Session: Quasi-Operational Products You Can Use Now—The View from The Dry and Wet Side (100th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Monday, 13 January 2020: 2:00 PM-4:00 PM

157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs:

Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA, NOS/IOOS, Silver Spring, MD and Jennifer Mahoney, NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO

This session aims to bring attention to those applications, technologies, or techniques that are well advanced with respect to the Technology Readiness Level continuum. These applications, technologies, or techniques have not yet been made officially operational by organizations such as the National Weather Service, but are being produced regularly in an "operational like" manner and made available for general use. Historical examples are the HRRR forecast model, the MRMS precipitation and severe weather analysis/nowcasting system, harmful algal bloom (HAB) forecasts, high frequency radar (HFR) wave and current estimates, and the MADIS repository for surface observations and other observations.

Papers:

2:00 PM

3A.1

Quasi-Operational Functionality in MADIS

Leon Benjamin, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. Pratt

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3A.2

Testing and Refinement of a Three-Dimensional Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (3D-RTMA) for Severe Weather, Aviation, Operational Forecasting, and Other Nowcast Applications

Steve Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and G. Ge, M. Hu, J. Carley, C. Alexander, T. T. Ladwig, G. Zhao, E. Colon, C. Hartsough, M. Pondeca, and S. Levine

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3A.3

High-Resolution QPE Products from the Experimental MRMS System

Jian Zhang, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. W. Howard, S. B. Cocks, S. M. Martinaitis, L. Tang, A. P. Osborne, M. Simpson, W. Hanft, C. Langston, B. T. Kaney, K. Cooper, A. Arthur, and J. Brogden

2:45 PM

3A.4

High-Resolution Real-Time Forecasting of Smoke and Visibility for the CONUS and Alaska: The HRRR-Smoke System

E. P. James, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO; and R. Ahmadov, G. Grell, C. Alexander, S. Benjamin, S. McKeen, M. M. Bela, K. Y. Wong, G. Pereira, S. R. Freitas, I. A. Csiszar, M. Tsidulko, S. Kondragunta, and C. Xu

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

3A.5

Development and Application of Global Aerosol Forecasts Using the Online Coupled GEFS–Aerosol Model

Georg A. Grell, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and L. Zhang, S. A. McKeen, R. Montuoro, P. Bhattacharjee, S. Kondragunta, L. Pan, J. K. Henderson, G. J. Frost, X. Zhang, J. T. McQueen, R. Ahmadov, F. Li, J. Wang, B. Baker, and R. Saylor

Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM

3A.6

Real-Time Subseasonal Forecast with SubX

Shan Sun, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and K. Pegion

3:30 PM

3A.7

Adaptation of METplus Wrappers at GSD for Ensemble Verification

Jeff A. Hamilton, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and M. B. Smith, R. Pierce, V. Hagerty, B. Strong, and D. D. Turner

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

3A.8