7/28/20 (Plenary Session) | Model Dynamics (cont.) and Data Assimilation
Channel: Developmental Testbed Center
Date: 2020-08-06

Tue, 28 July (All EDT)

Model Dynamics, Physics, and Air Quality (Plenary Session) - Continued
Chair: Ligia Bernardet
Moderator: Tracy Hertneky

11:00 AM Examining the Scalability of Physics in the UFS Short-Range Weather Application (SRW)
Evan Kalina, NOAA ESRL GSL, DTC, & CIRES CU Boulder; Kathryn Newman - NCAR, DTC; Evelyn Grell, CIRES at NOAA/PSL, DTC; Michelle Harrold, NCAR, DTC; Tracy Hertneky, NCAR, DTC; Gerard Ketefian, CIRES at NOAA/GSL, DTC; Weiwei Li, NCAR, DTC; Nicholas Lybarger, NCAR, DTC; Linlin Pan, CIRES at NOAA/GSL, DTC; Man Zhang, CIRES at NOAA/GSL, DTC

11:15 AM Theoretical Basis for Stochastic Uncertainty Representation in the NOAA Unified Forecast System (UFS)
Jian-Wen Bao, NOAA/EMC and NOAA/PSL; Sara Michelson (CU/CIRES and NOAA/PSL), Lisa Bengtsson (CU/CIRES and NOAA/PSL), Philip Pegion (CU/CIRES and NOAA/PSL), Jeffrey Whitaker (NOAA/PSL) and Cecile Penland (NOAA/PSL)

11:30 AM Development of GEFS-Aerosols into NOAA’s Unified Forecast System (UFS)
Li Zhang, NOAA ESRL GSL & CIRES CU Boulder; Georg A. Grell2, Raffaele Montuoro1, 2, Stuart A. McKeen1, 3, Partha S. Bhattacharjee4, Ravan Ahmadov1, 2, Judy Henderson2, Haiqin Li1, 2, Gregory J. Frost3, Li Pan4, Jeff McQueen5, Barry Baker6, 7, Rick Saylor6, Jun Wang5, Ivanka Stajner5, Shobha.Kondragunta8, Xiaoyang Zhang9, Fangjun Li9
1CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, US; 2Global Systems Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, US; 3Chemical Sciences Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, US; 4I.M. Systems Group at NCEP/NWS/EMC, Greenbelt, MD, US; 5Environmental Modeling Center, National Weather Service, Greenbelt, MD, US; 6NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD, US; 7Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, US; 8NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, Greenbelt, MD, US; 9Department of Geography, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, US

11:45 AM Forecasting Dust Emissions Using the Unified Forecast System: Implementation of the NOAA ARL FENGSHA Dust Emission Scheme
Barry Baker, NOAA Air Resources Laboratory/UMBC JCET; Barry D. Baker1,2, Li Zhang3,4, Raffaele Montuoro3,4, Daniel Tong1,2, Rick Saylor2, Partha Bhattacharjee6,7, Li Pan6,7, Georg Grell4, Stu McKee3,5, Jeff McQueen7
1Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, US; 2NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD, US; 3CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, US; 4Global Systems Laboratory, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, US; 5Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, US; 6I.M. Systems Group at NCEP/NWS/EMC, Greenbelt, MD, US; 7Environmental Modeling Center, National Weather Service, Greenbelt, MD, US

Tue, 28 July (All EDT)

Data Assimilation, Ensembles, and Predictability (Plenary Session)
Chair: Ming Hu
Moderator: Kathryn Newman

12:30 PM GEFSv12: Operational Implementation of UFS Sub-seasonal Application
Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Yuejian Zhu, Jose-Henrique Alves, Alicia Bentley, Partha Bhattacharjee, Arun Chawla, Logan Dawson, Bing Fu, Lin Gan, Hong Guan, Dingchen Hou, Walter Kolczynski, Jason Levit, Wei Li, Yan Luo, Geoff Manikin, Jeff McQueen, Li Pan, Jiayi Peng, Shannon Shields, Eric Sinsky, Deanna Spindler, Ivanka Stajner, Russ Treadon, Jun Wang, Xianwu Xue, Bo Yang, Fanglin Yang, and Xiaqion (Kate) Zhou (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC)
Mike Charles; Mingyue Chen; Craig Long; Lindsey Long; Kyle MacRitchie; Matt Rosencrans and Hui Wang (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC); Tom Hamill and Jeff Whitaker (NOAA/OAR/ESRL/PSL); Georg Grell, Judy Henderson, Raffaele Montouro, and Li Zhang (NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSL); Greg Frost and Stu McKeen (NOAA/OAR/ESRL/CSL); Barry Baker and Rick Saylor (NOAA/OAR/ARL); Shobha Kondragunta and Xiayang Zhang (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR)

12:45 PM The Reanalysis for the Global Ensemble Forecast System, version 12
Tom Hamill, NOAA/ESRL/PSL

1:00 PM The Challenges of the NCEP Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) Development
Yuejian Zhu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC

1:15 PM Advancements Toward a Data-driven 4D-Var for Ocean and Coupled Data Assimilation
Steve Penny, NOAA PSL / CIRES