Session 4 |
| | Assimilation Techniques and Their Evaluation - Part 2 |
| | Organizer: Yuanfu Xie, Forecast Research Division, Boulder, CO
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| 8:30 AM | 4.1 | Ensemble-derived background error covariances for operational NWP  
Mark Buehner, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada |
| 8:45 AM | 4.2 | Critical issues of ensemble data assimilation in application to GOES-R risk reduction program
Dusanka Zupanski, CIRA/Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and M. Zupanski, M. DeMaria, and L. Grasso |
| 9:00 AM | 4.3 | An ensemble Kalman filter for WRF and a comparison with the WRF three-dimensional variational assimilation scheme
Chris Snyder, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Caya, D. M. Barker, J. Anderson, and W. C. Skamarock |
| 9:15 AM | 4.4 | Correcting CMAQ photolysis rates based on GOES observed clouds
Arastoo Pour Biazar, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. T. McNider, S. J. Roselle, and R. J. Suggs |
| 9:30 AM | 4.5 | 4DDATA assimilation of GOES imager IR radiances in cloudy conditions
T. Vukicevic, CIRA/Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and M. Sengupta, A. Jones, and T. Vonder Haar |