89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Joint Session 14: Improvements to Numerical Weather Prediction and Short-Term Forecasting

Wednesday, 14 January 2009: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Room 224AB (Phoenix Convention Center)
Cochairs:  Nancy L. Baker, NRL and Lars Peter Riishojgaard, JCSDA
Papers:
  10:45 AM
Winter QPF Sensitivities to Snow Parameterizations and Comparisons to NASA CloudSat Observations
Andrew L. Molthan, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and J. M. Haynes, G. J. Jedlovec, and W. M. Lapenta

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  11:15 AM
  11:30 AM
Use of satellite derived cloud products in a generalized cloud analysis package utilized within two regional assimilation systems, the Rapid Update Cycle and the Rapid Refresh
Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, S. G. Benjamin, P. Minnis, W. L. Smith Jr., and D. Devenyi

  11:45 AM
Impact of satellite radiance data in the Rapid Refresh system and problems of regional satellite radiance assimilation
Dezso Devenyi, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, S. S. Weygandt, and S. G. Benjamin