2002 Annual

Session 6: Ensembles and data assimilation

Thursday, 17 January 2002: 8:45 AM-1:30 PM
Organizer:  Stephen Lord, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
Papers:
  8:45 AM
6.1
Application of an ensemble Kalman filter with a dry multi-level primitive-equation model
Herschel L. Mitchell, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and P. L. Houtekamer and G. Pellerin

Poster PDF (90.4 kB)
  9:00 AM
6.2
An Ensemble Kalman Smoother for Reanalysis
Jeffrey S. Whitaker, Physical Sciences Division/ESRL/NOAA, Boulder, CO; and G. P. Compo

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6.3
The use of synoptically dependent background error structures and a geostrophic co-ordinate transform in 3D variational data assimilation

  9:15 AM
6.4
Use of the breeding technique in the estimation of the background covariance matrix for a quasi-geostrophic model
E. Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Corazza, D. J. Patil, E. Ott, J. A. Yorke, B. R. Hunt, I. Szunyogh, and M. Cai

Poster PDF (906.1 kB)
  9:45 AM
6.6
A local least squares framework for ensemble filtering
Jeffrey L. Anderson, NOAA/GFDL and NCAR, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (19.9 kB)
  10:00 AM
6.7
Spread-skill relationship in the Canadian ensemble prediction system
Richard Verret, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and F. Pithois, L. Lefaivre, P. Houtekamer, L. Wilson, G. Pellerin, and M. Klasa

Poster PDF (65.2 kB)
  10:15 AM
6.8
Are Bred Vectors the same as Lyapunov vectors?
Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Corazza and M. Cai

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  10:30 AM
6.9
Estimation of Analysis Error with the Physical-space Statistical Analysis System
Ricardo Todling, NASA/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Yang, J. Guo, and S. E. Cohn

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  10:45 AM
Capabilities of ensemble filters for data assimilation
Jeffrey L. Anderson, NOAA/GFDL and NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Zhang

  11:00 AM
Tangent Linear and Adjoint of the Kain-Fritsch Moist-Convective Parameterization
Luc Fillion, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and S. Bélair

  11:15 AM
Regional data assimilation using a stretched-grid approach and ensemble calculations
Michael S. Fox-Rabinovitz, University of Maryland and NASA/GSFC/DAO, College Park, MD; and L. L. Takacs and R. C. Govindaraju

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  11:30 AM
Coffee Break in the Poster Session Room

  12:00 PM
Lunch Break