Session: Poster Session I (93rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Wednesday, 9 January 2013: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Exhibit Hall 3 (Austin Convention Center)

Host: Special Symposium on Advancing Weather and Climate Forecasts: Innovative Techniques and Applications

Cochairs:

Kelly M. Mahoney, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, NOAA ESRL Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO and Andrew L. Molthan, NASA/MSFC, Earth Science Office/Short-term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) Center, Huntsville, AL

The poster session for the Special Symposium on Advancing Weather and Climate Forecasts: Innovative Techniques and Applications will feature papers incorporating topics of the oral sessions: new techniques for NWP, ensembles, and data assimilation, updates on current and future testbed activities, improvements in decision support, and cross-cutting applications.

Papers:

831

A Technique for Automated Hail Pad Processing

Peter Marinescu, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. Windschitl

Handout (330.7 kB)

832

LOAC (Light Optical Particle Counter): a new aerosols counter for the determination of their sizes and their main nature under meteorological balloons

Patrick Charpentier, MODEM, URY, France; and J. B. Renard

Handout (1.1 MB)

833

A Comparison of Planar and Cylindrical Configurations of Polarimetric Phased Array Radar for Weather Observation

Lei Lei, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. Zhang and R. J. Doviak

Handout (1.5 MB)

834

Observations of tornado-scale processes using a novel rapid-scan, polarimetric, mobile, Doppler radar

Jana Houser, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. Bluestein and J. C. Snyder

Handout (937.1 kB)

835

Observing Atmospheric Dynamics from Satellite Sounding Pairs

William L. Smith Jr., NASA LaRC, Hampton, VA; and E. Weisz, N. Smith, and A. Larar

Evaluating Measurement Uncertainty and Performance of Vaisala Reference Radiosonde Prototype

836

An update on the TAMDAR sensor global network expansion and data utility

Neil A. Jacobs, AirDat LLC, Morrisville, NC; and P. Childs, M. Croke, A. Huffman, J. Nelson, J. T. Braid, Y. L. Liu, and X. Y. Huang

837

A Simple Method for Improving the Time-Stepping Accuracy of Weather and Climate Models

Paul D. Williams, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

838

Hidden Error Variance Theory: Deriving Optimal Combinations of Static and Flow Dependent Variances

Elizabeth A. Satterfield, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. H. Bishop

839

Investigation of stochastic effect in an advanced global atmospheric model to improve weather and climate prediction

Myung-Seo Koo, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and S. Y. Hong

840

Assimilation of quality controlled AIRS temperature profiles using the NCEP GFS

841

Variational Cloud Analysis Using CRTM in a Multiscale Analysis

Yuanfu Xie, NOAA/ERL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. albers, D. Birkenheuer, and Z. Toth

Handout (4.6 MB)

842

Direct assimilation of wind speed and direction for the WRF model

Feng Gao, Panasonic Avionics Corporation, Morrisville, NC; and N. A. Jacobs, X. Y. Huang, and P. Childs

843

Use of Ensemble Sensitivity Analysis in the Forecasting of Convective Events

Christopher N. Bednarczyk, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and B. C. Ancell

844

Probabilistic forecasts of severe convection with a WRF-DART analysis and convection-permitting forecast system

Logan C. Dawson, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and G. Romine, S. Tessendorf, and C. S. Schwartz

Handout (4.4 MB)

845

Evaluating Predictability of Severe Convection using a WRF Ensemble Kalman Filter

Michael A. Hollan, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and B. C. Ancell

846

A Statistical and Modeling Approach to Improved Land Wind Forecasts Associated with Tropical Cyclones

Bryce Paul Tyner, Florida International University, Miami, FL

847

The Extended Global Ensemble Forecast System at NCEP

Malaquias Peña, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and D. Hou, Y. Zhu, and R. Wobus

848

A Local Analysis of the Performance of the Ensemble Forecast Systems Included in TIGGE

Michael A. Herrera, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and I. Szunyogh

849

The Development of High Resolution Super Probabilistic Forecast (HRSPF)

Bo Cui, IMSG at EMC/NCEP, College Park, MD; and Y. Zhu and H. Guan

Handout (632.8 kB)

850

Exploration of Global Model Predictions of a High Impact Winter Weather Event Using the THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE)

Daniel S. Russell, Current Affiliation, UCLA/ Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Norman, OK; and S. M. Hitchcock, D. Parsons, and N. New

Handout (1.8 MB)

851

Optimization of the Analog Ensemble Method

Luca Delle Monache, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Eckel, B. Nagarajan, D. Rife, J. Knievel, T. McClung, and K. R. Searight

Handout (1.5 MB)

852

Newly Upgraded 16km Short-Range Ensemble Forecast (SREF) System at NCEP

Jun Du, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and G. DiMego, B. Zhou, D. Jovic, B. Ferrier, M. Pyle, B. Yang, G. Manikin, J. Zhu, J. Wolff, and B. J. Etherton

853

An Improved Dynamical Downscaling Method with GCM Bias Corrections and Spectral Nudging

Zhongfeng Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and Z. L. Yang

854

Verifying the accuracy of experimental day-11 to day-14 weather forecasts

Harvey Stern, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and N. E. Davidson

Manuscript (167.2 kB)

Handout (484.0 kB)

855

Verification on tropical storm track prediction in SE Asia using GFS model

Cheuk Yi Joseph Lee, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and M. W. Wysocki

Handout (405.3 kB)