Session 15B |
| | Results from Recent Field Experiments and Their Potential Relevance to Operational Prediction |
| | Chair: Bill Proenza, NOAA/NWS, Fort Worth, TX
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| 1:30 PM | 15B.1 | TAMDAR-related impacts on the AirDat operational WRF-ARW  
Peter Childs, AirDat, Morrisville, NC; and N. Jacobs, M. Croke, and Y. Liu |
| 1:45 PM | 15B.2 | Ensemble-based data assimilation for cloud-resolving hurricane prediction: experiments with radar, satellite and dropsonde observations from RAINEX
Yonghui Weng, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and F. Zhang |
| 2:00 PM | 15B.3 | NOAA's 2005 & 2006 Saharan Air Layer Experiment (SALEX) aircraft missions: Tropical Storm Irene, Tropical Storm Debby & Hurricane Helene
Jason P. Dunion, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL |
| 2:15 PM | 15B.4 | The first successful unmanned aerial system (UAS) mission into a tropical cyclone (Ophelia 2005)
Joseph J. Cione, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and E. W. Uhlhorn, G. Cascella, S. J. Majumdar, C. Sisko, N. Carrasco, M. D. Powell, P. Bale, G. Holland, P. Turlington, D. Fowler, C. W. Landsea, and C. L. Yuhas |
| 2:30 PM | 15B.5 | The West African pilot balloon network during the NAMMA-2006 and implications for the future of the African pilot balloon sounding network
Michael W. Douglas, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Murillo, J. F. Mejia, J. M. Galvez, and R. Orozco |
| 2:45 PM | 15B.6 | The effects of horizontal grid spacing and vertical resolution on TAMDAR data assimilation in short-range mesoscale forecasts
Neil Jacobs, AirDat, Morrisville, NC; and P. Childs, M. Croke, and Y. Liu |
| 3:00 PM | 15B.7 | High resolution assimilation of CASA and NEXRAD radar data in near-real time: Results from Spring 2007 and plans for Spring of 2008
Keith A. Brewster, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Brotzge, K. W. Thomas, Y. Wang, M. Xue, J. Gao, D. Weber, and K. Howe |