7th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography

Session 15: Weather and Forecasting III

Friday, 28 March 2003: 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Papers:
  9:00 AM
Southern Hemisphere real-time, high resolution satellite rainfall estimation
Gilberto A. Vicente, NASA/GSFC - GMU, Greenbelt, MD

  9:15 AM
Multi-sensor multi-spectral rain-rate retrieval
Aarno V. Korpela, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand; and M. J. Uddstrom

Poster PDF (353.5 kB)
  9:30 AM
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

Poster PDF (51.9 kB)
  9:45 AM
Trends and volatility in the accuracy of temperature forecasts
Shoni S. Dawkins, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and H. Stern

Poster PDF (128.0 kB)
  10:00 AM
Plenary Talk

  10:30 AM
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

  10:45 AM
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

Poster PDF (339.5 kB)
  11:00 AM
Coffee Break