Spring 2016 Group Meeting/Symposium Schedule

Tuesday, May 10, 2016 (room 529)

08:30‑08:45 Fuqing Zhang Introduction
08:45‑09:45 Session 1 Chair: Masashi Minamide
08:45‑09:00 Fuqing Zhang Revisiting the WISHE mechanism of hurricane intensification
09:00‑09:15 Erin Munsell Ensemble forecasts of the rapid intensification of Hurricane Edouard (2014): Predictability, dynamics, and thermodynamic structure
09:15‑09:30 Yingjian Chen Coupled Atmosphere-ocean simulation on hurricane forcast
09:30‑09:45 Robert Nystrom Improving the Vortex Initialization of Hurricane Karl (2010) Through the Assimilation of Tropical Cyclone Vitals Quadrant Wind Radii Estimates
09:45‑10:00 Break/Discussion
10:00‑10:45 Session 2 Chair: Yue (Michael) Ying
10:00‑10:15 Scott Sieron The CRTM with Microphysics-Consistent Cloud Optical Properties: Analyses and Applications
10:15‑10:30 Masashi Minamide An Adaptive Observation Error Inflation Method for Assimilating All-sky Satellite Brightness Temperatures
10:30‑10:45 Yonghui Weng EnKF assimilation of GOES-13 all-sky infrared radiances for TC prediction
10:45‑11:00 Break/Discussion
11:00‑11:45 Session 3 Chair: Erin Munsell
11:00‑11:15 Hans Chen A first look at assimilating carbon dioxide concentration for flux estimation: Temporal and spatial variability and correlation structures
11:15‑11:30 Andrew Thomas Mid-Atlantic Air Quality Model: Initial Results from WRF-Chem
11:30‑11:45 A.J. Deng A WRF FDDA realtime system and its recent applications
11:45‑14:00 Lunch, Break/Discussion China Dragon
14:00‑14:45 Session 4 Chair: Y.Qiang Sun
14:00‑14:15 Lei Zhu Diurnal cycle of precipitation in Hainan Island
14:15‑14:30 Mingxin Li Impact of initial moisture on hail production (real case simulation and sensitivity experiments using WRF)
14:30‑14:45 Seth Saslo Ensemble forecasts for lake-effect snow: importance of initial and boundary conditions
14:45‑15:00 Break/Discussion
15:00‑16:00 Session 5 Chair: Hans Chen
15:00‑15:15 Sourav Taraphdar Role of Global Circumnavigating mode in the Initiation and Propagation of October MJO event during DYNAMO
15:15‑15:30 Yue (Michael) Ying Predictability of tropical multi-scale convective systems during an MJO active phase
15:30‑15:45 Y.Qiang Sun Contributions of moist convection and internal gravity waves to building the atmospheric -5/3 kinetic energy spectra
15:45‑16:00 Yicun Zhen On the best choice of Kalman gain
16:00‑16:15 Break/Discussion
16:15‑16:30 Session 6 (Short progress reports) Chair: Scott Sieron
16:15‑16:20 Hui-Wen Lai Challenges on applying EnKF on Arctic Mixed-Phase Clouds
16:20‑16:25 Su (Simon) Liu Triple eyewalls formation in Typhoon Usagi (2013): observation and simulation
16:25‑16:30 Yanting Ye A brief introduction of a parametric tropical cyclone precipitation model