18th Conference on Weather and Forecasting, 14th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, and Ninth Conference on Mesoscale Processes

Joint Session 2: Mesoscale Data Assimilation: Continued (Parallel with session 5)

Tuesday, 31 July 2001: 10:00 AM-11:58 AM
Papers:
  10:00 AM
Initial Verification Of The MM5 3DVAR Data Assimilation System
Dale M. Barker, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Huang, Y. R. Guo, and F. C. Vandenberghe

http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/3dvar/

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)
  10:15 AM
The WRF 3D-Var analysis system
W.-S. Wu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Xue, T. W. Schlatter, R. J. Purser, M. D. McAtee, J. Gao, D. Devenyi, J. C. Derber, D. M. Barker, S. G. Benjamin, and R. Aune

Poster PDF (582.4 kB)
  10:30 AM
Spring 2001 changes to NCEP Eta analysis and forecast system: assimilation of observed precipitation data
Ying Lin, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. E. Baldwin, K. E. Mitchell, E. Rogers, and G. J. DiMego

  10:45 AM
The four-dimensional variational data assimilation system for the JMA mesoscale model
Ko Koizumi, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan

Poster PDF (320.6 kB)
 
J2.9
An integrated three-dimensional objective analysis scheme in use at the Storm Prediction Center

  11:00 AM
3DVAR analysis in the Rapid Update Cycle
Dezso Devenyi, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin and S. Weygandt

Poster PDF (212.5 kB)
  11:15 AM
An operational mesoscale RT-FDDA analysis and forecast system
Jennifer M. Cram, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, S. Low-Nam, R. S. Sheu, L. Carson, C. A. Davis, T. Warner, and J. F. Bowers

http://atec-server.rap.ucar.edu/model/fddad22.html

Poster PDF (76.1 kB)
 
J2.12
Adjusting Soil temperature and Moisture using Surface Observations: intial results from a single column model (Formerly Mesoscale Paper 4.3)

  11:30 AM
EXPLICIT INITIALIZATION OF CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION IN MESOSCALE FORECAST MODELS (Formerly Paper JP2.5)
Brent L. Shaw, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and J. A. McGinley and P. Schultz

Poster PDF (58.6 kB)
  11:45 AM
Data assimilation & forecast tests of a new integration scheme for the Met Office Unified Model (Formerly WAF/NWP paper P2.15)
Andrew J. Malcolm, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and T. Davies, R. S. Bell, and A. M. Clayton

Poster PDF (115.2 kB)