Session 8A |
| | Tropical Cyclone Prediction II - Initialisation |
| | Chair: Tim Li, International Pacific Research Center, Honolulu, HI
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| 10:30 AM | 8A.1 | Reanalysis of western Pacific typhoons in 2004 using 4DVAR Data Assimilation Technique
Xin Zhang, IPRC/SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and T. Li, F. Weng, and C. C. Wu |
| 10:45 AM | 8A.2 | Hurricane Initialization in HWRF Model 
Qingfu Liu, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and N. Surgi, S. Lord, W. S. Wu, D. Parrish, S. Gopalakrishnan, J. Waldrop, and J. Gamache |
| 11:00 AM | 8A.3 | A new 4D variational assimilation of multiple spaceborne datasets for regional water and energy budgets. An application to the Bret Hurricane 
Aurelie Bouchard, CETP, Velizy, France; and L. Yvon and V. Nicolas |
| 11:15 AM | 8A.4 | Impack of TOMS ozone observations on hurricane track prediction
Yonghui Wu, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and X. Zou |
| 11:30 AM | 8A.5 | Initializing a Hurricane Vortex with an Ensemble Kalman Filter
Yongsheng Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Snyder |