Session 7 Significant Role of Calibration/Validation for the Transition of Research to Operations

Tuesday, 9 January 2018: 1:30 PM-3:45 PM
615 AB (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)
Host: Eighth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs:
Changyong Cao, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/SMCD, College Park, DC and James G. Yoe, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, College Park, MD

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Papers:
1:30 PM
7.1
Improving the Operational Calibration Stability of VIIRS SDR Using Advanced Kalman Filtering
Changyong Cao, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/SMCD, College Park, DC; and X. Shao

2:00 PM
7.3
The O2R-R2O Effort to Improve Tornado Forecasting at NSSL and SPC Using Calibrated CAM Ensemble Guidance
Burkely T. Gallo, CIMMS/NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. J. Clark, B. T. Smith, R. L. Thompson, I. L. Jirak, and S. R. Dembek
2:15 PM
7.4
Using High-Resolution Ensemble Precipitation Data to Develop New Probabilistic Hazard Information at the Weather Prediction Center
Michael J. Erickson, Weather Prediction Center/CIRES, College Park, MD; and S. Ganetis, H. Vergara, and J. A. Nelson Jr.
2:30 PM
7.5
Verifying, Calibrating, and Redefining the Excessive Rainfall Outlook at the Weather Prediction Center
Michael J. Erickson, Weather Prediction Center/CIRES, College Park, MD; and J. A. Nelson Jr.
2:45 PM
7.6
Preliminary Results from the VISAGE Project—Visualization for Integrated Satellite, Airborne, and Ground-Based Data Exploration
Helen Conover, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and T. Berendes, P. N. Gatlin, M. Maskey, A. Naeger, and S. M. Wingo
3:00 PM
7.7
Calibration and Field Evaluation of the National Data Buoy Center's New Wave Measurement System
Richard H. Bouchard, NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS; and R. E. Jensen, R. E. Riley, and L. A. LeBlanc
3:15 PM
7.8
Developing and Validating a New Fire-Weather Index Using R2O
Alan F. Srock, Saint Cloud State Univ., Saint Cloud, MN; and J. J. Charney, B. E. Potter, R. Heffernan, L. Van Bussum, and S. L. Goodrick
3:30 PM
7.9
Understanding the Performance of Radio Occultation Weather Observations
Anthony LaRosa, Riverside Technologies, Inc., Silver Spring, MD; and D. Hermreck, B. Schreiner, and S. Healy
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