Papers
presented at the 13th Annual WRF Users' Workshop
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Lecture Series: Fundamentals of WRF
Physics. Part 3: Cumulus Convection
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An Overview of Convection Parameterization. David
Stensrud, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration/NSSL (ppt) |
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Parameterizing Convection on "Almost"
Cloud-Resolving Scales. Georg
Grell, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/ESRL (ppt) |
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Convection and Precipitation in CAM: Sensitivity to New Schemes,
Resolution, and Dynamical Cores.
Julio Bacmeister, Richard
Neale, and Sungsu Park, National Center for Atmospheric Research (ppt) |
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Convective Parameterization Options in WRF. Jimy
Dudhia, National Center for
Atmospheric Research (ppt) |
1:00 – 5:00 pm
WRF Data Assimilation Working Group
Meeting (Agenda)
Tuesday, June 26
8:30 – 10:00 am
Session 1: WRF Modeling System Updates
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The Weather Research and Forecasting Model: 2012
Annual Update. Dudhia, Jimy, National Center for
Atmospheric Research (Extended Abstract) (ppt) |
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WRFDA 2012 Overview. Huang, Hans, National
Center for Atmospheric Research (Extended Abstract) (ppt) |
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WRF-Chem V3.4 – A Summary of Status and
Updates. Grell, Georg, S. A. McKeen, S. E. Peckham, R. Ahmadov, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/ESRL, Jan Kazil,
NOAA/ESRL/CSD, J. D. Fast, PNNL, M. Barth, G. Pfister, S. Wolter, NCAR, J.
Wong, University of Colorado, S. Freitas, CPTEC, Brazil, P. Webley, M.
Stuefer, University of Alaska, G. A. Creighton, S. L. Jones, AFWA (ppt) |
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Opportunities for WRF Model Acceleration. Michalakes,
John, National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, Andrew Porter, Daresbury Laboratory, U.K. (ppt) |
10:30 -
12:00 pm
Session 2:
Forecasting System Development
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Mesoscale Modeling at NCEP: Where We Are and
Where We're Going. DiMego, Geoff, Zavisa Janjic, Matthew
Pyle, Hui-Ya Chuang, Eric Rogers, Tom Black, Wan-Shu Wu, David Parrish, Ying
Lin, National Weather Service/NCEP,
and Brad Ferrier, IMSG (ppt) |
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Hurricane WRF: 2012 Operational Implementation and Community Support. Bernardet, Ligia, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/ESRL, and University of Colorado/CIRES, V. Tallapragada, Y. Kwon, NOAA/NCEP and I. M. Systems Group, Inc., S. Trahan, Q. Liu, NOAA/NCEP, Z. Zhang, NOAA AOML and RSMAS/CIMAS, University of Miami, S. Gopalakrishnan, NOAAAOML, R. Yablonsky, B. Thomas, Univ Rhode Island, and T. Marchok, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (ppt) |
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WRF-ARW in NCEP Operations: Rapid Refresh. Weygandt, Steve, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/ESRL, Ming Hu and
Tanya Smirnova, NOAA/ESRL and CIRES, Stan Benjamin, John M. Brown, NOAA-ESRL, Haidao Lin, NOAA-ESRL and CIRA, Georg
Grell, Eric James, NOAA-ESRL, Patrick Hofmann, NOAA-ESRL and CIRES, David
Dowell, NOAA-ESRL, Brian Jamison, NOAA-ESRL and CIRA, and Susan Sahm,
NOAA-ESRL (ppt) |
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Highlights of the Operational WRF-Based Numerical
Prediction System at CWB of Taiwan. Hong, Jing-Shan and Chin-Tzu Fong, Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan (ppt) |
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Air Force Weather Agency Operational Ensembles. Kuchera, Evan, Scott Rentschler,
Glenn Creighton, Jeff Hamilton, and Steve Rugg, Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB (ppt) |
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A Rapidly Relocatable High-Resolution WRF System
for Military-Defense, Aviation and Wind Energy. Deng, Aijun, David Stauffer, Brian Gaudet, and Glenn Hunter, The Pennsylvania State University (Extended Abstract) (ppt) |
1:30 - 3:00 pm
Session 3: Physics Development and Testing. I: PBL
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Improved Treatment of Boundary Layers in Urban
Areas for Air Quality Modeling. Pleim, Jonathan and Robert Gilliam, USEPA (ppt) |
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Performance Results with the TEMF PBL Scheme. Angevine,
Wayne, CIRES/National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration/ESRL (ppt) |
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Modifications to the MYNN PBL and Surface Layer Scheme
for WRF-ARW. Olson, Joseph B., and
John M. Brown, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration/ESRL/GSD/AMB (ppt) |
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Improved Subgrid Drag or Hyper PBL/Horizontal
Resolution: What Improves PBL Wind Biases in WRF? Mass, Clifford,
University of Washington (ppt) |
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Eddy Seeding for Improved WRF-LES Simulations
Using Realistic Lateral Boundary Conditions. Gaudet, Brian, Aijun Deng, David Stauffer, and Nelson Seaman, The Pennsylvania State University (Extended Abstract) (ppt) |
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Toward Multiscale Simulations of Flows in
Heterogeneous Atmospheric Boundary Layers. Kosovic, Branko, National
Center for Atmospheric Research (ppt) |
3:30 – 4:45 pm
Session 4: Physics Development and Testing. II: LSM
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The Noah-MultiPhysics Land Surface Model:
Description and Comparison of Options. Barlage,
Michael, Mukul Tewari, Kevin Manning, Fei Chen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Guo-Yue Niu, Biosphere
2 at The University of Arizona; Zong-Liang Yang, The University of Texas (ppt) |
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Evaluation of the Noah-MP Land Surface Model in
WRFV3.4. Tewari, Mukul, Kevin
Manning, Michael Barlage, Fei Chen, Jimy Dudhia, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Guo-Yue Niu, University
of Arizona, Zong-Liang Yang, The University of Texas, Jeffrey D. Cetola, Air
Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB (ppt) |
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Impact of Optimized Land Surface Parameters on the
Land-Atmosphere Coupling in WRF Simulations of Dry and Wet Extremes. Santanello
Jr., Joseph, Sujay V. Kumar, Ken Harrison, and Christa D. Peters-Lidard, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration/GSFC (ppt) |
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A Weather Forecasting System for
Complex Urban Environments (uWRF). Gonzalez, Jorge, The City College of New York, Bob Bornstein, and Estatio Gutierrez, San Jose State University (ppt) |
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Effects of the Great Salt Lake's
Temperature and Size on the Regional Precipitation in the WRF Model. Grim,
Joseph A., J. C. Knievel, and H. H. Fisher, National Center for Atmospheric Research (ppt) |
4:45 - 5:30 pm
Daily Discussion (ppt)
Wednesday, June 27
8:30 – 10:00 am
Session 5: Model Evaluation. I
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The 2012 High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR):
WRF Enhancements and Challenges. Alexander,
Curtis, University of Colorado/CIRES and NOAA/ESRL, Steve Weygandt,
NOAA/ESRL, Tanya Smirnova, CU/CIRES and NOAA/ESRL, Stan Benjamin, John Brown,
David Dowell, NOAA/ESRL, Patrick Hofmann, Eric James, Ming Hu, Joe Olson,
CIRES and NOAA/ESRL, Kevin Brundage, CIRA and NOAA/ESRL, Susan Sahm,
NOAA/ESRL, and Brian Jamison, CIRA and NOAA/ESRL (ppt) |
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The Use of WRF-DART Analyses for 3 km Explicit
Convective Forecasts in Support of the 2012 DC3 Field Program. Romine, Glen, Morris Weisman, Kevin
Manning, Wei Wang, and Craig Schwartz, Chris Snyder, and Jeff Anderson, National Center for Atmospheric Research (ppt) |
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CAPS Storm-Scale Ensemble Forecasts for the NOAA
HWT 2012 Spring Experiment: New Features and Ensemble QPF Evaluation. Kong, Fanyou, and Ming Xue, Center for Analysis and Prediction of
Storms and The University of Oklahoma (ppt) |
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Downslope Windstorms of San Diego County:
Sensitivity to Resolution and Model Physics. Fovell, Robert, University
of California (Extended Abstract) (ppt) |
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A Comprehensive Evaluation of Polar WRF Forecast Performance
in the Antarctic. Bromwich, David,
Francis Otieno, Keith Hines, Ohio State
University, Kevin Manning, NCAR, and Elad Shilo, Israel Meteorological
Service (ppt) |
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Highlights of DTC Model Testing and Evaluation
Results. Kuo, Bill, L. Nance, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Z. Toth, NOAA/ESRL, and B. Brown, NCAR (ppt) |
10:30 – 11:30 am
Session 6: Physics Development and Testing. III: Others
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Explicit Prediction of Supercooled Liquid Water
and Application to Aircraft and Ground Icing Problems. Thompson, Gregory, National
Center for Atmospheric Research (ppt) |
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Implementation and Early Tests of a PDF Parameterization
in WRF. Larson, Vincent E., Carsten
Harlass, and Jan Hoft, University of
Wisconsin (Extended Abstract) (ppt) |
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Improvement of the WRF Model for Solar Resource
Assessment and Forecast Under Clear Skies. Ruiz-Arias, Jose A., University of Jaen, Spain, J.
Dudhia, NCAR, C. Gueymard, and D. Pozo- Vazquez, University of Jaen, Spain (ppt) |
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Sensitivity of WRF Model to Simulate Gravity Waves.
Udina, Mireia, M. R., Soler, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain,
Samuel Viana, Agencia Estatal de
Meteorologia, Barcelona, Spain, Carlos Yague, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain (ppt) |
Thursday, June 28
8:30 – 10:00 am
Session 7 (parallel):
Chemistry Development and Testing
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Exploring WRF-Chem/DART as a Research-Based NWP
System with Chemistry. Arellano, Ave,
University of Arizona (ppt) |
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Simultaneous Three-dimensional Variational
Assimilation of Surface Fine Particulate Matter and MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth.
Schwartz, Craig S., Zhiquan Liu, Hui-Chuan Lin, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Stuart A. McKeen, NOAA
(ppt) |
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Impact of Lightning-NO and Radiatively-Interactive
Ozone on Air Quality over CONUS, and their Relative Importance in
WRF-Chem. Martini, Matus, Dale Allen, University
of Maryland, Kenneth Pickering, NASA GSFC, Amanda Hansen, SAIC, Barry
Baker, University of Maryland (ppt) |
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Simulated Carbonaceous and Inorganic Aerosols and
their Effect on Radiation during the CalNex and CARES Campaigns in
California. Fast, Jerome, Vinoj Velu, Ying Liu, and Manish Shrivastava, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
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Characterization of Speciated Aerosol Radiative Forcing
over California. Zhao, Chun, L. Ruby Leung, Richard
Easter, Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, Jenny Hand, Colorado State University, Jeremy Avise,
California Air Resources Board (ppt) |
8:30 – 10:00 am
Session 8 (parallel): Regional
Climate Development and Testing
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Application of a Tropical Cyclone Index to
Climate Model Downscaling. Holland,
Greg and Cindy Bruyere, National
Center for Atmospheric Research (ppt) |
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Evaluation of WRF Regional Climate Simulations of
Wet and Dry Years over the Southern High Plains. Pei, Lisi, Michigan State
University, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, China, Nathan Moore, Sharon Zhong, Michigan State University,
Zhiqiu Gao, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Lifeng Luo, Michigan State University, Xindi Bian, and Warren E. Heilman,
USDA Forest Service (ppt) |
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Sensitivities of Spectral Nudging
Toward Moisture. Otte, Tanya, Martin
J. Otte, U.S. EPA, Jared H. Bowden,
University of North Carolina, and Christopher G. Nolte, U.S. EPA (ppt) |
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Double Dynamical Downscaling with WRF for the
Western U.S. Bukovsky, Melissa, and
Changhai Liu, National Center for Atmospheric
Research (ppt) |
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Achievements and Challenges in Developing and
Maintaining COSMO-CLM as a Community RCM. Will, Andreas, Brandenburg
University of Technology, Germany (ppt ) |
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CWRF Improved Rainfall Prediction by Ensemble
Cumulus Parameterization. Liang,
Xin-Zhong, University of Maryland,
Fengxue Qiao, University of Illinois, and Georg Grell, NOAA/ESRL |
10:30 – 12:30 pm
Session 9 (parallel): Data
Assimilation Development and Testing
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On the Bias-Correction Strategy of Radiance Data
Assimilation with the Limited-Area Model. Liu, Zhiquan, Hui-Chuan Lin, Craig S. Schwartz, and Ying-Hwa Kuo,
National Center for Atmospheric
Research (ppt) |
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A Radar Data Assimilation Experiment for COPS IOP
10 with the WRF 3DVAR System in a Rapid Update Cycle Configuration. Schwitalla, Thomas, Hans-Stefan
Bauer, and Volker Wulfmeyer, University
of Hohenheim, Germany (ppt) |
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An Integrated Ensemble/Variational Hybrid
Data Assimilation System. Auligne,
Thomas, National Center for
Atmospheric Research, and Luke Peffers, AFTAC (ppt) |
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Feature Calibration Alignment for the WRF model. Nehrkorn,
Thomas, Atmospheric and Environmental Research,
Inc., and Thomas Auligne, NCAR
(ppt) |
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A Hybrid Nudging-Ensemble Kalman filter Approach
to Data Assimilation in WRF/DART. Lei,
Lili, National Center for
Atmospheric Research, David R. Stauffer, and Aijun Deng, The Pennsylvania
State University (ppt) |
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DTC Data Assimilation System Community Support
and Testing Activities: Variational, Ensemble and Hybrid. Shao, Hui, National Center for Atmospheric Research, M. Hu, NOAA/ESRL, D.
Stark, K. Newman, C. Zhou, X. Y. Huang, NCAR, John Derber and Michael Lueken,
NCEP/EMC (ppt) |
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Use of Small Unmanned Airplanes to Improve
On-Demand Local Forecasts. Rognvaldsson,
Olafur, Institute for
Meteorological Research and the University of Bergen, Norway, Halfdan Agustsson,
Institute for Meteorological Research and University of Iceland and Icelandic
Meteorological Office, Marius Jonassen, Institute for Meteorological Research
and the University of Bergen, and Haraldur Olafsson, University of Iceland,
University of Bergen and the Icelandic Meteorological Office (ppt) |
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Joint UW-3TIER Project on Data Assimilation for
Renewable Energy Forecasting. Grimit,
Eric, 3TIER, Inc., Philip
Regulski, Clifford F. Mass, and Gregory J. Hakim, University of Washington (ppt) |
10:30 – 12:30 pm
Session 10 (parallel): Model Evaluation. II
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An Examination Of Interesting Properties
Regarding A Physics Ensemble. Bassill,
Nick, University of Wisconsin (ppt) |
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Downscaling Global Reanalyses with
WRF for Wind Energy Resource Assessment. Stoelinga,
Mark, Matthew Hendrickson, and Pascal Storck, 3TIER, Inc. (ppt) |
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Verification of the NCAR-Xcel
Ensemble-RTFDDA System for Wind Energy Prediction. Roux, Gregory,
Yubao Liu, Luca Delle Monache, Tom Hopson, William Y.Y. Cheng, and Yuewei Liu,
National Center for Atmospheric
Research (ppt) |
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On the Reproducibility of Surface Wind Direction
over Complex Terrain by the WRF Mesoscale Model. Jimenez, Pedro A., Center
for Energy, Environment, and Technology (CIEMAT) and J. Dudhia, NCAR (ppt) |
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Comparison of Convective Boundary
Layer Velocity Spectra Calculated from Large Eddy Simulation and WRF Model Data.
Gibbs, Jeremy, and Evgeni
Fedorovich, University of Oklahoma (ppt) |
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Fog-Prediction Errors Evaluated for Multiple Physical Parameterization Schemes in the AFWA Mesoscale Ensemble. Ryerson, William, Joshua Hacker, Mary Jordan, and Kurt Nielsen, Naval Postgraduate School (ppt) |
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Sensitivity of HWRF Forecasts to Cumulus Parameterizations.
Mrinal K Biswas, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Ligia R Bernardet, and Shaowu Bao, University of Colorado/CIRES, NOAA/ESRL/GSD
(ppt) |
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Diagnosing Forecast Errors in Tropical Cyclone
Motion in AHW. Galarneau, Thomas,
and Christopher Davis, National Center
for Atmospheric Research (ppt) |
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Session 11: Coupling and
New Development
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Evaluation of Lake Process
Simulations within the Weather Research and Forecasting Model. Jin, Jiming and Hongping Gu, Utah State University, Michael B. Ek,
Environmental Modeling Center, NCEP (ppt) |
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A New Hydrological Model Extension Package for
the Weather Research and Forecasting System. Gochis, David, W. Yu, D. Yates, R. Rasmussen, M. Clark, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
H. Kunstmann, T. Rummler, and B. Fersch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (ppt) |
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A Fully Coupled Atmosphere-Wave-Ocean Model with
WRF-ARW. Chen, Shuyi, Milan
Curcic, Mark Donelan, Chiaying Lee, Brandon Kerns, RSMAS/University of Miami,
Tim Campbell, NRL-SSC, and John Michalakes, NREL |
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Tropical Channel NEMO-OASIS-WRF Coupled Simulations
at Very High Resolution. Masson,
Sebastien, C. Hourdin, R. Benshila, LOCEAN-IPSL, , E. Maisonnave, CERFACS, Y. Meurdesoif, LSCE-IPSL,
C. Mazauric, Bull, G. Samson, Mercator-Ocean, F. Colas, G. Madec, LOCEAN-IPSL,
R. Bourdalle-Badie, Mercator-Ocean, S. Valcke, and L. Coquart, CERFACS (Extended Abstract) (ppt) |
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Mesoscale vs. Global Physics
Suites: Differing Approaches and Parameterization Behavior. Gustafson Jr., William I., Po-Lun Ma,
Balwinder Singh, Jerome D. Fast, and Philip J. Rasch, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
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Global Variable-Resolution Tests Results from
MPAS using WRF-NRCM Physics, Skamarock,
W., L. Fowler, J. Klemp, M. Duda, and S.-H. Park, National Center for Atmospheric Research (ppt) |
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Daily Discussion and Wrap-up
Wednesday
2:00 – 5:30 pm
Poster Session
Development and Testing for WRF Data Assimilation
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Modeling of the
Background Error Statistics. Descombes,
Gael, and Auligne, Thomas, National
Center for Atmospheric Research |
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Application of Background Error
Covariance Option 3 in CWB WRFDA. Chen,
Mei-Hsin, Chin-Tzu Fong, Central
Weather Bureau, Taiwan, and Yong-Run Guo, NCAR |
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Examination of
Flow-Dependent Errors in Near-Surface Temperature and Wind from WRF Numerical
Simulations over Complex Terrain. Pu,
Zhaoxia, and Hailing Zhang, University
of Utah |
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Addressing Nonlinearities in the
Observation Operator for Satellite Cloud-Affected Radiances. Wang, Hongli, and Aulign, Thomas, National Center for Atmospheric Research |
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Assessment of Data
Assimilation with the Prototype High Resolution Rapid Refresh for Alaska
(HRRRAK). Morton, Don, Kayla Harrison, Arctic
Region Supercomputing Center, University of Alaska, Brad Zavodsky,
Shih-Hung Chou, NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center, Ming Hu, Developmental Testbed Center |
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Impact of the
Assimilation of AIRS Retrievals on Antarctic WRF Forecasts. Powers, Jordan, G. and Kevin W.
Manning, National Center for
Atmospheric Research (Extended Abstract) |
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Testing and
Evaluation of the GSI-Hybrid Data Assimilation for Hurricane Forecasts
– A Case Study. Zhou, Chunhua,
Hui Shao, National Center for
Atmospheric Research, Ming Hu, Ligia Bernardet, NOAA/ESRL, Xiang-Yu Huang
and Brian Etherton, NCAR (poster) |
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Impact of AMSU-B and
MHS Radiance Assimilation for Regional EnKF. Newman, Kathryn, Z. Liu, C. Schwartz, H. Shao, X.-Y. Huang, National Center for Atmospheric Research |
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Sensitivity of
Tropical Cyclone Forecasts to Microwave Radiance Data Assimilation with
WRF/DART. Schwartz, Craig S.,
Zhiquan Liu, Chris Snyder, So-Young Ha, National
Center for Atmospheric Research, Stuart A. McKeen, NOAA |
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Enhancements to the
Real-Time Operational NCAR-ATEC Ensemble-RTFDDA (E-4DWX) Forecasting System
with NCAR DART-EnKF, WRF-NMM and SKEB. Pan,
Linlin, National Center for
Atmospheric Research, Yubao Liu, Jason Knievel, Gregory Roux, Wanli Wu,
Yonghui Wu, John Pace, Scott Halvorson, and Frank Gallagher, Dugway Proving
Ground, US Army |
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Evaluation of AMDAR and AMV Data
Quality and their Impact on RTFDDA Analysis and Forecasting Control at
Eastern Mediterranean region. Pan, Linlin,
National Center for Atmospheric
Research, Yubao Liu, Yonghui Wu, Dorita Rostkier-Edelstein, Israel
Institute for Biological Research, Ness-Ziona, Israel, and Rong-Shyang Sheu,
NCAR |
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Assimilating MODIS Aerosol-Sensitive
Radiances using WRF-Chem and GSI. Lin,
Hui-Chuan, and Zhiquan Liu, National
Center for Atmospheric Research |
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Assimilation of Cloud-Affected
Infrared Satellite Radiances. Auligne,
Thomas, and Wang, Hongli, National
Center for Atmospheric Research |
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Development and Testing for Regional Climate Research
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Refined Dynamical
Downscaling from Previous Work at 36-km Resolution. Bullock, Russell, Jerry Herwehe, Megan Mallard, Tanya Otte, United States Environmental Protection
Agency (Poster) |
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WRF Dynamically Downscaled
Simulation of Projected Climate in the Missouri River Basin: 2000-2050. Norton, Parker and John Stamm, USGS South Dakota Water Science Center (Extended Abstract) |
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Dynamical Downscaling for Climate
Impacts. Harkey, Monica, and
Tracey Holloway, University of
Wisconsin |
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Urban Mixing Height in Mountainous
Terrain: An ARW Simulation for Aburra Valley (Colombia). Jimenez, Jose, National
University of Colombia, Columbia |
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Improvement of Urban
Parameters for the Single-Layer UCM in the WRF model. Adachi, Sachiho A., Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and
Technology, Japan, Hiroyuki Kusaka, University of Tsukuba, Japan, Michael G. Duda, NCAR,
Manabu Kanda, Alvin Christopher Galang Varquez, Makoto Nakayoshi, Tokyo
Institute of Technology, Japan, Motohiko Tsugawa, and Fujio Kimura, Japan
Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan |
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What is Responsible
for the Semi-Arid Urban Area "Oasis Effect?" Georgescu, Matei, Mohamed Moustaoui, Alex Mahalov, Arizona State University, and Jimy
Dudhia, NCAR |
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Improving Seasonal-Interannual
Climate Prediction by the Nested CWRF-ECHAM System. Chen, Ligang, Xin-Zhong Liang, University of Maryland, David DeWitt, Columbia University |
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Impact of MODIS
Surface Temperature Data on Warm Season Precipitation Simulations over the
Southeastern United States. McCoy,
Ripley, and Jiming Jin, Utah State
University |
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Improving Summer-Time
Precipitation Associated with the North American Monsoon using MODIS Sea
Surface Temperatures. Meyer, Jon,
Jiming Jin, and Ripley McCoy, Utah
State University |
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Simulations of Lake-Effect
Precipitation over the Great Lakes Using a Coupled WRF-Lake Model. Gu, Hongping, and Jiming Jin, Utah State University |
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Examining the
Linkages between Climate, LCLUC and Dust Events in Central and East Asia with
the Fully Coupled WRF-Chem-DuMo Dust Modeling System. Sokolik, Irina N.,
Viatcheslav V. Tatarskii, and Xin Xi, Georgia
Institute of Technology |
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CWRF Prediction of Crop
Distribution and Application. Liu,
Shuyan, Liang, Xin-Zhong, University
of Maryland; Wei Gao, USDA-UVB Monitoring and Research Program, Natural
Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University |
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Representing
Vegetation with Ecosystem Functional Types in WRF Simulations. Muller, Omar V., CEVARCAM/Universidad Nacional del Litoral,
Argentina, Ernesto H. Berbery, ESSIC - University of Maryland, and Domingo Alcaraz-Segura, Universidad
de Almeria, Spain |
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Simulation of Snow
Cover Changes over Central Japan in the Late 20th Century. Kawase, Hiroaki, Masayuki Hara, Takao Yoshikane,
Noriko Ishizaki, and Fujio Kimura, Japan
Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan |
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A Year-Long Tropical Cyclone Simulation with a High-Resolution
Tropical-Channel Regional Climate Model. Hashimoto, Atsushi, Hiromaru Hirakuchi, Naoto
Kihara, Central Research Institute of
Electric Power Industry, Japan (Extended Abstract) (poster) |
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Leveraging WRF-ARW for
High-Resolution Climatology. Hamilton,
Jeff, Air Force Weather Agency |
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The Sensitivity of Orographically
Enhanced Extreme Precipitation Events in Western Norway to Changes in
SST. Sandvik, Mari Ingeborg, and Asgeir Sorteberg, Geophysical Institute, University in
Bergen, Norway |
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Sensitivity of Regional Climate
Simulations for Europe to WRF Physics.
Mooney, P. A., F. J.
Mulligan, R. Fealy, National University
of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland |
Development and Testing for WRF-Chemistry
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Satellite Constraints of Nitrogen Oxide (NOX) Emission from India
Based on OMI Measurements and WRF-Chem Simulations. Ghude, Sachin D., Indian Institute of Tropical
Meteorology, India, and Gabriele G. Pfister, NCAR |
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A WRF-Chem Realtime
Modeling System for Monitoring CO2 Emissions. Deng, Aijun, Thomas Lauvaux, Ken Davis, Natasha Miles, Scott
Richardson and David Stauffer, The
Pennsylvania State University (Extended Abstract) (poster) |
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WRF-Chem Model Evaluation over the
Rocky Mountains Forest During the BEACHON-RoMBAS 2011 Field Study. Hodzic Roux, Alma, and David Gochis, National
Center for Atmospheric Research |
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Impact of Meteorology Downscaling
to the Regional Air Quality Simulation, using WRF/CMAQ Modeling System. Kim, Hyun Cheol, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/ARL, Songyou
Hong, Yonsei University, Fantine Ngan, and Pius Lee, NOAA/ARL |
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Modeling the Transport and
Radiative Forcing of Taklimakan Dust over the Tibetan Plateau in Summer. Chen,
Shuyi, Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, Jianping Huang, Lanzhou University, China, Chun Zhao, Yun Qian, L. Ruby Leung,
and Ben Yang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
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Tracers for CO and Ozone in
WRF-Chem - Interpretation of
Pollution Sources and Chemical and Transport Processes. Pfister, G., S. Walters, D. Edwards, L. Emmons, National Center for Atmospheric Research |
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Anthropogenic Influences on Asian
Monsoon: Land-use Change vs. Short-lived Air Pollutants. Jiang, Xiaoyan, Mary C. Barth, Alex E. Guenther, Louisa Emmons,
and Christine Wiedinmyer, National
Center for Atmospheric Research |
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The impacts of Saharan Air Layer
on the Atlantic Tropical Storms: A Case Study using WRF/Chem. Zhang, Yongxin, Zhiquan Liu, Craig Schwartz, Hui-Chuan Lin,
and Xiang-Yu Huang, National Center for Atmospheric Research (Extended Abstract) |
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Ensemble Air Quality Modeling
using the Coupled WRF-CMAQ Model. Gilliam,
Robert, United States Environmental
Protection Agency |
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A WRF/Chem Ozone Sensitivity Study
using Ensemble Modeling for Slovenia and Northern Adriatic area. Zabkar, Rahela, Joze Rakovec, University of Ljubljana and Center of
Excellence SPACE‐SI, Darko Koracin, Desert Research
Institute |
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Parameterizing Lightning-Generated
NOx at Resolutions with Convective Parameterization for Upper Tropospheric
Ozone Simulations. Wong, John, The University of Colorado, and Mary
Barth, NCAR, and David Noone, The University of Colorado |
Physics Development and Testing
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Introducing Subgrid-Scale Cloud Feedbacks to Radiation in
WRF. Alapaty, Kiran, Jerold Herwehe,
Chris Nolte, Russ Bullock, Tanya Otte, Megan Mallard, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Jimy Dudhia,
NCAR, and Jack Kain, NOAA/NSSL (Poster) |
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Modeling the Effects of Forest Disturbances with the Noah-MP
Land Surface Model. Fei Chen, Guo
Zhang, Michael Barlage, Ying Zhang, Christine Wiedinmyer, National Center For Atmospheric Research,
Jeffery A. Hicke, and Arjan Meddens University of Idaho |
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Impacts of Different Land Cover Data on Meteorology and Air
Quality Modeling, Part 1: Meteorology Simulations. Ran, Limei, University of
North Carolina, Robert Gilliam, Jonathan Pleim, William Benjey, EPA
NERL/ORD |
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Impacts of Revised Surface-Layer Physics in WRF V3.4 on Heavy
Rainfall Simulations over Korea. Lee,
Junhong, Hyeyum Hailey Shin, and Song-You Hong, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea |
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Sensitivity of Asymptotic Behavior of Idealized Tropical
Cyclone Intensification to Parameterizations of the Atmospheric Boundary
Mixing. Michelson, Sara National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/ESRL
and CIRES/University of Colorado, and Jian-Wen Bao, NOAA/ESRL |
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Mesoscale Influences of Wind Farms throughout a Diurnal Cycle. Fitch, Anna C., University of
Bergen, Norway, Julie K. Lundquist, University of Colorado and NREL, and
Joseph B. Olson, NOAA/ESRL and CIRES |
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An Explicitly-Coupled Shallow Convection Parameterization with
Planetary Boundary Processes. Hong,
Song-You, Jihyeon Jang, Hyeyum Hailey Shin, and Junhong Lee,Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea |
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WRF Fire Simulation Coupled with a Fuel Moisture Model and Smoke
Transport by WRF-Chem. Kochanski, Adam K., University of Utah, Jonathan D. Beezley, Jan Mandel, and Minjeong
Kim, University of Colorado (Extended
Abstract) |
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Model Evaluation
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Verification of WRF
Wind Speeds over South Africa. Weston,
Michael, Theo Fischer, and
Abdul Ebrahim, EScience Associates (Poster) |
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QPF Verification of
a WRF-ARW-Based Storm-Scale Real-Time Forecasting System in Southern China
for the 2011 Summer Months. Chen,
Xunlai, Shenzhen Meteorological
Bureau, China, Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, University of
Oklahoma, Fanyou Kong, Tuanjie Hou, CAPS, Hongping Lan, and Qunfeng
Zhen,Shenzhen Meteorological Bureau, China (Extended Abstract) |
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Evaluation of Two
Regional Ensembles During the 2011-2012 Hydrometeorology Tested-West Winter
QPF Experiment. Jensen, Tara, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Edward Tollerud, NOAA/ESRL, Evan Kuchera, AFWA, Brian Etherton, Linda
Wharton, NOAA/ESRL, Scott Rentschler, AFWA, Paul Oldenburg, John
Halley-Gotway, Barbara Brown, NCAR |
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Points and Pixels:
Assessing the Impact of Observation Choices on Verification Results. Tollerud,
Edward, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration/ESRL, Tara
Jensen, Tressa Fowler, John Halley Gotway, NCAR/RAL, Seth Gutman, Kirk
Holub, NOAA/ESRL, Paul Oldenburg, and Barb Brown, NCAR |
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Recent Enhancements
to the Model Evaluation Tools (MET 4.0). Fowler, Tressa L.,
John Halley Gotway, Randy Bullock, Paul Oldenburg, Tara Jensen, National Center for Atmospheric Research |
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Transitioning
Promising New Mesoscale Innovations from Research to Operations: Defining a
Process to Bridge the "Valley of Death." Wolff,
Jamie K., Louisa B. Nance,
Barbara G. Brown and Ying-Hwa Kuo, National
Center for Atmospheric Research, Brad S. Ferrier, National Centers for
Environmental Prediction, and Clifford F. Mass, University of Washington (Poster) |
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Inter-Comparison of
the WRFv3.3.1 AFWA Operational and RRTMG-Replacement Configurations. Harrold, Michelle, Jamie Wolff, John
Halley Gotway, Paul Oldenburg, and Zachary Trabold, National Center for Atmospheric Research |
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Evaluation of the
WRF Model for Frost and Freeze Prediction in Eastern Washington. Ghidey, Tesfamichael, Nicholas Loyd,
Gerrit Hoogenboom, AgWeatherNet,
Washington State University, and Heping Liu, Washington State University
(poster) |
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A WRF Forecast of a
Tornado Producing Supercell During 7th May 2012, in Oxfordshire, UK. van Dijke, Daniel, Clare Allen, Paul
Knightley, Meteo Group, Netherlands (Poster) |
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Retrospective
Forecasting Experiments of 2011-Korea 100-Year Flood Event Using WRF-RTFDDA
and Ensemble-RTFDDA. Liu, Yubao,
Will Y.Y. Cheng, Yuewei Liu, LinlIn Pan, Gregory Roux, Wanli Wu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Seung-Woo Lee, Young-Jean Choi,
Young-San Park, Korea Meteorological Administration, and Song-Lak Kang, Texas
Tech University |
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WRF Deep Horizontal
and Vertical Nesting Applied to Astronomical Conditions above Dome C in
Antarctica. Giordano, C., J.
Vernin, Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis,
Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, CNRS-UMR7293, Lab. France. A. Mahalov & M. Moustaoui, Center
for Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Arizona State University |
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Operational 2-km WRF
Forecasts at Korea Air Force. Hahm,
Sook-Jung, Jae-Ik Song, Jwa-Kyum Kim, Jong-Suk Kim, Republic of Korea Air Force, South Korea, and Ui-Yong Byun,
Jihyeon Jang, Myung-Seo Koo, and Song-You
Hong, Yonsei University, South Korea. |
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Evaluation of the
Typhoone Track Forecast in WRF-Based Mesoscale Ensemble Prediction System. Li, Chih-Hsin and Jing-Shan Hong, Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan |
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Development and
Evaluation of a WRF-Based Real-Tme Very-Large-Eddy Simulation Scale NWP
System. Wu, Wanli, Yubao Liu,
Linlin Pan, Yuewei Liu, Jason Knievel, Rong-Shyang Sheu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, John Pace, Scott
Halvorson, and Frank Gallagher Jr., U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command |
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WRF Simulations of
Hurricane Irene During its Interaction with the US East Coast. Klausmann, Alfred M., Exponent (Extended Abstract) (poster) |
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The Influence of
Tropical Cyclone Structure on Eyewall Evolution Simulation of Typhoon Sinlaku
(2008) Crossing Taiwan. Chih,
Cheng-Hsiang, Graduate Institute of
Earth Science/Atmospheric Science, Chinese Culture University, China, and
Kun-Hsuan Chou, Chinese Culture University |
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Using the
NASA-Unified WRF to Assess the Impacts of Real-Time Vegetation on Simulations
of Severe Weather. Case, Jonathan L.,
ENSCO Inc./National Aeronautics and
Space Administration SPoRT, Frank J. LaFontaine, Raytheon/NASA SPoRT
Center, Sujay V. Kumar, SAIC/NASA GSFC, and Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA
GSFC (Extended Abstract) |
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Evaluation of
Temperature and Precipitation Extremes and Climate Variability over United
States as Simulated by the Nested Regional Climate Model (NRCM). PaiMazumder, Debasish, and James
Done, National Center for Atmospheric
Research |
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Simulating Daytime
Boundary Layer Heights and Mesoscale Flows in Complex Terrain Using WRF: a Case Study for the Virginia Blue
Ridge Mountains. Lee, Temple, University of Virginia |
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Study of Nocturnal
Surface Wind Bias by the WRF-ARW Model over Southeastern Texas. Ngan, Fong, Pius Lee, HyunCheol Kim, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/ARL,
Khalid Al-Wali, and Bright Dornblaser, TCEQ TX |
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Sensitivity of
Lake-Effect Snowfall to Lake Ice Cover and Temperature in the Great Lakes
Region. Wright, David M., Posselt,
Derek J., Steiner, Allison L., University
of Michigan |
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River Discharge
Simulation by Using Runoff Data of WRF Model Output. Ma, Xieyao, Hiroaki Kawase, Takao Yoshikane, Masayuki Hara,
Noriko Ishizaki, Mikiko Fujita, Sachiho Adachi, Fujio Kimura, Japan
Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan, Hiroshi G. Takahashi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, and
H. Hatsushika, Toyama Prefectural Environmental Science Research Center |
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Evaluation of 3D-Var
Data Assimilation and Planetary Boundary Layer Scheme Sensitivities for Two
Heavy Rainfall Cases in Southern China. Hou,
Tuanjie, Fanyou Kong and Xunlai Chen, University
of Oklahoma (Extended Abstract) |
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Modelling the
Southern Ocean Boundary Layer Clouds. Hande,
Luke, Monash University, Australia |
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Assessment of
Supercell Mesocyclogenesis in a Suite of Idealized WRF Simulations of Storm
Interaction. Syrowski, Ann, Jewett, Brian,
and Robert Wilhelmson, University of
Illinois (Poster) |
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Investigating the
Role of Storm Mergers and Rapid Storm Intensification Mechanisms in the 22
May 2011 Joplin, MO Tornadic Storm. Van
Leer, Kevin W., Brian F. Jewett, Robert B. Wilhelmson, University of Illinois (poster) |
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Evaluating Transport
in the WRF Model along the Californian Coast. Yver, Camille, Graven Heather, University of California San Diego, Lucas, Donald D.,
Cameron-Smith Philip, LLNL, Keeling Ralph, and Weiss Ray, UCSD/SIO (Extended Abstract) (poster) |
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Local
Land-Atmosphere Coupling (LoCo) Diagnosis in LIS-WRF: A Case Study of Dry/Wet Extremes. Santanello, Jr., Joseph A., Christa
D. Peters-Lidard, National Aeronautics
and Space Administration/GSFC, Aaron D. Kennedy, U. North Dakota, and
Sujay V. Kumar, NASA-GSFC |
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Hurricane WRF (HWRF)
Community Support and Benchmark. Bao,
Shaowu, L. Bernardet, T. Brown, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/ESRL, D. Stark, L. Carson, NCAR |
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Impact of Cloud
Microphysics Schemes in WRF Model on the Simulation of a Winter Storm as
Compared to Radar and Radiometer Measurements. Han, Mei, Scott A. Braun,Toshihisa Matsui, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Christopher R.
Williams, NOAA/CIRES, and Takamichi Iguchi, NASA (Poster) |
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Evaluation of WRF
Stochastic Kinetic-Energy Backscatter Perturbation in a Storm-Scale Ensemble
Forecasting System. Zhu, Jiangshan,
Center for Analysis and Prediction of
Storms, University of Oklahoma,
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China,
Fanyou Kong, Xuguang Wang, CAPS and The University of Oklahoma, Jeff Duda,
University of Oklahoma, Judith Berner, NCAR, Ming Xue, CAPS and University of
Oklahoma (Extended Abstract) |
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Evaluation of WRF
Microphysical Schemes for Use in Forecasting Wind Turbine Icing. Davis, Neil, Andrea Hahmann,
Niels-Erik Clausen, DTU Wind Energy, Denmark,
and Mark Zagar, Vestas Technology R&D Aarhus, Denmark |
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Update of the Land
Surface Parameters for Taiwan's Meteorological Simulation. Lin, Chin-Fang, Fang-Yi Cheng,
Chih-Hsiang Wu, Jeng-Lin Tsai, National
Central University, Taiwan. |
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Eliminating Spurious
Numerical Waves in High Resolution WRF Simulations of Winter Cyclones. Keeler, Jason M., Brian F. Jewett,
Bob M. Rauber, and Greg M. McFarquhar, University
of Illinois |
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Bayesian Assessment
of Horizontal Resolution in a Nested-Domain WRF Simulation. Mesquita, M.d.S., Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and
Uni Research, Norway, dlandsvik, B., Bjerknes Centre for Climate
Research and Institute of Marine Research, Norway, Bruyere, C.L., NCAR, and
Sandvik, A. D., Bjerknes, Centre for Climate Research and Institute of Marine
Research, Norway. (Extended Abstract) (poster) |
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Adapting the ARW to
Trade Wind Cumulus Studies. Jones,
Alexandra L., Larry Di Girolamo, Brian Jewett, and Robert Rauber, University of Illinois |
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Skills and
Limitations of Modelling over the Shaken City - WRF 1.5km Christchurch. Heinzeller, Dominikus, Meteorological Service of New Zealand Ltd.,
Cory Davis and Graham Rye (poster) |
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Compatibility of
High Resolution Terrain with High Resolution Model Grid. Cheng, William Y.Y. and Yubao Liu, National Center for Atmospheric Research |
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Effects of Model
Configuration on a Simulated Chinook in the Lee of the Alaska Range. Knievel, Jason C., J. A. Grim, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
C. M. Witt-Schulte and D. P. Woznicz, U.S. Army Cold Regions Test Center |
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Study the Effect of
Aerodynamic Roughness Length on Taiwan's Meteorological Simulation. Cheng, Fang-Yi, Chin-Fang Lin, National Central University, Taiwan, and Jeng-Lin Tsi, National
Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan |
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Model Spin-Up Versus
Initial Conditions – Does Cold-Start Time Matter That Much? Zhang, Yongxin, Yubao Liu, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Dorita Rostkier-Edelstein, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Israel,
William Y. Y. Cheng, Linlin Pan, Yuewei Liu, NCAR, Adam Piterkovski,
Government of Israel, Israel |
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Migrating High
Resource Post-Processing into WRF-ARW code. Creighton, Glenn, Air Force
Weather Agency |
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A Comparison Between
MPAS and Nested-WRF in a Normal Mode Baroclinic Wave Test Case. Park, Sang-Hun, William Skamarock,
Joseph Klemp, Michael Duda and Laura Fowler, National Center for Atmospheric Research |
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QA Analysis of the
WRF Program. Anderson, Mark, Edge Hill
University, England, Brian Farrimond, University of Cape Town, South
Africa, and John Collins, SimCon
Ltd., England (Extended Abstract) |
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Comparison of wind
speed forecasts from MM5 and WRF ARW ensemble prediction systems over the
Iberian Peninsula. Fish, A. K., D. Santos–Muoz,
F. Valero, Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, Spain |
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