Registration – Coffee & Continental Breakfast

Opening Remarks

SESSION 1: Physics Development and Testing – Part 1 (15 min each)

Coffee Break

SESSION 1: Physics Development and Testing – Part 2 (15 min each)

Lunch Break

SESSION 1: Physics Development and Testing – Part 3 (15 min each)

SESSION 2: Verification Methods (15 min each)

Coffee Break

SESSION 3: Model Evaluation for Mesoscale Processes (15 min each)

End of Day

Coffee & Continental Breakfast

SESSION 4: Air Chemistry - Part 1 (15 min each)

Coffee Break

SESSION 5: Data Assimilation - Part 1 (15 min each)

Lunch Break

SESSION 5: Data Assimilation - Part 2 (15 min each)

Coffee Break

SESSION 6: User Support / Community Updates (15 min each)

Discussion (with panel members)

Reception (Millennium Hotel)

Coffee & Continental Breakfast

SESSION 4: Air Chemistry - Part 2 (15 min each)

SESSION 7: Forecasting System Development and Testing - Part 1 (15 min each)

Coffee Break

POSTER VIEWING SESSION

Lunch Break

SESSION 7: Forecasting System Development and Testing - Part 2 (15 min each)

Coffee Break

Opening Discussions

Breakout Sessions

End of Day

Coffee & Continental Breakfast

SESSION 8: Software/Computational Development (15 min each)

Coffee Break

SESSION 9: Other Model Applications (15 min each)

Breakout Session - Report

Final Discussion

Wrap-up

OPENING REMARKS. Tim Killeen / Joe Klemp

THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECAST MODEL VERISON 2.0: PHYSICS UPDATE. Jimy Dudhia (NCAR)

PHYSICS PARAMETERIZATION PROBLEMS IN THE MM5 AND WRF: A REAL-TIME PERSPECTIVE. Cliff Mass, David Ovens, Mark Albright, Richard Steed, and Jeff Baars

MESOSCALE MODELING OF AN ARCTIC MIXED-PHASE STRATUS. H. Morrison and J. O. Pinto

A NEW NON-LOCAL BOUNDARY LAYER MODEL. Jonathan Pleim

IMPACT OF A NEW DIFFUSION SCHEME IN IMPROVING SIMULATION OVER STEEP TOPOGRAPHY. Cindy Bruyère (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Colorado) and Günther Zängl (Meteorologisches Institut der Universität München, Germany)

Coffee Break

NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS WITH MM5 AND WRF USING THE UPGRADED UNIFIED NOAH LAND SURFACE MODEL. M. Tewari, F. Chen, W. Wang, J. Dudhia, M. LeMone, (NCAR), K. Mitchell, M. Ek, (NCEP), J. Wiegel (AFWA) and R. Cuenca (OSU)

IMPACT OF LAND SURFACE PROCESS IN MM5 OVER HONG KONG AND PEARL RIVER DELTA. Jeff Chun-Fung Lo (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & NCAR), Kai-Hon Lau (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Fei Chen (NCAR) and Jimmy Fung (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

LAND SURFACE MODEL COMPARISONS FOR COMPLEX TERRAIN FLOW. B. de Foy, L.T. Molina, M.J. Molina (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

IMPROVEMENTS TO SURFACE FLUX COMPUTATIONS IN THE MRF PBL SCHEME, AND REFINEMENTS TO URBAN PROCESSES IN THE NOAH LAND-SURFACE MODEL WITH THE NCAR/ATEC REAL-TIME FDDA AND FORECAST SYSTEM.  Yubao Liu, Fei Chen, Tom Warner, Scott Swerdlin (National Center for Atmospheric Research/RAP, Boulder, Colorado)

ON IMPROVING 4-KM MODEL SIMULATIONS. Aijun Deng and David R. Stauffer (Penn State University)

CHALLENGE OF FORECASTING URBAN WEATHER WITH NWP MODELS. Fei Chen (NCAR), Yubao Liu (NCAR), Hiroyuki Kusaka (NCAR & CRIEPI), Mukul Tewari (NCAR), Jian-Wen Bao (NOAA), Chun Fung Lo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), and Kai Hon Lau (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Lunch Break

SOME COMMENTS ON PBL PARAMETERIZATIONS IN WRF. Mariusz Pagowski (NOAA Research – Forecast System Laboratory)

PREDICTION OF WARM SEASON CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS USING A MATRIX OF 19 WRF PHYSICAL CONFIGURATIONS. William A. Gallus, Jr. and Isidora Jankov (Iowa State University)

OBJECT-BASED VERIFICATION OF WRF PRECIPITATION FORECASTS. Chris Davis (NCAR/MMM/RAP), Barbara Brown (NCAR/RAP) and Randy Bullock (NCAR/RAP)

EVALUATING HIGH-RESOLUTION NWP MODELS USING KINETIC ENERGY SPECTRA. William C. Skamarock (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado), Michael E. Baldwin (NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory Norman, Oklahoma), and Wei Wang (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado)

BIAS REMOVAL ON A MESOSCALE FORECAST GRID. Richard C. Steed and Clifford F. Mass (University of Washington, Seattle, Washington)

Coffee Break

THE 12 NOVEMBER 2003 LOS ANGELES HAILSTORM.  Robert G. Fovell (University of California)

EVALUATION OF REAL-TIME HIGH-RESOLUTION MM5 PREDICTIONS OVER THE GREAT LAKES REGION. J. In (University of Houston, Houston), S. Zhong (University of Houston, Houston), X. Bian (USDA Forest Service), J. Charney (USDA Forest Service), W. Heilman (USDA Forest Service), and B. Potter (USDA Forest Service)

THE SIMULATION OF PRECIPITATION IN CONVECTIVELY STABLE ENVIRONMENTS. Mark T. Stoelinga (University of Washington, Seattle, WA)

NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF TYPHOON TORAJI (2001) AND TYPHOON DUJUAN (2003): MM5 VS WRF. Jhih-Ying Chen and Pay-Liam Lin

MM5 AND WRF INTERCOMPARISON FOR TRADE WIND SHEAR ZONE IN THE LEE OF KAUAI. Duane Stevens, John Porter and Sheldon Kono (University of Hawaii at Manoa) and Kevin Roe (Maui High Performance Computing Center)

AN OBJECTIVE INTER-COMPARISON OF WRF, MM5, AND NCEP ETA SHORT-RANGE QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL H2O PROHECT (IHOP) DOMAIN. Brent Shaw (NOAA Research/Forecast Systems Laboratory)

EXPLICIT CONVECTIVE FORECASTING WITH THE WRF MODEL. Morris L. Weisman, Chris Davis and James Done (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO)

EVALUATING THE UTILITY OF WRF AS A SEVERE WEATHER FORECASTING TOOL. Jack Kain (CIMSS/NSSL) and Steve Weiss (SPC)

FULLY COUPLED “ONLINE” CHEMISTRY WITHIN THE WRF MODEL: DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATIONS. Georg A. Grell (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado/NOAA Research-Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado), Steven E. Peckham (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado/NOAA Research-Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado), Rainer Schmitz (Department of Geophysics, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Forschungszentrum Karslruhe, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany), and Stuart A. McKeen (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado/NOAA Research – Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado)

EVALUATION OF NEW TRACE GAS AND AEROSOL MODULES IN WRF-CHEM USING MEASUREMENTS FROM TEXAQS 2000. Jerome D. Fast (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Richard C. Easter (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), William I. Gustafson Jr. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Elaine G. Chapman (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), James. C. Barnard (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Rahul A. Zaveri (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), and Georg A. Grell (CIRES)

COMPARISONS OF MODEL AEROSOL MASS AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION WITH OBSERVATIONS FROM THE 2002 NEW ENGLAND AIR QUALITY STUDY.  G. J. Frost (NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory), S. A. McKeen (NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory), A. Middlebrook (NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory), J. deGouw (NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory), E. Williams (NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory), S. E. Peckham (NOAA - FSL), G. Grell (NOAA - FSL), R. Schmitz (University of Chile, and IMK-IFU), R. Talbot (University of New Hampshire), P. K. Quinn (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory), T. S. Bates (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory), M. Canagaratna, D. Worsnop (Aerodyne Research Inc)

WRF MODEL SIMULATIONS OF AQUEOUS CHEMISTRY IN THE JULY 10 STERAO DEEP CONVECTIVE STORM. Si-Wan Kim, Mary C. Barth, and William C. Skamarock (NCAR)

MODELING OF MEXICO CITY AIR POLLUTION AND OUTFLOW WITH WRF-CHEM. Xuexi Tie and Sasha Madronich (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO)

EVALUATION OF THE WRF/CHEM AIR QUALITY FORECAST MODEL WITH OBSERVATIONS FROM THE NEAQS 2002 FIELD STUDY. S. A. McKeen, S. Peckham, G. Grell, G. J. Frost, E. Williams, R. Talbot

Coffee Break

WRF VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION DEVELOPMENT AT NCAR. D. M. Barker, M.-S. Lee, Y.-R. Guo, W. Huang, Q.-N. Xiao, and R. Rizvi (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

TROPICAL CYCLONE INITIALIZATION WITH DOPPLER RADAR DATA USING A REGIONAL 3D-VAR SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATION TO TYPHOON RUSA (2002) CASE. Qingnong Xiao (NCAR), Jianfeng Gu (NCAR & Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences), Dale M. Barker (NCAR) and Ying-Hwa Kuo (NCAR)

FIRST GUESS AT APPROPRIATE TIME (FGAT) WITH WRF 3DVAR. Mi-Seon Lee, Dale Barker, Wei Huang, and Ying-Hwa Kuo (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO)

THE USE OF NASA GEOS GLOBAL ANALYSIS IN MM5/WRF INITIALIZATION: CURRENT STUDIES AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS. Zhaoxia Pu (Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Wei-Kuo Tao and Mian Chin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

COMPARISON OF DATA ASSIMILATIONS AND MODEL SIMULATIONS FOR HURRICANE LILI FROM WRF AND MM5. Shu-Hua Chen and Aidong Chen (University of California, Davis,)

IMPACTS OD MODEL ERROR AND ENSEMBLE INITIATION ON MESOSCALE DATA ASSIMILATION WITH AN ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER. Zhiyong Meng and Fuqing Zhang (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas)

Lunch Break

THREE DIMENSIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION FOR HIGH RESOLUTION WEATHER AND POLLUTION FORECASTING IN THE LOS ANGELES BASIN. Michael D. McAtee, James F. Drake, Leslie O. Belsma (Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California)

IMPACT OF DOPPLER VELOCITIES ASSIMILATION ON THE SIMULATION OF A SEVERE WINTER HAILSTORM EVENT. Hsin-Hung Lin, Po–Zong Chen and Pay-Liam Lin (National Central University, Taiwan)

MM5 3D-VAR DATA ASSIMILATION AND FORECAST SYSTEM OVER INDIAN SUBCONTINENT – RESULTS FROM RECENT EXPERIMENTS. M. Das Gupta, Someshwar Das, R. Ashrit (National Centre for Meduim Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), India)

APPLICATION OF MM5/3DVAR AT HIGH LATITUDE: RESOLUTION SENSITIVITY. Xingang Fan (Geophysical Institute/University of Alaska Fairbanks), Jeffrey S. Tilley (Regional Weather Information Center/University of North Dakota) and John E. Walsh (International Arctic Research Center/University of Alaska Fairbanks)

Coffee Break

MM5 MODEL STATUS AND PLANS. Jimy Dudhia (NCAR)

THE ADVANCED RESEARCH WRF (ARW) EFFORT AT NCAR. Jordan G. Powers and Joseph B. Klemp (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado)

NESTING IN WRF 2.0. David Gill, John Michalakes, Jimy Dudhia, William Skamarock (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado) and S.G. Gopalakrishnan (SAIC and NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Spring, Maryland)

WRFSI 2.0: NESTING AND DETAILS OF TERRAIN PROCESSING. John R. Smart, Brent L. Shaw and Paula McCaslin (NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado)

AN UPDATE ON POST-PROCESSING AND VISUALIZATION TOOLS FOR THE WRF MODEL. Mark T. Stoelinga (University of Washington)

WRF USER SUPPORT. Wei Wang  (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO)

Discussion (with panel members)

MODERATOR: Joe Klemp (NCAR)

Reception (Millennium Hotel) in part sponsored by CRAY

TRANSITIONING TO OPERATIONAL AIR QUALITY FORECASTING WITH WRF. Jeff McQueen, Pius Lee, Marina Tsidulko and Geoff DiMego (NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD)

MASS CONSISTENT ON-LINE AND OFF-LINE AIR QUALITY PARADIGMS: WRF LINKED WITH CMAQ. Seung-Bum Kim (University of Houston), Daewon Byun (University of Houston), Soon-Tae Kim (University of Houston), Fong Ngan (University of Houston), and William Skamarock (NCAR)

PROGRESS IMPLEMENTING THE SMOKE EMISSIONS PROCESSING/MODELING SYSTEM INTO WRF-CHEMISTRY. John N. McHenry (Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, North Carolina), Carlie Coats (Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, North Carolina), Ken Schere (NOAA Office of Research and Development, NC), Robert Imhoff (Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, North Carolina)

THE USE OF MM5 FOR OPERATIONAL OZONE/NOX/AEROSOLS PREDICTION IN EUROPE: STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF MM5. R. Vautard (Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, CNRS, Paris, France), M. Beekmann (Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, CNRS, Paris, France), B. Bessagnet (INERIS, Verneuil en Halatte, France), N. Blond (Laboratoire interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, CNRS, Créteil, France), A. Hodzic (Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, CNRS, Paris, France), C. Honore (INERIS, Verneuil en Halatte, France), L. Malherbe (INERIS, Verneuil en Halatte, France), L. Menut (Laboratoire interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, CNRS, Créteil, France), L. Rouil (INERIS, Verneuil en Halatte, France), J. Roux (Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, CNRS, Paris, France)

THE WRF PROCESS: STREAMLINING THE TRANSITION OF NEW SCIENCE FROM RESEARCH INTO OPERATIONS. Nelson Seaman (NOAA/NWS/Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD), Robert Gall and Louisa Nance (DTS, NCAR, Boulder, CO), Steven Koch and Ligia Bernardet (NOAA/OAR/Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO), Geoffery DiMego (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center, Camp Springs, MD), Jordan Powers (NCAR, Boulder, CO), and Frank Olsen (Northrup-Grummann, Inc., at Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NB)

RETROSPECTIVE TESTING OF THE WRF MODELING SYSTEM AT THE DTC - AN OVERVIEW. Nelson Seaman (NOAA/NWS/Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD), Ligia Bernardet (NOAA/OAR/Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO), Geoffery DiMego (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center, Camp Springs, MD) and Chris Davis (NCAR, Boulder, CO)

AN OVERVIEW OF REAL-TIME WRF TESTING AT NCEP. Matthew Pyle (Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)), Zavisa Janjic (National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Camp Springs, MD), Tom Black (National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Camp Springs, MD), and Brad Ferrier (Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC))

NCEP'S WRF POST PROCESSOR AND VERIFICATION SYSTEMS. Hui-Ya Chuang (SAIC/NCEP), Geoff DiMego (NCEP/EMC), Mike Baldwin (NSSL/CIMMS) and WRF DTC team

Coffee Break

POSTER VIEWING SESSION (11:00 – 12:00)

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