Group Meeting Schedule

Thursday, August 17, 2017 (Room 112 Walker Building)

8:30‑8:45 Fuqing Zhang Introduction and Group photo
8:45‑10:20 Session 1 Chemical estimation and modelling sensitivity (Chair: Lei Zhu)
8:45‑9:00 Hans Chen Progress toward estimating surface carbon dioxide fluxes at the regional scale using an augmented Ensemble Kalman Filter
9:00‑9:15 Lily Zhang Trends and variability of North American CO2 concentration revealed from ECMWF real-time analysis
9:15‑9:30 Andrew Thomas WRF-Chem Sensitivity of Tropospheric Ozone in the Mid-Atlantic Region in June 2016
9:30‑09:45 Hui-Wen Lai Sensitivity of simulated Arctic roll clouds to planetary boundary layer schemes in the WRF
9:45‑10:00 Wenjie (Wendall) Li Parameter Sensitivity of a simple ice model
10:00‑10:20 Discussion and Coffee Break
10:20‑11:45 Session 2 Tropical cyclones (Chair: Qiang. Sun)
10:20‑10:35 Dandan Tao Effects of Vertical Wind Shear on the Predictability of Tropical Cyclones: Sensitivity to Ambient Moisture
10:35‑10:50 Yanting Ye A parametric TC precipitation model in NWP
10:50‑11:05 Tonghua Su Uncertainties in the Prediction of Super Typhoon Nepartak
11:05‑11:20 Su (Simon) Liu Dynamics and predictability of Rapid Intensification of Super Typhoon Usagi (2013)
11:20‑11:35 Yinghui Lu Automatic bias correction for satellite radiance observations
11:35‑11:45 Discussion
11:45‑1:30 Lunch and a short break
1:30‑2:50 Session 3 Ensemble based data assimilation (Chair: Hans Chen)
1:30‑1:45 Yue (Michael) Ying Correlation length scales in background/observation error covariances and how they influence filter performance
1:45‑2:00 Masashi Minamide Impacts of moisture updates on Tropical cyclone initialization with assimilation of all-sky radiance from Himawari-8
2:00‑2:15 Yunji (Jerry) Zhang Assimilating realistic GOES-16 infrared radiance observations at storm-scale: The 17 June 2017 severe weather event in Kansas
2:15‑2:30 Robert Nystrom An Ensemble Based Data Assimilation adventure toward capturing the extreme event of Hurricane Patricia (2015)
2:30‑2:45 Scott Sieron Microphysics-Consistent Microwave Brightness Temperature Simulations: Particle Bulk Density and Non-Spherical Particles
2:45‑3:05 Discussion and Coffee Break
3:05‑4:20 Session 4 Multiscale dynamics (Chair: Andrew Thomas)
3:05‑3:20 Xingchao (XC) Chen Spatial and Intraseasonal variations of Atmospheric Overturning in Indian Summer Monsoon
3:20‑3:35 Seth Saslo Using ensemble sensitivity analysis towards understanding lake-effect snow morphology and predictability
3:35‑3:50 Yu Shu A climatology of mesoscale vortices in China
3:50‑4:05 Tinghai Ou East Asia regional reanalysis with a focus on Tibet Plateau-A joint project between University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Penn State University (United States)
4:05‑4:20 Discussion and Concluding Remarks