Mesoscale Dynamics and Predictability Group Symposium, Fall 2013

December 11-12, 2013 in 529 Walker

Day 1: Wednesday, December 11, 2013

08:30 – 09:00	Upload talks, Fuqing introduction
09:00 – 09:15	Junhong Wei: Tracking gravity waves in moist baroclinic waves
09:15 – 09:30	Y. Qiang Sun: Mesoscale predictability of moist baroclinic waves: Preliminary work
09:30 – 09:45	Hans Chen: Atmospheric response to Arctic sea ice loss in CAM: An ensemble approach
09:45 – 10:00	BREAK!
10:00 – 10:15	Ben Green: Using a local coordinate system in a Large Eddy Simulation to account for the effects of streamline curvature
10:15 – 10:30	Christopher Melhauser: Coplane retrieval of P-3 radial velocities for Hurricane Katrina (2005)
10:30 – 10:45	Scott Sieron: Diagnosing the intensity of Super Typhoon Haiyan
10:45 – 11:00	BREAK!
11:00 – 11:15	Shoujuan (Jennifer) Shu: Environmental Influences on the Intensity Changes of Tropical Cyclones over the Western North Pacific
11:15 – 11:30	Dandan Tao: Predictability and dynamics of tropical cyclones: Sensitivity to environmental shear, sea-surface temperature and moisture
11:30 – 11:45	Erin Munsell: Predictability and forecast evaluation of ensemble simulations of long-lived Hurricane Nadine (2012)
11:45 – 12:00	BREAK!
12:00 – 12:45	Pizza lunch and discussion

Day 2: Thursday, December 12, 2013

08:30 – 09:00	Upload talks, Fuqing introduction
09:00 – 09:15	Jon Poterjoy: Particle filtering for high-dimensional nonlinear systems: An introduction and new ideas
09:15 – 09:30	Yue (Michael) Ying: Test of adaptive inflation methods on the Lorenz 96 model
09:30 – 09:45	Yicun (Ethan) Zhen: Adaptive covariance localization
09:45 – 10:00	BREAK!
10:00 – 10:15	Ye Yun: Approach to InSAR atmospheric correction by WRF model and 3DVAR data assimilation
10:15 – 10:30	Yunji (Jerry) Zhang: Simulation of a tornadic supercell: Dealing with surface observations
10:30 – 10:45	Yonghui Weng: A Story of the PSU Hurricane System
10:45 – 11:00	BREAK!
11:00 – 12:00	Discussion