Session 6 |
| | Application of lightning data in atmospheric process studies 1: Assimilation and forecasting |
| | Chair: Don MacGorman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK
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| 11:00 AM | 6.1 | Lightning and its application to improving short-range forecasting
Steven J. Goodman, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL |
| 11:30 AM | 6.2 | Lightning produced by cold season oceanic extratropical cyclones: Observations related to nowcasting storm development, intensity and precipitation amounts  
Nicholas W. S. Demetriades, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and R. L. Holle |
| 11:45 AM | 6.3 | Toward the Assimilation of Lightning Data over the Pacific Ocean into a Mesoscale NWP Model
Antti T. Pessi, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. Businger, T. Cherubini, K. L. Cummins, and T. Turner |
| 12:00 PM | 6.4 | Lightning contribution to improvement of passive microwave vertical structure and rainfall estimation
Dennis J. Boccippio, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL |