Session 14B Tropical Cyclone Targeting and Data Assimilation I

Friday, 20 April 2012: 8:00 AM-10:15 AM
Champions AB (Sawgrass Marriott)
Sponsor: 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

**Indicates paper is being considered for the Max Eaton Student Prize**

Chair:
Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, FL
Papers:
  8:00 AM
14B.1
Impact of Integrated Satellite Observations on Forecasts of Tropical Cyclones: A Case Study
Hui Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. S. Velden, J. Li, S. J. Majumdar, and J. Anderson

Recorded Presentation

  8:15 AM
14B.2
Influence of Assimilating Satellite-derived Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs) on Analyses and Forecasts of Tropical Cyclone Track and Structure
Ting-Chi Wu, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and H. Liu, S. J. Majumdar, C. S. Velden, and J. Anderson

Recorded Presentation

  8:30 AM
14B.3
Hourly Assimilation of Enhanced AMVs for Tropical Cyclone Initialization Using a Novel Ensemble Bogus Method
William E. Lewis, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and C. S. Velden, S. J. Majumdar, and E. D. Rappin

Recorded Presentation

  8:45 AM
14B.4
The Impact of Assimilating Aircraft Observations in the Tropical Cyclone Core with HEDAS, the HWRF Ensemble Data Assimilation System
Sim D. Aberson, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and A. Aksoy, T. Vukicevic, K. J. Sellwood, J. F. Gamache, and S. Gopalakrishnan

Recorded Presentation

  9:00 AM
14B.5
Incremental typhoon-position-oriented sensitivity analysis for targeted observation
Kosuke Ito, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. C. Wu

Recorded Presentation

  9:15 AM
14B.6
Improving predictability of landfalling hurricanes through assimilation of surface mesonet observations using ensemble kalman filter methods
Hailing Zhang, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Z. Pu

  9:30 AM
14B.7
Targeting Coordinated Unmanned Aircraft Observations in Hurricanes
Doug Koch, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and L. DeVries, A. Maki, D. Paley, and S. J. Majumdar

Recorded Presentation

  9:45 AM
14B.8
Impact of Convection-Permitting Resolution and EnKF Data Assimilation on Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Forecasts
Jordan Schleif, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue, F. Kong, and J. S. Whitaker

Recorded Presentation

  10:00 AM
14B.9
Dynamic Initialization of Hurricanes in the Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Model (OLAM)
Robert L. Walko, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and S. J. Majumdar, C. A. Mattocks, R. Avissar, and T. Miyoshi

Recorded Presentation

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