Session 7B Data Assimilation Development and Testing

Tuesday, 5 June 2018: 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
Colorado B (Grand Hyatt Denver)
Host: 25th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Cochairs:
Todd Hutchinson, The Weather Company, Andover, MA and Carolyn A. Reynolds, NRL, Monterey, CA

Papers:
1:30 PM
7B.1
Data Assimilation Development and Testing for the Initial Version of the FV3-GFS
Daryl T. Kleist, NCEP, College Park, MD; and R. B. Mahajan, C. Thomas, J. C. Derber, R. Treadon, A. Collard, and J. Whitaker
1:45 PM
7B.2
Data Assimilation Development for the 2019 Operational FV3-GFS
Catherine Thomas, IMSG, College Park, MD; and R. Mahajan, D. T. Kleist, R. Treadon, and J. S. Whitaker
2:00 PM
7B.3
Development of a GSI-based Global Data Assimilation System for the Model for Prediction Across Scales
James P. Cipriani, The Weather Company, Yorktown Heights, NY; and B. A. Wilt, T. Hutchinson, and J. Wong
2:15 PM
7B.4
Building Functional Similar Testing System for Community Researchers to Contribute Operational Storm-Scale Data Assimilation
Ming Hu, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. Ge, C. Zhou, C. R. Alexander, and S. Weygandt
2:30 PM
7B.5
Further Improvements of Radial Wind Assimilation in the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model
Guoqing Ge, CIRES and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, C. Zhou, J. Beck, S. Weygandt, and C. Alexander
2:45 PM
7B.6
Hybrid Ensemble-Variational Data Assimilation for Cloud Hydrometeors in GSI
Therese T. Ladwig, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, C. R. Alexander, S. S. Weygandt, D. C. Dowell, S. G. Benjamin, and J. M. Brown
3:15 PM
7B.8
Storm-Scale Satellite Data Assimilation into the WoF GSI-EnKF System: Recent Results and Future Plans
Swapan Mallick, CIMMS, NOAA/ NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. A. Jones, K. H. Knopfmeier, D. C. Dowell, X. Wang, P. Skinner, and P. Minnis
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