Program: Fifth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (97th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Program Chairs: James G. Yoe , NOAA/NWS/NCEP ; Thomas Auligne , Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

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Monday, 23 January 2017

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7:00 PM-9:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2017

Third Annual Speed Networking Event for Students and Early Career Professionals

Location: Atrium Lobby (Washington State Convention Center )

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Session 1

Assimilation of Satellite Data to Improve the Analysis and Forecast of Land Surfaces, Oceans, and Air Quality

Location: Conference Center: Yakima 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: Fifth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

Cochairs: Michael Ek, NOAA; Nancy Baker, NRL

8:30 AM

1.1

Assimilation of AIRS observations to improve the initial condition for the Asian dust model

Young-Chan Noh, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and B. J. Sohn, M. E. Park, and J. H. Cho

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

1.2

Optimizing Data Assimilation Strategy for a Global Aerosol Model with a Multi-Sensor Constellation

Edward Hyer, NRL, Monterey, CA; and P. Lynch and J. Zhang

Recorded Presentation

Handout (7.6 MB)

9:00 AM

1.3

Improved Air Quality Modeling in the NASA GEOS-5 Model Using a Multispecies Data Assimilation System of Tropospheric Constituents

Christoph A. Keller, NASA GMAO/USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and D. J. Jacob, M. S. Long, B. Weir, K. Wargan, A. Chatterjee, and S. Pawson

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.4

Improving NCEP Global Aerosol Forecasts by Data Assimilation of VIIRS Aerosol Products

Shih Wei Wei, SUNY, Albany, NY; and Q. Zhao, S. P. Chen, J. Wang, P. Bhattacharjee, S. Kondragunta, J. McQueen, and S. Lu

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.5

Validate FASTEM Model by Using Well-Calibrated ATMS Observations

Hu Yang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and F. Weng

Recorded Presentation

1.6

The Effect of Joint Assimilation of Soil Moisture and Leaf Area Index to Improve Seven-day Land Surface Forecasts over Grassland

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Coffee Break

Location: 4AB (Washington State Convention Center )

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Session 2

Assessment of the Impact of Satellite Data on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) Skill

Location: Conference Center: Yakima 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: Fifth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

Cochairs: Will McCarty, NASA GSFC; Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS

10:30 AM

2.1

An Evaluation of the Use of Satellite-Derived Winds in NAVGEM

Patricia M. Pauley, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. Langland, R. Stone, and N. L. Baker

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

2.2

Assimilation of Himawari-8 Atmospheric Motion Vectors into the Numerical Weather Prediction Systems of Japan Meteorological Agency

Koji Yamashita, JMA, Tokyo, Japan

Handout (1.7 MB)

11:00 AM

2.3

Satellite Radiance Assimilation Enhancements for RAP Version 4

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

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.4

Forecast Sensitivity Observation Impact (FSOI) Inter-comparison Experiment

Thomas Auligne, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Boulder, CO; and R. Gelaro, R. Mahajan, D. Holdaway, W. McCarty, A. Collard, N. Baker, R. Langland, D. Hotta, T. Ishibashi, J. Eyre, W. Tennant, and D. Groff

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2.5

Recent and Impending Advances in the Use of Earth Observations from Space for Numerical Weather Prediction

John F. Le Marshall, Bureau of Meteorology, Docklands, Australia; and D. Howard, R. Norman, Y. Xiao, J. A. Jung, C. Tingwell, K. Zhang, P. Lehmann, T. Morrow, J. Daniels, and S. Wanzong

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2.6

Assessing the Impact of Observations on the Prediction of Effective Atmospheric Angular Momentum from NAVGEM

Nancy L. Baker, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. Langland

Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Lecture 2

Horton Lecture

Location: 602 (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the Second Symposium on Multi-scale Atmospheric Predictability; the Observation Symposium: Progress, Problems, and Prospects; the 33rd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 29th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 28th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 24th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 26th Symposium on Education; the 21st Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface; the 19th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 18th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 15th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 15th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 14th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography; the 14th Conference on Space Weather; the 13th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Major Weather Impacts of 2016; the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment; the 12th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Ninth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; the Eighth Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy; the Eighth Conference on Environment and Health; the Eighth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Eighth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Seventh Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 31st Conference on Hydrology; the Fifth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Fifth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Fifth Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact; the Third Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Special Symposium on Greening the Built Environment; and the Events )

Organizer: John B. Eylander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Lecturer: Hoshin V. Gupta, Univ. of Arizona

Cochairs: Michael Ek, NOAA; David J. Gochis, NCAR; John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC

1:30 PM

L2.1

Learning with Models & Data: A Maximum Entropy Approach (Invited Presentation)

Hoshin V. Gupta, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (57.5 kB)

Handout (13.3 MB)

Session 3

Other Topics in Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

Location: Conference Center: Yakima 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: Fifth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

Cochairs: Ronald Gelaro, NASA GSFC; Benjamin Johnson, UCAR

1:30 PM

3.1

Community Radiative Transfer Model Development and Support of JPSS-1 Simulations and CubeSat Observing System Simulation Experiments

Tong Zhu, NESDIS, College Park, MD; and Q. Liu, P. Van Delst, Y. Chen, Y. Ma, M. Chen, E. Liu, A. Collard, D. Groff, S. A. Boukabara, T. Auligne, X. Zhan, F. Weng, and J. Derber

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

3.2

Global Forecast Dropout Prediction Tool (GFDPT) Project: Status and Preliminary Results

Andrew Eichmann, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and V. K. Kumar, J. C. Alpert, and S. A. Boukabara

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

3.3

Fat Tail Probability Distributions for Variational Quality Control of All-Sky Radiances

Francois Vandenberghe, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Hacker, H. Shao, C. Zhou, G. Descombes, B. J. Jung, and T. Auligne

Recorded Presentation

3.4