88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Session 14: Assimilation of Ocean and Land Surface Observations into Models-II

Thursday, 24 January 2008: 11:00 AM-12:15 PM
204 (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Chair:  George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates
Papers:
  11:00 AM
A multi-season study of the effects of MODIS sea-surface temperatures on operational WRF forecasts at NWS Miami, FL
Jonathan L. Case, ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville, AL; and P. Santos, M. Splitt, S. M. Lazarus, K. K. Fuell, S. L. Haines, S. R. Dembek, and W. M. Lapenta

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  11:15 AM
Stochastic generation of precipitation ensembles using remotely sensed information
R. Wojcik, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and A. Konings, S. Friedman, D. McLaughlin, and D. Enthekabi

  11:30 AM
Impact of MODIS-derived land surface and vegetation data within the RAMS atmospheric model
Jonathan G. Fairman Jr., UA Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair and S. A. Christopher

  12:00 PM
The impact of satellite altimeters on upper ocean parameter simulations
Robert W. Helber, NRL, Stennis, MS; and J. F. Shriver, C. Barron, and G. A. Jacobs