Session 16B Tropical Cyclone Targeting and Data Assimilation II

Friday, 20 April 2012: 2:00 PM-3:45 PM
Champions AB (Sawgrass Marriott)
Sponsor: 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

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

Chair:
Fuqing Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA
Papers:
  2:00 PM
A Dynamical Initialization Scheme for Real-time Forecasts of Tropical Cyclones Using the WRF Model
Dong-Hyun Cha, International Pacific Research Center and Department of Meteorology, Honolulu, HI; and Y. Wang

  2:15 PM
Recent Advances in Vortex-Scale Data Assimilation using NOAA/AOML/HRD's HWRF Ensemble Data Assimilation System (HEDAS)
Altug Aksoy, University of Miami/CIMAS and NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and S. Lorsolo, S. D. Aberson, T. Vukicevic, and K. Sellwood

  2:30 PM
  2:45 PM
Improving global and regional high resolution hurricane forecasts using the hybrid variational-ensemble data assimilation
Xuguang Wang, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. Lei, J. S. Whitaker, Y. Li, and M. Xue

  3:00 PM
  3:15 PM
Data Assimilation Studies on Typhoon Sinlaku (2008) Using the WRF-LETKF System
Takemasa Miyoshi, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Kunii

  3:30 PM