Session 15A Operational Weather Forecasting V: Product Development and Evaluation

Thursday, 27 January 2011: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
613/614 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair:
Lans P. Rothfusz, NOAA, OAR/NSSL/WRDD, Norman, OK

Papers:
3:30 PM
15A.1
Upcoming changes to the NCEP North American Mesoscale Modeling system: Transition to NEMS-NMMB and high resolution nests
Eric Rogers, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and G. DiMego, T. Black, M. Ek, Z. Janjic, Y. Lin, M. Pyle, W. S. Wu, B. S. Ferrier, G. Gayno, H. M. Lin, W. Wang, V. Wong, and Y. Wu
4:00 PM
15A.3
Evaluation of Severe-Weather Forecasting Parameters Derived from Quasi-Real-Time Mesoscale Analyses using VORTEX2 soundings
Michael C. Coniglio, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. M. Wheatley, D. J. Stensrud, and N. Yussouf
4:15 PM
15A.4
Challenges in verifying predictions of the pre-convective environment
Scott S. Lindstrom, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. A. Petersen and R. M. Aune
4:30 PM
15A.6
A comparison of several analysis schemes in their ability to diagnose boundaries
Ed Szoke, CIRA and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. Albers, Y. Xie, L. S. Wharton, R. Glancy, E. Thaler, D. Barjenbruch, B. Meier, and Z. Toth
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