Session 2 National and International Efforts and Partnerships Such as Community Global Modeling: Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) and Beyond. Improvements, Key Components and Statistical Techniques to Evaluate Global Models: Part II

Monday, 7 January 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs:
Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD and Thanh Vo Dinh, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis, Silver Spring, MD

Papers:
10:30 AM
2.1
ECMWF-IFS and fvGFS Forecast Skill with the Same Initial Conditions
Linus Magnusson, ECMWF, Reading, UK; and J. H. Chen and S. J. Lin
10:45 AM
2.2A
Facilitating Development of Physical Parameterizations for NOAA's Unified Forecast System
Ligia Bernardet, NOAA/GSD, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES, and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and G. J. Firl, D. Heinzeller, L. Carson, M. Zhang, D. Stark, J. Schramm, L. Xue, and J. Dudhia

11:00 AM
2.3A
Neighborhood and Object-Based Probabilistic Verification of the OU MAP Ensemble from the 2018 Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment
Aaron Johnson, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and X. Wang, Y. Wang, A. E. Reinhart, A. J. Clark, and I. L. Jirak

11:15 AM
2.4
11:30 AM
2.5
The 2018 DTC Community Workshop on Unified Forecast System Test Plan and Metrics for Model Validation and Verification: Meeting Results and Research to Operations Planning
Jason J. Levit, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and T. Jensen, L. Bernardet, I. Stajner, S. Morris, J. L. Kinter III, C. Alexander, and R. D. Torn
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