Session 6 |
| | Mesoscale Data Assimilation and Impact Experiments—III |
| | Chair: Stan Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO
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| 1:30 PM | 6.1 | Weather Research and Forecasting model wind sensitivity study at Edwards Air Force Base, CA  
Leela R. Watson, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and W. H. Bauman and B. Hoeth |
| 1:45 PM | 6.2 | The use of LAPS as an assimilation and model initialization tool for tropical cyclones
S. Albers, CIRA/NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and I. Jankov, J. A. Mcginley, Y. Xie, J. Y. Kim, S. G. Gopalakrishnan, J. Gamache, and S. Aberson |
| 2:00 PM | 6.3 | Hurricane Dennis Simulations By Using Various Initial Conditions and WRF Dynamic Cores
Jin-Young Kim, Pukyoung National University, Busan, South Korea; and I. Jankov, S. Albers, J. H. Oh, J. A. McGinley, S. G. Gopalakrishnan, and X. Zhang |
| 2:15 PM | 6.4 | Multi-scale Analysis and Prediction of the 8 May 2003 Oklahoma City Tornadic Supercell Storm Assimilating Radar and Surface Network Data using EnKF
Ting Lei, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue and T. Y. Yu |
| 2:30 PM | 6.5 | A Three-Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation Scheme in Support of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems
Zhijin Li, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and Y. Chao, J. Farrara, J. C. McWilliams, and K. Ide |
|  | 6.6 | Tropical cyclone intensity and rainfall forecasts: sensitivity to assimilation of microwave satellite observations
William E. Lewis, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. J. Tripoli |