Note: Speakers: Each presenter will have 15 minutes total including talk and question time.
Poster presenters: Each presenter will have 4x4 feet board space.
The Weather Research and
Forecasting Model: 2014 Annual Update. Dudhia, Jimy, National Center for
Atmospheric Research PDF PresentationExtended Abstract
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, FengGao, DongmeiXu, Shu-Ya Chen, Ying Zhang,
Wen-Xue Tong, and Eder Vendrasco,National
Center for Atmospheric Research PDF PresentationExtended Abstract
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
Performance-related developments
in WRF.Michalakes, John, National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration; Mike Iacono, Atmospheric and Environmental Research,
Inc.; and IndraneilGokhale,
Intel Corp PDF Presentation.
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
The Air Force weather
ensemble prediction suite.Evan Kuchera,
Scott Rentschler, Glenn Creighton, and Jeff
Hamilton, Air Force Weather Agency PDF Presentation
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
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
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 - 2:00Lunch (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
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
Objectively-determined fair-weather NBL features in the ARW-WRF model and
their comparison to the CASES-97 observations.LeMone, Margaret Anne, MukulTewari,Fei Chen, and Jimy Dudhia, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation
Improvements in modeling
California's Tule Fog.Wilson, Travis, and Robert Fovell, University
of California, Los Angeles PDF PresentationExtended Abstract
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, BrankoKosovic, Francois Vandenberghe, Yonghui Wu, National Center for Atmospheric Research;
Andrew Clifton, National Renewable
Energy Laboratory; Sam Hawkins, Jesper Nissan, Vattenfall, and
DoritaRostkier-Edelstein PDF Presentation
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; MukulTewari, NCAR; Jiachuan Yang, Zhihua Wang, Arizona State University; and Jason Ching, University
of North Carolina PDF Presentation
Land surface model
developments in WRFV3.6:Noah,
Noah-MP, and input datasets.Barlage, Michael, National Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation
Recommendations for WRF
simulations with horizontal grid spacing between 100 m and 1 km.Bryan,
George, National Center for
Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation
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
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
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
Evaluation of WRF cloud
microphysics scheme using radar observations.Min,
Ki-Hong, and Gyuwon Lee, Kyungpook National University, South Korea PDF Presentation
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
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
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
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
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 Centerand Laboratoire
de Meteorologie Physique, UniversiteBlaise Pascal, France; Jean-ChristofeRaut, UPMC
Univ. Paris, France; and Kathy Law, UPMC
Univ. Paris, France PDF Presentation
WRF/Chem-CB05-MADE/VBS:Development and comprehensive
evaluation of multi-year applications over North America.Zhang,
Yang, Kai Wang, KhairunnisaYahya, and Brittney Mitchell, North Carolina State University
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
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
Developing adjoint and tangent linear subgrid
parameterizations of source, loss, and vertical transport mechanisms for
chemical tracers in WRFPLUS.Guerrette, Jonathan, and DavenHenze, University
of Colorado PDF Presentation
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
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 - 4:00Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:30Group Discussion (by groups:Physics, Data Assimilation, Chemistry,
Regional Climate, Verification and Software)
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
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
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-HwaKuo, National
Center for Atmospheric Research PDF PresentationExtended Abstract
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
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
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
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
Towards a climate modeling
system for West Africa:Sensitivity studies and input bias correction for WRF.Heinzeller, Dominikus, Cornelia Klein, and HaraldKunstmann, Karisruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, and
Augsburg University, Germany Extended AbstractPDF Presentation
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
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
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 - 10:30Coffee Break
Session 7:Physics Development and Testing: Convection and Microphysics
Improving simulated
tropical storm landfall precipitation with a modified Kain-Fristch scheme.Bullock, Russell, KiranAlapaty, Jerry Herwehe, United
States Environmental Protection Agency; and Jack Kain, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration PDF Presentation
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 JiundarChern, Morgan State
University PDF Presentation
The new Thompson and Eidhammer 'aerosol-aware' microphysics scheme.Thompson,
Greg, and TrudeEidhammer, National
Center for Atmospheric Research PDF Presentation
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
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
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
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
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
Climate sensitivity in a
global aqua-planet WRF.Suselj, Kay and Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California
Institute of Technology PDF Presentation
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
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 - 3:20Coffee Break
3:20Wrap-up
Discussion (group discussion report and general discussion)
Enabling high-resolution
simulations of atmospheric flow over complex terrain in the WRF model.Lundquist,
Katherine, Jeff Mirocha, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; JingyiBao, David Wiersema, and Fotini Chow, University
of California Berkeley
Coupling CASA CO2 with
NASA Unified WRF (NU-WRF).Tao, Zhining, Universities Space Research Association
and National Aeronautics and Space Administration Poster
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
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
Summer season evaluation
of a new multiscale Kain-Fritsch convection
parameterization.Herwehe, Jerold A., KiranAlapaty, United
States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA); John S. Kain, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration; and O. Russell Bullock, Jr., (USEPA) Poster
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
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
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
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
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
Improving WRF simulations
of cold pools using high-resolution input datasets.Misenis, Chris, Rob Gilliam, and Kirk Baker, United States Environmental Protection Agency
High-resolution WRF hindcasts over Central Greece:Characteristics of simulated
convective activity and model evaluation.Pytharoulis, Ioannis, IoannisTegoulias, SteliosKotsopoulos, DimitriosBampzelis, StergiosKartsios, ProdromosZanis, EleniKatragkou, and Theodore Karacostas, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece PosterExtended Abstract
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
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
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-ShyangSheu, William Y. Y.
Cheng, Yonghui Wu, and Yuwei
Liu, National Center for Atmospheric
Research
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-ShyangSheu, Yongxin Zhang, Yuewei Liu, National
Center for Atmospheric Research
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-KeunSeo, Young-San Park,
and Yoon-Jin Lim, Korea Meteorological
Administration, South Korea
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
Route to operational WRF
wind farm forecasting.Hartmann, Hugo, Daniel van Dijke, Alberto StriedingerPinilla, Bas de Haan, Meteogroup, Netherlands, and Wageningen
University, Netherlands Poster
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
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
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
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
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
A numerical study of
precipitation processes in the southeast region of Saudi Arabia during summer
2009.Song, Ying, Zaitao Pan, Saint Louis University, LulinXue, Paul Kucera, and Duncan Axisa, National Center for Atmospheric Research
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
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
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
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
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
The impacts of numerical
schemes on asymmetric vortex intensification.Guimond, Steve, University of
Maryland; and Jon Reisner, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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
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; IsidoraJankov, 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
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
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 AbstractPoster
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
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
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
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
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
Application of the WRF-ARW
for use in Army nowcasting support.Dumais, Robert, Brian Reen, Jeffrey Passner, HuaqingCai, Steve Kirby, and Jeffrey Smith, United States Army Research Laboratory Poster
The deployment of an
operational weather forecast model WRF ARF at Masdar
Institute in the UAE.Chaouch, Naira, MarouaneTemimi, NaseemaBeegumShyju, and Hosni Ghedira, Masdar Institute of
Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates
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
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,
SudeshBoodoo, Ron
Goodson, and Anthony Liu, Environment
Canada
Posters:Development and Testing for WRF Data Assimilation
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
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
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;
JayanthiSrikishen, USRA and NASA; and Emily B. Berndt, NASA Extended Abstract
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
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 AymanGhulam, Presidency
of Meteorology and Environment, Saudi Arabia
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
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, AnkeRoiger,
and Hans Schlager, DeutschesZentrum fur Luft-und,
Germany
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
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
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
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
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
Sea ice thickness and snow
depth over sea ice in Polar WRF.Hines, Keith, David Bromwich, LeshengBai, Ohio State University; Jordan Powers,
Kevin Manning, National Center for
Atmospheric Research; and Cecilia Bitz, University of Washington
The climatological
distribution of extreme Arctic winds, and implications for ocean and sea ice
processes.Hughes, Mimi, and John Cassano, University of Colorado
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
Improvement of climate
projections and reduction of their uncertainties using a sequential learning
algorithm.Strobach, Ehud, and Golan Bel, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Poster
