Session 15A |
| | Data Assimilation: RTMA and Rapid Refresh |
| | CoChair: Adam L. Houston, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Chair: Clinton M. Rowe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
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| 1:30 PM | 15A.1 | Experiments with anisotropic background error correlations in the Rapid Refresh system 
Dezso Devenyi, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, M. Hu, and S. G. Benjamin |
| 1:45 PM | 15A.2 | Recent improvements to the Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) 
Manuel Pondeca, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC and SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and G. S. Manikin |
| 2:00 PM | 15A.3 | Wind Gust Speed Analysis in RTMA
Yanqiu Zhu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and G. DiMego, J. Derber, M. Pondeca, G. Manikin, R. Treadon, D. Parrish, and J. Purser |
| 2:15 PM | 15A.4 | Sensitivity of surface temperature analyses to background and observation errors
Daniel Tyndall, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. D. Horel |
| 2:30 PM | 15A.5 | Adaptation and implementation of the Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) for Rapid Refresh
Ming Hu, GSD/ESRL/NOAA and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and D. Devenyi, S. S. Weygandt, and S. G. Benjamin |
| 2:45 PM | 15A.6 | The High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR): an hourly updated convection resolving model utilizing radar reflectivity assimilation from the RUC / RR
Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and T. G. Smirnova, S. G. Benjamin, K. J. Brundage, S. R. Sahm, C. R. Alexander, and B. E. Schwartz |