Papers Presented at the 8th WRF Users' Workshop
National Center for Atmospheric Research June 11-15, 2007
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Session 1: WRF Updates
ppt	1.1	THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODEL: 2007 ANNUAL UPDATE. J. Dudhia (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
ppt	1.2	OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND RESULTS FROM WRF-VAR. D. M. Barker (National Center for Atmospheric Research), J. R. Bray, M. Demirtas, H. Huang, Z. Liu, H. Shao, Q. Xiao
ppt	1.3	A GLOBAL IMPLEMENTATION FOR THE ADVANCED RESEARCH WRF (ARW) MODEL. M. Richardson (Cal Teck), A. Toigo, C. Newman, and W. Skamarock, John Michalakes
ppt	1.4	WRF SOFTWARE. John Michalakes (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Thomas Henderson, Dave Gill, Michael Duda
ppt	1.5	A LOOK AT THE CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE OF THE WRF DEVELOPMENTAL TESTBED CENTER. Robert Gall (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Steve Koch, Louisa Nance, Ligia Bernardet
Session 2: Model Evaluation
ppt	2.1	Surface layer parameterization in the NCEP operational NAM/WRF-NMM. Michael Ek (NCEP/EMC, and UCAR/VSP), Ken Mitchell (NCEP/EMC), Vince Wong (NCEP/EMC, and SAIC), Youlong Xia (NCEP/EMC, and SAIC), Zavisa Janjic (NCEP/EMC, and UCAR/VSP)
ppt	2.2	IMPACTS OF LAND INITIALIZATION ON WRF FORECAST FOR THE AFWA SOUTH-EAST ASIAN DOMAIN. Mukul Tewari (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Fei Chen, Dave Gill, Christa Peters-Lidard, Charles J. Alonge, Sujay Kumar, John Eylander
	2.3	WRF PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION ON KOREAN PENINSULA DURING THE MONTH OF JULY 2006. Han, Sang-Ok (KMA)
ppt	2.4	RAPID-REFRESH CORE TEST: ASPECTS OF WRF-NMM AND WRF-ARW FORECAST PERFORMANCE RELEVANT TO THE RAPID-REFRESH APPLICATION. John M. Brown (Earth System Research Lab/NOAA), Stan Benjamin, Tanya Smirnova, Georg Grell, Ligia Bernardet, Louisa Nance, Randy Collander and Chris Harrop
ppt	2.5	A COMPARISON OF HIGH-RESOLUTION MESOSCALE SIMULATIONS USING MM5 AND WRF-ARW FOR THE 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS. Aijun Deng (Pennsylvania State University), Jeffrey R. Zielonka, Glenn K. Hunter and David R. Stauffer
ppt	2.6	EVALUATION OF WRF PERFORMANCE FOR DEPICTING OROGRAPHICALLY-INDUCED GRAVITY WAVES IN THE STRATOSPHERE. Douglas C. Hahn (Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom AFB)
ppt	2.7	IDEALIZED HURRICANE SIMULATIONS USING WRF: MICROPHYSICAL INFLUENCES ON TRACK AND INTENSITY. Robert G. Fovell (University of California) and Hui Su (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
ppt	2.8	ADVANCED RESEARCH WRF HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS OF THE INNER CORE STRUCTURE OF HURRICANES KATRINA AND RITA (2005). Kristen L. Corbosiero (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Wei Wang, Yongsheng Chen, Jimy Dudhia, and Christopher Davis
	2.9	DOWNSLOPE WINDSTORM IN ICELAND – WRF/MM5 MODEL COMPARISON – I. Ólafur Rögnvaldsson(Institute for Meteorological Research, Iceland and University of Bergen, Norway), Jian–Wen Bao (NOAA/ESRL), Hálfdán Ágústsson(Institute for Meteorological Research and University of Iceland, Iceland) and Haraldur Ólafsson(Institute for Meteorological Research and University of Iceland, Iceland; University of Bergen, Norway)
ppt	2.10	EVALUATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION WRF ARW MODEL SIMULATIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC RIVER EVENTS DURING HMT-2006. Isidora Jankov (CIRA-NOAA/ESRL/GSD), Jian-Wen Bao, Paul J. Neiman and Paul J. Schultz
ppt	2.11	MULTI-SCALE WRF SIMULATIONS OF BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUD. Ping Zhu (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Florida International University)
ppt	2.12	WRF AND VERTICAL NESTING: MULTI-SCALE RESOLUTION OF T-REX MEASUREMENTS. Mohamed Moustaoui, Alex Mahalov, Basil Nichols (Arizona State University)
Session 3: Verification Techniques
ppt	3.1	APPLICATION OF THE MODE OBJECT-BASED VERIFICATION TOOL FOR THE EVALUATION OF WRF PRECIPITATION FIELDS. Barbara G. Brown (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Lacey Holland, John Halley Gotway, Randy Bullock, David Ahijevych, Eric Gilleland, and Chris Davis
ppt	3.2	A TOOLKIT FOR MODEL EVALUATION. Lacey Holland, John Halley Gotway, Barbara Brown, and Randy Bullock (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
ppt	3.3	ATMOSPHERIC CO2 TRANSPORT SIMULATION BY WRF-VPRM: A HIGH PRECISION TRACER FOR WRF VALIDATION. R. Ahmadov (Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry), C. Gerbig, K. Dhanya, R. Kretschmer, S. Koerner, B. Neininger
ppt	3.4	USING WRF OUTPUT WITH THE SPATIAL FORECAST VERIFICATION METHODS INTER-COMPARISON PROJECT (ICP). Eric Gilleland (National Center for Atmospheric Research) and Dave Ahijevich
Session 4: Data Assimilation
ppt	4.1	STATUS OF WRF 4D-VAR. Xiang-Yu Huang, and Qingnong Xiao (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Xin Zhang (University of Hawaii), John Michalakes, Wei Huang, Dale M. Barker, John Bray, Zaizhong Ma, Tom Henderson, Jimy Dudhia, and Xiaoyan Zhang (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Duk-Jin Won (Korean Meteorological Administration, South Korea), Yongsheng Chen, Yongrun Guo, Hui_Chuan Lin, and Ying-Hwa Kuo (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
ppt	4.2	UPDATE OF RADIANCE ASSIMILATION IN WRF-VAR. Zhiquan Liu (National Center for Atmospheric Research), John Bray, Jianjun Xu, Huichuan Lin, Tomislava Vukicevic and Dale Barker
ppt	4.3	A HYBRID ENSEMBLE TRANSFORM KALMAN FILER (ETKF)-THREE DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL (3DVAR) DATA ASSIMILATION SCHEME FOR THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODEL. Xuguang Wang (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory), Dale Barker, Chris Snyder, Tom Hamill
ppt	4.4	MESOSCALE WRF SURFACE-DATA ASSIMILATION: SPRING 2007 EXPERIMENTS AT THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY. David Dowell (National Center for Atmospheric Research), David Stensrud, Nusrat Yussouf, Michael Coniglio, Jeff Anderson, Chris Snyder
ppt	4.5	IMPACT OF COSMIC RADIO OCCULTATION DATA ON ANALYSES OVER TROPICAL OCEANS. Hui Liu (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Jeffrey Anderson, Yongsheng Chen, Ying-Hua Kuo, and Chris Snyder
ppt	4.6	TUNING OF WRF 3D-VAR DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM OVER MIDDLE-EAST AND ARABIAN PENINSULA. Ajjaji Radi (United Nations Development Programme, Abu-Dhabi, UAE), Ahmad Awad Al-Katheri and Abdullah Dhanhani (Air Force and Air Defense Meteorological Department, UAE)
ppt	4.7	0 - 12H FORECASTS OF SUMMER CONVECTION USING NCAR/RAL "OBS-NUDGING"-BASED WRF-RTFDDA SYSTEM. Yubao Liu (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Mei Xu, Jenny Sun, Tom Warner and Scott Swerdlin
ppt	4.8	UPDATE ON ANALYSIS NUDGING FDDA IN WRF-ARW. Aijun Deng, and David R. Stauffer (Pennsylvania State University), Jimy Dudhia (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Tanya Otte (NOAA/EPA) and Glenn K. Hunter (Pennsylvania State University)
Session 5: Physics Development
ppt	5.1	NEW CLOUD-RADIATIVE TRANSFER PROCESSES IN WRF AND THEIR IMPACT ON PRECIPITATION. J. J. Shi (NASA/GSFC), T. Matsui, C. Mian, C. Peters-Lidard, and W.-K. Tao
ppt	5.2	COMPARISONS OF SIMULATED CONVECTIVE CLOUDS BETWEEN A 1D CLOUD MODEL AND THE WRF MODEL. Shu-Hua Chen (National Central University, Taiwan) and Yang-Cheng Siao
ppt	5.3	A COMPARISON STUDY OF EFFECTS OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS REPRESENTATION IN WRF AND COAMPS ON HURRICANE INTENSITY FORECASTS. Jin, Y., S. Chen, S.-P. Wang, J. Doyle, C.-S. Liou, J. Schmidt, and R. Hodur
ppt	5.4	DEMONSTRATION OF AN IMPROVED SUBGRID STRESS CLOSURE FOR WRF. Jeffrey D. Mirocha (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Julie K. Lundquist, Fotini K. Chow, and Katherine A. Lundquist
ppt	5.5	A WIND FARM PARAMETERIZATION FOR WRF. Manda Adams and David Keith (Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment, and Economy, University of Calgary)
ppt	5.6	IMPLEMENTATION OF THE QUASI-NORMAL SCALE ELIMINATION (QNSE) TURBULENCE MODEL IN WRF. Boris Galperin (University of South Florida), Semion Sukoriansky, Veniamin Perov
ppt	5.7	IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLEIM-XIU LAND SURFACE MODEL AND ASYMMETRIC CONVECTIVE MODEL IN THE WRF MODEL. Robert Gilliam, and Jonathan Pleim (Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division, NOAA, Research Triangle Park), and Aijun Xiu (Carolina Environmental Program, University of North Carolina)
ppt	5.8	WRF PBL SENSITIVITIES AND VERIFICATION IN FORECASTING LOW-LEVEL JET EVENTS. Brandon A. Storm (WISE, Texas Tech University), Jimy Dudhia (National Center for Atmospheric Research) and Sukanta Basu (Atmospheric Science Group, Texas Tech Univ)
ppt	5.9	IMPLEMENTATION OF ALBEDO FROM MELTING SNOW INTO WRF. Vince Wong (NWS/NCEP), Kenneth Mitchell and Micheal Ek
ppt	5.10	DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED URBAN MODELING SYSTEM IN WRF: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PLANS. Fei Chen (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Mukul Tewari, Shiguang Miao, Yubao Liu, Thomas T. Warner, Hiroyuki Kusaka
Session 6: Posters
		Model Evaluation
P1.1		A SENSITIVITY STUDY OF AN INTERMOUNTAIN CYCLONE TO MOIST PROCESSES AND OROGRAPHY. William Y.Y. Cheng (Colorado State University) and W. James Steenburgh
P1.2		BOUNDARY LAYER BEHAVIOR IN CALIFORNIA'S OWENS VALLEY USING THE WRF-ARW MODEL DURING APR 28-30 OF T-REX 2006. Mr. Robert E. Dumais, Jr., Dr. Teizi Henmi (US Army Research Laboratory), Dr. Edward Colon (Army High Performance Computing Research Center Network Computing Services, Inc.) and Dr. Sen Chiao (Florida Institute of Technology)
P1.3		Paper Withdrawn
P1.4		SUCCESSFUL SIMULATION OF THE METEOROLOGY OF THE KATHMANDU VALLEY, NEPAL. Arnico K Panday (MIT) and Ronald G Prinn
P1.5		A STUDY ON THE FORECASTING ACCURACY OF THE LAST VERSION OF MM5 AND WRF MODEL AS INPUT FIELDS OF AIR QUALITY. Seung-Hwan Lee, and Yun-Seob Moon (Department of Environmental Education, Korea National University of Education), Youn-Seo Koo (Department of Environmental Engineering, Anyang University)
P1.6		WRF .VS. MM5 PERFORMANCE COMPARISON FOR CALIFORNIA'S SJV. Zhan Zhao (UC, Davis), Shuhua-Chen and M. J. Kleeman
P1.7		THE NCAR/RAL MESOSCALE ENSEMBLE ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING SYSTEM (MEAPS) - AN ANALYSIS OF THE "MODEL CLIMATOLOGY" OF WRF AND MM5. Yubao Liu (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Mei Xu, Gregory Roux, Ming Ge, Rong Sheu, Tom Warner and Scott Swerdlin
P1.8		COMPARISON OF ARW AND NMM SIMULATIONS OF LOW-LEVEL METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL VALLEY. Sara .A. Michelson (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory and CIRES, University of Colorado), Evelyn. D. Grell (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory and Science and Technology Corporation), and Jian-Wen Bao (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory)
P1.9		COMPARISON OF PRECIPITATION FORECASTS FROM MM5, WRF-ARW AND WRF-NMM OVER THE KOREAN PENINSULA DURING SUMMER SEASON. Jong-Chul Ha, Yong-Hee Lee, Dong-Eon Chang, Hee-Choon Lee and Hee-Sang Lee (National Institute of Meteorological Research, KMA, Republic of Korea)
P1.10		PRECIPITATION FORECASTS USING THE WRF-ARW AND WRF-NMM MODELS DURING THE HMT-WEST 2006 AND 2007 WINTER EXPERIMENTS. Huiling Yuan (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)/Global Systems Division (GSD)), Christopher Anderson (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)/Global Systems Division (GSD), and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Colorado State University), Paul Schultz (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)/Global Systems Division (GSD)), Isidora Jankov (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)/Global Systems Division (GSD), and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Colorado State University), and John McGinley (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)/Global Systems Division (GSD))
P1.11		Paper Withdrawn
P1.12		POLAR WRF TESTING IN ANTARCTICA. Jordan G. Powers and Kevin W. Manning (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
P1.13		WRF MODELED LOW-LEVEL JET CLIMATOLOGY COMPARED TO OBSERVED CLIMATOLOGIES: WEAKNESSES AND STRENGTHS. Brandon A. Storm (WISE, Texas Tech University), Sukanta Basu (Atmospheric Science Group, Texas Tech Univ), and Jimy Dudhia, (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
P1.14		LARGE-SCALE HIGH-RESOLUTION WRF MODEL SIMULATIONS USED FOR GOES-R RESEARCH ACTIVITIES. Jason A. Otkin (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Allen Huang
P1.15		A CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF WRF-SIMULATED AND MODIS-DERIVED CLOUD DATA. Jason A. Otkin (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Tom Greenwald, Erik R. Olson, and Mat Gunshor
P1.16		APPLICATION OF WRF INTO THE YELLOW RIVER BASIN IN THE PERIOD OF 1980-1997. Xieyao Ma, Takao Yoshikane, and Masayuki Hara (Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Japan), Fujio Kimura (Frontier Research Center for Global Change, and University of Tsukuba, Japan) and Yoshihiro (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan)
P1.17		IMPACT OF IRRIGATION AREA ON CLOUD APPEARANCE AROUND THE YELLOW RIVER IN CHINA. Hiroaki Kawase, Takao Yoshikane, and Masayuki Hara (Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Japan), Shingo Ohsawa (Weathernews Corporation, Japan), and Fujio Kimura (Frontier Research Center for Global Change, and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan)
P1.18		THE DIURNAL CYCLE OF AIR POLLUTION IN THE KATHMANDU VALLEY, NEPAL. Arnico K Panday (MIT) and Ronald G Prinn
P1.19		NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF TORNADOES GENERATED BY A TYPHOON NEAR A COASTAL LINE. Ken-ichi Shimose and Tetsuya Kawano (Kyushu University, Japan)
P1.20		AN INVESTIGATION OF THE FINE SCALE MODELING ABILITIES OF THE WRF: WIND AND TEMPERATURE FIELDS OVER OKLAHOMA CITY AREA. Jeremy A. Gibbs and Ripley C. McCoy (University of