7/29/20  (Plenary Session) | Verification (cont.) and Earth System
Channel: Developmental Testbed Center
Date: 2020-08-06

Wed, 29 July (All EDT)

Verification, Evaluation, and Post Processing (Plenary Session) - Continued
Chair: Lulin Xue
Moderator: Evan Kalina

11:00 AM Assessing the Influence of UFS Tropical Forecast Errors on Higher Latitude Predictions using Nudging Experiments
Juliana Dias, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory; Stefan Tulich, Maria Gehne and George Kiladis 

11:15 AM An Evaluation of Vertical Thermodynamic Profiles and Derived Stability Parameters from Parallel FV3- and Spectral-Model GFS Forecasts
Dillon V. Blount, UW-Milwaukee; Clark Evans, UW-Milwaukee; Israel L. Jirak, NOAA/NWS/Storm Prediction Center; Andrew R. Dean, NOAA/NWS/Storm Prediction Center

11:30 AM Use Satellite Data to Evaluate the Physics Schemes and Their Scale Sensitivity for FV3-GFS
Shaowu Bao, Coastal Carolina University; Dongliang Shen (Coastal Carolina University)

11:45 AM Evaluating Model Physics in the Unified Forecast System (UFS): An Exercise of Using Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) Single-Column Model under the Hierarchical Testing Framework
Weiwei Li (1), Dan D'Amico (1), Lulin Xue (1), Ligia Bernardet (2), Grant Firl (1), Judy Henderson (2), Jimy Dudhia (1), Michael Ek (1), Michelle Harrold (1), and Xia Sun (2,3)
1. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and Developmental Testbed Center (DTC)
2. NOAA/Global Systems Laboratory (GSL), and Developmental Testbed Center (DTC)
3. University of Colorado/Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), NOAA/Global Systems Laboratory (GSL), and Developmental Testbed Center (DTC)

Wed, 29 July (All EDT) 

Earth System Modeling (Land/Hydrology, Ocean, Sea Ice, Space Weather, Cryosphere) (Plenary Session)

Chair: Stacy Mackell
Moderator: Tara Jensen

12:30 PM Development of a Fully Coupled UFS-based System: Science Formulation of Seasonal-to-Subseasonal Prototypes
Jessica Meixner, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Lydia Stefanova, Denise Worthen, Jiande Wang, Bin Li, Jian Kuang, IMSG at NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Jun Wang, Shrinivas Moorthi, Robert Grumbine, Arun Chawla, Avichal Mehra, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC

12:45 PM Project Update: Improving Week 3-4 Weather Prediction Through a Global Covection-Allowing Version of the NOAA Unified Coupled Modeling Framework
Benjamin Cash, IGES/COLA; James Kinter III (GMU/COLA), Larry Marx (GMU/COLA), Paul Dirmeyer (GMU/COLA), Bohua Huang (GMU/COLA), Chul-Su Shin (GMU/COLA), Ravi Shukla (GMU/COLA)

1:00 PM Direct Effect of Aerosols on Subseasonal Prediction in UFS with Inline Chemistry Model
Shan Sun, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory; Li Zhang, Georg Grell, Rainer Bleck and Haiqin Li, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory and CU CIRES

1:15 PM Preliminary Assessment of Land-surface Energy and Water Budgets and Land-atmosphere Interactions in UFS
Paul A. Dirmeyer, George Mason University; Benjamin Cash (GMU/COLA); Michael Ek (NCAR)