Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

Program Chairs: James G. Yoe , NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation ; Thomas Auligné , Meteo France

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Sunday, 6 January 2019

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4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Plenary Session
Presidential Forum: Building Resilience to Extreme Political Weather: Advice for Unpredictable Times
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Forum and Annual Meeting Welcome; the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 16th Conference on Space Weather; the 17th History Symposium; the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference; the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Symposium on Education; the 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the Fifth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Phased Array Radar Symposium; the Special Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation; the Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; the 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Hydrology; the Richard Anthes Symposium; the Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection; the Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats; the Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Fourth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; and the Events )
Moderator: Michael Henry, American Institute of Physics
Presider: Roger Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Speakers: Dan Kahan, American Institute of Physics; David Goldston, MIT
4:00 PM
Presidential Forum: Building Resilience to Extreme Political Weather: Advice for Unpredictable Times

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Plenary Session
Annual Meeting Welcome
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Forum and Annual Meeting Welcome; the Fourth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the 16th Conference on Space Weather; the 17th History Symposium; the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference; the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Symposium on Education; the Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats; the Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection; and the Events )
Moderator: Roger Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

Tuesday, 8 January 2019

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7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


AMS Information Desk (Tuesday)
Location: North 100 Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Member Services Desk (Tuesday)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Quiet Room (Tuesday)
Location: West 206 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Registration (Tuesday)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Speaker Ready Room (Tuesday)
Location: North 121A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:30 AM-9:15 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 1
New and Improved Data Assimilation Tools and Methods
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
Chair: Benjamin Johnson, UCAR
8:30 AM
1.1
Convergence Issues in the Estimation of Interchannel Correlated Observation Errors in Infrared Radiance Data
Pierre Gauthier, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montréal, QC, Canada; and P. Du, S. Heilliette, and L. Garand
Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.9 MB)

8:45 AM
1.2
A Fast Microwave Ocean Surface Emissivity and BRDF Model Based on Successive Machine Learning in Subphysical Spaces
Ming Chen, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and K. J. Garrett and T. Zhu

9:00 AM
1.3
Predicting Forecast Sensitivity: Observation Impact with Machine Learning
Francois Vandenberghe, JCSDA, Boulder, CO; and G. Bolmier, T. Auligné, R. B. Mahajan, and D. Holdaway
Recorded Presentation

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Joint Session 9
National and International Program Overviews for Environmental Satellites (Invited)
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; and the Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )
Cochairs: Bill Sjoberg, GST/JPSS Program Office; Jamie Hawkins
J9.1
The Role of Satellite Observations in Building Resilience through National and International Partnerships

8:30 AM
J9.1A
GOES-R Series Update
Tim Gasparrini, Lockheed Martin

J9.2
Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS): The Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 Successes Assure a Bright Future for NOAA’s Support to Its Key Stakeholders

J9.3
The GOES-R Series: Earth in High Definition

9:00 AM
J9.4
Status of EUMETSAT's Satellite Programmes and Preparing for the Future
Kenneth Holmlund, Chief Scientist - European Organisation for Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), Darmstadt, Germany; and B. Bojkov, P. Schluessel, J. Grandell, R. Munro, and D. Klaes
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
J9.5
Status of the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) Program
Jong Seok Kim, KMA, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and H. Park
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
Fengyun Meteorological Satellites and Consideration on Calibration Issues
Peng Zhang, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
Recorded Presentation

Handout (8.2 MB)

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Guest Coffee (Tuesday)
Location: Hospitality Suite 428 (Sheraton Hotel )

9:00 AM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Sedona Red Rocks Tours

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Exhibit Hall (Tuesday)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Poster Hall (Tuesday)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

9:15 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

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Session 2
Land, Ocean, Cryosphere, Air Quality, and Coupled Earth System Data Assimilation
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
Chair: Nancy L. Baker, NRL
9:15 AM
2.1
ECMWF EDA-SEKF Soil Moisture Analysis for Numerical Weather Prediction
Patricia de Rosnay, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and E. Hólm, N. Rodríguez-Fernández, D. Fairbairn, P. Browne, M. Bonavita, L. Isaksen, and S. English
Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.6 MB)

2.2
Aerosol Impact on Satellite Radiance Assimilation and Numerical Weather Prediction at the U.S Naval Research Laboratory

9:45 AM
2.3
Toward a Near-Real-Time Surface Flux Update for Atmospheric Composition at ECMWF
Jerome Barre, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and M. Ades, A. Augusti-Panareda, N. Bousserez, R. Engelen, J. Flemming, A. Inness, Z. Kipling, S. Massart, M. Parrington, and V. H. Peuch
Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


AM Coffee Break (Tuesday)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Meet President Roger M. Wakimoto (Tuesday)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:30 AM-11:15 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

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Session 3
Next-Generation Satellites and Sensors Data Assimilation. Part I
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
Chair: James G. Yoe, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
10:30 AM
3.1
Assimilation of ABI and GLM at High Temporal and Spatial Scales
Max Marchand, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO; and K. Hilburn
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
3.2
Assimilating Every-10-minute Himawari-8 Infrared Radiances to Improve Convective Predictability
Yohei Sawada, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan; and K. Okamoto, M. Kunii, and T. Miyoshi
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
3.3
Improving Convection Initiation Forecasts by Assimilating High-Resolution GOES-16 ABI Infrared Water Vapor and Cloud Sensitive Radiances Using GSI-Based EnKF/EnVar
Aaron Johnson, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and X. Wang, T. A. Jones, and J. Otkin
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 4
Next-Generation Satellites and Sensors Data Assimilation. Part II
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
Chair: Thomas Auligné, JCSDA, UCAR
11:15 AM
4.1
Evaluation of the Impact from CrIS Full Spectral Resolution, ABI, and Other Satellite Radiance Data on the RAP Hourly Updated Assimilation System
H. Lin, CIRA/Colorado State Univ. and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. Weygandt, M. Hu, J. M. Brown, A. Back, C. R. Alexander, and S. Benjamin
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
4.2
Assimilation of SAR Ice and Open-Water Retrievals in Sea Ice Numerical Prediction System
Alexander Komarov, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and A. Caya, M. Buehner, and L. Pogson

11:45 AM
4.3
JEDI Interface to a Coupled Ocean Sea–Ice Model
Guillaume Vernieres, NOAA, College Park, MD
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Lunch Break (Tuesday)

Women in Atmospheric Sciences Luncheon
Location: North Ballroom 120AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Building Resiliency to Extreme Weather Events through International Partnerships with the Application of Advanced Satellite Technology
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Side Panels; the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; and the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Organizer: Gary McWilliams, NESDIS JPSS Program Office/Science and Technology Corporation
Panelists: Louis W. Uccellini, Director, NOAA/NWS; Florence Rabier, Director General - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF); Kenneth Holmlund, Chief Scientist - European Organisation for Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT); Naoyuki Hasegawa, Director General - Observation Department, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA); Hoon Park, Director-General - National Meteorological Satellite Center, Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA)
Moderator: Lars Peter Riishojgaard, WMO
Facilitator: Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis
Louis Uccellini Director, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS), Silver Spring, MD, USA

Florence Rabier Director General, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, Berkshire, U.K.
Recorded Presentation

Kenneth Holmlund Chief Scientist, European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), Darmstadt, Germany
Recorded Presentation

Naoyuki Hasegawa Director General, Observation Department, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Tokyo, Japan
Recorded Presentation

Hoon Park Director-General, National Meteorological Satellite Center, Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), Jincheon, Republic of South Korea
Recorded Presentation

12:15 PM
Bios -- Steve Mango
Recorded Presentation

12:30 PM
Coming Next -- Steve Mango
Recorded Presentation

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Daily Weather Briefings (Tuesday)
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 5
All-Sky Radiance Assimilation
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
Chair: Ronald Gelaro, NASA GSFC
1:30 PM
5.1
Impact of GMI All-Sky Radiance Assimilation in the NASA GEOS Forecast System
Ronald Gelaro, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. Kim and W. McCarty

1:45 PM
5.2
Use of Cloud-Affected Microwave Radiances at the Met Office and Interaction with Variational Data Assimilation
Brett Candy, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and S. Migliorini and D. Rundle
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
5.3
All-Sky Assimilation of Microwave and Infrared Humidity Sounding Radiances at the Met Office
Stefano Migliorini, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and B. Candy and E. Pavelin
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
5.4A
Recent Advances in the Community Radiative Transfer Model
Benjamin Johnson, UCAR, College Park, MD
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


PM Coffee Break (Tuesday)
Location: Meeting room foyers (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 6
Contributions to the Joint Effort for Data Assimilation Integation (JEDI)
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
Chair: Guillaume Vernieres, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, UCAR
3:00 PM
6.1
The Joint Effort for Data Assimilation Integration (JEDI)
Yannick Trémolet, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM
6.2
Preparations for Next-Generational "Exascale" Data Assimilation at the Met Office
Dale Barker, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and A. Lorenc, M. Wlasak, S. Sandbach, T. Auligné, Y. Trémolet, and C. Snyder
Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM
6.3
Toward a Cloud Analysis and Forecasting System Leveraging JEDI
Chris Snyder, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Auligné, D. Barker, Z. Liu, Y. Trémolet, and M. Wlasak
Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM
6.4
FV3-JEDI: Progress toward Interfacing the GFS and GEOS Weather Forecast Models with JEDI
Daniel Holdaway, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Boulder, CO; and Y. Trémolet
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Book Talks @ Authors Corner (Tues)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Formal Poster Viewing Reception (Tues)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Poster Session 1
Seventh Symposium on the JCSDA Poster Session
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
679
Introducing CDAT, the CIRA Data Assimilation Testbed
Steven J. Fletcher, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and M. Goodliff, A. Kliewer, A. S. Jones, and J. Forsythe

680
Status of Satellite Data Assimilation in the NSSL Experimental Warn-on-Forecast System
Thomas A. Jones, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies/Univ. of Oklahoma, and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. Mallick, K. H. Knopfmeier, D. C. Dowell, X. Wang, P. S. Skinner, P. Minnis, R. Palikonda, and W. L. Smith Jr.

681
Impact of Assimilating High-Density GOES-Derived Wind Vectors on Numerical Analyses of Severe Storm Environments on the U.S. Central Plains
James Marquis, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and J. Wurman, K. L. Rasmussen, and R. Rabin

Improving Analysis with New Generation Earth Observations from Space-Benefits and Opportunities

682
A Proactive Quality Control (PQC) Based on Ensemble Forecast Sensitivity to Observations
Tse-Chun Chen, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay

683
Machine Learning for Data Preparation: Improving Soil Moisture Filed

684
The Impact of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) Data on Tropical Cyclone Forecast
Jung-Rim Lee, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, WI; and J. Li, P. Wang, and J. Li

685
Using Multisensor Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals to Improve Infrared Radiance Assimilation
Aaron Naeger, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and C. B. Blankenship, J. Srikishen, E. B. Berndt, and B. T. Zavodsky

686
GNSSRO Data Assimilation Development Activities at JCSDA
Francois Vandenberghe, JCSDA, Boulder, CO; and H. Shao, H. Zhang, S. Dutta, and J. G. Yoe

687
Multiscale Analysis Schemes for the WRF Three-/Four-Dimensional Ensemble Variational Data Assimilation System (WRFDA 3/4DEnVar): Formulations and Case Results
Hongli Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO

688
Impact of the Dynamic Observation Error of COSMIC RO Bending Angle Data on Tropical Cyclone Sinlaku (2008)
Hailing zhang, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. P. Ho, Y. H. Kuo, and F. Vandenberghe

689
Improving Radiance Data Assimilation over Land through Surface Emissivity Study
Hui Shao, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Orescanin and K. Garret

690
Impact of All-Sky Microwave Radiance Assimilation of Megha-Tropiques SAPHIR Data on Short-Range Weather Forecasts
Phani Rama Sandeep Chinta, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India; and C. Balaji

691
All-Sky Assimilation of ATMS Observations with Correlated Error

692
Comparison of All-sky Radiance Assimilation with Different Cloud Control Variables for FV3GFS
Mingjing Tong, Engility Corporation at GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and Y. Zhu and L. Zhou

693
Implementation and Investigation on the Assimilation of Precipitation-Affected Microwave Radiances in the NCEP FV3DA System

694
An Overview of the NAVGEM Global Hybrid 4D-Var System
Nancy L. Baker, NRL, Monterey, CA

695
Data Assimilation to Represent Unmodeled Anthropogenic Processes and Topographic Correction
Akhilesh S. Nair, Indian Insitute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India; and I. J

696
Accuracy and Bias in Global Ocean Reanalyses
Jim Carton, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and G. Chepurin and L. Chen

697
Intercomparison between CRTM and RTTOV in the NCEP Global Model

698
CRTM Support to GMAO, Validation, and Coefficient Generation
Isaac Moradi, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and W. McCarty

699
Development of Advanced Radiative Transfer Capabilities for Polarimetric Remote Sensing
Jiachen Ding, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Yang, M. D. King, S. Platnick, K. Meyer, P. Stegmann, and B. Johnson

700
Case Study of Using Satellite Altimetry to Improve the Simulation of Typhoon Storm Surge
Jingsong Yang, Second Institute of Oceanography, Hangzhou, China; and X. Li, G. Han, G. Zheng, and D. Chen

701
Polarized Radiative Transfer in the CRTM
Tom Greenwald, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and B. T. Johnson and R. Bennartz

702
CRTM Coefficient Generation to Support Current and Future Satellite Missions
Tong Zhu, NESDIS, College Park, MD; and M. Chen, K. Garrett, B. Yan, E. Bayler, Y. Chen, and Q. Liu

703
Upgrading the CRTM Hydrometeor Scattering Properties: Toward Fully Polarized Radiative Transfer
Patrick Stegmann, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, College Park, MD; and B. Johnson and E. Liu

6:00 PM-10:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


University Night Receptions

6:30 PM-8:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Inez Fung Dinner
Location: West 213AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Thursday, 10 January 2019

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1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Walter Orr Robert Lecture
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