Session 8A |
| | Radar Data Assimilation |
| | CoChair: Steven Rugg, Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE
Chair: Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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| 9:00 AM | 8A.1 | The Relative Importance of Assimilating Radial Velocity and Reflectivity Data  
Jidong Gao, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. Ge and D. J. Stensrud |
| 9:15 AM | 8A.2 | A multi-case assessment of the ensemble Kalman filter for assimilation of radar observations
Altug Aksoy, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Miami, FL; and D. Dowell and C. Snyder |
| 9:30 AM | 8A.3 | Short-term explicit forecasting and nowcasting of convection systems with WRF using a hybrid radar data assimilation approach
Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Yu, T. Warner, J. Sun, Q. Xiao, and J. Pace |
| 9:45 AM | 8A.4 | Doppler Radar Data Assimilation and High Resolution Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting: IHOP Retrospective Studies
Qingnong Xiao, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Sun, E. Lim, and H. Wang |