Session: New Data Assimilation Techniques (29th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/25th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction)

Wednesday, 6 June 2018: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM

Colorado B (Grand Hyatt Denver)

Host: 25th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction

Cochairs:

James P. Cipriani, The Weather Company, Andover, MA and Catherine Thomas, IMSG, NOAA/, College Park, MD

Papers:

8:00 AM

8B.1

Assessment of Covariance Inflation Options for a Continuously-Cycled Mesoscale EnKF Analysis System

Glen Romine, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Schwartz and K. Fossell

Recorded Presentation

8B.2

Testing an Optimized 4D-Var Technique in NWP Models

8:30 AM

8B.3

NRL Four-dimensional Variational Radar Data Assimilation for Improved Near-term and Short-term Storm Prediction

Qingyun Zhao, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. R. Holt, P. Harasti, C. M. Amerault, L. Xu, N. Baker, J. Doyle, Y. Jin, H. Jin, M. Frost, Q. Xu, H. J. Chen, B. S. Chua, and D. Geiszler

Recorded Presentation

Handout (3.0 MB)

8B.4

Improved COAMPS-TC Tropical Cyclone Predictions Using a Dynamic Initialization Scheme With Rapid-Scan Atmospheric Motion Vectors and ONR TCI datasets

9:00 AM

8B.5

Correcting Storm Displacement Errors in Ensembles Using the Feature Alignment Technique (FAT)

Derek R. Stratman, OU/CIMMS and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and C. K. Potvin and L. J. Wicker

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

8B.6

Nonlinear Bias Correction for Satellite Data Assimilation

Jason Otkin, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and R. Potthast and A. Lawless

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

8B.7

Radio Occultation Observation Operators for Data Assimilation

Razvan Stefanescu, Spire Global, Inc., Boulder, CO; and M. Gorbunov, V. Irisov, D. Zupanski, R. McKeown, T. Brown, C. Holt, and A. E. MacDonald

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

8B.8

The Use of Sky Cameras to Validate and Augment Satellite/Radar Based Cloud Assimilation

Steve Albers, CIRA, Boulder, CO; and D. Nietfeld and Z. Toth

Recorded Presentation

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