Session 14B Models and Data Assimilation to Enable and Accelerate the Transition of Research to Operations to Decision Makers, End Users and to the Public in Weather, Water or Climate Applications: Testbeds

Thursday, 10 January 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs:
Daryl Kleist, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD and Jennifer B. Webster, NOAA, NOS/IOOS, Silver Spring, MD

Papers:
1:30 PM
14B.1
An Overview of the 2018 Experimental Warning Program at the Hazardous Weather Testbed
Tiffany C. Meyer, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. Berry, M. A. Bowlan, K. M. Calhoun, P. A. Campbell, A. Gerard, J. J. Gourley, T. L. Hansen, K. E. Klockow-McClain, S. M. Martinaitis, H. Obermeier, G. J. Stumpf, and J. Wolfe
1:45 PM
14B.2
Assessing the Impact of Stochastic Cloud Microphysics in High-Resolution Models Using GOES-16 Infrared Brightness Temperatures
Jason A. Otkin, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and S. M. Griffin, G. Thompson, M. E. Frediani, J. Berner, and F. Kong
2:00 PM
14B.3
Test of a Hybrid Data Assimilation Scheme for the Warn-on-Forecast Project During the HWT Spring Experiments in 2018
Yunheng Wang, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and J. Gao, P. S. Skinner, K. H. Knopfmeier, T. A. Jones, G. Creager, P. L. Heinselman, and L. J. Wicker
2:15 PM
14B.4
Forecast System Development Activities Toward a Convective-Scale Ensemble for NOAA
Glen Romine, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. A. Sobash, D. C. Dowell, C. Schwartz, M. Wong, C. Alexander, and J. R. Carley
2:30 PM
14B.5
Developmental Testbed Center: Facilitating R2O for Numerical Weather Prediction
Louisa Nance, NCAR and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and J. Beck, L. Bernardet, G. J. Firl, M. Hu, T. Jensen, E. Kalina, M. Marquis, K. M. Newman, J. Wolff, and C. Zhou
2:45 PM
14B.6
MetWatch Forecasters’ First Evaluations of NSSL’s Experimental Warn-on-Forecast System for Ensembles (NEWS-e)
Pamela L. Heinselman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. A. Wilson, A. Orrison, N. Yussouf, and P. S. Skinner
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