Session: Ensemble Forecasting Systems and Field Support (23rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/19th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (1-5 June 2009))

Thursday, 4 June 2009: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM

Grand Ballroom East (DoubleTree Hotel & EMC - Downtown, Omaha)

Host: 23rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/19th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction

Chair:

Evan Kuchera, Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE

CoChair:

Carolyn A. Reynolds, NRL, Monterey, CA

Papers:

4:00 PM

16A.1

E-4DWX: An Operational Mesoscale Ensemble Modeling System

Scott F. Halvorson, U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, UT; and S. Krippner, J. Pace, Y. Liu, G. Roux, W. Wu, J. P. Hacker, T. M. Hopson, J. C. Knievel, T. T. Warner, and S. P. Swerdlin

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (356.9 kB)

4:15 PM

16A.2

CAPS REALTIME 4-KM MULTI-MODEL CONVECTION-ALLOWING ENSEMBLE AND 1-KM CONVECTION-RESOLVING FORECASTS FOR THE NOAA HAZARDOUS WEATHER TESTBED 2009 SPRING EXPERIMENT

Ming Xue, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and F. Kong, K. Thomas, J. Gao, Y. Wang, K. Brewster, K. Droegemeier, J. S. Kain, S. J. Weiss, D. R. Bright, M. C. Coniglio, and J. Du

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (823.4 kB)

4:30 PM

16A.3

A real-time storm-scale ensemble forecast system: 2009 Spring Experiment

Fanyou Kong, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue, K. Thomas, Y. Wang, K. A. Brewster, J. Gao, K. K. Droegemeier, J. S. Kain, S. J. Weiss, D. R. Bright, M. C. Coniglio, and J. Du

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (1.9 MB)

4:45 PM

16A.4

An operational mesoscale ensemble data assimilation and prediction system: E-RTFDDA – system description and verification

Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Hopson, G. Roux, J. Hacker, W. Wu, T. Warner, S. Swerdlin, S. F. Halvorson, and J. Pace

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

16A.5

Using Ensemble Prediction Systems for Decision Support Activities

Richard Grumm, NOAA/NWSFO, State College, PA

Recorded presentation