88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Session 15B: Results from Recent Field Experiments and Their Potential Relevance to Operational Prediction

Thursday, 24 January 2008: 1:30 PM-3:15 PM
205 (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Chair:  Bill Proenza, NOAA/NWS
Papers:
  1:30 PM
TAMDAR-related impacts on the AirDat operational WRF-ARW
Peter Childs, AirDat, Morrisville, NC; and N. Jacobs, M. Croke, and Y. Liu

  2:15 PM
The first successful unmanned aerial system (UAS) mission into a tropical cyclone (Ophelia 2005)
Joseph J. Cione, NOAA/AOML, 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
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

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  3:00 PM
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