88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Session 16: Data Impact Tests: Real and Simulated Observations-II

Thursday, 24 January 2008: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
204 (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Chair:  Jason P. Dunion, University of Miami/RSMAS/CIMAS & NOAA/AOML/HRD
Papers:
  3:45 PM
Relative forecast impact from aircraft, profiler, rawinsonde, VAD, GPS-PW, METAR and mesonet observations for hourly assimilation in the RUC
S. G. Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and B. D. Jamison, W. R. Moninger, B. E. Schwartz, and T. W. Schlatter

  4:00 PM
Sensitivity of the Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis to Mesonet Observations
John Horel, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and B. Olsen, D. Tyndall, and M. Pondeca

  4:30 PM
High-resolution Three-dimensional Wind Analysis of CASA IP-1 and WSR-88D Radar Data using the ARPS 3DVAR
Jidong Gao, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. Brewster, Y. Wang, K. W. Thomas, J. Brotzge, and M. Xue

  4:45 PM
PenAir-based TAMDAR-related impacts on short-range mesoscale forecasts over Alaska
Meredith Croke, AirDat, Morrisville, NC; and N. Jacobs, P. Childs, and Y. Liu