25th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Session 5D: Tropical Cyclone Prediction III (Parallel with Sessions 5A, 5B, & 5C)

Tuesday, 30 April 2002: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Organizer:  Brian Etherthon, University of Miami
Papers:
  11:00 AM
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

Poster PDF (406.2 kB)
  11:30 AM
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
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 Sr., and R. A. Sarma

http://vortex.atgteam.com

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)
  12:00 PM
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 Jr.

Poster PDF (151.1 kB)
  12:15 PM
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