Papers Presented at the 15th Annual WRF Users' Workshop


LECTURE SERIES: Best Practices for Applying WRF, WRFDA, and WRF-Chem
Monday June 23, 2014
1:30 P.M - 5:00 P.M.


1:30: WRF PDF Presentation

2:15: WRF-DA PDF Presentation

3:00: Coffee Break

3:30: WRF-Chem PDF Presentation

4:15: WRF Software PDF Presentation


Note: Speakers: Each presenter will have 15 minutes total including talk and question time.
Poster presenters: Each presenter will have 4x4 feet board space.

 

 

Session 1:  WRF Modeling System Development Update

Chair:  Jordan Powers, NCAR

8:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.  Tuesday, June 24

8:30-8:45  Welcome Remarks

1.1

The Weather Research and Forecasting Model: 2014 Annual Update. Dudhia, Jimy, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation  Extended Abstract

1.2

The 2014 WRFDA Overview. Huang, Xiang-Yu, Xin Zhang, Zhiquan Liu, Tom Auligne, Juanzhen Sun, Hongli Wang, Michael Kavulich, Jr., Syed R. H. Rizvi, Yong-Run Guo, Jianyu Liu, Gael Descombes, Hui-Chuan Lin, Craig Schwartz, Feng Gao, Dongmei Xu, Shu-Ya Chen, Ying Zhang, Wen-Xue Tong, and Eder Vendrasco, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation Extended Abstract

1.3

Recent updates and applications of the WRF-Hydro modeling extension package. Gochis, Dave, Wei Yu, Kevin Sampson, David Yates, and Martyn Clark, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation

1.4

Performance-related developments in WRF.  Michalakes, John, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Mike Iacono, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.; and Indraneil Gokhale, Intel Corp PDF Presentation.

 

 

 

10:00 - 10:30    Coffee Break

 

 

Session 2:  WRF Application Update

Chair: Louisa Nance, DTC

10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Tuesday, June 24

2.1

Tracking forecast performance of WRF-ARW:  2014 update.  Wolff, Jamie, and Michelle Harrold, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation

2.2

Enabling vertical grid refinement for concurrently run nested grids.  Wiersema, David, University of California Berkeley; Katherine Lundquist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and Fotini chow, University of California Berkeley PDF Presentation

2.3

The Air Force weather ensemble prediction suite.  Evan Kuchera, Scott Rentschler, Glenn Creighton, and Jeff Hamilton, Air Force Weather Agency PDF Presentation

2.4

Recent improvements in the WRF-based Rapid Refresh and HRRR forecast systems and transition to NCEP operations.  Weygandt, Steve, Curtis Alexander, Tanya Smirnova, Joe Olson, Ming Hu, David Dowell, Stan Benjamin, Eric James, John Brown, Haldao Lin, Georg Grell, Steve Peckham, Brian Jamison, Kevin Brundage, and Tracy Smith, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration PDF Presentation

2.5

Overview of the NASA-Unified WRF model.  Peters-Lidard, C., A. Hou, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); T. Matsui, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC); W.-K. Tao, NASA; J. J. Shi, MSU; S. Zhang, SAIC; M. Chin, NASA; Z. Tao, USRA; J. Santanello Jr., J. Geiger, NASA; Y. Liu, ESSIC; B. Zaitchik, JHU; J. Case, B. Zavodsky, NASA; and M. Zupanski, Colorado State University PDF Presentation

2.6

Hurricane WRF:  2014 operational implementation and community support.  Bernardet, Ligia, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES); V. Tallapragada, NOAA; Y. Kwon, S. Trahan, M. Tong, NOAA and IM Systems Group, Inc.; Q. Liu, NOAA; M. Biswas, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); C. Holt, T. Brown, NOAA and CIRES; X. Zhang, NOAA and University of Miami; S. Gopalakrishnan, NOAA\; R. Yablonsky, University of Rhode Island; T. Marchok, NOAA; and L. Carson, NCAR PDF Presentation

 

 

12:00 - 2:00  Lunch (and poster board set-up at 1:35)

 

2:00 - 5:00 Poster Session

            Odd-numbered posters:  2:00 - 3:30

            Even-numbered posters:  3:30 - 5:00

 

 

Session 3:  Physics Development and Testing:  PBL and Land Surface

Chair: Fei Chen, NCAR

8:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M. Wednesday, June 25

3.1

No Ri-critical turbulence-closure for stably stratified geophysical flows.  Zilitinkevich, S. S., Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland, University of Helsinki, Finland, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre/Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Norway, Lobachevski State University of Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, and Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia; T. Elperin, N. Kleeorin, I. Rogachevskii, Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Israel; and I. Esau, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre/Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Norway PDF Presentation

3.2

Objectively-determined fair-weather NBL features in the ARW-WRF model and their comparison to the CASES-97 observations.  LeMone, Margaret Anne, Mukul Tewari, Fei Chen, and Jimy Dudhia, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation

3.3

Improvements in modeling California's Tule Fog.  Wilson, Travis, and Robert Fovell, University of California, Los Angeles PDF Presentation Extended Abstract

3.4

Using data assimilation and state estimation in marine boundary layer parameterizations to improve off-shore wind energy prediction.  Lee, Jared A., Luca DelleMonache, Joshua P. Hacker, Branko Kosovic, Francois Vandenberghe, Yonghui Wu, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Andrew Clifton, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Sam Hawkins, Jesper Nissan, Vattenfall, and Dorita Rostkier-Edelstein PDF Presentation

3.5

Recent enhancements to the WRF-Urban modeling system.  Chen, Fei, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Shiguang Miao, Institute of Urban Meteorology and China Meteorological Administration, China; Mukul Tewari, NCAR; Jiachuan Yang, Zhihua Wang, Arizona State University; and Jason Ching, University of North Carolina PDF Presentation

3.6

Land surface model developments in WRFV3.6:  Noah, Noah-MP, and input datasets.  Barlage, Michael, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation

 

 

 

10:00 - 10:30  Coffee Break

 

 

Session 4:  High-resolution Modeling

Chair: Louis Wicker, University of Oklahoma

10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Wednesday, June 25

4.1

Recommendations for WRF simulations with horizontal grid spacing between 100 m and 1 km.  Bryan, George, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation

4.2

Paper Withdrawn

4.3

An ultra-high resolution sailing forecast system for San Francisco Bay.  Dvorak, Michael J., Sailor's Energy PDF Presentation

4.4

High-resolution study of small scale processes in complex terrain.  Silver, Z. J., R. Dimitrova, T. Zsedrovits, and H. J. S. Fernando, University of Notre Dame PDF Presentation

4.5

Implementing WRF-based RTFDDA VLES/LES NWP system for supporting test and evaluation at US Army test ranges.  Liu, Yubao, Gregory Roux, Yuewei Liu, Linlin Pan, Will Y. Y. Cheng, Wanli Wu, Jason Knievel, National Center for Atmospheric Research; and John Pace, U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground PDF Presentation

4.6

Examining the land-lake-atmosphere interactions of the May 5, 2003 severe weather event over southwest Michigan.  Wright, David M., Derek J. Posselt, University of Michigan; and Greg Mann, National Weather Service Detroit/Pontiac PDF Presentation

 

 

 

12:00 - 1:30  Lunch Break

 

 

Session 5A (parallel session):  Model Evaluation

Chair: Cliff Mass, University of Washington

1:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. Wednesday, June 25

5A.1

Evaluation of WRF cloud microphysics scheme using radar observations.  Min, Ki-Hong, and Gyuwon Lee, Kyungpook National University, South Korea PDF Presentation

5A.2

Wind gust forecasting in complex terrain.  Fovell, Robert, and Yang Cao, University of California, Los Angeles PDF Presentation Extended Abstract

5A.3

Evaluation of the new surface drag parameterization scheme.  Zhao, Wanjun, and Daniel van Dijke, MeteoGroup, Netherlands PDF Presentation

5A.4

A comprehensive evaluation of the Noah LSM with multi-parameterization options (Noah-MP) within WRF.  Harrold, Michelle, Jamie Wolff, and Mei Xu, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation

5A.5

Multi-sensor radiance-based evaluation of aerosol-cloud-precipitation-land processes.  Matsui, Toshi, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center PDF Presentation

5A.6

Now part of the WRF software repository: WRF with Spectral (bin) Microphysics (and Examples Pertaining to Aerosol and Microphysical Sensitivities).  Lynn, Barry, and Alexander Khain, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel PDF Presentation

5A.7

Model biases in precipitation and air-sea fluxes in tropical cyclones. Chen, Shuyi S., Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science/University of Miami PDF Presentation

5A.8

Improving WRF short-term forecasts using rapid refresh initializations.  Mass, Cliff, and David Ovens, University of Washington PDF Presentation

 

 

 

Session 5B (parallel session):  Chemistry Development and Testing

Chair: Georg Grell, NOAA

1:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. Wednesday, June 25

5B.1

Simulation of aerosol-cloud-radiation interaction over Europe with a new chemistry option in WRF/Chem:  Evaluation against IMPACT-EUCAARI and MODIS data.  Tucella, P., CETEMPS-University of L'Aquila, Italy, UPMC Univ. Paris, France; Gabriele Curci, CETEMPS University of L'Aquila, Italy; Guido Visconti, University of L'Aquila, Italy; Suzanne Crumeroylle, NASA Langley Research Center and Laboratoire de Meteorologie Physique, Universite Blaise Pascal, France; Jean-Christofe Raut, UPMC Univ. Paris, France; and Kathy Law, UPMC Univ. Paris, France PDF Presentation

5B.2

WRF/Chem-CB05-MADE/VBS:  Development and comprehensive evaluation of multi-year applications over North America.  Zhang, Yang, Kai Wang, Khairunnisa Yahya, and Brittney Mitchell, North Carolina State University

5B.3

Evaluation of the performance of different WRF-Chem configurations with a focus on the gas-phase mechanisms.  Knote, C., L. Emmons, A. hodzic, S. Madronich, J. Orlando, National Center for Atmospheric Research; R. Baro, P. Jimenez-Guerrero, University of Murcia, Spain; D Brunner, L. Giordano, EMPA; G. Curci, P. Tuccella, University of L'Aquila, Italy; R. Forkel, KIT; M. Hirti, Zentralanstalt fur Meteorologie und Geodynamik; C. Hogrefe, D. Luecken, United States Environmental Protection Agency; R. San Jose, J. L. Perez, University of Madrid, Spain; R. Wolke, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research; and Y. Zhang, North Carolina State University PDF Presentation

5B.4

Using a modified Fecan soil moisture calculation to predict dust emissions over semi-arid and arid regions.  Hunt, Eric, Rebecca Adams-Selin, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.; Sandra Jones, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory; and Glenn Creighton, Air Force Weather Agency PDF Presentation

5B.5

Developing adjoint and tangent linear subgrid parameterizations of source, loss, and vertical transport mechanisms for chemical tracers in WRFPLUS.  Guerrette, Jonathan, and Daven Henze, University of Colorado PDF Presentation

5B.6

Comparison of 3DVAR, EnKF, and hybrid data assimilation techniques for aerosol analyses and forecasts.  Liu, Zhiquan, Craig Schwartz, and Hui-chuan Lin, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation

5B.7

Assimilation of trace gas retrieval profiles in WRF-Chem/DART.  Mizzi, Arthur P., National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation

5B.8

Quantifying regional emissions using WRF-Chem tagged tracers: Implications for cross-state pollution transport and extreme air quality events. Raman, Aishwarya, Avelino F. Arellano, University of Arizona, and Rajesh Kumar, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation

 

 

 

3:30 - 4:00  Coffee Break

 

4:00 - 5:30  Group Discussion (by groups:  Physics, Data Assimilation, Chemistry, Regional Climate, Verification and Software)

 

5:30 - 7:00  Information Exchange

 

 

 

Session 6A (parallel session):  Data Assimilation

Chair: Hans Huang, NCAR

8:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M. Thursday, June 26

6A.1

DTC data assimilation system community support and testing:  2014 annual update.  Shao, Hui, Ming Hu, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Don Stark, Kathryn Newman, Chunhua Zhou, National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Ligia Bernardet, NOAA PDF Presentation

6A.2

Testing and evaluation of the GSI-Hybrid data assimilation and its applications for high-resolution tropical storm forecasts.  Zhou, Chunhua, Hui Shao, National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Ligia Bernardet, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration PDF Presentation

6A.3

A limited-area dual-resolution hybrid variational-ensemble data assimilation system for the WRF model.  Schwartz, Craig S., Zhiquan Liu, Xiang-Yu Huang, and Ying-Hwa Kuo, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation Extended Abstract

6A.4

Sensitivity of short-term QPF to radar data assimilation and model resolution:  A case study on the Great Colorado Flood of September 2013.  Sun, Juanzhen, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation

6A.5

A study on the assimilation cycling configuration for convective precipitation forecast using WRF 3DVAR.  Tong, Wenxue, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China; Juanzhen Sun, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Gang Li, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China; and Hongli Wang, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration PDF Presentation

6A.6

Ensemble Kalman Filter data assimilation for the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) system.  Ha, So-Young, Chris Snyder, Bill Skamarock, Jeffrey Anderson, Nancy Collins, Michael Duda, Laura Fowler, and Tim Hoar, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation

 

 

 

 

Session 6B (parallel session):  Regional Climate

Chair: David Bromwich, Ohio State University

8:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M. Thursday, June 26

6B.1

Status of Polar WRF.  Bromwich, David, and Keith Hines, Ohio State University PDF Presentation

6B.2

Using WRF in the coupled Regional Arctic System Model (RASM):  Sensitivity to atmospheric processes.  DuVivier, Alice K., John J. Cassano, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and University of Colorado; Mimi Hughes, CIRES; Shelley Knuth, CIRES and University of Colorado; and Andrew Roberts, Naval Postgraduate School PDF Presentation

6B.3

Towards a climate modeling system for West Africa:  Sensitivity studies and input bias correction for WRF.  Heinzeller, Dominikus, Cornelia Klein, and Harald Kunstmann, Karisruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, and Augsburg University, Germany Extended Abstract PDF Presentation

6B.4

Comparison of global tropical cyclone activity in WRF and MPAS simulations.  Hashimoto, Atsushi, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan; James Done, Laura Fowler, and Cindy Bruyere, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation

6B.5

WRF 2-km wind resource dataset over North Sea area.  Hartmann, Hugo, Daniel van Dijke, Sally Webb, Laura Gunn, and Clare Allen, Meteogroup, Netherlands PDF Presentation

6B.6

Microclimate of new developed coastal urban area revealed in high-resolution WRF model with high-density observations assimilated.  Pan, Linlin, Yubao Liu, Yuewei Liu, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Lei Li, Yin Jiang, Meteorology Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality, China; Will W. Cheng, Yongxin Zhang, and Gregory Roux, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation

 

 

 

10:00 - 10:30  Coffee Break

 

 

Session 7:  Physics Development and Testing: Convection and Microphysics

Chair: John Brown, NOAA

10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Thursday, June 26

7.1

Improving simulated tropical storm landfall precipitation with a modified Kain-Fristch scheme.  Bullock, Russell, Kiran Alapaty, Jerry Herwehe, United States Environmental Protection Agency; and Jack Kain, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration PDF Presentation

7.2

High resolution model simulations for MC3E:  Comparisons with observations and different microphysics schemes.  Tao, Wei-Kuo, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Di Wu, Steve Lang, Science Systems and Applications, Inc.; and Jiundar Chern, Morgan State University PDF Presentation

7.3

The new Thompson and Eidhammer 'aerosol-aware' microphysics scheme.  Thompson, Greg, and Trude Eidhammer, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation

7.4

Implementation of aerosol-cloud microphysics-radiation coupling in NASA Unified WRF with results from recent simulations.  Shi, Jainn Jong, Toshi Matsui, Wei-Kuo Tao, Christa Peters-Lidard, Mian Chin, Zhining Tao, and Eric Kemp, National Aeronautics and Space Administration PDF Presentation

7.5

Shallow cumulus in the southeastern U.S. simulated by various WRF configurations.  Angevine, Wayne M., Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration PDF Presentation

7.6

A coupled model of the planetary boundary layer and shallow cumulus convection.  New, David A., University of Maryland

 

 

 

12:00 - 1:30  Lunch Break

 

 

Session 8:  Gray-zone Physics, Global WRF and MPAS

Chair: Rob Fovell, University of California at Los Angeles

1:30 P.M. - 3:00 P.M. Thursday, June 26

8.1

Developing the Rapid Refresh and High Resolution Rapid Refresh physics to better perform across the grey zone.  Olson, Joseph, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences; John M. Brown, and Georg Grell, NOAA PDF Presentation

8.2

Representation of the subgrid-scale turbulent transport in convective boundary layers at gray-zone resolutions.  Shin, Hyeyum Hailey, National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Song-You Hong, Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, South Korea PDF Presentation

8.3

Towards the next generation integrated meteorology and atmospheric chemistry model.  Pleim, J., R. Mathur, United States Environmental Protection Agency; M. Otte, CSC, Jia Xing, NRC; C. Nolte, D. Wong, and Rob Gilliam, United States Environmental Protection Agency PDF Presentation

8.4

Climate sensitivity in a global aqua-planet WRF.  Suselj, Kay and Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology PDF Presentation

8.5

Variable-resolution global NWP with MPAS.  Skamarock, W. C., C. Davis, J. B. Klemp, M. G. Duda, L. Fowler, S.-H. Park, and W. Wang, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation

8.6

A comparison of mesh refinement in the global MPAS-A and WRF models using an idealized normal-mode baroclinic wave simulation.  Park, Sang-Hun, Joseph Klemp, and William Skamarock, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation

 

 

3:00 - 3:20  Coffee Break

 

3:20  Wrap-up Discussion (group discussion report and general discussion)

 

4:00  Meeting Adjourned

 

 

 

Friday, June 27

 

8:30 - 10:30  MPAS Tutorial Overview, Meshes, Solver, Compile-run, Summary

8:30 - 10:00  NCL Tutorial PDF Presentation

8:30 - 10:00 VAPOR Tutorial PDF Presentation, Supplementary Material

 

10:00 - 10:30  Coffee Break (except MPAS tutorial)

 

10:30 - 12:00  DA with LAPS PDF Presentation

10:30 - 12:00 IDV Tutorial

11:00 - 12:00  WRF-Hydro PDF Presentation

 

12:00  All Activities Adjourned

 

 

Poster Sesstion:  Tuesday, June 24

            Poster Set-up:  1:35

            Odd-numbered Posters:  2:00 - 3:30

            Even-numbered Posters:  3:30 - 5:00

 

Posters:  WRF Model Development

P1

Consistency between advection and diabatic processes in WRF (ARW).  Bryan, George H., National Center for Atmospheric Research

P2

Implement of PIO (Parallel I/O library) in WRF.  Huang, Wei, National Center for Atmospheric Research

P3

Enabling high-resolution simulations of atmospheric flow over complex terrain in the WRF model.  Lundquist, Katherine, Jeff Mirocha, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Jingyi Bao, David Wiersema, and Fotini Chow, University of California Berkeley

P4

Coupling CASA CO2 with NASA Unified WRF (NU-WRF).  Tao, Zhining, Universities Space Research Association and National Aeronautics and Space Administration Poster

P5

Improvements to polar filtering for WRF.  Powers, Jordan G., and David O. Gill, National Center for Atmospheric Research Extended Abstract

 

 

Posters:  Physics Development and Testing

P6

Simulation of meteorological fields for icing applications at the summit of Mount Washington.  Jones, Sandra, United States Army

P7

Improving the characteristics of the surface roughness over shallow waters.  Jimenez, Pedro A., Center for Energy, Environment, and Technology (CIEMAT), Spain; and Jimy Dudhia, National Center for Atmospheric Research

P8

Paper Withdrawn

P9

Polarization radar reflectivity calculations using the output of bin microphysics.  Sarkadi, Noemi, University of Pecs, Hungary Poster

P10

Achieving scale-independent convection representation with the Kain-Fritsch scheme.  Alapaty, Kiran, United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA); John S. Kain, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Jerold A. Herwehe, O. Russell Bullock, Jr., and Megan S. Mallard, USEPA Poster

P11

Summer season evaluation of a new multiscale Kain-Fritsch convection parameterization.  Herwehe, Jerold A., Kiran Alapaty, United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA); John S. Kain, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and O. Russell Bullock, Jr., (USEPA) Poster

P12

Diagnosis of differences in hydrometer production between multiple parameterizations of microphysics using a single-column model.  Michelson, Sara, Evelyn Grell, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences; Wei Huang, Baode Chen, Shanghai Typhoon Institute and Chinese Meteorological Administration, China; and Jian-Wen Bao, NOAA

P13

Impact of parameterization warm-rain microphysical processes on simulated tropical cyclone development.  Grell, Evelyn, Sara Michelson, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); and Jian-Wen Bao, NOAA Poster

P14

The sensitivity of a coupled hydrometeorological flash flood forecast to model physics and initial state perturbations:  A WRF-Hydro demonstration.  Mahoney, Kelly, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; David Gochis, and Wei Yu, National Center for Atmospheric Research

P15

A new prognostic cloud cover scheme for mesoscale models.  Sun, Chao, University of Maryland

 

 

 

Posters:  High-resolution Application

P16

The driving thermodynamic force of pyrocumulus formation.  Schaefer, Alexander, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

P17

The effects of urban environments on the dynamics of a simulated supercell thunderstorm.  Reames, Larissa J., University of Oklahoma (OU); David J. Stensrud, The Pennsylvania State University; and David B. Parsons, OU

P18

Sensitivity of high-resolution regional climate model to urban parameterizations for Chicago metropolitan area.  Sharma, Ashish, Harindra J. S. Fernando, Jessica Hellmann, University of Notre Dame; and Fei Chen, National Center for Atmospheric Research

P19

Applications of WRF and WRF-LES simulations over mountainous area in Taiwan.  Lin, Hsiao-Chun, National Central University, Taiwan

P20

Improving WRF simulations of cold pools using high-resolution input datasets.  Misenis, Chris, Rob Gilliam, and Kirk Baker, United States Environmental Protection Agency

 

 

Posters:  Model Evaluation

P21

High-resolution WRF hindcasts over Central Greece:  Characteristics of simulated convective activity and model evaluation.  Pytharoulis, Ioannis, Ioannis Tegoulias, Stelios Kotsopoulos, Dimitrios Bampzelis, Stergios Kartsios, Prodromos Zanis, Eleni Katragkou, and Theodore Karacostas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Poster Extended Abstract


P22

The influence of WRF parameterisation schemes on high resolution simulations over Central Greece.  Tegoulias, Ioannis, I. Pytharoulis, S. Kotsopoulos, D. Bampzelis, S. Kartsios, and Th. Karacostas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Extended Abstract

P23

Evaluation of the latest WRF with high-resolution observations.  Wu, Wanli, Yubao Liu, and Jason Knievel, National Center for Atmospheric Research

P24

Development of WRF-RTFDDA based high-resolution realtime microscale weather analysis and forecasting system for Shenzhen, China.  Liu, Yuewei, Yubao Liu, Linlin Pan, Yongxin Zhang, Will Cheng, Gregory Roux, National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Yin Jiang, Shanghai Zeyuan Marine Biotechnology, China

P25

Error distributions in the 1.1-km WRF-based RTFDDA simulations over an Israeli domain and sensitivity experiments using different numbers of soundings.  Zhang, Yongxin, Yubao Liu, Rong-Shyang Sheu, William Y. Y. Cheng, Yonghui Wu, and Yuwei Liu, National Center for Atmospheric Research

P26

Assessing the impact of adaptive radiosonde releases for improving local-scale atmospheric environment nowcasting with NCAR WRF-RTFDDA and OSSE.  Cheng, William. Y. Y., Yubao Liu, Rong-Shyang Sheu, Yongxin Zhang, Yuewei Liu, National Center for Atmospheric Research

P27

Simulation of the July 2011 Korean Flood using the NCAR RTFDDA modeling system with radar data assimilation.  Cheng, William Y. Y., Yubao Liu, Linlin Pan, Yuewei Liu, Gregory Roux, Wanli Wu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Young-Jean Choi, Seung-Woo Lee, Beom-Keun Seo, Young-San Park, and Yoon-Jin Lim, Korea Meteorological Administration, South Korea

P28

Comparing turbine height wind WRF geographic configurations for Southern Australia.  Hewson, Michael, University of Queensland, Australia Poster

P29

Modeling the atmospheric boundary layer wind response to mesoscale sea surface temperature perturbations.  Perlin, Natalie, University of Miami, Dudley Chelton, Simon de Szoeke, Roger Samelson, Larry O'Neill, and Eric Skyllingstad, Oregon State University Poster

P30

A WRF-based approach to wind resource assessment over moderately complex terrain.  Capps, Scott B., Neil Berg, and Cameron Whiteman, Vertum Partners

P31

Route to operational WRF wind farm forecasting.  Hartmann, Hugo, Daniel van Dijke, Alberto Striedinger Pinilla, Bas de Haan, Meteogroup, Netherlands, and Wageningen University, Netherlands Poster

P32

Analysis of wintertime mesoscale winds and turbulent fluxes around Southeastern Greenland.  DuVivier, Alice K., and John J. Cassano, Cooperative Institute for Environmental Sciences and University of Colorado

P33

Effects of SST errors on meteorological fields in WRF:  A case study of a heavy snowfall event in Korea.  Jeong, Jaein, Rokjin Park, and Yang-Ki Cho, Seoul National University, South Korea

P34

Verification of a null snowfall event using the SDSM&T real-time WRF forecasting system.  Gerber, Brianne M., and William J. Capehart, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

P35

Improving the ability of dynamical downscaled community climate system model data to capture the North American Monsoon through bias correction techniques.  Meyer, Jon, and Jiming Jin, Utah State University Poster

P36

Relationship of WRF convective properties to convective indices.  Kennedy, Aaron, University of North Dakota

P37

A method to select the fittest microphysics-model for a rainfall event through wavelet analysis.  Takada, Nozomu, Meteorological Engineering Center, Inc., Japan; Yuusuke Tanaka, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan; Shuichi Ikebuchi, Meteorological Engineering Center, Inc., Japan; and Eiichi Nakakita, Disaster Prevention Research Institute Kyoto University, Japan Poster

P38

WRF simulations of extreme precipitation events in High Asia Mountains.  Norris, Jesse, University of California Santa Barbara Poster

P39

A numerical study of precipitation processes in the southeast region of Saudi Arabia during summer 2009.  Song, Ying, Zaitao Pan, Saint Louis University, Lulin Xue, Paul Kucera, and Duncan Axisa, National Center for Atmospheric Research

P40

Sensitivity to Madden-Julian Oscillation variations on heavy precipitation over the contiguous United States.  Jones, Charles, and Leila M. V. Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara Poster

P41

Impact of urbanization on Beijing Super-Storm of 2012.  Tewari, Mukul, Fei Chen, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Shiguang Miao, Xiaoding Yu, China Meteorological Administration, China; and Jimy Dudhia, NCAR

P42

Moved to Oral Presentation

P43

The impact of pollution state on the direct and indirect aerosol effects on convective events in the Southern Great Plains.  Kawecki, Stacey, Allison Steiner, University of Michigan; David Stensrud, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Larissa Reames, University of Oklahoma, and Geoffrey Henebry, South Dakota State University

P44

Numerical simulation of aerosol transport process over Northeast Asia.  Kang, Jeong-Eon, Hyo-Jung lee, and Cheol-Hee Kim, Pusan National University, Republic of Korea

P45

A comparison of the WRF cloud macroscopic characteristics against ceilometer and sky camera observations.  Arbizu-Barrena, C., J. A. Ruiz-Arias, D. Pozo-Vazquez, A. Linares-Rodriguez, F. J. Rodriguez-Benitez, S. Quesada-Ruiz, and J. Tovar-Pescador, University of Jaen, Spain

P46

The impacts of numerical schemes on asymmetric vortex intensification.  Guimond, Steve, University of Maryland; and Jon Reisner, Los Alamos National Laboratory

P47

A global WRF-based forecast system:  Implementation and applications.  Hutchinson, Todd, WSI Corporation

P48

Iterative soil nudging for improved retrospective fine-scale meteorology.  Gilliam, Robert, United States Environmental Protection Agency

P49

Satellite-derived fire emissions input into the NASA Unified Weather Research and Forecasting model.  Gabbert, Trisha, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T); Charles Ichoku, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Toshihisa Matsui, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and NASA; Luke Ellison, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. and NASA; and William Capehart, SDSM&T

P50

Recent advancements in the experimental regional ensemble forecast system (ExREF).  Bernardet, Ligia, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences; Isidora Jankov, Steve Albers, NOAA and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere; Kirk Holub, David Reynolds, NOAA; T. Workoff, NOAA and Systems Research Group, Inc.; F. Barthold, NOAA and I. M. Systems Group, Inc.; W. Hogsett and J. Du, NOAA

P51

A new look at object-based evaluation of ensemble means and probability fields.  Jensen, Tara L., John Halley Gotway, Barbara G. Brown, Randy Bullock, and Tressa L. Fowler, National Center for Atmospheric Research

P52

Developing sub-domain verification methods based on GIS tools.  Smith, Jeffrey A., National Center for Atmospheric Research, Theresa Foley, Oak Ridge Associated Universities; and John W. Raby, United States Army Research Laboratory Extended Abstract Poster

P53

Verification forecast data of running WRF-EMS no spin up and observations with temperature and pressure data.  Setyawan, Made, Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysic Agency, Indonesia

P54

Community code for verification - The Model Evaluation Tools (MET).  Fowler, Tressa L., John Halley Gotway, Randy Bullock, Tara L. Jensen, Barbara G. Brown, Kathryn Newman, Nancy Rehak, and Julie Prestopnik, National Center for Atmospheric Research

P55

Model Evaluation Tools - Tropical Cyclone (MET-TC).  Newman, Kathryn, John Halley Gotway, Tressa Fowler, Paul Kucera, Barbara Brown, and Louisa Nance, National Center for Atmospheric Research

P56

RRTMG within WRF:  An extensive assessment of performance.  Harrold, Michelle, and Jamie Wolff, National Center for Atmospheric Research Poster

P57

Impact of Thompson microphysics and RRTMG radiation on hurricane forecasts with HWRF.  Biswas, Mrinal, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Christina Holt, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); G. Thompson, NCAR; Y. Kwon, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP); L. R. Bernardet, CIRES and NOAA; and V. Tallapragada, NCEP

P58

Analyzing the structure and dynamics of Tropical Cyclone Yasi (2011) through WRF v3.4.1 simulations.  Parker, Chelsea, Amanda Lynch, and Todd Arbetter, Brown University

P59

Application of the WRF-ARW for use in Army nowcasting support.  Dumais, Robert, Brian Reen, Jeffrey Passner, Huaqing Cai, Steve Kirby, and Jeffrey Smith, United States Army Research Laboratory Poster

P60

The deployment of an operational weather forecast model WRF ARF at Masdar Institute in the UAE.  Chaouch, Naira, Marouane Temimi, Naseema Beegum Shyju, and Hosni Ghedira, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates

P80

North American Rapid Refresh Ensemble (NARRE) -Preliminary tests.  Jankov, Isidora, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Ming Hu, Tanya Smirnova, Eric James, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, John Brown, and Stan Benjamin, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

P82

WRF simulation of Calgary and southern Alberta flood of June 2013.  Li, Yanping, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Sasketchewan, Kit Sezto, Climate Data and Analysis, Environment Canada, Ron Stewart, University of Manitoba, Julie Theriault, University of Quebec a Montreal, Xuebin Zhang, Climate Data and Analysis, Environment Canada, Bob Kochtubajda, Sudesh Boodoo, Ron Goodson, and Anthony Liu, Environment Canada

 

 

Posters:  Development and Testing for WRF Data Assimilation

P61

Mitigation of sea level pressure analysis errors using grid-point statistical interpolation coupled with WRF-ARW.  Newman, Kathryn, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Ming Hu, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and Hui Shao, NCAR

P62

Paper Withdrawn

P63

Community support for the GSI data assimilation system.  Stark, Donald, Hui Shao, Kathryn Newman, Chunhua Zhou, National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Ming Hu, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

P64

NASA SPoRT modeling and data assimilation research and transition activities using WRF, LIS, and GSI.  Case, Jonathan L., ENSCO, Inc. and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Clay B. Blankenship, Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and NASA; Bradley T. Zavodsky, NASA; Jayanthi Srikishen, USRA and NASA; and Emily B. Berndt, NASA Extended Abstract

 

 

 

Posters:  Development and Testing for WRF Chemistry

P65

New dust source functions in the NASA Unified-WRF.  Kim, Dongchul,  Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Eric Kemp, NASA and Science System and Applications, Inc.; Mian Chin, NASA, Zhining Tao, USRA and NASA; and Paul Ginoux, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

P66

Development of a dust forecast system for the Middle East area with NCAR-WRF RTFDDA and WRF-CHEM.  Pan, Linlin, Yubao Liu, Yongxin Zhang, Paul A. Kucera, Wanli Wu, National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Ayman Ghulam, Presidency of Meteorology and Environment, Saudi Arabia

P67

Does higher resolution improve dust forecasts?  Insights from the March 2009 dust storm simulations over the Arabian Peninsula using WRF-Chem.  Zhang, Yongxin, Yubao Liu, Linlin Pan, Paul Kucera, and Wanli Wu, National Center for Atmospheric Research

P68

The impact of emissions from oil/gas extraction in the Arctic:  A regional case study using WRF/Chem and aircraft campaign measurements from the EU ACCESS project.  Tuccella, Paolo, Jennie L. Thomas, Kathy Law, Louis Marelle, Jean-Christophe Raut, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France; Jin Kim, Anke Roiger, and Hans Schlager, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft-und, Germany

P69

CO2 simulation over East Asia using WRF/Chem.  Takigawa, Masayuki, and Prabir K. Patra, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan

P70

Simulating black carbon and dust and their radiative forcing in seasonal snow: A case study over North China with field campaign measurements. Zhao, Chun, Yun Qian, L. Ruby Leung, Maoyi Huang, Hailong Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Zhiyuan Hu, Jianping Huang, Rudong Zhang, Huiping Yan, Lanzhou University, China; Jiming Jin, Utah State University; Mark Flanner, University of Michigan; Zifeng Lu, and David G. Streets, Argonne National Laboratory

P71

Reassessing SOA growth and removal in WRF-Chem based on explicit chemistry.  Hodzic, A., S. Madronich, C. Knote, J. Lee-Taylor, National Center for Atmospheric Research; and B. Aumont, The French National Centre for Scientific Research, France

P81

Paper Withdrawn

P83

Experiments with an aerosol aware convective parameterization. Grell, Georg A., S. R. Freitas, and S. E. Peckham, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

 

 

 

 

Posters:  Development and Testing for Regional Climate Research

P72

WRF simulations of climate in the Missouri River watershed, with validation:  1981-2010.  Norton, Parker, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

P73

Paper Withdrawn

P74

Influence of land surface models on the diurnal cycle of precipitation in a WRF multiphysics regional climate ensemble.  Mooney, P. A., National Center for Atmospheric Research; J. Mulligan, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland; and C. Broderick, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom

P75

WRF ensemble approach to evaluating regional climate responses to land cover change in the Northeastern United States.  Burakowski, Elizabeth A., Gordon B. Bonan, Ming Chen, National Center for Atmospheric Research; and S. O. Ollinger, National Ecological Observatory Network Poster

P76

Sea ice thickness and snow depth over sea ice in Polar WRF.  Hines, Keith, David Bromwich, Lesheng Bai, Ohio State University; Jordan Powers, Kevin Manning, National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Cecilia Bitz, University of Washington

P77

The climatological distribution of extreme Arctic winds, and implications for ocean and sea ice processes.  Hughes, Mimi, and John Cassano, University of Colorado

P78

Analysis of WRF-simulated diurnal wind patterns in Eastern China using simple 1D model.  Du, Yu, Peking University, China; Richard Rotunno, National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Qinghong Zhang, Peking University

P79

Improvement of climate projections and reduction of their uncertainties using a sequential learning algorithm.  Strobach, Ehud, and Golan Bel, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Poster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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