Session 4A |
| | Tropical Cyclone Modeling III: Operational Models |
| | Chair: Jim Goerss, NRL, Monterey, CA
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| 3:30 PM | 4A.1 | Tropical cyclone initialisation in the Met Office global model: Is it still necessary and can it be improved?  
Julian T. Heming, Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom |
| 3:45 PM | 4A.2 | Initalizations in Advanced Operational Hurricane WRF (HWRF) Model
Qingfu Liu, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and N. Surgi, S. Lord, R. E. Tuleya, V. Tallapragada, and Y. Kwon |
| 4:00 PM | 4A.3 | Interpretation of tropical cyclone forecast sensitivity and dynamics from a NOGAPS singular vector perspective
Jan-Huey Chen, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and M. S. Peng, C. A. Reynolds, and C. -. C. Wu |
| 4:15 PM | 4A.4 | Improvements to the Navy's version of the GFDL Tropical Cyclone Model (GFDN) and evaluation of its Prediction Skill
Morris A. Bender, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and I. Ginis and R. M. Yablonsky |
| 4:30 PM | 4A.5 | Performance of the Advanced Operational HWRF Modeling System during pre-implementation testing and in real-time 2007 hurricane season
Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and N. Surgi, Q. Liu, Y. Kwon, R. Tuleya, and W. O'Connor |
| 4:45 PM | 4A.6 | Improving wind-pressure relationship and intensity forecast skill of the operational HWRF
Young C. Kwon, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and N. Surgi, S. J. Lord, R. E. Tuleya, Q. Liu, and V. Tallapragada |
| 5:00 PM | 4A.7 | Evaluation of tropical cyclone surface wind structure in operational NWP model forecasts
Timothy Marchok, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and R. Rogers and M. Powell |