7/27/20 (Parallel Session 1) | Data Assimilation, Ensembles, and Predictability
Channel: Developmental Testbed Center
Date: 2020-08-06

Mon, 27 July​ (All EDT) 

Data Assimilation, Ensembles, and Predictability (Parallel Session 1)
Chair: Ming Hu
Moderator: Will Mayfield

2:10 PM Generalization of Multigrid Beta Filter Scheme for Modeling Background Error Covariance
Miodrag Rancic, IMSG at EMC/NCEP/NOAA; R. James Purser, IMSG at EMC/NCEP/NOAA; Manuel de Pondeca, IMSG at EMC/NCEP/NOAA; Kinami Teppei, IMSG at EMC/NCEP/NOAA

2:20 PM Assimilation of the Middle Atmosphere Data in the FV3GFS and WAM: First Results and Impact on the Upper Atmosphere
Valery Yudin, CU/CIRES; Timothy Fuller-Rowell, CU/CIRES; Svetlana Karol, CU/CIRES; Adam Kubaryk, CU/CIRES; Daryl Kleist, NCEP/EMC; and Catherine Thomas, NCEP/EMC

2:30 PM Improving Near-surface Short-Range Weather Forecasts Using Strongly Coupled Land-Atmosphere Data Assimilation
Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah; Liao-fan Lin, University of Utah

2:40 PM Improve US Operational Landfalling Hurricane Prediction through Assimilating Coastal Ground-based Radar Observation with the Hourly 3DEnVar System and Plans to Accelerate HAFS development
Xu Lu, University of Oklahoma; Xuguang Wang, University of Oklahoma

2:50 PM Development of Convective-Scale Static Background Error Covariance within Hybrid EnVar to advance US current and next generation CAM data assimilation
Yongming Wang, MAP lab, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma; Xuguang Wang, MAP lab, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma

3:00 PM Impacts of Assimilating GOES-16 Clear Air and Cloudy Radiance Observations on Rapidly Initiating Supercell Prediction
Aaron Johnson, University of Oklahoma; Xuguang Wang; Krish Chandramouli; Thomas Jones; Jason Otkins, U. Wisconsin; Jeff Whitaker, ESRL