Session 15B |
| | Data Assimilation III |
| | Chair: Jennifer C. Roman, USAF/AFWA, Offutt AFB, NE
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| 8:00 AM | 15B.1 | A comparison of sea level pressure analyses derived from QuikSCAT winds to manual surface analyses produced in the NOAA Ocean Prediction Center  
Joan M. Von Ahn, STG, Inc. and NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and J. M. Sienkiewicz and J. Patoux |
| 8:15 AM | 15B.2 | The "Chromatic Hexad" method for adaptive anisotropic covariance synthesis
R. James Purser, SAIC and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs,, MD |
| 8:30 AM | 15B.3 | Real-time ensemble data assimilation at the University of Washington
Ryan D. Torn, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and G. J. Hakim |
| 8:45 AM | 15B.4 | Ensemble-based sensitivity analysis
Gregory J. Hakim, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. D. Torn |
|  | 15B.5 | Impact of data density in ensemble filters and smoothers
Milija Zupanski, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. Zupanski and M. DeMaria |
| 9:00 AM | 15B.6 | Impact of model error and imperfect initial condition perturbations on ensemble-based probabilistic forecasts: UNPREDICTABLE SPOTS
Jun Du, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD |
| 9:15 AM | 15B.7 | A sequential variational analysis approach for mesoscale data assimilation
Yuanfu Xie, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Koch, J. A. McGinley, S. Albers, and N. Wang |
| 9:30 AM | 15B.8 | Adaptive estimation of background and observation error statistics in variational data assimilation
Zhuo Liu, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada; and M. Buehner and P. Gauthier |