WRF Data Assimilation Working Group Meeting

 

1300-1700, June 25, 2012

 

13:00

Shuyi S. Chen, Ronald Gordon, Patricia Sanchez, Xiang-Yu Huang and Xin Zhang

Assimilation of Hurricane Inner Core 3D winds using WRF 4DVar

13:15

Gael Descombes

Modeling of the Background Error Statistics

13:30

Hongli Wang and Thomas Auligne

Addressing nonlinearities in the observation operator for satellite cloud-affected radiances

13:45

Yubao Liu, Yonghui Wu, Linlin Pan, Al Bourgeois, Jason Knievel, Scott Swerdlin, Xin Zhang, Xiang-Yu Huang, John Pace, Frank Gallagher, and Scott Halvorson

Development of the WRF-based 4D-REKF FDDA System and Comparison with RTFDDA, DART-EnKF and WRFVAR with an "OSSE" study

14:00

Kathryn Newman, Z. Liu, C. Schwartz, H. Shao, X.-Y. Huang

Impact of AMSU-B and MHS Radiance Assimilation for Regional EnKF

14:15

Craig Schwartz, Zhiquan Liu, Chris Snyder, and So-young Ha

Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclone Forecasts to Microwave Radiance Data Assimilation with WRF/DART

14:45

Break

 

15:00

Hui-Chuan Lin and Zhiquan Liu

Assimilating MODIS Aerosol-Sensitive Radiances using WRF-Chem and GSI

15:15

Chunhua Zhou, Hui Shao, Ming Hu, Ligia Bernardet, Xiang-Yu Huang and Brian Etherton

Improved Hurricane Forecast through GSI-Hybrid data assimilation: A case study

15:30

Thomas Auligne

Assimilation of Cloud-affected Infrared Satellite Radiances

15:45

Zhaoxia Pu

Dealing with variable terrain and diurnal variations in surface data assimilation

16:00

îlafur Ršgnvaldsson

Application of Kalman Filtering to the Forecasting of Volcanic Ash

16:15

Open discussion

 

17:00

End