Session 6A Data Assimilation I

Tuesday, 1 April 2014: 10:30 AM-12:15 PM
Garden Ballroom (Town and Country Resort )
Host: 31st Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology
Chair:
Sharan Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL

Papers:
10:30 AM
6A.1
Ensemble Kalman Assimilation of Global-Hawk-based Data from Tropical Cyclones
Jason Sippel, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and F. Zhang, Y. Weng, G. M. Heymsfield, L. Tian, and S. Braun
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
6A.2
MISR observed cloud-tracked winds over tropical cyclones and their positive forecast impact in NAVGEM simulation of Hurricane Sandy
Kevin J. Mueller, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and N. Baker and M. Garay
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
6A.3
Displaced Ensemble variational assimilation to incorporate microwave imager brightness temperatures into a cloud-resolving model for Typhoon Conson
Kazumasa Aonashi, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Recorded Presentation

Handout (8.6 MB)

11:15 AM
6A.4
Influence of assimilating AIRS temperature and moisture soundings on the analyses and forecasts of tropical cyclone track and structure
Ting-Chi Wu, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and S. J. Majumdar, J. Li, C. S. Velden, H. Liu, and J. Anderson
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
6A.5
Assimilation of Non-Local Radio Occultation Measurements and its Impact on WRF Model Prediction of Hurricane Earl in 2010
Xue Meng Chen, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; and S. H. Chen, S. Y. Chen, and C. Y. Huang
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (513.9 kB)

11:45 AM
6A.6
A Balanced Vortex approach to Improving the Initial Condition and Diagnosing Forecasts in the Hurricane Research Weather and Forecasting Model
Kathryn J. Sellwood, Univ. of Miami/CIMAS and NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and T. Vukicevic
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM
6A.7
A Robust Observation Operator and Associated Background Covariances to Assimilate Microwave Radiances into Cloud-permitting Models
Ziad S. Haddad, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and J. Steward, T. Vukicevic, and S. Hristova-Veleva

Handout (11.8 MB)

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