Session 8A | 
|   | T-PARC Targeted Data Studies | 
|   | Chair: Tetsuo Nakazawa, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Japan 
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 | 8:00 AM | 8A.1 | Properties of the Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter adaptive sampling strategy for tropical cyclones   
				 Recorded presentation Shin-Gan Chen, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and S. J. Majumdar and C. C. Wu | 
 | 8:15 AM | 8A.2 | Synoptic sensitivity analysis of Typhoon Sinlaku (2008) and Hurricane Ike (2008)   
				 Recorded presentation William Komaromi, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and E. D. Rappin, S. J. Majumdar, M. J. Brennan, S. G. Chen, D. S. Nolan, R. Langland, and C. S. Velden | 
 | 8:30 AM | 8A.3 | Special satellite data analysis and NWP impact studies during TPARC    
				 Recorded presentation Howard Berger, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and C. S. Velden, R. Langland, and C. A. Reynolds | 
 | 8:45 AM | 8A.4 | Targeted observation and its impact in DOTSTAR and T-PARC   
				 Recorded presentation Chun-Chieh Wu, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and P. H. Lin, K. H. Chou, S. D. Aberson, S. Majumdar, C. A. Reynolds, M. S. Peng, T. Nakazawa, P. A. Harr, H. M. Kim, M. Weissmann, J. H. Chen, and S. G. Chen | 
 | 9:00 AM | 8A.5 | The influence of special T-PARC observations on typhoon track and mid-latitude forecasts   
				 Recorded presentation Martin Weissmann, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany; and F. Harnisch, S. Rahm, T. Nakazawa, C. C. Wu, S. D. Aberson, Y. H. Kim, K. Yamashita, and Y. Ohta | 
 | 9:15 AM | 8A.6 | Sensitivity of typhoon forecasts to different subsets of targeted observations    
				 Recorded presentation Florian Harnisch, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany; and M. Weissmann | 
 | 9:30 AM | 8A.7a | Impact of targeted dropsonde observations on the track forecast for SINLAKU (200813) using Ensemble Kalman Filter    
				 Recorded presentation Byoung-Joo Jung, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and H. M. Kim, F. Zhang, and C. C. Wu |