Session: Improving communications between the research and operational communities, including HFIP (91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Tuesday, 25 January 2011: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM

615-617 (Washington State Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; and the First Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans and Challenges )

Chair:

Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT

Papers:

3:30 PM

J20.1

The Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project: Accomplishments, Lessons Learned, and Challenges

Robert L. Gall, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Toepfer, F. Marks, and E. Rappaport

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

J20.2

The HFIP high resolution hurricane forecast test

Louisa Nance, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Bernardet, S. Bao, B. G. Brown, L. Carson, T. L. Fowler, J. Halley Gotway, C. W. Harrop, E. J. Szoke, E. I. Tollerud, J. Wolff, and H. Yuan

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

J20.3

Application of COAMPS-TC for HFIP

James Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. M. Hodur, S. Chen, J. Cummings, E. Hendricks, T. Holt, H. Jin, Y. Jin, C. S. Liou, J. R. Moskaitis, M. Peng, K. D. Sashegyi, J. Schmidt, and S. Wang

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

J20.4

The Tropical Cyclone Modeling Team (TCMT): Evaluating Experimental Models for Tropical Cyclone Forecasting in Support of the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP)

Paul A. Kucera, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown, L. Nance, C. L. Williams, K. Crosby, M. Harrold, and T. Jensen

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J20.5

The Developmental Testbed Center: Facilitating Transition between Research and Operation in Numerical Weather Prediction

Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Nance, S. Koch, and B. G. Brown

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM