Session 5D |
| | Tropical Cyclone Prediction III (Parallel with Sessions 5A, 5B, & 5C) |
| | Organizer: Brian Etherthon, University of Miami, Miami, FL
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| 11:00 AM | 5D.1 | Observing-systems simulation experiments for tropical cyclone initialization based on four-dimensional variational data assimilation 
Chun-Chieh Wu, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan; and K. H. Chou, Y. H. Kuo, and W. P. Huang |
| 11:15 AM | 5D.2 | Analysis and Forecasts of Tropical Cyclones in the ECMWF 40-year Reanalysis (ERA-40)
Michael Fiorino, LLNL, Livermore, CA |
| 11:30 AM | 5D.3 | 4-D Variational assimilation of QuikScat winds into the MM5 Model
Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and S. S. Chen, J. E. Tenerelli, and R. Foster |
| 11:45 AM | 5D.4 | Hurricane Forecasting using Adaptive Unstructured Grids
David P. Bacon, SAIC, McLean, VA; and N. N. Ahmad, Z. Boybeyi, S. G. Gopalakrishnan, M. S. Hall, P. C. S. Lee, and R. A. Sarma |
| 12:00 PM | 5D.5 | Hurricane initialization using reconnaissance data in GFDL hurricane forecast model
Qingfu Liu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and S. J. Lord, N. Surgi, H. L. Pan, and F. D. Marks |
| 12:15 PM | 5D.6 | Short-term high-resolution prediction of tropical cyclones in the northwest Pacific using the TCM-90 dataset
Xiaqiong Zhou, Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; and L. Qi, L. M. Leslie, and J. C. L. Chan |