Session: Advances in 0–6 Hour Forecasting for Aviation (2006

Session 9
	Advances in 0–6 Hour Forecasting for Aviation
	Cochairs: James W. Wilson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; Cindy K. Mueller, NCAR, Boulder, CO
	8:30 AM	9.1	From the 13km RUC to the Rapid Refresh Stan Benjamin, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and D. Devenyi, T. Smirnova, S. Weygandt, J. M. Brown, S. Peckham, K. Brundage, T. L. Smith, G. Grell, and T. Schlatter
	8:45 AM	9.2	Assimilation of Radar Data and Short-Range Prediction of Thunderstorms using 3DVAR, Cloud Analysis and Ensemble Kalman Filter Methods Ming Xue, SOM/CAPS/Univ.of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Tong and M. Hu
	9:00 AM	9.3	Winter Weather Nowcasting at Airports Roy M. Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, CO
	9:15 AM	9.4	Experiments in very short period forecasting of convective storms using radar extrapolation and numerical weather prediction methods James W. Wilson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Mueller, M. Xu, J. O. Pinto, and J. Sun
	9:30 AM	9.5	An analysis of Collaborative Convective Forecast Product performance for the 2005 convective season Michael P. Kay, NOAA/FSL/CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. L. Mahoney and J. E. Hart
	9:45 AM		Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	11:00 AM	9.6	Very short range forecasting of precipitation: Comparing NWP and extrapolation techniques N. Andrew Crook, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Sun and Y. Zhang
	11:15 AM	9.7	A "Demand Pull" Approach to Short Term Forecast Development and Testing James E. Evans, MIT, Lexington, MA

Thursday, 2 February 2006: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM, A301

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Session 9