2002 Annual

Session 7: strategies for adaptive observations

Thursday, 17 January 2002: 1:30 PM-3:45 PM
Organizer:  Herschell Mitchell, MSC
Papers:
  1:30 PM
7.1
Adaptive observations at NCEP: Past, present, and future
Zoltan Toth, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Spring, MD; and I. Szunyogh, C. H. Bishop, S. J. Majumdar, R. Morss, J. Moskaitis, D. Reynolds, D. Weinbrenner, D. Michaud, N. Surgi, M. Ralph, J. Parrish, J. Talbot, J. Pavone, and S. J. Lord

http://sgi62.wwb.noaa.gov:8080/ens/enshome.html

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)
  1:45 PM
7.2
Using Large Member Ensembles to Isolate Local Low Dimensionality of Atmospheric Dynamics
D. J. Patil, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and I. Szunyogh, E. Kalnay, B. R. Hunt, E. Ott, and J. A. Yorke

Poster PDF (4.3 MB)
  2:00 PM
7.3
On the dynamical basis of targeting weather observations
Istvan Szunyogh, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. V. Zimin, D. J. Patil, B. R. Hunt, E. Kalnay, J. A. Yorke, and E. Ott

Poster PDF (2.1 MB)
  2:15 PM
7.4
Singular vectors and observation targeting
Martin Leutbecher, CNRM, Toulouse, France; and T. N. Palmer and A. J. Thorpe

  2:30 PM
7.5
Optimal Observations for Variational Data Assimilation
Armin G. Koehl, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. Stammer

  2:45 PM
7.6
Drifter launch strategies based on dynamic Lagrangian templates
M. Toner, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and A. C. Poje, A. D. Kirwan, Jr., and C. K. R. T. Jones

  3:00 PM
7.7
Quantifying the impact of observations using ensembles
Brian J. Etherton, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and S. J. Majumdar and C. H. Bishop

  3:30 PM
Symposium Ends