Session 4 |
| | Nowcasting and Modeling, Part 1 |
| | Cochairs: John Mecikalski, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; Lynn A. Sherretz, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; David I. Knapp, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM
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| 11:00 AM | 4.1 | Status report on the Rapid Refresh
Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Brown, S. G. Benjamin, T. G. Smirnova, M. Hu, D. Dévényi, K. J. Brundage, J. B. Olson, W. R. Moninger, C. R. Alexander, G. Grell, B. D. Jamison, S. E. Peckham, and T. L. Smith |
| 11:15 AM | 4.2 | An objective verification of the North American Mesoscale Model for Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station 
William H. Bauman III, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL |
| 11:30 AM | 4.3 | Feasibility study on using high resolution numerical models to forecast severe aircraft turbulence associated with thunderstorms
Donald W. McCann, McCann Aviation Weather Reaserch, Inc., Overland Park, KS |
| 11:45 AM | 4.4 | Estimating regional cloud base altitudes from local CloudSat observations via type-dependent statistical extrapolation
Steven D. Miller, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. M. Forsythe, R. Bankert, P. T. Partain, and T. H. Vonder Haar |