7/28/20 (Parallel Session 1) | Earth System Modeling (Land/Hydrology, Ocean, Sea Ice, Space Weather,
Channel: Developmental Testbed Center
Date: 2020-08-11

Tue, 28 July (All EDT)

Earth System Modeling (Land/Hydrology, Ocean, Sea Ice, Space Weather, Cryosphere) (Parallel Session 1)
Chair: James Kinter
Moderator: Mrinal Biswas

2:00 PM GFSv16: Further Advancements to the UFS Medium Range Weather Application in 2021
Fanglin Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Vijay Tallapragada, Daryl Kleist, Arun Chalwa, Jason Levit, Russ Treadon, Jeffery Whitaker, Jack Kain, Lucas Harris, Jian-Wen Bao, Jun Wang, George Gayno, Jongil Han, Weizhong Zheng, Helin Wei, Shrinivas Moorthi, Valery Yudin, Ruiyu Sun, Linjiong Zhou, Anning Chen, Rongqian Yang, Xingren Wu, Xiaqiong Zhou, Henrique Alves, Jessica Meixner, Ali Abdolali, Catherine Thomas, Cory Martin, Wansu Wu, Kristen Bathmann, Phillp Peigion, Andrew Collard, Xu Li, Haixia Liu, Yanqiu Zhu, Xiujuan Su, Shelley Melchior, Wen Meng, Hui-ya Chuang, Boi Vuong, Mallory Row, Guang-Ping Lou, Yali Ma, Jiayi Peng, Deanna Spindler, Roberto Padilla, Geoffery Manikin, Alicia Bentley, Logan Dawson, Kate Friedman, Mark Iredell, Hang Lei, Eric Rogers, George Vandenberghe, James Abeles, Gerhard Theurich, Edward Hartnett, Rusty Benson, Farida Adimi

2:10 PM The study of WRF-Hydro with different atmosphere models for flooding forecast
Wei Yu, Weather Tech Services, LLC; Zuo George Xue, LSU; Weiqing Han, CU

2:20 PM Investigating Compound Flooding and Contaminant Dispersal during Hurricane Florence using Coupled Hydrology and Ocean Models
Ruoying He, North Carolina State University; Joe Zambon (NCSU), John Warner (USGS), George Xue (LSU), Melissa Moulton (NCAR), DongXiao Yi (LSU), Daoyang Bao(LSU), DefneZafer (USGS)

2:30 PM A Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Modeling Framework for the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)
Travis Miles, Rutgers University; Hernan Arango, Rutgers University; John Wilkin, Rutgers University

2:40 PM Coastal Ocean Model Coupling Applications at the NOAA Office of Coast Survey: Future Plans and Recent Advances
Saeed Moghimi, NOAA/UCAR, Saeed Moghimi1, Edward Myers1, Sergey Vinogradov1, Andre Van der Westhuysen2, Beheen Trimble2, Ali Abdolali2, Jaime Calzada1, Yuji Funakoshi1, Panagiotis Velissariou1, Joannes Westerink3, Damrongsak Wirasaet3, Maria Teresa Contreras-Vargas3, William Pringle3, Joseph Zhang4, Fei Ye4, Wei Huang4, Kendra Dresback5, Christine Szpilka5, Changsheng Chen6, Jianhua Qi6, Ayumi Fujisaki7,8, Rocky Dunlap8, Shachak Pe’eri1
1 NOAA/OCS; 2 NOAA/NWS; 3 University of Notre Dame; 4 Virginia Institute of Marine Science; 5 University of Oklahoma; 6 University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth; 7 Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory; 8 Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research at University of Michigan; 9 ESMF/ NUOPC Development Team; (NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; NOS: National Ocean Service; NWS: National Weather Service; ESMF: Earth System Modeling Framework; NUOPC: National Unified Operational Prediction Capability)

2:50 PM The NOS Coastal Ocean Modeling Program within the Unified Forecasting System
Carolyn Lindley, National Ocean Service/CO-OPS; Edward Myers (National Ocean Service/OCS); Aijun Zhang (National Ocean Service/CO-OPS)