Session 6B |
| | Tropical cyclone data assimilation and impact experiments |
| | Chair: C. A. Reynolds, NRL, Monterey, CA
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| 3:30 PM | 6B.1 | Tests of a global EnKF system with an emphasis on tropical cyclone prediction
Jeffrey S. Whitaker, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and T. Hamill and P. Pegion |
| 3:45 PM | 6B.2 | Development of the ensemble Kalman filter system for hurricane data assimilation at NOAA/AOML/HRD: Preliminary evaluation using environmental and vortex-scale dropwindsonde data
Altug Aksoy, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and K. J. Sellwood, P. Leighton, T. Vukicevic, S. D. Aberson, and F. Zhang |
| 4:00 PM | 6B.3 | An airborne Doppler radar radial wind forward operator for the ensemble Kalman filter hurricane data assimilation system at NOAA/AOML/HRD: Preliminary results
Sylvie Lorsolo, CIMAS/University of Miami and AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and A. Aksoy |
| 4:15 PM | 6B.4 | Study the impact of ensemble covariance in hurricane analysis and predictions using a hybrid ETKF-3DVAR data assimilation method
Xuguang Wang, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 4:30 PM | 6B.5 | H*Wind: An Integrated Observing System for Tropical Cyclones
Mark Powell, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Tallahassee, FL |
| 4:45 PM | 6B.6 | High-resolution observations of inner core dynamics of Hurricane Alberto (2000) from MISR on NASA's Terra satellite
Dong L. Wu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. J. Diner, V. Jovanovic, K. Mueller, C. Moroney, D. Nelson, and M. J. Garay |
| 5:00 PM | 6B.7 | Study of extratropical cyclone wind and corresponding SST fields by combining model and QuikSCAT satellite data
Zorana Jelenak, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and K. A. Ahmad, J. M. Sienkiewicz, and P. S. Chang |
| 5:15 PM | 6B.8 | Ocean-surface wind impacts on hurricane forecasting, regional and global 
S. Mark Leidner, AER, Norman, OK; and J. Ardizzone, J. C. Jusem, E. Brin, R. Hoffman, and R. Atlas |