Session 3 |
| development and refinement of conceptual models; application of numerical models to planned and inadvertent weather modification topics |
| Organizer: Tara Jensen, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 4:00 PM | 3.1 | Purposeful tornado amelioration: Is the science ready? Joseph H. Golden, Forecast Systems Lab, NOAA, Boulder, CO |
| 4:15 PM | 3.2 | Modeled sensitivity of wintertime precipitation to CCN and GCCN concentrations Stephen M. Saleeby, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton |
| 4:30 PM | 3.3 | Impacts of urban and rural land-use and land-cover changes on MM5 simulated meteorological conditions in the Houston-Galveston region ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Haider Taha, Altostratus, Inc., Martinez, CA; and R. D. Bornstein, R. Balmori, and J. Noble |
| 4:45 PM | 3.4 | Dynamic climatology—a tool for assessing cloud seeding operations in water resource management ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) William J. Badini, HDR Engineering Inc., Denver, CO; and J. F. Henz |
| 5:00 PM | 3.5 | A case study of mesoscale and plume dispersion modeling for a February 2004 cloud seeding event in the Walker River Basin of California/Nevada ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Arlen W. Huggins, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. Koracin, D. Podnar, and M. Xiao |
| 5:15 PM | 3.6 | Controlling the evolution of a simulated hurricane through optimal perturbations: Initial experiments using a 4-D variational analysis system ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) R. N. Hoffman, AER, Lexington, MA; and C. Grassotti, J. M. Henderson, S. M. Leidner, G. Modica, and T. Nehrkorn |