Fall 2013 Group Meeting/Symposium Schedule

September 13^th, 2013 -- lead: Christopher Melhauser

Introduction

0900: Fuqing Zhang

Session I – Regional Scale Climate

0910: Wei Li – Regional Scale Dependent Predictability by IPCC Models

0930: Hans Chen – The Atmospheric Response to Arctic Sea Ice Loss in CAM: An Ensemble Approach

0950: Yue Ying – Data Assimilation for the 2011-10 MJO Events

Break #1 – 10 minutes

Session II – Dynamics and Predictability

1020: Erin Munsell – Dynamical Analysis of the PSU WRF/EnKF Real-Time Ensemble Simulation of Hurricane Sandy

1040: Dandan Tao – Predictability and Dynamics of Tropical Cyclones Under Vertical Wind Shear

1100: Qiang Sun – Secondary Eyewall formation Under Vertical Wind Shear

1120: Benjamin Green – Tropical Cyclones and Large Eddy Simulations: From Idealized to Real-Data Cases

1140: Junhong Wei – Mesoscale Gravity Waves in Moist Baroclinic Waves

Break #2 – 10 minutes

Working Lunch – Pizza provided

Invited Speaker

1210: Shuguang Wang* – Tropical Convection and MJO - Observation, Theory and Numerical Simulation

*Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University

Break #3 – 10 minutes

Session III – Data Assimilation

1300: Yicun Zhen – Localization Radius: A Purely Mathematical Approach

1320: Jon Poterjoy – Technical details of E4DVar

1340: Scott Sieron – Experiences and Lessons from HS3

0200: Christopher Melhauser – The Use of Airborne Doppler Radar Radial Velocity Super Observations for Tropical Cyclone Prediction

Not presenting:

- Yonghui Weng

- Yunji Zhang (away in China)

- Tom Gowan (undergraduate)

- Amy Yun (new visitor from PKU)

- Steve Greybush (Assistant Professor, guest)