Session 17 | 
|   | Mesoscale predictability and data assimilation I | 
|   | Chair: S.-H. Chen, Univ. of California, Davis, CA 
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 | 1:45 PM | 17.1 | A statistical analysis on the predictability of tropical cyclogenesis     Dianna N. Nelson, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Morgan | 
 | 2:00 PM | 17.2 | Assessing the impact of Airborne Doppler Lidar wind profiles on hurricane track and intensity forecasts    Lei Zhang, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Z. Pu and B. Gentry | 
 | 2:15 PM | 17.3 | Error and uncertainty in ensemble predictions of tropical storms     Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Snyder, H. Liu, and J. Hacker | 
 | 2:30 PM | 17.4 | Application of a WRF mesoscale ensemble data assimilation system to severe weather events during spring 2009     Dustan M. Wheatley, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Coniglio and D. J. Stensrud | 
 | 2:45 PM | 17.5 | The impact of assimilating retrieved total precipitable water and sounding data from AIRS and MODIS on severe weather simulations     Yi-Chin Liu, University of California, Davis, CA; and S. H. Chen | 
 | 3:00 PM | 17.6 | Examination of the impact of variable terrains on surface data assimilation    Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT |