Session 1 |
| Experiments involving observations, real or hypothetical: data impact tests and observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) I |
| Chair: Robert Atlas, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL
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| 1:30 PM | 1.1 | Development of a sensor web simulator: status and preliminary results for a future satellite wind lidar mission Michael Seablom, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. J. Talabac, R. Burns, J. Ardizzone, S. A. Wood, E. M. Kemp, G. S. Wojcik, S. L. Applegate, H. N. Kleinwaks, G. D. Emmitt, and R. Atlas |
| 1:45 PM | 1.2 | Evaluation of Space Based Doppler Wind Lidar in Joint OSSEs Michiko Masutani, NOAA/NWS/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and L. P. Riishojgaard, G. D. Emmitt, S. Greco, S. A. Wood, A. Stoffelen, G. J. Marseille, and J. S. Woollen |
| 2:00 PM | 1.3 | Using an airborne doppler wind lidar to explore the potential impact of a future space-based wind lidar, particularly in the case of “cloud challenging” tropical cyclones George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. Greco and S. A. Wood |
| 2:15 PM | 1.4 | The impact of Doppler Lidar wind profiles on numerical simulations of mesoscale weather systems Lei Zhang, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Z. Pu, B. Gentry, B. B. Demoz, and G. D. Emmitt |