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: Part II

Monday, 13 January 2025: 10:45 AM-12:00 PM
341 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O)
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
A Pilot Study of Aerosol Dependency of the Community Convective Clouds (C3) Scheme in NOAA’s Unified Forecast System (UFS) Weather Model
Haiqin Li, CIRES/CU at NOAA/GSL, Boulder, CO; CIRES, Boulder, CO; and G. Grell and S. Freitas

11:00 AM
2B.2
Using the METplus TC Tools to Verify Tropical Cyclones in Real Time
Molly B. Smith, NOAA/GSL - CIRES, Boulder, CO; and K. M. Newman, G. P. McCabe Jr., J. H. Gotway, R. Pierce, I. McGinnis, G. Padmanabhan, M. S. Wandishin, and J. A. Hamilton

11:15 AM
2B.3
Cloud Adaptive Additive Inflation for Improved Assimilation of All-Sky ABI Radiances in JEDI-MPAS
Aaron T. Johnson, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. S. Shearer and X. Wang

11:30 AM
2B.4
Objective Verification of Select 2024 HWT Spring Forecast Experiment Prototypes Using the DTC's Agile Framework
Gerard Ketefian, NOAA/GSL, DTC, Boulder, CO; and J. Beck, M. A. Harrold, M. J. Kavulich Jr., W. Mayfield, C. S. Schwartz, V. Vargas Jr. Jr., and M. Stopa

11:45 AM
2B.5
Verifying Predictions from RRFS-Smoke Prototypes using METplus within the UFS SRW Application
Michael J. Kavulich Jr., NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. A. Harrold, G. Ketefian, J. Beck, W. Mayfield, V. Vargas Jr. Jr., J. Halley Gotway, R. Ahmadov, J. Romero-Alvarez, J. Schnell, H. Li, and S. Bhimireddy

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