92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012)

Themed Joint Session 16 Use of Advanced Sensor Technology to Improve Forecasts

Wednesday, 25 January 2012: 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Room 343/344 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 18th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography and Climatology/ First Joint AMS-Asia Satellite Meteorology Conference )
Cochairs:  Carl Hoffman, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS and Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR
Papers:
  1:30 PM
Preliminary Results From Assimilation of AIRS SFOV Retrieval Profiles in the Rapid Refresh Model System
Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and H. Lin, M. Hu, S. G. Benjamin, J. Li, J. Li, T. J. Schmit, and P. Hofmann

  1:45 PM
Evaluation and Application of JPSS Products Through Assimilation in Regional NWP Models
Jun Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. D. Goldberg, J. Li, H. Liu, J. Zheng, T. J. Schmit, C. D. Barnet, L. Zhou, and A. Huang

  2:00 PM
Tests of Objective Short-Range Forecasts of the Pre-Convective Environment Using Geostationary Satellite Data
Ralph A. Petersen, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. M. Aune

  2:15 PM
NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System Climate Sensors
Stephen Walters, NOAA OSD, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Goldberg, J. Gleason, and J. Furgerson