Session 7A |
| | Tropical Cyclone Prediction I - Model Development |
| | Chair: Chris Fogarty, EC, Dartmouth, NS Canada
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| 8:00 AM | 7A.1 | Operational tropical cyclone forecast model improvements at FNMOC
Jeffrey A. Lerner, FNMOC, Monterey, CA |
| 8:15 AM | 7A.2 | The Hurricane WRF (HWRF): Addressing our Nation's next generation hurricane forecast problems
Naomi Surgi, Environmental Modeling Center/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Gopalkrishnan, Q. Liu, R. E. Tuleya, and W. O'Connor |
| 8:30 AM | 7A.3 | NCEP's Two-way-Interactive-Moving-Nest NMM-WRF modeling system for Hurricane Forecasting  
S.G. Gopalakrishnan, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and N. Surgi, R. Tuleya, and Z. Janjic |
| 8:45 AM | 7A.4 | A summary of recent GFDL model upgrades and plans for 2006
Morris A. Bender, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and T. Marchok, I. Ginis, B. Thomas, and I. J. Moon |
| 9:00 AM | 7A.5 | Evaluations of the AFWA Weather Research Forecast Model Tropical Cyclone Predictions
William R. Ryerson, NPS, Monterey, CA; and R. L. Elsberry, S. Rugg, and J. Weigel |
| 9:15 AM | 7A.6 | A comparison of adaptive observing guidance for Atlantic tropical cyclones
Sharanya J. Majumdar, RSMAS/University of Miami, Miami, FL; and S. D. Aberson, C. Bishop, R. Buizza, M. S. Peng, and C. A. Reynolds |
| 9:30 AM | 7A.7 | Interpretation of tropical cyclone targeting guidance
C. A. Reynolds, NRL, Monterey, CA; and M. S. Peng, S. J. Majumdar, S. D. Aberson, C. H. Bishop, and R. Buizza |
| 9:45 AM | 7A.8 | Hurricane WRF model transition to operations at NCEP/EMC: Sensitivity of results to surface fluxes and convection
Robert Tuleya, EMC, Norfolk, VA; and N. Surgi, S. Gopalkrishnan, and D. Johnson |