Fall 2015 Group Meeting/Symposium Schedule

Friday, December 11, 2015 (Room 529)

8:30‑8:45 Fuqing Zhang Introduction
8:45‑9:45 Session 1 Chair: Christopher Melhauser
8:45‑9:00 Hans Chen From Arctic sea ice to carbon in the United States: New adventures in the world of CO₂ data assimilation
9:00‑9:15 Andrew Thomas WRF-Chem: Under Construction
9:15‑9:30 Hui-Wen Lai Simulation of the Arctic Mixed-Phase Cloud
9:30‑9:45 Robert Nystrom A Preliminary look at the Assimilation of Satellite Microwave Brightness Temperature Observations For Tropical Cyclones
9:45‑10:00 Break/Discussion
10:00‑10:45 Session 2 Chair: Erin Munsell
10:00‑10:15 Scott Sieron All-Sky Fast Radiative Transfer Modeling in the Microwave: Updates on Advancing the CRTM to Microphysics-Consistent Cloud Optical Properties
10:15‑10:30 Masashi Minamide Assimilation of All-sky Infrared Brightness Temperatures and Atmospheric Motion Vectors in Tropical Cyclone Analysis
10:30‑10:45 Yue (Michael) Ying Satellite data assimilation for tropical weather prediction: Observing system design and observation impact
10:45‑11:00 Break/Discussion
11:00‑12:00 Session 3 Chair: Scott Sieron
11:00‑11:15 Yonghui Weng Performance of PSU real-time system for 2015 Atlantic storms.
11:15‑11:30 Erin Munsell Dynamics and predictability of the rapid intensification of Hurricane Edouard (2014)
11:30‑11:45 Dandan Tao Dynamics and predictability of secondary eyewall formation in sheared tropical cyclones
11:45‑12:00 Ling Zhang Super Typhoon Rammasun Case Study
12:00‑1:00 Lunch China Dragon
1:00‑1:45 Session 4 Chair: Y.Qiang Sun
1:00‑1:15 Yudong Gao Data Assimilation of Haiyan
1:15‑1:30 Christopher Melhauser A Multiple-Model Ensemble Examination of the Probabilistic Prediction of Tropical Cyclones
1:30‑1:45 Yanting Ye Estimation on the Compound Hazard Severity of Tropical Cyclones over Coastal China during 1985-2011 with Copula Function
1:45‑2:00 Break/Discussion
2:00‑2:45 Session 5 Chair: Masashi Minamide
2:00‑2:15 Sourav Taraphdar Role of Circumnavigating signal in the Initiation and Propagation of the October DYNAMO MJO event in a Cloud-permitting model
2:15‑2:30 Lei Zhu Diurnal cycle of precipitation in Hainan Island
2:30‑2:45 Y.Qiang Sun Contributions of moist convection and internal gravity waves to building the atmospheric “-5/3” kinetic energy spectra
2:45‑3:00 Break/Discussion
3:00‑4:00 Session 6 Chair: Hans Chen
3:00‑3:15 Su (Simon) Liu Joint Polarimetric Radar and Disdrometer Measurements to Reveal Rain Microphysics during Meiyu Season in Eastern China
3:15‑3:30 Mingxin Li Impact of environmental factors and microphysics on hail production (real case simulation and sensitivity experiments using WRF)
3:30‑3:45 Yicun Zhen Implementation of covariance estimation methods on a two layer quasi-geostrophic model
3:45‑4:00 Yingjian Chen Enhancement of Wind Stress Evaluation and Hurricane Waves Simulation
4:00‑4:15 Break/Discussion/Concluding Remarks