Session 17 |
| | Use of Mesoscale Numerical Modeling in Severe Local Storms Forecasting |
| | Organizer: Stanley Benjamin, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO
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| 10:30 AM | 17.1 | Examination of several different versions of the WRF model for the prediction of severe convective weather: The SPC/NSSL Spring Program 2004  
Steven J. Weiss, SPC, Norman, OK; and J. S. Kain, J. J. Levit, M. E. Baldwin, and D. R. Bright |
| 10:45 AM | 17.2 | The Promise and Challenge of Explicit Convective Forecasting with the WRF Model
Morris L. Weisman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Davis and J. Done |
| 11:00 AM | 17.3 | Improved moisture and PBL initialization in the RUC using METAR data
Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, D. Dévényi, J. M. Brown, G. A. Manikin, T. L. Smith, and T. G. Smirnova |
| 11:15 AM | 17.4 | Changes to the NCEP SREF system and their impact on convective forecasting
Geoffrey S. Manikin, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. T. McQueen, J. Du, and B. S. Ferrier |
| 11:30 AM | 17.5 | GPS-IPW observations and their assimilation into the 20-km RUC during severe weather season
Tracy Lorraine Smith, NOAA/FSL/CIRA, Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, S. G. Benjamin, S. I. Gutman, and S. Sahm |
| 11:45 AM | 17.6 | Severe weather forecasts from an ensemble of human-perturbed simulations using an adjoint model
Victor Homar, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud and J. J. Levit |
| 12:00 PM | 17.7 | Predicting propagating convective systems using operational forecast models
Melissa S. Bukovsky, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. S. Kain |
| 12:15 PM | 17.8 | Convective contamination and the poor forecasts that follow
James Correia Jr., Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and R. W. Arritt, W. Gallus, and I. Jankov |