Session: Critical and Missing Observations (97th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Tuesday, 24 January 2017: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

607 (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the 21st Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface; and the 28th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 24th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction )

Chair:

Sharan Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL

Critical Missing Observations for Weather Prediction

Papers:

8:30 AM

TJ5.1

The NASA CYGNSS Satellite Constellation for Tropical Cyclone Observations

Christopher S. Ruf, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and R. Atlas, P. Chang, M. P. Clarizia, J. L. Garrison, S. Gleason, S. J. Katzberg, Z. Jelenak, J. T. Johnson, S. J. Majumdar, A. O'Brien, D. J. Posselt, D. provost, A. Ridley, R. Rose, F. Said, J. Scherrer, S. Soisuvarn, and V. Zavorotny

Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.1 MB)

8:45 AM

TJ5.2

The Tropics Smallsat Tropical Cyclone Mission: High Temporal Resolution Microwave Imagery As Part of Nasa's Third Earth Venture-Instrument (EVI-3) Program

William J. Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and S. A. Braun, R. Bennartz, C. S. Velden, M. DeMaria, R. Atlas, J. P. Dunion, F. D. Marks Jr., and R. F. Rogers

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

TJ5.3

GFS Model Dropouts and Improving Satellite Observation Quality Control

Jordan C. Alpert, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and V. K. Kumar, A. Eichmann, and S. A. Boukabara

Recorded Presentation