14th Conference on Mesoscale Processes
    

Session 8

 Mesoscale predictability and data assimilation II
 Chair: Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
8:00 AM8.1On the impact of the assimilation of nacelle winds and yaw angles with WRF-FDDA and WRF-DART for short-term wind energy predictions  
Caroline Draxl, Risoe DTU Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde, Denmark; and L. delle Monache, Y. Liu, G. Descombes, F. Vandenberghe, W. Y. Y. Cheng, A. N. Hahmann, G. Giebel, and J. C. Knievel
8:15 AM8.2Observing Strategy and Observation Targeting for Tropical Cyclones using Ensemble-based Sensitivity Analysis and Data Assimilation  
Baoguo Xie, Peking University, Beijing, China; and Q. Zhang Sr., F. Zhang, Y. Weng, and J. Poterjoy
8:30 AM8.3On the assimilation of near surface observations with 3Dvar and EnKF  
Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and H. Zhang
8:45 AM8.4Impact of radar retrieval winds on data assimilation and forecast of a mesoscale convective storm using Non-Hydrostatic Model  
Wai-Kin Wong, Hong Kong Observatory, Kowloon, Hong Kong; and M. K. Or, P. W. Chan, and C. M. Cheng
9:00 AM8.5Improving offshore atmospheric mesoscale model results - The Berlengas case study  
Paulo silva Costa, LNEG, Lisboa, Portugal; and M. A. Fernandes and A. I. Estanqueiro
9:15 AM8.6Reconstruct the Meso-scale Information of Typhoon with BDA Method Combined with AMSU-A Data Assimilation Method  
Wang Yunfeng Sr., PLA University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China; and W. Bin Sr., F. Jianfang Sr., H. Yueqi, and C. Xiaoping Sr.
9:30 AM8.7Simulation of a heavy rainfall event in Pune using WRF-ARW with updated vegetation cover and urban canopy parameterization  
Viswanadhapalli Yesubabu, Centre for Deveolpment of Advaced Computing(CDAC -Pune), Pune, India
9:45 AM8.8Modeling meso-gamma scale weather flows using nested-grid WRF LES scale models and FDDA for a wind farm in Northern Colorado  
Yuewei Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, W. Cheng, W. Wu, L. Pan, B. Kosvic, T. Warner, G. Wiener, S. Haupt, and W. Mahoney

Wednesday, 3 August 2011: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Marquis Salon 456

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