Summer 2015 Group Meeting/Symposium Schedule

Day 1: Monday, August 17, 2015 (room 529)

13:00‑13:15 Fuqing Zhang Introduction
13:15‑14:15 Session 1 Chair: Hans Chen
13:15‑13:30 Erin Munsell Dynamics and predictability of the rapid intensification of Hurricane Edouard (2014)
13:30‑13:45 Eric Deshong Radius dependence of roll vortices in the tropical cyclone boundary layer
13:45‑14:00 Christopher Melhauser A smörgåsbord of tropical cyclone modeling fun: Karl, Sandy, and Edouard
14:00‑14:15 Break/Discussion
14:15‑15:00 Session 2 Chair: Scott Sieron
14:15‑14:30 Sourav Taraphdar Role of initial and boundary conditions on initiation of MJO in a high resolution regional model
14:30‑14:45 Y.Qiang Sun Mesoscale energy spectra for a simulated squall line
14:45‑15:00 Hans Chen Interannual Arctic sea-ice variability and associated winter weather patterns: A regional perspective for 1979-2014

Day 2: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 (room 529)

11:00‑11:15 Fuqing Zhang Introduction
11:15‑12:00 Session 3 Chair: Erin Munsell
11:15‑11:30 Scott Sieron All-sky microwave radiative transfer modeling: Advancing the CRTM to microphysics-consistent cloud optical properties
11:30‑11:45 Masashi Minamide EnKF assimilation of GOES-R all-sky infrared brightness temperature for the analysis and forecast of tropical cyclones
11:45‑12:00 Michael Ying Recent progress and challenges in applying data assimilation for tropical weather systems
12:00‑12:15 Break/Discussion
12:15‑12:30 Progress report
Jerry Zhang Cold bias in frequent WRF initializations
Andrew Thomas Particle Filter - Ensemble Kalman filter hybrid data assimilation
Yonghui Weng PSU hurricane realtime; NASA HIWRAP assimilating
Yudong Gao Progress on assimilation of reconnaissance data
Yicun Zhen The progress of applying covariance estimation methods on Speedy model PSU hurricane realtime; NASA HIWRAP assimilating
Dan Yao Case Study of a Tornado in China with Large Eddy Simulation
12:30‑14:00 Lunch Pizza!
14:00‑14:45 Session 4 Chair: Y.Qiang Sun
14:00‑14:30 Invited speaker
Zhiyong Meng		 What we found about the extremely high-impact event of 21 July 2012 in Beijing?
14:30‑14:45 Break/Discussion
14:45‑15:30 Session 5 Chair: Christopher Melhauser
14:45‑54:00 Mingxin Li Impact of environmental factors and microphysics on hail production (real case simulation and sensitivity experiments using WRF)
15:00‑15:15 Yuanchun Zhang Diurnal variation of warm-season precipitation and vortices east of big topography
15:15‑15:30 Xingchao Chen Diurnal cycle of precipitation over the Pearl River Delta during Mei-Yu Season