Session: Testing and Simulation of Observing Systems: Part 1 (The 81st AMS Annual Meeting)

Wednesday, 17 January 2001: 1:30 PM-4:45 PM

Host: Fifth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

Organizer:

Randolph H. Ware, UCAR, Boulder, CO

Papers:

1:30 PM

5.1

SuomiNet: A report from a beta site—Millersville University

Richard D. Clark, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and C. K. Scharnberger and S. Yalda

1:45 PM

5.2

University NAVSTAR Consortium support for SuomiNet, a GPS network for atmospheric sensing

Michael E. Jackson, University NAVSTAR Consortium and UCAR/OP, Boulder, CO; and C. Meertens, L. Estey, K. Feaux, S. Jeffries, B. Johns, L. Laffea, A. Rosewater, O. Ruud, and R. Ware

2:00 PM

5.3

200 GPS Sites on Taiwan for Atmospheric Research and Education

Yuei-An Liou, National Central Univ., Chungli, Taiwan; and C. C. Wu, C. Y. Huang, and K. H. Chou

2:15 PM

5.4

The Texas MesoNet, GPS Slant Delay Data, and JET: A Test Bed for Improved Mesoscale Forecasting

K. Russell Peterman, URS Electronic Systems, Austin, TX; and G. Frederick, A. E. MacDonald, and R. Ware

2:30 PM

5.5

Impact of GPS-based water vapor fields on mesoscale model forecasts

Jonathan L. Case, NASA/Applied Meteorology Unit & ENSCO Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and J. Manobianco, Y. Xie, R. Ware, and T. Van Hove

2:45 PM

5.6

GPS sensed small scale water vapor variability in the Southern Great Planes

John J. Braun, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Rocken

3:00 PM

5.7

Using ARM and Mesonet data to test COAMPS Soil-Vegetation Physics

Kang Nai, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. Wei, Q. Xu, and K. D. Sashegyi

3:15 PM

5.8

Data Assimilation of Surface and Satellite Observations to Improve Land Surface Modeling

Jared K. Entin, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser and B. A. Cosgrove

3:30 PM

5.9

Observing System Simulation Experiments for NPOESS

Stephen J. Lord, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Masutani, J. S. Woollen, J. C. Derber, R. Atlas, J. Terry, G. D. Emmitt, S. A. Wood, S. Greco, T. J. Kleespies, and V. Kapoor

3:45 PM

5.10

Global wind observational requirements and the hybrid observing system approach

G. David Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA

4:00 PM

5.11

Earth-emitted Irradiance at Triana

G. Louis Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA

4:15 PM

5.12

Observing networks for ENSO prediction: Experiments with a simplified model

Rebecca E. Morss, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. S. Battisti