Session 3B Special Session: The UFS-R2O Project: Advancing NOAA’s Unified Forecast System [UFS] as a Collaborative Community-Based Modeling System for Research and Operations III

Monday, 29 January 2024: 1:45 PM-3:00 PM
323 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs:
Curtis R. Alexander and Fanglin Yang, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD

Papers:
1:45 PM
3B.1
Development and Status of NOAA’s Rapid Refresh Forecast System
Jacob R. Carley, EMC, College Park, MD; and M. E. Pyle, C. R. Alexander, and S. S. Weygandt

2:00 PM
3B.2
Eliminating Excessive Evaporation by Reducing Explicit Drop Break-Up Due to Collisions with Graupel in RRFS
Eric A. Aligo, SAIC, COLLEGE PARK, MD; and G. Thompson, R. Sun, J. R. Carley, and F. Yang

2:15 PM
3B.3
Building Test and Evaluation Systems for Development of the Rapid Refresh Forecast System Toward Operational Applications
Ming Hu, GSL, Boulder, CO; NOAA/GSL, Boulder, CO; and S. Liu, S. S. Weygandt, C. R. Alexander, and J. R. Carley

2:30 PM
3B.4
Development and Evaluation of the Rapid Refresh Forecast System Ensemble Components
Chunhua Zhou, CIRES and NOAA/OAR/GSL, Boulder, CO; and D. Dowell, T. T. Ladwig, M. Hu, T. I. Alcott, S. Yokota, S. Liu, J. R. Carley, T. lei, J. Beck, C. R. Alexander, S. S. Weygandt, and J. Kenyon

2:45 PM
3B.5
Impact of Ensemble Design in the Rapid Refresh Forecast System Using Initial Condition and Stochastic Perturbations
Gerard Ketefian, NOAA/GSL, DTC, Boulder, CO; and J. Beck, M. A. Harrold, W. Mayfield, C. P. Kalb, B. Nelson, C. Schwartz, and V. Vargas Jr.

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