Program for the 2018 Joint
WRF/MPAS Users’ Workshop
Monday, June 11
WRF Lecture
Series: Model Unification Efforts at
NCAR
1:30 - 5:00 P.M.
1:30 – 2:00
Chris Davis, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)/Mesoscale and
Microscale Meteorology Laboratory (MMM)
2:00 – 2:30
Bill Skamarock, NCAR/MMM
Peter Lauritzen, NCAR/Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory
(CGD)
2:30 – 3:00
Dave Gill, NCAR/MMM
Andrew Gettelman, NCAR/CGD
3:00 – 3:30
Break
3:30 – 4:00
Mariana Vertenstein, NCAR/CGD
Michael Duda, NCAR/MMM
4:00 – 4:10
Data Assimilation and Singletrack
Chris Snyder, NCAR/MMM
Jeff Anderson, NCAR/Computational and Information Systems
Laboratory
4:10-4:20
Unified Chemistry and Singletrack
Mary Barth, NCAR/Atmospheric Chemistry
Observations and Modeling Laboratory
4:20-4:30
Land surface modeling (Community
Terrestrial System Modeling - CTSM) and Singletrack
Martyn Clark, NCAR/Research Applications
Laboratory (RAL)
Mike Barlage, NCAR/RAL
4:30-5:00
Discussion
Tuesday, June 12, 8:30 - 8:45
Welcome
Remarks
Session
1: Annual Model Development Updates
8:45 - 10:05 Tuesday, June 12
Chair:
Jordan Powers, NCAR
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The Weather
Research and Forecasting model: 2018 annual update. Dudhia, Jimy, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory |
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Liu, Zhiquan, Juanzhen Sun,
Jamie Bresch, Michael Kavulich, Junmei Ban, Jonathan Guerrette, and Ying
Zhang, National Center for Atmospheric
Research |
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WRF-Chem V4.0: A
summary of status and updates. Ahmadov, Ravan, Georg A.
Grell, Ka Yee Wong, Stuart McKeen, Megan Bela, Li Zhang, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Earth System Research
Laboratory and University of Colorado/Cooperative Institute for Research in
Environmental Sciences, and many other directly contributing authors, from National Center for Atmospheric
Research, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and other institutes |
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Hurricane WRF:
2018 operational implementation and community support. Liu, Bin, I.M Systems Group, Inc. (IMSG Inc.) and
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA)/Environmental Modeling
Center (EMC), Avichal Mehra, NOAA/EMC,
Zhan Zhang, IMSG Inc. and NOAA/EMC,
Kathryn Newman, National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Evan Kalina, NOAA/GSD and University of Colorado/Cooperative Institute for Research
in Environmental Sciences (CU/CIRES), Sergio Abarca, IMSG Inc. and NOAA/EMC, Ligia Bernardet NOAA/Global Systems Division (GSD) and CU/CIRES, Mrinal Biswas,
Laurie Carson NCAR, Jili Dong, IMSG Inc. and NOAA/EMC, James Frimel, NOAA/GSD and Colorado State University/Cooperative
Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Evelyn Grell, NOAA/Physical Science Division, and CU/CIRES,
Hyun-Sook Kim, IMSG Inc. and NOAA/EMC,
Qingfu Liu, NOAA/EMC, Zaizhong Ma,
Jessica Meixner, Dmitry Sheinin, IMSG
Inc. and NOAA/EMC, Jason Sippel, NOAA/Hurricane
Research Division, Biju Thomas, University
of Rhode Island, Weiguo Wang, Henry Winterbottom, Keqin Wu, Lin Zhu, IMSG Inc. and NOAA/EMC, and Vijay
Tallapragada, NOAA/EMC |
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The Model for Prediction Across Scales
Version 6.0 release and future development directions. Skamarock, Bill, and Michael Duda, National Center for Atmospheric Research |
10:05 - 10:35
Coffee Break
Session
2: Other New Development and Updates
10:35 - 12:05 Tuesday, June 12
Chair:
Todd Hutchinson, The Weather Company/an IBM Business
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New chemistry
and diagnostics for the MOZART chemistry suite in WRF-Chem. Barth, Mary, Gabriele Pfister,
Stacy Walters, Louisa Emmons, National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and Gustavo Cuchiara, University of Colorado and NCAR |
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Improving the
numerical efficiency of storm-scale NWP models. Wicker, Louis J., National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National
Severe Storms Laboratory |
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Wiersema,
David, University of California,
Berkeley (UC Berkeley), Katherine
Lundquist, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, and Fotini Katopodes Chow, UC Berkeley |
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Progress towards a regional capability in
MPAS-Atmosphere. Duda, Michael, William Skamarock, Soyoung Ha, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
and and Sang-Hun Park, Yonsei
University, South Korea |
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Enhancing community collaborations through
NWP software containers. Kavulich,
Michael J., J.
H. Gotway, M. Harrold, J. K. Wolff, K. Fossell, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications
Laboratory |
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Developmental
Testbed Center: Status update and outlook. Nance, Louisa, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR),
Jeff Beck, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)/Global Systems
Division (GSD) and Colorado State University/Cooperative Institute for
Research in the Atmosphere (CSU/CIRA), Ligia Bernardet, NOAA/GSD and University of Colorado/Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CU/CIRES), Grant Firl
and Michelle Harrold, NCAR, Ming
Hu, NOAA/GSD and CU/CIRES, Tara
Jensen, NCAR, Evan Kalina, NOAA/GSD and CU/CIRES, Kathryn Newman,
NCAR, Dave Turner, NOAA/GSD, Jamie Wolff and Chunhua
Zhou, NCAR |
12:05 - 1:30
Lunch
Session 3: Microphysics Development and Testing
1:30 - 2:45 Tuesday, June 12
Chair:
Robert Fovell, University at Albany, SUNY
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Predicting ice
particle shape evolution in a bulk microphysics scheme. Jensen, Anders, National Center for Atmospheric Research |
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Updates to the
Aerosol-Aware Microphysics (Thompson-Eidhammer) scheme. Thompson, Gregory, Trude
Eidhammer, and Mei Xu, National Center
for Atmospheric Research/Research Applications Laboratory |
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Wolff, Jamie, National Center for Atmospheric Research
(NCAR)/Research Application Laboratory (RAL) and Developmental Testbed Center
(DTC), Greg Thompson, NCAR/RAL,
Isidora Jankov, Jeffrey Beck, Colorado
State University/Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere,
affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Earth System
Research Laboratory and the DTC, Michelle Harrold, Michael Kavulich, Jr.,
and Lindsay Blank, NCAR/RAL and DTC |
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Cuchiara, G.C., National Center for Atmospheric Research
(NCAR) and University of
Colorado/Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (CU/INSTAAR), M. Barth, NCAR, A. Fried, INSTAAR, C. Homeyer, University
of Oklahoma/School of Meteorology, M. Bela, National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, Chemical Science
Division, and N. Heath, United
States Air Force Technical Applications Center |
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Antarctic clouds
simulated by Polar WRF and AMPS. Hines, Keith M., David H.
Bromwich, and Sheng-Hung Wang, Byrd
Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University |
2:45 - 3:15
Coffee Break
Session
4: Experimental Fire/Smoke Forecasting
3:15 - 4:30 Tuesday, June 12
Chair:
Ravan Ahmadov, NOAA/ESRL/GSD
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4.1 |
Improving
prediction of aerosol and ozone formation from wildfire emissions in the western
U.S. Bela,
M. M., S. A. McKeen, R. Ahmadov, University of Colorado/Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CU Boulder/CIRES) and
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/Earth System Research
Laboratory (ESRL), G. Pereira, Universidade
Federal de São João del-Rei, Brazil, S. R. Freitas, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Goddard Space
Flight Center (GSFC), M. K. Trainer, NOAA/ESRL,
W. M. Angevine, CIRES/CU Boulder and NOAA/ESRL, G. J. Frost, NOAA/ESRL, R. Volkamer, N. Kille, CU Boulder, A. Zelenyuk-Imre, L.
Riihimaki, Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, R. B. Pierce, C. Schmidt, C. Weidinmyer, CIRES/CU Boulder, and P. E. Saide, University of California, Los Angeles |
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Wildfire smoke
and volcanic ash forecasting over North America with the RAP and HRRR NWP
systems. James, Eric, Ravan Ahmadov,
University of Colorado/Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Trevor Alcott, Georg
Grell, and Curtis Alexander, National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration/Earth System Research Laboratory/Global
Systems Division |
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Terrain-driven
winds and gusts during the Thomas fire. Fovell, Robert, University at Albany, SUNY |
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Adding wildfire
smoke in real-time WRF forecasts. Mass, Cliff, and David
Ovens, University of Washington |
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Wildfire
pyroconvection and CAPE: buoyancy’s drying and atmospheric intensification. Bakhshaii, Atoossa, and Edward
Johnson, University of Calgary,
Alberta, Canada |
4:30 - 5:30 Tuesday, June 12
Plenary
Discussion on User Support
Link to WRF/WRFDA/MPAS
Users’ Forum
Chair: Wei
Wang, NCAR
5:30 - 7:00 Tuesday, June12
Information
Exchange
Session 5: Software Development
8:30 - 10:00 Wednesday, June 13
Chair:
Dave Gill, NCAR
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GPU developments
for the WRF and MPAS Models. Adie, Jeff, Carl Ponder,
and Alexey Romanenko, NVIDIA
Corporation |
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Improve WRF I/O
performance -- implementation of parallel IO. Huang, Wei, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. |
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Plans for a
GPU-accelerated MPAS-driven forecast system. Hutchinson, Todd, Brett Wilt,
James Cipriani, John Wong, The Weather
Company, an IBM Business, Rich Loft, Bill Skamarock, Michael Duda, Dave
Gill, and Raghu Kumar, National Center
for Atmospheric Research |
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5.4 |
GIS4WRF
— Overview of a new toolkit for pre- and post-processing in the Advanced
Research WRF modelling framework. Meyer, D., Department of Meteorology, University of
Reading, Reading, UK, and M. Riechert, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK |
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Abdi, Daniel, Sam Elliott, S.
M. Iman Gohari, Don Berchoff, Gene Pache and John Manobianco, TempoQuest |
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Heinzeller, Dom, Ligia
Bernardet, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration/Earth System Research Laboratory/Global Systems Division
(NOAA/ESRL/GSD), University of Colorado/Cooperative Institute for Research in
Environmental Sciences (CU/CIRES), and Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), Grant
Firl, Laurie Carson, Don Stark, National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and DTC, Man Zhang, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, CU/CIRES and DTC, Jimy
Dudhia, and Dave Gill, NCAR |
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
Session 6: Improving Modeled Convection
10:30 - 12:00 Wednesday, June 13
Chair: Songyou
Hong, KIAPS, South Korea
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Fowler, Laura, Mary Barth, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Kiran Alapaty, United States Environmental
Protection Agency, Mark Branson, and Don Dazlich, Colorado State University |
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Tropical
cyclones in global convection-permitting MPAS simulations. Judt, Falko, National Center for Atmospheric Research |
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Impact of the
cumulus scheme on model initialization of convective storms. Wong, May, Glen Romine,
and Chris Snyder, National Center for
Atmospheric Research |
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Weber, Nicholas and Clifford
Mass, University of Washington |
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Modeling convection using the Tiedtke
cumulus scheme at different grid sizes. Wang, Wei,
National Center for Atmospheric
Research |
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Progress in
forecasting derechoes with the NCAR-WRF high-resolution ensemble. Weisman, Morris, Craig
Schwartz, and Kevin Manning, National
Center for Atmospheric Research |
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch
Poster
Session: Wednesday, June 13
Poster Set-up: 1:15 P.M.
Odd-numbered Posters: 1:30 - 2:30
Even-numbered Posters: 2:30 – 3:30
Free Poster Viewing: 3:30-4:30
Posters: Model Development
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Powers, Jordan
G., National Center for Atmospheric Research |
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Fostering
community involvement in the advancement of physical parameterizations for
the NCEP Unified Forecast System. Bernardet, L., University of Colorado/Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CU/CIRES) at NOAA Global
Systems Division (NOAA/GSD), G. Firl, National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), D. Heinzeller, CU/CIRES and NOAA/GSD, L. Carson, NCAR, M. Zhang, CU/CIRES and NOAA/GSD, M. Harrold, NCAR, J. Henderson, NOAA/GSD,
J. Wolff, L. Xue, J. Dudhia, D. Stark, L. Nance, NCAR, and G. Grell, NOAA/GSD |
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NU-WRF development and support at NASA GSFC. Cruz, Carlos, Science Systems and Applications, Inc.,
and National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Sensitivity
of a Bayesian atmospheric-transport inversion model to spatio-temporal sensor
resolution. Jensen, Derek, Katherine
Lundquist, and Donald Lucas, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory |
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Recent
developments in planetary atmospheric modeling with WRF and MPAS. Toigo, Anthony, The Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory, Mark Richardson, Aeolis
Research (Aeolis), Chris Lee, University
of Toronto, Canada, Yuan Lian, Aeolis, Michael Mischna, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, and Claire Newman, Aeolis |
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P6 |
Experimentation
with vertical layer structure in MPAS-A. Bullock, Russ, Robert
Gilliam, Jerold Herwehe, and Jon Pleim, United
States Environmental Protection Agency |
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Herwehe, Jerold
A.,
Robert C. Gilliam, O. Russell Bullock Jr., and Jonathan E. Pleim, United States Environmental Protection
Agency |
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Exascale
computing in numerical weather prediction: massively parallel I/O in
atmospheric models on conformal meshes. Heinzeller, Dom, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Earth
System Research Laboratory/Global Systems Division (NOAA/ESRL/GSD), University
of Colorado/Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
(CU/CIRES), and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology
and Climate Research, Germany (KIT/IMK-IFU), Michael Duda, National Center for Atmospheric Research/Mesoscale
and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, Thomas Schwitalla, University of Hohenheim, Institute of
Physics and Meteorology, Germany, and Harald Kunstmann, KIT/IMK-IFU and University of Augsburg,
Department of Geography, Germany |
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Key
applications of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model running on
GPUs, AceCAST. Elliot, Samuel, S. M. Iman
Gohari, Daniel Abdi, Donald Birchoff, and Gene Pache, TempoQuest Inc. |
Posters: Development and Testing of Data Assimilation
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MAD-WRF:
A solar irradiance nowcasting system to support the Group on Earth
Observations Vision for Energy (GEO-VENER). Jimenez, Pedro
A., G.
Thompson, C. Snyder, S. E. Haupt, B. Andersen, A. Anderson, J. Bresch, B.
Brown, G. Descombes, B. J. Jung, and J. A. Lee, National Center for Atmospheric Research |
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MPAS-DART
ensemble data assimilation system in polar regions. Riedel,
Christopher,
and Steven Cavallo, University of
Oklahoma |
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Testing
and evaluation of the radar data assimilation for high resolution convective
forecasts. Zhou, Chunhua, Ying Zhang, National Center for Atmospheric Research/Research
Applications Laboratory (NCAR/RAL),
Guoqing Ge, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration/Earth System Research Laboratory/Global Systems Division
(NOAA/ESRL/GSD), Jonathan Vigh, NCAR/RAL,
Ming Hu, NOAA/ESRL/GSD |
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Impact
of atmospheric data assimilation on the prediction of shallow and deep
convective clouds near the SGP site during HI-SCALE. Tai, Sheng-Lun, Jerome Fast,
and William Gustafson, Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory |
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Thundathil, Rohith, Thomas
Schwitalla, Andreas Behrendt, Shravan Kumar Muppa, Stephan Adam, and Volker
Wulfmeyer, Institute of Physics and
Meteorology, University of Hohenheim, Germany |
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Multiscale
modeling for tactical Army nowcasting. Dumais,
Robert, Brian Reen and Huaqing Cai,
United States Army Research Laboratory |
Posters: Development and Testing of Chemistry
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Source
attribution of tropospheric ozone in WRF-Chem using a tagging technique. Lupascu, Aurelia, and Tim
Butler, Institute for Advanced
Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany |
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Chemical characteristics and ozone production in the Northern Colorado
Front Range. Pfister,
Gabriele,
Mary Barth, Stacy Walters, Frank Flocke,
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations
and Modeling Laboratory, William Vizuete, Chi-Tsan Wang, University of North Carolina, Department
of Environmental Sciences and Engineering |
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Characterization
of stratospheric ozone intrusion into the troposphere based on the
hemispheric-scale modeling. Itahashi, Syuichi, North Carolina State University (NCSU),
and Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan, Rohit
Mathur, Christian Hogrefe, United States
Environmental Protection Agency, and Yang Zhang, NCSU |
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Sub-kilometer mobile emissions grid and dispersion model for Medellin,
Colombia. Henao, Juan J., John F. Mejia, Department of Atmospheric Science, Desert
Research Institute, Angela M. Rendón and Juan F. Salazar, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia |
Posters:
Applications in Regional Climate
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High-resolution
future climate change simulation in Alaska using a pseudo-global warming
Scenario. Newman, Andrew
J., National Center for Atmospheric Research
(NCAR), Andrew J. Monaghan, University
of Colorado, Martyn P. Clark, Kyoko Ikeda, Lulin Xue, NCAR, and Jeff. R. Arnold, United States Army Corps of Engineers |
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Hashimoto,
Atsushi, Central Research Institute of Electric
Power Industry, Japan, James M. Done, Laura D. Fowler, and Cindy L.
Bruyere, National Center for
Atmospheric Research |
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Valmassoi, Arianna, Earth Institute, Department of Planning and Environmental Policy,
University College Dublin, Richview, Dublin 14, Jimy Dudhia, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Silvana
Di Sabatino, Department of Physics and
Astronomy, University of Bologna, Italy, Francesco Pilla, Earth Institute, Department of Planning and Environmental Policy,
University College Dublin, Richview, Dublin 14 |
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Future
changes of precipitation, temperature and evapotranspiration for the Continental
United States. Tewari, Mukul, International Business Machines
Corporation (IBM), Thomas J. Watson
Research Center, Campbell D. Watson, Lloyd A. Treinish, Luke A. Winslow, and
Kevin C. Rose, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute |
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Initial
development for simulating land surface change impacts on climate in the
northern plains. Scott, Aaron, and Aaron
Kennedy, University of North Dakota |
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Regional
climate simulations with WRF/Noah-MP:
Validation and the effect of crop and groundwater modules. Barlage, Michael, National Center for Atmospheric Research/Research Applications Laboratory/Hydrometerological
Applications |
Posters: Model Evaluation
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Effects
of the deep convection schemes in variable-resolution aquaplanet simulations using
CAM-MPAS. Jang, Jihyeon, National Center for Atmospheric Research
(NCAR), Sang-Hun Park, Yonsei
University, South Korea, Colin M. Zarzycki, William C. Skamarock, NCAR, and L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
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Performance
of MPAS for tropical cyclone prediction in 2016, 2017 seasons. Wang, Wei, David
Ahijevych, Chris Davis and Bill Skamarock, National Center for Atmospheric Research/Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory |
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Yoo, Jinwoong, Joseph Santanello,
Sujay Kumar, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center, and Marshall Shepherd, University of Georgia |
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WRF simulations
of the heavy rainfall in Northern Kyushu, July 2017. Inaba, Naoki, Nozomu Takada,
Koji Sakamoto, and Ayako Kimoto, Meteorological
Engineering Center Inc., Japan |
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Numerical
evaluation of the influence of urbanization in the convection and
precipitation patterns in the metropolitan region of São Paulo (Brazil). Rangel, Rafael H
O, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
de Souza, Carolina V. F., and Marcio Cataldi, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil |
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Li, Zhiqiang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong |
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Numerical
investigation of a heavy snowfall event over the tropical Andes. Zamuriano,
Marcelo, Oeschger Center for Climate Change
Research and Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland |
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Downslope
wind storm study in a wind farm area on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec using WRF
high-resolution simulations. Prósper
Fernández, Miguel Ángel, University of Santiago de
Compostela, Spain, Ian Sosa
Tinoco, Technical Institute of Sonora,
Mexico, Carlos Otero Casal, and Gonzalo Miguez-Macho, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
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Mean
annual wake study for a wind farm in the province of Jiangsu (China). Prósper
Fernández, Miguel Ángel, University of Santiago de
Compostela, Spain, Liu Zhao, Xu Dong, Xinjiang, Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Carlos Otero Casal, and
Gonzalo Miguez-Macho, University of
Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
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Mesoscale
impacts of wind farms: study of the wind farm scheme of the WRF-ARW model. Ramon,
Jaume, University of Barcelona (UB),
Alex Montornes, Vortex, and Mireia Udina, UB |
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Study
of the role of the Great Lakes as moisture sources in the famous November
2014 severe lake-effect snowstorm using a moisture tagging capability in WRF. Insua-Costa, Damián and Gonzalo
Miguez-Macho, Universidade de Santiago
de Compostela, Spain |
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A
case study evaluation of fog simulation using various land-surface models and
micro-physics schemes. Eder, Brian, Robert
Gilliam, Donna Schwede, United States
Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), Patrick Campbell, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration/National Research Council Fellowship Participant and U.S. EPA,
and Mellissa Wrzesien, Oak Ridge
Institute for Science and Education Intern, and U.S. EPA |
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The impact
of SST on the wind and air temperature simulations: a case study for the
coastal region of the Rio de Janeiro state. Dragaud,
Ian Cunha D. Viana, Mauricio
Soares da Silvaa, Alberto
Luiz Coimbra Institute of Post-Graduation and Research in Engineering
(COPPE), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, Luiz Paulo F. Assadb, Department of Meteorology, Geoscience
Institute (IGEO), and UFRJ, Márcio
Cataldic, Department of
Agriculture and Environmental Engineering, Post-Graduation in Biosystems
Engineering, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil, Luiz Landaua, Renato N. Eliasa, COPPE/UFRJ, Luiz Claudio G. Pimentelb, IGEO/UFRJ, and Jimy Dudhia, Mesoscale and Microscale
Meteorology Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research |
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P39 |
Presentation
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P40 |
Presentation
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Using
SURFRAD and CERES datasets to evaluate physics parameterizations. Harrold, Michelle, National Center for Atmospheric Research/Research
Applications Laboratory (NCAR/RAL) and Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), Man
Zhang, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration/Earth System Research Laboratory (NOAA/ESRL), University of Colorado/Cooperative Institute for
Research in Environmental Sciences (CU/CIRES), and DTC, Jamie Wolff, NCAR/RAL and DTC, Ligia Bernardet NOAA/ESRL,
CU/CIRES, and DTC, and Judy Henderson, NOAA/ESRL and DTC |
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Hertneky, Tracy,
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
and Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), Gerard Ketefian, University of Colorado/Cooperative Institute for Research in
Environmental Sciences at National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration/Earth System Research Laboratory/Global Systems Division
(NOAA/ESRL/GSD), Jeff Beck,
Isidora Jankov, Colorado State University/Cooperative
Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Jamie Wolff,
Christopher Williams, Michelle Harrold, and Lindsay Blank, NCAR and DTC |
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Phoenix, Daniel, Cameron
Homeyer, University of Oklahoma,
and Mary Barth, National Center for
Atmospheric Research |
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Using
less conventional observations to identify model physics errors in a
CONUS-wide ensemble. Gallagher, Alex, and Rob
Fovell, The State University of New York,
Albany |
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Running WRF operationally at AWS using OBSGRID. Carpenter Jr., Richard
L., Weather Decision Tech |
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The
Model Evaluation Tools: recent advances. Halley
Gotway, J., T. L. Jensen, R.
Bullock, H. Soh, and J. Prestopnik, National
Center for Atmospheric Research and Developmental Testbed Center |
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Transparency
in model testing and evaluation – Input needed for DTC workshop. Jensen, T. L., National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Developmental
Testbed Center (DTC), L. R. Bernardet, University of
Colorado/Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/Global Systems
Division, and Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), J. Levitt, NOAA/Environmental Modeling Center, I.
Stajner, NOAA/Office of Science and
Technology Integration, and L. Nance, NCAR
and DTC |
Posters: Development and Evaluation of Model Physics
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A
mosaic approach to land cover characterization in MPAS-A. Campbell,
Patrick C.,
Jesse O. Bash, Jerold A. Herwehe, and Robert Gilliam, United States Environmental Protection Agency |
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Coupling
of a detailed snow model to Noah-MP in WRF-Hydro for glacier mass balance and
glacier runoff studies. Eidhammer, Trude, Roy Rasmussen,
and Dave Gochis, National Center for
Atmospheric Research |
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Impact
of satellite and model based soil moisture initial conditions on coupled
NU-WRF simulations. Santanello,
Joseph, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA/GSFC), Patricia Lawston,
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary
Center/University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), Sujay Kumar, NASA/GSFC, and Eli Dennis, UMCP |
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Sensitivity
of HWRF simulations to parameter variations in the Grell-Freitas convection
scheme. Grell, Evelyn, University of Colorado/Cooperative Institute
for Research in Environmental Sciences (CU/CIRES) at the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/Earth System Research Laboratory
(ESRL)/Physical Science Division (PSD), and Developmental Testbed Center
(DTC), Mrinal Biswas, DTC and National
Center for Atmospheric Administration (NCAR), Georg Grell, NOAA/ESRL/Global Systems Division (GSD), Evan Kalina, CU/CIRES and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Kathryn Newman, DTC and NCAR, Ligia Bernardet, CIRES, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and DTC, Laurie Carson, DTC and NCAR, and James Frimel, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, DTC, and Colorado State University/Cooperative
Institute for Research in the Atmosphere |
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Testing
of the Grell-Freitas convective scheme with HWRF. Biswas, Mrinal
K., K.
Newman, Developmental Testbed Center
(DTC) and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), E. Kalina, E.
Grell, L. Bernardet, DTC, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/Earth System Research
Laboratory (ESRL), and University of Colorado/Cooperative Institute for
Research in Environmental Sciences (CU/CIRES), J. Zhang, NOAA/Atlantic Oceanographic and
Meteorological Laboratory/Hurricane Research Division, G. Grell, NOAA/ESRL, L. Carson, DTC/NCAR, and J. Frimel, NOAA/ESRL and Colorado State
University/Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere |
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Analysis of seasonally-dependent bias in WRF PBL schemes for the southern
Appalachian Mountains. Thaxton, Chris and Quinlin
Riggs, Appalachian State University |
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A new subgrid-scale orographic drag parameterization suite for the
RAP/HRRR model. Toy, Michael D., Joseph B.
Olson, Tanya G. Smirnova, Jaymes S. Kenyon, John M. Brown, Georg A. Grell, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Earth
System Research Laboratory, and University of Colorado/Cooperative Institute
for Research in Environmental Sciences |
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Including
stochastic parameter perturbations into Thompson-Eidhammer microphysics scheme. Thompson,
Gregory, Judith
Berner, National Center for Atmospheric
Research, Jason Otkin, Sarah Griffin, University
of Wisconsin/Cooperative Institute for Meteorological
Satellite Studies, and Fanyou Kong, University of Oklahoma/Center for Analysis
and Prediction of Storms |
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Chen, Jen-Ping, Tzu-Chin Tsai,
Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
National Taiwan University |
Session 8: Real-time Forecast System Development and
Verification
8:30 - 10:15 Thursday, June 14
Chair: Cliff
Mass, Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Washington
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Pan, Linlin, Yubao Liu,
Gregory Roux, Yuewei Liu, Luca Delle Monache, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Ju Hu, Shuanglong Jin, and
Shuanglei Feng, Chinese Electric Power
Research Institute, SGCC, China |
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The operational
future of the Rapid-Refresh (RAP) and High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR). Alexander,
Curtis,
Steve Weygandt, Stan Benjamin, David Dowell, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Ming Hu,
Tanya Smirnova, Joe Olson, Jaymes Kenyon, NOAA
and University of Colorado/Cooperative Institute for Research in
Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Georg Grell, NOAA, Eric James, NOAA and CIRES,
Haidao Lin, NOAA and Colorado State
University/Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Terra
Ladwig, NOAA and CIRES, John Brown,
Trevor Alcott, NOAA, and Isidora
Jankov, NOAA and CIRA |
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8.3 |
Current
MPAS development and forecast skill improvement for Weather Company operations. Cipriani, James
P.,
Brett A. Wilt, John Wong, and Todd A. Hutchinson, The Weather Company, an IBM Business |
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Conrick, Robert, and Clifford
F. Mass, University of Washington |
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A globally
relocatable high-resolution WRF realtime forecast system for renewable energy. Deng, Aijun, Younghun Kim,
Srivats Shukla, Wander Wadman and Ali Mohammed, Utopus
Insights, INC. Valhalla, NY, USA |
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Why resolution
matters when using WRF to drive hydrology and hydrodynamic models. Watson, Campbell
D.,
Guillaume Auger, James P. Cipriani, Eli M. Dow, Michael E. Henderson, Harry
R. Kolar, Mukul Tewari, Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY |
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Lindsay Blank, Wolff, Jamie K., Michelle Harrold, National Center for Atmospheric research
and Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), and Jeff Beck, Colorado State University/Cooperative
Institute for Research in the Atmosphere/Affiliated with National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration/Earth System Research Laboratory/ Global Systems Division,
and Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) |
10:15 - 10:45
Coffee Break
Session 9: Development and Testing of PBL and Land
Surface Physics
10:45- 12:00 Thursday, June 14
Chair: Mike Barlage, NCAR
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Recent advances
in three-dimensional turbulent mixing parameterization in the WRF model. Jimenez, Pedro A., National Center for Atmospheric research
(NCAR), Alberto Martilli, CIEMAT,
Spain, and Branko Kosovic, NCAR |
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The influence of
boundary layer mixing on the evolution of an extratropical cyclone. Vaughan, Matthew, and Robert
Fovell, University at Albany |
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Sensitivity of
urban canopy and land surface models to input land cover data. Shaffer, Stephen
R., Arizona State University |
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Evaluation of a
gray-zone PBL scheme at sub-kilometer resolutions. Hong, Song-You, Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction
Systems |
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Kalina, Evan, University of Colorado/Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Global Systems Division (NOAA/GSD)
and the Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), Mrinal Biswas, Kathryn
Newman, National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR) and DTC, Evelyn Grell, CIRES at NOAA’s Physical Sciences Division (NOAA/PSD) and DTC, Georg
Grell, NOAA/GSD, Joseph Cione, NOAA/PSD and NOAA's Hurricane Research
Division (NOAA/HRD), Kelly Ryan, University
of Miami/Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) and
NOAA/HRD, Bin Liu, NOAA's
Environmental Modeling Center (NOAA/EMC) and I.M. Systems Group, Inc. (IMSG), Zhan Zhang, NOAA/EMC, James Frimel, Colorado State University/Cooperative
Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at NOAA/GSD and DTC, and Laurie
Carson, NCAR and DTC |
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch
Session 10: From Local to Global Modeling
1:30 - 3:00 Thursday, June 14
Chair:
Louis Wicker, National Severe Storms Laboratory/NOAA
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WRF-LES episode
III: the microscale awakens. Montornes, Alex, Pau Casso, Gil
Lizcano, Vortex, and Branko Kosovic,
National Center for Atmospheric
Research |
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Sensitivity of
wind turbine array downstream effects to the parameterization used in WRF. Shepherd,
Tristan J, Cornell University (CU), Patrick
Volker, Technical University of Denmark
(DTU), Denmark, Rebecca J Barthelmie, CU,
Andrea N Hahmann, DTU, and Sara C
Pryor, CU |
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Imberger, Marc, Xiaoli Guo
Larsén, Jianting Du, and Neil Davis, Department
of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark |
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Vertical
resolution, energetics and dissipation in high-resolution atmospheric
simulations. Skamarock, Bill, Chris Snyder,
Joe Klemp, National Center for
Atmospheric Research, and Sang-Hun Park, Yonsei University, South Korea |
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Global
convection-allowing ensemble forecasts with MPAS. Schwartz, Craig, and Ryan
Sobash, National Center for Atmospheric
Research |
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Gilliam, Robert, Jerold
Herwehe, Russell Bullock and Jonathan Pleim, United States Environmental Protection Agency |
3:00 - 3:30
Coffee
Break
3:30 - 4:30 Thursday, June 14
Wrap-up
Discussion: Model and Physics Unification Issues
4:30 Thursday, June 14
Meeting Adjourned
Friday June 15 – Instructional Sessions
8:30 – 10:00
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Visualizing
WRF-ARW and MPAS Data Using NCL:
CG1 – North Auditorium
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Proper Care
and Feeding of your Cloud-Based WRF (WRF
in the Cloud): CG1 – Center Auditorium
Presentation
by Kevin Jorissen (Amazon Web Services)
8:30 – 12:00
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VAPOR: CG2 –
Corporate Technical Training Center (CTTC)
10:30 – 11:00
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**Recently Added: Building a WRF Workflow with Scala Computing (WRF in the
Cloud): CG1 – South Auditorium
10:30 – 12:00
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Analyzing
and Visualizing WRF-ARW Data Using WRF-Python
and other Python Tools: CG1 – Center
Auditorium
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Simplifying
End-to-End Numerical Modeling Using Software Containers (WRF in Docker): CG1 – North
Auditorium