker
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4.3
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A HYBRID ENSEMBLE TRANSFORM
KALMAN FILER (ETKF)-THREE DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL (3DVAR) DATA ASSIMILATION
SCHEME FOR THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODEL. Xuguang Wang (NOAA Earth System
Research Laboratory), Dale Barker, Chris Snyder, Tom Hamill
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4.4
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MESOSCALE WRF SURFACE-DATA
ASSIMILATION: SPRING 2007 EXPERIMENTS AT THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS
LABORATORY. David
Dowell (National Center for Atmospheric Research), David Stensrud, Nusrat
Yussouf, Michael Coniglio, Jeff Anderson, Chris Snyder
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4.5
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IMPACT OF COSMIC RADIO
OCCULTATION DATA ON ANALYSES OVER TROPICAL OCEANS. Hui Liu (National Center for Atmospheric
Research), Jeffrey Anderson, Yongsheng Chen, Ying-Hua Kuo, and Chris Snyder
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4.6
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TUNING OF WRF 3D-VAR DATA
ASSIMILATION SYSTEM OVER MIDDLE-EAST AND ARABIAN PENINSULA. Ajjaji Radi (United Nations
Development Programme, Abu-Dhabi, UAE), Ahmad Awad Al-Katheri and Abdullah
Dhanhani (Air Force and Air Defense Meteorological Department, UAE)
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4.7
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0 - 12H FORECASTS OF SUMMER
CONVECTION USING NCAR/RAL "OBS-NUDGING"-BASED WRF-RTFDDA SYSTEM. Yubao Liu (National Center for
Atmospheric Research), Mei Xu, Jenny Sun, Tom Warner and Scott Swerdlin
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4.8
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UPDATE ON ANALYSIS NUDGING FDDA IN WRF-ARW. Aijun Deng, and David R.
Stauffer (Pennsylvania State University), Jimy Dudhia (National Center for
Atmospheric Research), Tanya Otte (NOAA/EPA) and Glenn K. Hunter
(Pennsylvania State University)
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Session 5: Physics Development
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5.1
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NEW CLOUD-RADIATIVE TRANSFER
PROCESSES IN WRF AND THEIR IMPACT ON PRECIPITATION. J. J. Shi (NASA/GSFC), T. Matsui, C. Mian, C.
Peters-Lidard, and W.-K. Tao
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COMPARISONS OF SIMULATED
CONVECTIVE CLOUDS BETWEEN A 1D CLOUD MODEL AND THE WRF MODEL. Shu-Hua Chen (National
Central University,
Taiwan) and Yang-Cheng Siao
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5.3
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A COMPARISON STUDY OF EFFECTS OF
SURFACE ROUGHNESS REPRESENTATION IN WRF AND COAMPS ON HURRICANE INTENSITY
FORECASTS. Jin, Y., S.
Chen, S.-P. Wang, J. Doyle, C.-S. Liou, J. Schmidt, and R. Hodur
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5.4
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DEMONSTRATION OF AN IMPROVED
SUBGRID STRESS CLOSURE FOR WRF.
Jeffrey D. Mirocha (Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory), Julie K. Lundquist, Fotini K. Chow, and Katherine A.
Lundquist
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5.5
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A WIND FARM PARAMETERIZATION FOR WRF. Manda Adams and David Keith
(Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment, and Economy, University of
Calgary)
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5.6
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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
QUASI-NORMAL SCALE ELIMINATION (QNSE) TURBULENCE MODEL IN WRF. Boris Galperin (University
of South Florida),
Semion Sukoriansky, Veniamin Perov
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5.7
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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLEIM-XIU
LAND SURFACE MODEL AND ASYMMETRIC CONVECTIVE MODEL IN THE WRF MODEL. Robert Gilliam, and Jonathan Pleim
(Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division, NOAA, Research Triangle Park), and
Aijun Xiu (Carolina Environmental Program, University of North Carolina)
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5.8
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WRF PBL SENSITIVITIES AND
VERIFICATION IN FORECASTING LOW-LEVEL JET EVENTS. Brandon A. Storm (WISE, Texas Tech University),
Jimy Dudhia (National Center for Atmospheric Research) and Sukanta Basu
(Atmospheric Science Group, Texas Tech Univ)
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5.9
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IMPLEMENTATION OF ALBEDO FROM
MELTING SNOW INTO WRF. Vince
Wong (NWS/NCEP), Kenneth Mitchell and Micheal Ek
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5.10
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DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED URBAN
MODELING SYSTEM IN WRF: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PLANS. Fei Chen (National Center for
Atmospheric Research), Mukul Tewari, Shiguang Miao, Yubao Liu, Thomas T.
Warner, Hiroyuki Kusaka
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Session 6: Posters
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Model Evaluation
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P1.1
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A SENSITIVITY STUDY OF AN
INTERMOUNTAIN CYCLONE TO MOIST PROCESSES AND OROGRAPHY. William Y.Y. Cheng (Colorado
State University)
and W. James Steenburgh
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P1.2
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BOUNDARY LAYER BEHAVIOR IN
CALIFORNIA'S OWENS VALLEY USING THE WRF-ARW MODEL DURING APR 28-30 OF T-REX
2006. Mr. Robert E.
Dumais, Jr., Dr. Teizi Henmi (US Army Research Laboratory), Dr. Edward Colon
(Army High Performance Computing Research Center Network Computing Services,
Inc.) and Dr. Sen Chiao (Florida Institute of Technology)
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P1.3
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Paper Withdrawn
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P1.4
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SUCCESSFUL SIMULATION OF THE
METEOROLOGY OF THE KATHMANDU VALLEY,
NEPAL. Arnico K Panday (MIT) and
Ronald G Prinn
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P1.5
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A STUDY ON THE FORECASTING ACCURACY
OF THE LAST VERSION OF MM5 AND WRF MODEL AS INPUT FIELDS OF AIR QUALITY. Seung-Hwan Lee, and Yun-Seob
Moon (Department of Environmental Education, Korea National University of
Education), Youn-Seo Koo (Department of Environmental Engineering, Anyang
University)
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P1.6
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WRF .VS. MM5 PERFORMANCE
COMPARISON FOR CALIFORNIA'S
SJV. Zhan Zhao (UC,
Davis), Shuhua-Chen and M. J. Kleeman
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P1.7
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THE NCAR/RAL MESOSCALE ENSEMBLE
ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING SYSTEM (MEAPS) - AN ANALYSIS OF THE "MODEL
CLIMATOLOGY" OF WRF AND MM5. Yubao Liu (National Center for Atmospheric
Research), Mei Xu, Gregory Roux, Ming Ge, Rong Sheu, Tom Warner and Scott
Swerdlin
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P1.8
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COMPARISON OF ARW AND NMM SIMULATIONS OF LOW-LEVEL
METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL
VALLEY. Sara .A. Michelson (NOAA/Earth
System Research Laboratory and CIRES, University of Colorado), Evelyn. D.
Grell (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory and Science and Technology
Corporation), and Jian-Wen Bao (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory)
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P1.9
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COMPARISON OF PRECIPITATION
FORECASTS FROM MM5, WRF-ARW AND WRF-NMM OVER THE KOREAN
PENINSULA DURING SUMMER
SEASON. Jong-Chul Ha,
Yong-Hee Lee, Dong-Eon Chang, Hee-Choon Lee and Hee-Sang Lee (National
Institute of Meteorological Research, KMA, Republic of Korea)
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P1.10
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PRECIPITATION FORECASTS USING THE
WRF-ARW AND WRF-NMM MODELS DURING THE HMT-WEST 2006 AND 2007 WINTER
EXPERIMENTS. Huiling
Yuan (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)/Global Systems Division
(GSD)), Christopher Anderson (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory
(ESRL)/Global Systems Division (GSD), and Cooperative Institute for Research
in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Colorado State University), Paul Schultz
(NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)/Global Systems Division (GSD)),
Isidora Jankov (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)/Global Systems
Division (GSD), and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
(CIRA), Colorado State University), and John McGinley (NOAA/Earth System
Research Laboratory (ESRL)/Global Systems Division (GSD))
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P1.11
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Paper Withdrawn
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P1.12
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POLAR WRF TESTING IN ANTARCTICA. Jordan G. Powers and Kevin
W. Manning (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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P1.13
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WRF MODELED LOW-LEVEL JET
CLIMATOLOGY COMPARED TO OBSERVED CLIMATOLOGIES: WEAKNESSES AND
STRENGTHS. Brandon A.
Storm (WISE, Texas Tech University), Sukanta Basu (Atmospheric Science Group,
Texas Tech Univ), and Jimy Dudhia, (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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P1.14
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LARGE-SCALE HIGH-RESOLUTION WRF
MODEL SIMULATIONS USED FOR GOES-R RESEARCH ACTIVITIES. Jason A. Otkin (University
of Wisconsin-Madison)
and Allen Huang
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P1.15
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A CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF WRF-SIMULATED
AND MODIS-DERIVED CLOUD DATA.
Jason A. Otkin (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Tom Greenwald, Erik
R. Olson, and Mat Gunshor
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P1.16
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APPLICATION OF WRF INTO THE YELLOW
RIVER BASIN IN THE
PERIOD OF 1980-1997. Xieyao
Ma, Takao Yoshikane, and Masayuki Hara (Frontier Research Center for Global
Change, Japan), Fujio Kimura (Frontier Research Center for Global Change, and
University of Tsukuba, Japan) and Yoshihiro (Research Institute for Humanity
and Nature, Japan)
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P1.17
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IMPACT OF IRRIGATION AREA ON
CLOUD APPEARANCE AROUND THE YELLOW RIVER IN CHINA. Hiroaki Kawase, Takao Yoshikane, and Masayuki
Hara (Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Japan), Shingo Ohsawa
(Weathernews Corporation, Japan), and Fujio Kimura (Frontier Research Center
for Global Change, and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences,
University of Tsukuba, Japan)
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P1.18
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THE DIURNAL CYCLE OF AIR
POLLUTION IN THE KATHMANDU VALLEY,
NEPAL. Arnico K Panday (MIT) and Ronald
G Prinn
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P1.19
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NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF TORNADOES
GENERATED BY A TYPHOON NEAR A COASTAL LINE. Ken-ichi Shimose and Tetsuya Kawano (Kyushu
University, Japan)
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P1.20
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AN INVESTIGATION OF THE FINE
SCALE MODELING ABILITIES OF THE WRF: WIND AND TEMPERATURE FIELDS OVER OKLAHOMA
CITY AREA. Jeremy A. Gibbs and Ripley C. McCoy (University of
Northern Colorado)
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P1.21
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EVALUATION OF WRF FOR FROST
WARNING AND CONSEQUENCES OF COLD AIR POOLING. Prabhakaran
and Gerrit Hoogenboom (The University of Georgia), S. G. Gopalakrishnan
(NOAA/ORA/Air Resources Laboratory)
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P1.22
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SNOW ACCRETION PREDICTION METHOD
USING WRF CALCULATION RESULTS.
Koji Wada, Yasushi Toyoda, Soichiro Sugimoto and Hiromaru Hirakuchi
(Central Research Institute Of Electric Power Industry, Japan)
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P1.23
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SOIL MOISTURE UNCERTAINTY AND PRECIPITATION
PREDICTABILITY IN WRF. W. Wu
(National Center for Atmospheric Research), Y. Liu, A. Hahmann And T. Warner
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P1.24
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IMPACT OF VOLCANIC HEAT RELEASE
ON LOCAL WEATHER FOR THE 2006 AUGUSTINE VOLCANO ERUPTION. Morgan E. Brown and Nicole
Mlders (University of Alaska
Fairbanks)
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P1.25
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APPLICATION OF THE GRELL-DEVENYI
CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION IN ENSEMBLE QPFS. Jian-Wen Bao (NOAA/Earth System Research
Laboratory), E. D. Grell (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory and Science
and Technology Corporation), G. A. Grell, and S.A. Michelson (NOAA/Earth
System Research Laboratory and CIRES, University of Colorado)
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P1.26
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SENSITIVITY OF PRECIPITATION
FORECASTS TO CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATIONS IN CATALONIA (NE SPAIN). Jordi Mercader, and Bernat
Codina (Faculty of Physics, University of Barcelona, Spain), Abdelmalik
Sairouni, and Jordi Cunillera (Meteorological Service of Catalonia, Spain)
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P1.27
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HIGH RESOLUTION WRF SIMULATION OF
LANDFALL HURRICANE BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS AND TURBULENT STRUCTURES. Ping Zhu (Dept. of Earth
Sciences, Florida International University)
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P1.28
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GORDON
EXTRA-TROPICAL DEPRESSION OVER PORTUGAL: A CASE STUDY WITH WRF (VERSION
2.2). L. Carvalheiro,
P. Correia, Y. Yamasaki, M. D. Manso (Physics Department, University of
Aveiro, Portugal)
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P1.29
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NUMERCIAL
SIMULATIONS OF TYPHOON RUSA AND ASSOCIATED HEAVY RAINFALL. Dong-Kyou Lee
and Suk-Jin Choi (Atmospheric Sciences, School
of Earth and Environmental Sciences,Seoul
National University,
Seoul, Korea)
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P1.30
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THE EVALUATIONS OF HURRICANE
BDA SCHEME WITH WRF 3DVAR.
Liqiang Chen (Institute of Atmospheric Environment, CMA, and National
Center for Atmospheric Research), Qingnong Xiao (National Center for
Atmospheric Research)
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P1.31
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OBJECT-BASED VERIFICATION OF ARW
AND NMM PRECIPITATION FORECASTS. Chris Davis (National Center for Atmospheric
Research), Barbara Brown, and Randy Bullock
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Data Assimilation
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P2.1
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HURRICANE INITIALIZATION USING
AIRBORNE DOPPLER RADAR DATA FOR WRF. Qingnong Xiao (National Center for Atmospheric
Research), Xiaoyan Zhang, Chris Davis, John Tuttle, Greg Holland, and Pat
Fitzpatrick
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P2.2
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AN OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION
EXPERIMENT USING BOTH MM5 AND WRF: EXPERIMENT CONFIGURATION AND PRELIMINARY
RESULTS. Xiang-Yu Huang
(National Center for Atmospheric Research), Hongli Wang, Yongsheng Chen, Xin
Zhang, Stephen A. Tjemkes, Rolf Stuhlmann
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P2.3
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A MULTI-CASE STUDY OF
ENSEMBLE-BASED ASSIMILATION OF RADAR OBSERVATIONS INTO CLOUD-RESOLVING WRF
USING DART. Altug Aksoy
(National Center for Atmospheric Research), Chris Snyder, David C. Dowell
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P2.4
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AN EVALUATION OF 3DVAR, NUDGING-BASED FDDA AND A HYBRID
SCHEME FOR SUMMER CONVECTION Forecast
Using WRF-ARW Model.
Wei Yu, Yubao Liu and Tom Warner (National Center for Atmospheric
Research)
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P2.5
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APPLICATION OF WRFVAR (3DVAR) TO A HIGH RESOLUTION
(3-KM) NWP OVER BEIJING
AREA. Y.-R. Guo
(National Center for Atmospheric Research), S.-Y. Fan (Institute of Urban
Meteorology, China), W. Wang (National Center for Atmospheric Research), M.
Chen, J.-Q. Zhong, and Y. Chu (Institute of Urban Meteorology, China), X.-Y.
Huang (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Y.-C. Wang(Institute of
Urban Meteorology, China), and
Y.-H. Kuo (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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P2.6
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AN APPLICATION OF WRF 3-D VAR
RADIANCE ASSIMILATION TO A BAIU FRONTAL TORRENTIAL RAINFALL CASE USING TMI
DATA. Soichiro Sugimoto
(Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan)
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P2.7
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ASSIMILATION OF MULTIPLE-DOPPLER
RADAR DATA WITH THE WRF 3-D VAR AND A CLOUD ANALYSIS. Soichiro Sugimoto (Central
Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan)
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P2.8
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AN IMPACT STUDY OF DROPSONDE AND
QUIKSCAT WIND DATA ON WRF SIMULATION. Fang-Ching Chien (National
Taiwan Normal
University)
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Physics Development
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P3.1
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WRF PBL PARAMETERIZATIONS: 1D
TESTS. Wayne M.
Angevine (CIRES / NOAA ESRL)
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P3.2
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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
PROBABILISTIC CUP CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION IN WRF. William I. Gustafson Jr. and Larry K. Berg
(Atmospheric Science and Global Change Division Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory)
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P3.3
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MICROPHYSICS MODIFICATION BASED ON SIMPLIED CONSTRAINED
GAMMA DISTRIBUTION. M.
S. Teshiba, and G. Zhang (School of Meteorology, and Atmospheric Radar
Research Center, University of Oklahoma), M. Xue (School of Meteorology, and
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms), R. D. Palmer, and P. B.
Chilson (School of Meteorology, and Atmospheric Radar Research Center,
University of Oklahoma)
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P3.4
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THE RAMS CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
PARAMETERIZATION IN WRF: CURRENT STATUS. Laura D. Fowler (Cooperative Institute for
Research in the Atmosphere)
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P3.5
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COMPARISON OF SUBGRID TURBULENCE
CLOSURE SCHEMES IN WRF/CHEM. Evelyn D. Grell (NOAA Earth
Systems Research Laboratory and Science and Technology Corporation), Jian-Wen
Bao (NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory), Sara A. Michelson, Georg A.
Grell, and Stuart A. McKeen (NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory and
CIRES, University of Colorado), and Bright Dornblaser (Texas Commission of
Environmental Quality)
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P3.6
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DOWNSLOPE WINDSTORM IN ICELAND
– WRF/MM5 MODEL COMPARISON – II. lafur Rgnvaldsson(Institute for Meteorological
Research, Iceland and University of Bergen, Norway), Jian–Wen Bao
(NOAA/ESRL, USA), Hlfdn gstsson(Institute for Meteorological Research and
University of Iceland, Iceland) and Haraldur lafsson(Institute for
Meteorological Research and University of Iceland, Iceland; University of
Bergen, Norway)
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P3.7
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AN IMPROVEMENT IN MOISTURE FLUX
OVER SNOW. J. Dudhia,
M. Tewari and F. Chen (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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P3.8
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COUPLING OF CLM3 IN WRF AND AN
ANALYSIS OF THE IMPROVED REGIONAL SNOW SIMULATIONS. Jiming Jin (Lawrence
Berkeley
National Lab)
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P3.9
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IMPROVING NWP OF WINTER WEATHER
WITH ADVANCED GROUND-SNOW ANALYSIS AND DOWNSCALING GROUND-SNOW ANALYSIS AND
DOWNSCALING. Andrea
Hahmann (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Yubao Liu, Fei Chen and
Tom Warner
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P3.10
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OFFLINE COUPLED WRF- DISTRIBUTED
HYDROLOGICAL MODELING: PRELIMINARY TESTING FOR A WARM SEASON FLOOD EVENT IN
THE SOUTHWESTERN US. Kinwai Tai, and Enrique R.
Vivoni (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), and David J. Gochis
(National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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P3.11
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MODELING THE AIR-SEA-WAVE
INTERACTION UNDER TYPHOON CONDITIONS: MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND A PRELIMINARY
RESULT FOR TYPHOON IOKE (2006).
Yoshiaki Miyamoto, Hirohiko Ishikawa and Tetsuya Takemi (Disaster
Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)
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P3.12
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REPRESENTING SATELLITE-DERIVED
LAKE ICE
CHARACTERISTICS IN WRF-ARW.
WJ Capehart (South Dakota
School of MInes), MR
Hjelmfelt and DAR Kristovich
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P3.13
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WRF FIRE WEATHER FORECASTS. Nicole Mlders (University
of Alaska Fairbanks,
Geophysical Institute)
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WRF Chemistry
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ppt
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P4.1
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PRELIMINARY COMPARISON OF OZONE CONCENTRATIONS
PROVIDED BY THE EMISSION INVENTORY/WRF-CHEM MODEL AND THE AIR QUALITY MONITORING
NETWORK FROM THE DISTRITO METROPOLITANO DE QUITO (ECUADOR). R. Parra, V. Daz
(Corporacin para el mejoramiento del aire de Quito)
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P4.2
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PRELIMINARY PERFORMANCE COMPARISON FOR WRF-CHEM-NMM AND
WRF-NMM/CMAQ IN U.S CONTINENTAL AIR QUALITY PREDICTION. Youhua Tang (Scientific
Applications International Corporation), Jeffery T. McQueen (NOAA/NWS/
National Centers for Environmental Prediction), Georg A. Grell, and Steven E.
Peckham (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory), Pius Lee, Marina Tsidulko,
and Ho-Chun Huang (Scientific Applications International Corporation), and
Paula M. Davidson (Office of Science and Technology, NOAA/National Weather
Service)
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P4.3
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WRF/CHEM SMOKE DISPERSION
FORECASTS FOR ALASKA'S
INTERIOR. Martin
Stuefer (University of Alaska
Fairbanks)
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P4.4
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IMPACTS OF LAND COVER/USE
UNCERTAINTIES ON REGIONAL AIR QUALITY FORECAST USING A COUPLED
LAND-ATMOSPHERE-CHEMISTRY MODEL. Xiaoyan Jiang and Zong-Liang Yang (University of Texas
at Austin)
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P4.5
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AIR QUALITY MODELING STUDIES OVER
MEGA-CITY REGIONS IN EAST ASIA.
Hitoshi Matsui, and Makoto Koike (University of Tokyo, Japan),
Jerome D. Fast (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Yutaka Kondo and
Nobuyuki Takegawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
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P4.6
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DEVELOPMENT OF A GLOBAL/REGIONAL
NESTED CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODEL.
Masayuki Takigawa (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and
Technology), Masanori Niwano, Hajime Akimoto, and Masaaki Takahashi
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P4.7
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EVALUATION OF MID-ATLANTIC AIR
QUALITY USING WRF-CHEM.
Dale J. Allen (University
of Maryland), Elena
Yegorova, Christopher Loughner, Jeff Stehr, Patti Castellanos
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P4.8
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IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTNING
PRODUCTION OF NOX INTO WRF.
Mary Barth (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Christelle
Barthe, Kenneth Pickering, Lesley Ott
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P4.9
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MODEL EVALUATION - DYNAMIC
PROCESS ANALYSIS. W.
Vizuete (University
of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill), and B. Henderson
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P4.10
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THE INFLUENCE OF AEROSOLS ON
BIOGENIC EMISSIONS: A CASE STUDY IN EASTERN U.S. Christine Wiedinmyer (National
Center for Atmospheric Research), Serena Chung, Jerome Fast, Alex Guenther
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Forecasting
Techniques
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P5.1
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FROM THE RADAR-ENHANCED RUC TO
THE WRF-BASED RAPID REFRESH.
Stan Benjamin, S. S. Weygandt, J. M. Brown, T. G. Smirnova, D.
Devenyi, K. J. Brundage, G. A. Grell, S. Peckham, T. W. Schlatter, T. L.
Smith, and G. S. Manikin
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P5.2
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METEOROLOGICAL GUIDELINE FOR
FORECASTING ASIAN DUST USING WRF IN THE KOREAN
PENINSULA. Yun-Seob Moon and Seung-Hwan
Lee (Department of Environmental Education, Korean National University of
Education)
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P5.3
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USING WRF-ARW IN OPERATIONAL FORECASTS. Gaofeng Chen, Zhiqian Ning,
Jianzhong Hou, and Shuangting Xie (Shanxi Meteorological Bureau, People's
Republic of China) and Aijun Deng (Pennsylvania State University)
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P5.4
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DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL FILTER
INITIALIZATION FOR WRF AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION AT IUM. Xiang-Yu Huang (National
Center for Atmospheric Research), Min Chen (Institute of Urban Meteorology,
China), Wei Wang (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Ju-Won Kim
(Korea Meteorological Administration, South Korea), Bill Skamarock, and Tom
Henderson (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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P5.5
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GIS-BASED WEATHER WARNINGS FROM A
WRF ENSEMBLE. J. Hacker
(National Center for Atmospheric Research), B. Bush, J. Boehnert
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P5.6
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AUTOMATIC TWO-WAY NESTED WRF
MIDDLE-EAST NUMERICAL WEATHER FORECAST APPLICATION. Al Katheri Ahmad Awad (Air Force and Air Defense
Meteorological Department, UAE), Radi Ajjaji (United Nations Development
Programme, Abu-Dhabi, UAE) and Abdullah Dhanhani (Air Force and Air Defense
Meteorological Department, UAE)
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Computing/Software
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ppt
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P6.1
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A WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATING WEATHER AND
CLIMATE SIMULATIONS. Christopher
W Harrop (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Systems Division, and
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences), Ligia
Bernardet (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Systems Division,
and Systems Research Group), Mark Govett (NOAA Earth System Research
Laboratory, Global Systems Division), Jeff S Smith (NOAA Earth System
Research Laboratory, Global Systems Division, and Cooperative Institute for
Research in the Atmosphere), and Stephen Weygandt (NOAA Earth System Research
Laboratory, Global Systems Division)
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ppt
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P6.2
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WRF DOMAIN WIZARD: THE WPS GUI. Jeff
S Smith (Earth System Research Lab), Paula McCaslin, Mark Govett
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ppt
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P6.3
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THE USE OF WRF PORTAL TO SUPPORT
THE DTC. Mark W. Govett
(NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory) and Jeff Smith
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ppt
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P6.4
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WRF PERFORMANCE ON INTEL
PLATFORMS. Dubtsov
Roman, Semenov Alexander, Shkurko Dmitry (Intel Corporation, Novosibirsk,
Russia)
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Session 7: Regional Climate Modeling
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ppt
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7.1
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AN OVERVIEW OF NRCM ACTIVITIES
AND LESSONS LEARNED.
Ruby Leung (PNNL)
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ppt
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7.2
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NRCM SIMULATION OF EAST
ASIA MONSOON.
Bill Kuo (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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ppt
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7.3
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POLAR-OPTIMIZED WRF. Keith M. Hines (Polar Meteorology Group, Byrd
Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University), David H. Bromwich (Polar
Meteorology Group, Byrd Polar Research Center, and Atmospheric Sciences
Program, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University), and Le-Sheng
Bai (Polar Meteorology Group, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State
University)
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7.4
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CWRF Scalable Representation of the Topographic Control on Terrestrial
Hydrology.
Xin-Zhong Liang (University
of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign) and Hyun Il Choi
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ppt
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7.5
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Multi-Year
Continental Scale Simulations of the South American Monsoon System (SAMS) with
the WRF model. Mark Falvey (University
of Chile) and Ren
Garreaud
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ppt
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7.6
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Regional
Climate Simulations over the Pacific Northwest.
Cliff Mass (University
of Washington), Eric
Salathe, Richard Steed, Patrick Zahn
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Session 8: WRF Chemistry
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ppt
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8.1
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UPDATES, EVALUATION AND
VERIFICATION OF THE WRF/CHEM MODEL. Grell (NOAA/ESRL/CIRES) et. al.
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ppt
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8.2
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EXAMPLES OF USING WRF-CHEM FOR
AEROSOL-CLIMATE APPLICATIONS.
William I. Gustafson Jr., Yun Qian, Elaine G. Chapman, Steven J.
Ghan, Richard C. Easter, L. Ruby Leung, and Jerome D. Fast (Atmospheric
Science and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
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ppt
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8.3
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DEVELOPMENT OF AN OFFLINE
WRF/CHEMISTRY MODEL. Mohit
Dalvi (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune Univ. Campus,
India), Georg Grell and Steven Peckham (NOAA/ESRL and CIRES, Univ. of
Colorado)
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8.4
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GAS/PARTICLE MASS TRANSFER
TREATMENTS IN WRF/CHEM-MADRID: DEVELOPMENT, APPLICATION, AND EVALUATION. Xiaoming Hu (North
Carolina State University)
and Yang Zhang
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ppt
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8.5
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THE AEROSOL MODELING TESTBED: COORDINATING THE
DEVELOPMENT OF AEROSOL TREATMENTS USING WRF-CHEM. Jerome D. Fast, William I. Gustafson Jr., Elaine G.
Chapman, and Douglas Baxter (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Georg
Grell (Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences /
NOAA), and Mary Barth (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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ppt
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8.6
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RESULTS OF INTEGRATING THE
MODELS-3 I/O API AND SMOKE EMISSIONS MODELS INTO WRF-CHEM. John McHenry (Baron Adv Met
Sys/NCSU), Carlie Coats, Jeff Vukovich
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ppt
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8.7
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A NEW DIRECT COUPLED METEOROLOGY
AND CHEMISTRY MODEL: WRF-CHEMT.
Julius S. Chang (National
Central University),
Shu Wei Hsu, Tsun-Hsien Liu, Jing Li, and Chih-Kang Chiang
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ppt
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8.8
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OZONE EVOLUTION IN THE MEXICO
CITY PLUMES DURING THE MIRAGE-MEX FIELD CAMPAIGN. Xuexi Tie (National Center
for Atmospheric Research)
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Session 9: Forecasting Techniques
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ppt
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9.1
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USE OF HIGH RESOLUTION WRF-ARW
OUTPUT AT A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE: THE 21 JULY 2002 &
9 AUGUST 2005 UPPER MICHIGAN BOW ECHO EVENTS. Thomas Hultquist, Jennifer L. Lee, and Matthew
Zika (NOAA / National Weather Service)
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ppt
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9.2
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EXPERIENCES WITH REALTIME 3 KM
EXPLICIT CONVECTIVE FORECASTS WITH WRF-ARW DURING THE SPRING 2007
SEASON. Weisman (National
Center for Atmospheric Research), Wang, Skamarock, Klemp
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ppt
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9.3
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DEVELOPMENT OF A PROTOTYPE
FLASH-FLOOD PREDICTION SYSTEM FOR THE COLORADO
FRONT RANGE
USING THE COUPLED WRF/NOAH-DISTRIBUTED HYDROMETEROLOGICAL PREDICTION
SYSTEM. David Gochis (National
Center for Atmospheric Research), David Yates and Wei Yu
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ppt
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9.4
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AN ADAPTIVE
TIME-STEP FOR INCREASED MODEL EFFICIENCY. Todd A. Hutchinson (Weather Services
International, Inc.)
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ppt
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9.5
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A TROPICAL CYCLONE INITIALIZATION
SCHEME USING WRF 3DVAR.
William Ramstrom (Weather Services International (WSI), Inc.)
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ppt
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9.6
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IMPACT OF ADDING WRF MEMBERS TO
THE NCEP SHORT RANGE ENSEMBLE FORECAST SYSTEM. Jeff McQueen (NOAA/NWS/National Centers for
Environmental Prediction, Environmental Modeling
Center), Binbin Zhou,
Jun Du, Geoff DiMego and Zoltan Toth
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9.7
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AFWA'S USE OF WRF IN THE JOINT
ENSEMBLE FORECAST SYSTEM (JEFS) PROJECT. Jeffrey Cunningham, Timothy
Nobis, Daniel Rozema, Mike Sestak and Tony Eckel (Air Force Weather Agency)
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ppt
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9.8
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THE JOINT MESOSCALE ENSEMBLE: A
STATUS REPORT. J. Hacker (National
Center for Atmospheric Research), C. Snyder, S.-Y. Ha, T. Henderson, M. Pocernich
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Instructional
Sessions
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WRF-Chemistry: A
Mini Tutorial
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Verification
Toolkit
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A
scripting environment for basic WRF ensemble research
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WPS
GUI: Domain Wizard
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