| Session 2 | |||
| Experiments Involving Observations, Real or Hypothetical: Data Impact Tests (Sensitivity of Forecasts to a Particular Source of Observations); Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) Part 2 | |||
| Organizers: John Manobianco, ENSCO Inc., Melbourne, FL; Dave Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Inc., Charlottesville, VA | |||
| 1:30 PM | 2.1 | Feasibility of a 100 year reanalysis using only surface pressure data Gilbert P. Compo, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker and P. D. Sardeshmukh | |
| 1:45 PM | 2.2 | Operational Assimilation of GPS-IPW observations in the 13-km RUC at NCEP    Tracy Lorraine Smith, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, and NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin, S. I. Gutman, S. Sahm, and K. L. Holub | |
| 2:00 PM | 2.3 | Assimilation of ground-based GPS observations in the Canadian Regional Analysis and Forecast System   Stephen R. Macpherson, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and G. Deblonde and J. Aparicio | |
|  | 2.4 | A simulation of the effect of an expanded NOAA Profiler Network on short-range forecasts Thomas W. Schlatter, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. R. Smart, T. L. Smith, and S. Weygandt | |
| 2:15 PM | 2.4a | Progress on the scientific and computational challenges in the global elements of the GEMS project (Formerly Paper 6.3) Anthony Hollingsworth, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom | |
| 2:30 PM | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break | ||
| 4:00 PM | 2.5 | Regional Forecast Impacts from GEMS Observations    John Manobianco, ENSCO Inc., Melbourne, FL; and J. G. Dreher | |
| 4:15 PM | 2.6 | An Efficient Dual-Resolution Ensemble Data Assimilation Approach and Tests with the Assimilation of Doppler Radar Data   Jidong Gao, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, norman, OK; and M. Xue | |
| 4:30 PM | 2.7 | Adaptive Observation Strategies with the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter   Junjie Liu, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay and T. Miyoshi | |
| 4:45 PM | 2.8 | Assimilation of Diverse Meteorological Datasets with a Four-Dimensional Mesoscale Analysis and Forecast System    Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Vandenberghe, A. N. Hahmann, W. Yu, T. T. Warner, and S. P. Swerdlin | |
| 5:00 PM | 2.9 | Evaluation of land surface spin-up and their impacts on hi-resolution convective modeling Joseph L. Eastman, GEST/UMBC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Peters-Lidard, S. V. Kumar, Y. Tian, and P. R. Houser | |
| 5:15 PM | 2.10 | Sensitivity of WRF forecasts for south Florida to initial and boundary Conditions Brian Etherton, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and P. Santos | |
Monday, 30 January 2006: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM, A405
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