Session: Impact Assessments for Satellite Data Assimilated in Numerical Prediction Modeling Systems (96th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Tuesday, 12 January 2016: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA)

Chair:

Lidia Cucurull, NOAA/OAR/ESRL, Global Systems Division, Boulder, CO

Papers:

11:00 AM

2.1

Developments in the Assimilation of Satellite Observations in the Met Office Global Model

William Bell, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and J. Cameron, A. Booton, P. Weston, A. Lorenc, D. Li, E. Pavelin, S. Newman, K. Lean, A. Doherty, S. Migliorini, F. Carminati, F. Smith, Y. Pradhan, M. Ujiie, R. Saunders, D. Barker, and A. Smith

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.2

Sensitivity of the RAP Satellite Radiance Assimilation to the Model Top and Other Factors

Haidao Lin, CIRA/Colorado State Univ. and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. Weygandt, J. Brown, M. Hu, C. Alexander, and S. Benjamin

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2.3

The Assimilation of Cloud-Affected Infrared Radiances in Fully-Cycled Data Assimilation Experiments

Will McCarty, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM