Session: Assimilation of Observations (Ocean, Atmosphere, and Land Surface) into Models (87th AMS Annual Meeting)

Tuesday, 16 January 2007: 8:30 AM-4:00 PM

212B (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Chair: Lars Peter Riishojgaard, JCSDA

Papers:

8:30 AM

3.1

Building the next generation global atmospheric data assimilation system at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction

Stephen Lord, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. C. Derber and Z. Toth

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

3.2

NCEP's gridpoint statistical interpolation analysis system

John C. Derber, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Treadon, W. S. Wu, D. F. Parrish, and D. T. Kleist

9:00 AM

3.3

The Global Ocean Data Assimilation System (GODAS) at NCEP

David Behringer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

9:15 AM

3.4

Assimilating specific humidity observations with Local Ensemble Transform Kalman filter

Junjie Liu, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and E. Kalnay

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (203.1 kB)

9:30 AM

3.5

Testing of techniques for error analysis in assimilation of cloudy radiances

Rosanne Polkinghorne, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and T. Vukicevic and K. F. Evans

Poster PDF (139.3 kB)

9:45 AM

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

11:00 AM

3.6

An Investigation of the characterization of cloud contamination in hyperspectral radiances

Will McCarty, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; and G. J. Jedlovec, A. L. Molthan, and J. F. LeMarshall

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (464.7 kB)

11:15 AM

3.7

A HWRF numerical study of the wind field expansion with Hurricane Katrina during a period of rapid intensification

Christopher M. Hill, Geosystems Research Institute, Stennis Space Center, MS; and P. J. Fitzpatrick, Q. Xiao, J. Sun, Y. Li, and N. Tran

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

3.8

An Improved Data Reduction Tool in Support of the Real-Time Assimilation of NASA Satellite Data Streams

Michael Splitt, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and S. Lazarus, M. Lueken, R. Ramachandran, X. Li, S. Movva, S. Graves, B. Zavodsky, and W. M. Lapenta

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (361.1 kB)

11:45 AM

3.9

Investigation of WRF performance on Southwestern U.S during the Summer of 2006

Jitin Arora, University of Texas, El Paso, TX; and R. M. Fitzgerald, D. Lu, and C. A. Brock

Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

Lunch Break

1:30 PM

3.10

Variational quality control at NCEP

Xiujuan Su, SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Derber, D. Parrish, and R. Treadon

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

3.11

Assimilation of simulated CASA radar data of varied storm types using EnSRF for convective storm analyses and forecasts

Elaine S. Godfrey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. Droegemeier, M. Xue, and M. Tong

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (472.1 kB)

2:00 PM

3.12

A wildland fire Dynamic Data-Driven Application System

Janice L. Coen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. D. Beezley, L. S. Bennethum, C. C. Douglas, M. Kim, R. Kremens, J. Mandel, G. Qin, and A. Vodacek

http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jmandel/fires/

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (479.5 kB)

2:15 PM

3.13

On Using Data Assimilation in Dispersion Modeling

Anke Beyer, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and G. Young and S. E. Haupt

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (167.0 kB)

2:30 PM

3.14

Variational Doppler Radar Data Assimilation for the Weather Research and Forecasting Model

Qingnong Xiao, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Sun, W. C. Lee, E. Lim, J. Gu, S. Sugimoto, X. Zhang, Y. R. Guo, D. M. Barker, X. Y. Huang, and Y. H. Kuo

Recorded presentation