Session 12C |
| | Tropical Cyclone Modeling: High-Resolution Model- HWRF |
| | Chair: Christipher A. Davis, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 8:00 AM | 12C.1 | Improving operational hurricane prediction with NCEP's Hurricane Weather and Research Forecast (HWRF) system: future advancements, community involvement and transition of research to operations through the Development Testbed Center (DTC)
 Recorded presentation
Naomi Surgi, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and V. Tallapragada, Y. Kwon, Z. Zhang, Q. Liu, L. R. Bernardet, S. Bao, I. Ginis, G. J. Holland, C. Davis, and L. Carson |
| 8:15 AM | 12C.2 | Energy budget analysis of HWRF model hurricanes
Recorded presentation
Katherine S. Maclay, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO |
| 8:30 AM | 12C.3 | Sensitivity of the NOAA Hurricane Research and Forecasting Model (HWRFX) to Various Cloud and Boundary Layer Parameterizations
Recorded presentation
J.-W. Bao, NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Gopalakrishnan and S. A. Michelson |
| 8:45 AM | 12C.4 | The sensitivity of TC intensity and structure to grid spacing in the Advanced Hurricane WRF
Recorded presentation
Daniel J. Halperin, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg |
| 9:00 AM | 12C.5 | Vortex-scale hurricane data assimilation: Real-data results using combined NOAA/AOML/HRD HWRF-X regional and NOAA/ESRL GFS global ensemble Kalman filter systems
Recorded presentation
Altug Aksoy, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and T. Vukicevic, J. S. Whitaker, S. G. Gopalakrishnan, and S. D. Aberson |
| 9:15 AM | 12C.6 | Adaptation of the Advanced Hurricane WRF for driving a storm surge prediction model 
Recorded presentation
Craig Mattocks, University of North Carolina, Morehead City, NC; and C. Forbes, G. Jedlovec, J. L. Case, and F. J. LaFontaine |
| 9:30 AM | 12C.7 | Test results using the NOAH LSM in the operational HWRF system
Recorded presentation
Robert Tuleya, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Norfolk, VA; and Y. Wu |