Session 5b |
| | Polar Weather Forecasting (Parallel with Session 5A) |
| | Organizer: Jeffrey S. Tilley, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
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| 8:00 AM | 5b.1 | The International Antarctic Weather Forecasting Handbook
John Turner, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and S. Pendlebury |
| 8:15 AM | 5b.2 | Numerical weather prediction in East Antarctica 
Neil D. Adams, Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre and Bureau of Meteorology, Kent Town, Australia |
| 8:30 AM | 5b.3 | Unstructured grid Antarctic weather forecast system
David P. Bacon, SAIC, McLean, VA; and N. N. Ahmad, Y. Jin, and R. A. Sarma |
| 8:45 AM | 5b.4 | The Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System
Jordan G. Powers, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. H. Kuo, J. F. Bresch, J. J. Cassano, D. H. Bromwich, and A. Cayette |
| 9:00 AM | 5b.5 | Verification of Polar MM5 Simulations of Antarctic Atmospheric Circulation
Zhichang Guo, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and D. H. Bromwich and J. J. Cassano |
| 9:15 AM | 5b.6 | A case study of Polar MM5 Usage for Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction in the Antarctic: Upper Boundary Condition
Helin Wei, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and D. H. Bromwich, Y. H. Kuo, and T. K. Wee |
| 9:30 AM | 5b.7 | High-latitude cloud-drift winds from MODIS
Jeffrey R. Key, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and C. S. Velden and D. Santek |
| 9:45 AM | 5b.8 | Topographic forcing of the Antarctic wind field
Thomas R. Parish, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY |