Session 15 |
| | Weather and Forecasting III |
| 9:00 AM | 15.1 | Southern Hemisphere real-time, high resolution satellite rainfall estimation
Gilberto A. Vicente, NASA/GSFC - GMU, Greenbelt, MD |
| 9:15 AM | 15.2 | Multi-sensor multi-spectral rain-rate retrieval 
Aarno V. Korpela, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand; and M. J. Uddstrom |
| 9:30 AM | 15.3 | Identifying heavy rain events along New Zealand’s West Coast using the NCEP Ensemble Prediction System
Tony Simmers, Meteorological Service of New Zealand Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand |
| 9:45 AM | 15.4 | Trends and volatility in the accuracy of temperature forecasts
Shoni S. Dawkins, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and H. Stern |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | | Plenary Talk
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| 11:00 AM | 15.6 | Comparison of the performance of the ECMWF and BFM forecast models in the New Zealand Region
Richard Turner, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand; and J. Renwick and S. Schroeder |
| 11:15 AM | 15.7 | Variational mesoscale data assimilation: The New Zealand Limited Area Model (NZLAM-VAR)
Michael J. Uddstrom, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand; and P. Andrews, H. Oliver, and A. Korpela |