Session 2B Special Session: The UFS-R2O Project: Advancing NOAA’s Unified Forecast System [UFS] As a Collaborative Community-Based Modeling System for Research and Operations II

Monday, 29 January 2024: 10:45 AM-12:00 PM
323 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs:
Vijay S. Tallapragada, NWS, NCEP/EMC/MDAB, College Park, MD and Fanglin Yang, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD

Papers:
10:45 AM
2B.1
Increasing Realism in NOAA's Probabilistic Global Predictions: Introducing Prognostic Aerosols in the Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS)
Raffaele Montuoro, NOAA, College Park, MD; and Y. Zhu, B. Fu, N. P. Barton, P. S. Bhattacharjee, L. Pan, B. Baker, L. Zhang, J. McQueen, A. Mehra, F. Yang, I. Stajner, and G. Frost

11:00 AM
2B.2
Near Real-Time Aerosol Assimilation and Prediction Using JEDI and NOAA’s UFS-Aerosols
Bo Huang, CU/CIRES and NOAA/OAR/GSL, Boulder, CO; and M. Pagowski, C. R. Martin, A. Tangborn, Y. Wang, M. Abdi-Oskouei, J. E. Barre, L. Zhang, S. Kondragunta, G. Grell, and G. Frost

11:15 AM
2B.3
Wave Component Updates for the Future GFSv17
Jessica Meixner, NOAA, College Park, MD; and M. Masarik, I. Fox, H. Haught, L. Stefanova, B. Fu, S. Banihashemi, A. Salimi-Tarazouj, G. Mohammadpour, and A. Mehra

11:30 AM
2B.4
Real-Time Ocean Forecast System Verifications Using METplus
L. Gwen Chen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD; and A. M. Bentley, G. S. Manikin, D. Spindler, P. C. Shafran, S. Ardani, and J. J. Levit

11:45 AM
2B.5
Examining Successes of R2O Implementation in the METplus Verification System
John Opatz, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. L. Jensen, J. Infanti, and J. Hicks

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