21st Conf. on Severe Local Storms and 19th Conf. on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/15th Conf. on Numerical Weather Prediction

Session 4B: Mesoscale Data Assimilation and Modeling

Tuesday, 13 August 2002: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Organizer:  Peter B. Roohr, 88th Weather Squadron
Papers:
  1:30 PM
Wind and thermodynamic retrievals in a supercell thunderstorm: 4DVar results
N. Andrew Crook, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Dowell and J. Sun

Poster PDF (191.8 kB)
  1:45 PM
Estimating environmental soundings for use in convective-scale NWP
Chris Snyder, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. C. Skamarock

  2:00 PM
Real-time Storm-scale Forecast Support for IHOP 2002 at CAPS
Ming Xue, CAPS/University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. Brewster, D. Weber, K. W. Thomas, F. Kong, and E. Kemp

  2:15 PM
Sensitivity study on nudging parameters for a mesoscale FDDA system
Mei Xu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, C. A. Davis, and T. T. Warner

Poster PDF (344.9 kB)
  2:30 PM
Event-based verification of operational mesoscale NWP
Graham A. Mills, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic., Australia

  2:45 PM
A Framework for Globalization of Regional Atmospheric Models: Dry Core and Quasi-Uniform (QU) Grids
Miodrag Rancic, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and H. Zhang