Session 3A |
| | Tropical Cyclone Modeling II: Special Observations and Data Assimilation |
| | Chair: Sharan Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL
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| 1:15 PM | 3A.1 | Study on radar data assimilation for improving hurricane intensity and structure forecasts 
Qingyun Zhao, NRL, Monterey, California; and Y. Jin |
| 1:30 PM | 3A.2 | Impacts of Airborne Doppler Radar Data Assimilation on Hurricane using WRF-Var
Xiaoyan Zhang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Q. Xiao, C. Davis, and J. D. Tuttle |
| 1:45 PM | 3A.3 | Impact of satellite multi-sensor and in-situ data on high-resolution numerical simulation of the rapid intensification of Hurricane Dennis (2005)
Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and X. Li |
| 2:00 PM | 3A.4 | Impact of Assimilating Scatterometer Vector Winds on High-Resolution Hurricane Model Prediction
Shuyi S. Chen, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and W. Zhao, R. Foster, S. Majumdar, and W. T. Liu |
| 2:15 PM | 3A.5 | Sensitivities of hurricane intensity to planetary boundary layer schemes in a full physics three dimensional nonhydrostatic mesoscale model
Treng-Shi Huang, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and M. T. Montgomery and C. -. C. Wu |
|  | 3A.6 | The Capacity and Preliminary Improvement of Cumulus Parameterization on Typhoon Numerical Prediction
Leiming Ma, Shanghai Typhoon Institute, Shanghai, China; and Z. M. Tan |
| | 3A.7 | The dffects of the full Coriolis force on the structure and motion of a tropical cyclone due to horizontal motion
Xudong Liang, Shanghai Typhoon Institute, Shanghai, China |