Session 7 Advancements in Numerical Weather Prediction I

Tuesday, 6 November 2012: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Symphony I and II (Loews Vanderbilt Hotel)
Host: 26th Conference on Severe Local Storms
Chair:
Tracy Lorraine Smith, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRA, Boulder, CO

Papers:
  1:30 PM
7.1
Progress and Challenges with Warn-on-Forecast
David J. Stensrud, NSSL/NOAA, Norman, OK; and L. J. Wicker, E. R. Mansell, J. Gao, M. C. Coniglio, H. E. Brooks, M. Xue, D. T. Dawson II, N. Yussouf, D. M. Wheatley, T. A. Jones, R. M. Belobraydich, T. M. Smith, K. M. Kuhlman, A. Clark, and D. Dowell
  1:45 PM
7.2
3DVAR analysis and forecast experiments for the 27 April 2011 tornado outbreak
Jidong Gao, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Tang, C. Fu, D. C. Dowell, and D. J. Stensrud
  2:15 PM
7.4
Realtime mesoscale analysis with WRF-DART for explicit convective forecasts
Glen Romine, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. S. Schwartz, M. Weisman, C. Snyder, and J. Anderson
  2:30 PM
7.5
Improvements in the analysis of the convective storm environment for the 2nd generation Rapid Refresh: impact on RAP and nested HRRR forecasts
Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and C. Alexander, E. P. James, M. Hu, D. C. Dowell, S. G. Benjamin, P. Hofmann, and H. Lin
  2:45 PM
7.6
Recent and Future Advancements in Convective-Scale Storm Prediction with the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Forecast System
Curtis Alexander, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and D. C. Dowell, S. S. Weygandt, S. G. Benjamin, T. G. Smirnova, M. Hu, P. Hofmann, E. P. James, J. M. Brown, and B. D. Jamison
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