WORKSHOP SYNOPSIS

Papers Presented at the 8th WRF Users' Workshop

 

National Center for Atmospheric Research
June 23 - 27, 2008
 

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 volume. The ppt-link points to the power point slides (in .pdf format)



SESSION 1: WRF Development (1)  

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1.1

THE WEATHER RESREACH AND FORECASTING MODEL: 2008 ANNUAL UPDATE. Jimy Dudhia (NCAR, USA)
 

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1.2

Global WRF. Bill Skamarock (NCAR)
 

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1.3

IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING OF WRF DFI. Steven Peckham, Tanya Smirnova, Stan Benjamin and John Brown (NOAA/ESRL & CU/CIRES, USA), Hans Huang (NCAR, USA), Min Chen (BMB, China), and M. Duda (NCAR, USA)
 

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1.4

VERSION 3 WRF SOFTWARE. Michalakes, Gill, Duda, Bray (NCAR, USA)
 

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1.5

WRF VERSION 3 Pre- and Post-processor Updates. Duda, Gill, Bresch and Bruyere (NCAR, USA)
 

 

 

 

SESSION 1: WRF Development (2)         
 

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1.6

WRF-ARW ANALYSIS NUDGING UPDATE AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT PLAN. Aijun Deng, and David Stauffer (Penn State University, USA), Jimy Dudhia (NCAR, USA), Glenn Hunter (Penn State University, USA) and Cindy Bruyere (NCAR, USA)
 

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1.7

WRF OBSERVATION-NUDGING UPDATES, VERIFICATION AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT PLANS. Yubao Liu, Alfred Bourgeois, Wanli Wu, Wei Yu, Francois Vandenberghe, Mei Xu, Gregory Roux, Jim Dudhia, Josh Hacker, Tom Warner, Scott Swerdlin, Lili Lei, Aijun Deng, and Dave Stauffer (NCAR, USA)
 

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1.8

COUPLED ARW-HYCOM AND APPLICATIONS IN AIR-SEA INTERACTION AND HURRICANE STUDIES. Jie Ming, Shuyi S. Chen, Wei Zhao, John Michalakes (University of Miami, USA)
 

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1.9

AN UPPER GRAVITY-WAVE ABSORBING LAYER IN WRF FOR NWP APPLICATIONS. J. B. Klemp, J. Dudhia, and A. D. Hassiotis (NCAR, USA)
 

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1.10

THE MODEL EVALUATION TOOLS (MET): NEW CAPABILITIES AND PLANS FOR FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS. Barbara Brown, Lacey Holland, John Halley Gotway, Eric Gilleland, and Randy Bullock (NCAR, USA) 
 

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1.11

A PUBLIC RELEASE OF WRF PORTAL. Jeff Smith and Mark Govett (CIRA, USA) 
 

 

 

 

SESSION 2: Forecasting Systems (1)  
   

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UPDATE ON WRF IN NCEP OPERATIONS. Geoff DiMego, Zavisa Janjic, Tom Black, Eric Rogers, Brad Ferrier, Matt Pyle, Dusan Jovic, Jun Du (NOAA / NWS / NCEP, USA) 
 

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2.2

A COMPREHENSIVE REAL-TIME EVALUATION OF WRF OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. Cliff Mass, David Ovens, Phil Regulski, and Jeff Baars (University of Washington, USA)
 

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2.3

ADVANCEMENT OF THE HWRF FOR NEXT GENERATION HURRICANE PREDICTION AT NCEPÕS ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL CENTER. Naomi Surgi, Robert E.  Tuleya, Qingfu-Lui, Vijay Tallapragada, Young Kwon (Environmental Modeling Center/NCEP/NWS/NOAA, USA)
 

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2.4

PROGRESS TOWARD WRF APPLICATIONS IN 13KM RAPID REFRESH AND ITS 3-KM NEST, THE HIGH RESOLUTION RAPID REFRESH. Weygandt, Stephen, T. Smirnova, J. M. Brown, S. Benjamin, G. Grell, S. Peckham, D. Devenyi, M. Hu, K. Brundage, and T. L. Smith (NOAA/Earth System Research Lab, USA) 
 

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2.5

COMMERCIAL IMPLEMENTATION OF WRF WITH EFFICIENT COMPUTING AND ADVANCED DATA ASSIMILATION. B. L. Shaw, R. L. Carpenter Jr., P. L. Spencer, Z. Dufran (Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., USA)
 

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2.6

WRF REFERENCE CONFIGURATIONS – CONCEPT AND PLANS. Jamie Wolff, Beth Weekley, and Louisa Nance (NCAR, USA), Ligia Bernardet (NOAA, USA), and Barbara Brown (NCAR, USA) 
 

 

 

 

SESSION 3: Physics Development (1)             
 

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3.1

RELEASE OF UNIFIED NOAH LAND SURFACE MODEL IN WRF3.0 AND PLAN FOR FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS. Mukul Tewari, Mike Ek, Fei Chen, Jimy Dudhia, Anil Kumar, Ken Mitchell, Guo-Yue Niu, Zong-Liang Yang, Dev Niyogi, Xubin Zeng, John Eylander (NCAR, USA) 
 

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3.2

A TOTAL ENERGY / MASS FLUX PBL SCHEME FOR WRF. W.M. Angevine, T. Mauritsen (CIRES / NOAA ESRL, USA) 
 

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3.3

STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER MIXING IN A VERTICAL DIFFUSION SCHEME. Song-You Hong (Yonsei University, Korea), and Si-wan Kim (NOAA, USA) 
 

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3.4

AN INDIRECT DATA ASSIMILATION SCHEME FOR DEEP SOIL TEMPERATURE IN THE PLEIM-XIU LAND SURFACE MODEL. Jonathan E. Pleim, and Robert Gilliam (USEPA, USA) 
 

SESSION 4: WRF Chemistry   
 

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4.1

VERSION 3 OF WRF-CHEM: NEW IMPLEMENTATIONS AND EVALUATIONS. Georg Grell, Jerome Fast, William Gustafson jr., Saulo Freitas, Rainer Schmitz, Thomas Diehl, Steven Peckham (NOAA/ESRL/CIRES, USA)
 

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4.2

COMPARISON OF WRF/CHEM PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PM2.5 AEROSOL RESULTS WITH AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS FROM TWO INTENSIVE FIELD CAMPAIGNS. Stuart McKeen, Georg Grell, Steven Peckham and Si-Wan Kim (NOAA/CIRES, USA)
 

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4.3

REGIONAL MODELING OF PARTICULATE CHEMISTRY AND ITS EFFECT ON CLOUD-AEROSOL INTERACTIONS OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN. Jerome Fast, Weiguo Wang, and Elaine Chapman (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
 

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4.4

TEST OF REVISED YSU PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER MODEL WITHIN WRF-CHEM MODEL. S.-W. Kim, S.-Y. Hong, and S. A. McKeen (CIRES and NOAA/ESRL, USA)
 

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4.5

TOWARD REGIONAL FOSSIL FUEL CO2 EMISSIONS VERIFICATION USING WRF-CHEM. Branko Kosovic, Luca Delle Monache, Philip Cameron-Smith, Dan Bergmann, Keith Grant, Tom Guilderson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
 

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4.6

DOES AN ONLINE APPROACH IMPROVE THE MODELING OF REGIONAL AIR QUALITY IN THE UK? Charles Chemel (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
 

 

 

 

SESSION 5: WRF Data Assimilation  
 

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5.1

TOWARD A UNIFIED WRF DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM: WRFDA. X.-Y. Huang, D. Barker, Z. Liu, X. Zhang, Y. Chen, Q. Xiao, T. Auligne, H. Shao, Y.-R Guo, M. Demirtas, S. Rizvi, H.-C. Lin, M. Duda, H. Wang, Z. Ma, S. Thomas, W. Huang, J. Sun, C. Snyder, Y.-H. Kuo and S. Rugg (NCAR, USA) 
 

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5.2

PERFORMANCE OF WRF 4D-VAR SYSTEM: SCIENTIFIC AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING. Xin Zhang, X.-Y. Huang and H. L. Wang (NCAR, USA) 
 

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5.3

IMPACT OF AIRS OBSERVATIONS OVER THE ANTARCTIC REGION. Thomas Auligne, Hui Shao, Dale Barker, Zhiquan Liu and Hui-Chuan Lin (NCAR, USA)  
 

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5.4

SSIMILATION OF RADAR RADIAL VELOCITY AND REFLECTIVITY MEASUREMENTS WITH A HYBRID DATA ASSIMILATION APPROACH BUILT UPON WRF-3DVAR AND ÒNUDGING-BASEDÓ FDDA. Wei Yu, Yubao Liu, Tom Warner, Qingnong Xiao and Jenny Sun (NCAR/RAL, USA)  
 

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5.5

CHEMICAL DATA ASSIMILATION OF OZONE AND FINE AEROSOLS. INITIAL RESULTS USING THE NMM-WRF/CHEM AND THE GRIDPOINT STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION (GSI) ANALYSIS SYSTEM. Mariusz Pagowski, Georg A. Grell, Steven E. Peckham, Stuart McKeen, and Dezso Devenyi (NOAA/ESRL, USA) 
 

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5.6

APPLICATIONS OF WRF DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM AT THE NCAR DATA ASSIMILATION TESTBED CENTER. Hans Huang, Hui Shao, Meral Demirtas, Zhiquan Liu, Rizvi Syed, Thomas Auligne and Dale Barker (NCAR, USA)  
 

 

 

 

SESSION 6: Regional Climate      
 

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6.1

Predicting the Earth System Across Scales: The NRCM Approach. J. Hurrell (NCAR)
 

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6.2

TROPICAL RAIN-RATE SPECTRAL STRUCTURES, MODELED AND OBSERVED. Hsiao-ming Hsu and Joseph J. Tribbia (NCAR/ESSL, USA)
 

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6.3

POLAR WRF. Keith M. Hines, David H. Bromwich, and Le-Sheng Bai (The Ohio State University, USA)
 

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6.4

ANALYSIS OF THE NARCCAP WRF SIMULATIONS OF COLD SEASON EXTREME PRECIPITATION. Ruby Leung, and Yun Qian (PNL, USA)
 

 

6.5

Withdrawn
 

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6.6

EFFECTS OF SOOT-INDUCED SNOW ALBEDO CHANGE ON SNOWPACK AND HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE IN WESTERN U.S. BASED ON WRF CHEMISTRY AND REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATIONS. Yun Qian, William I. Gustafson Jr., L. Ruby Leung, Steven J. Ghan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
 

 

 

 

SESSION 7: Forecasting Systems (2)       
 

 

7.1

JOINT ENSEMBLE FORECAST SYSTEM (JEFS) PROJECT UPDATE. Jeffrey Cunningham, Timothy Nobis, Evan Kuchera, Scott Rentschler, Steve Rugg, & Matthew Sittel (HQ Air force Weather Agency (AFWA), USA)
 

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7.2

BUILDING ENSEMBLES BY VARYING PARAMETERS: AN EXPLORATION OF PARAMETER RANGES. Joshua Hacker, Chris Snyder, Matt Pocernich, Soyoung Ha, Jimy Dudhia, Julie Schramm (NCAR, USA)
 

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7.3

REAL-TIME STORM-SCALE ENSEMBLE FORECAST EXPERIMENT. Fanyou Kong, Ming Xue, Kelvin Droegemeier, Kevin Thomas, Yunheng Wang (University of Oklahoma, USA)
 

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7.4

PERFORMANCE AND CALIBRATION OF A SHORT-RANGE ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEM OVER EUROPE. D. Santos-Munoz, A. Callado, Jose A. Garcia-Moya, C. Santos, J. Simarro (AEMET, Spain)
 

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7.5

APPLICATIONS OF WRF IN ICELAND. îlafur Ršgnvaldsson, Jian-Wen Bao and H‡lfd‡n çgœstsson (Institute for Meteorological Research, Iceland) 
 

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7.6

LINKED ENVIRONMENTS FOR ATMOSPHERIC DISCOVERY (LEAD): A WEB SERVICES ENVIRONMENT FOR DATA ACQUISTION, ASSIMILATION AND MODELING. Kelvin K. Droegemeier and Collaborators (University of Oklahoma, USA) 
 

 

 

 

SESSION 8: Model Evaluations    
           
 

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8.1

WRF AND MM5 REALTIME SYSTEM STATISTICAL COMPARISONS USING THE MODEL EVALUATION TOOLKIT (MET). Jeffrey R. Zielonka, Brian J. Gaudet, Nelson L. Seaman, David R. Stauffer, Aijun Deng, and Glenn K. Hunter (Penn State University, USA)
 

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8.2

THE USE OF WRF-3DVAR FOR 36 H REALTIME EXPLICIT (3 KM) CONVECTIVE FORECASTS WITH WRF-ARW. Morris Weisman, Wei Wang, Zhiquan Liu (NCAR, USA)
 

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8.3

ANNUAL EVALUATION OF WRF-ARW AND WRF-NMM METEOROLOGICAL SIMULATIONS OVER EUROPE. O. Jorba, P. JimŽnez-Guerrero, J.M. Baldasano (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
 

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8.4

IS THE WRF BETTER THAN THE GFS? Barry Lynn, Asher Meir, Yaakov Consor and Guy Kelman (Weather It Is, LTD, Israel) 
 

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8.5

POSITIVE DEFINITE MOISTURE ADVECTION IN OROGRAPHY. Robert Hahn & Clifford Mass (University of Washington, USA)
 

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8.6

 

TROPICAL CYCLONE FORECAST TRACK AND INTENSITY SENSITIVITIES TO VARIOUS PARAMETERIZATIONS USING THE WRF-ARW MODEL. Nick P. Bassill and Michael C. Morgan (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) 
 

 

 

 

SESSION 9: Model Applications   
 

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9.1

FROM CONCENTRIC EYEWALL TO ANNULAR HURRICANE. Xiaqiong Zhou (University of Hawaii, USA)
 

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9.2

LARGE EDDY SIMULATIONS OF AN IDEALIZED HURRICANE. Yongsheng Chen, R. Rotunno, W. Wang, C. Davis, J. Dudhia, G. Holland (NCAR, USA)
 

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9.3

VERTICALLY NESTED NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL FOR MULTI-SCALE RESOLUTION OF FLOWS IN THE UPPER TROPOSPHERE AND LOWER STRATOSPHERE. M. Moustaoui amd A. Mahalov (Arizona State University, USA)
 

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9.4

SIMULATING ATMOSPHERE FLOW FOR WIND ENERGY APPLICATIONS WITH WRF-LES. J.K. Lundquist, J. D. Mirocha, F. K. Chow, Branko Kosović, K. A. Lundquist (Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA)
 

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9.5

NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF MESOGAMMA SCALE WIND MEANDERING IN THE NOCTURNAL STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER. Nelson L. Seaman, Brian J. Gaudet, John C. Wyngaard, Larry Mahrt, Scott Richardson and David R. Stauffer (Penn State University, USA)
 

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9.6

EVALUATION OF POSITIVE-DEFINITE AND MONOTONIC LIMITERS FOR SCALAR ADVECTION IN THE ADVANCED RESEARCH WRF. Hailong Wang (University of Colorado & NOAA, USA), William C. Skamarock (NCAR, USA), and Graham Feingold (NOAA, USA)
 

 

 

 

SESSION 10: WRF Physics Development (2)    
  

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10.1

IMPROVING WRFs LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION CAPABILITY WITH NEW SUBFILTER STRESS MODELS. J.D. Mirocha (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA), F. K. Chow (University of California at Berkeley, USA), J. K. Lundquist, and B. Kosović Lundquist (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) and K.A. Lundquist (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory & University of California at Berkeley, USA) 
 

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10.2

DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW VERSION OF THE GD CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION. Georg Grell NOAA/ESRL/CIRES, USA) 
 

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10.3

DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW BULK MICROPHYSICAL SCHEME FOR WRF WITH VARYING SNOW CHARACTERISTICS AND RIMING INTENSITY. Yanluan Lin and Brian A. Colle (Stony Brook University, USA) 
 

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10.4

DEVELOPMENT AND SENSITIVITY TEST OF A NEW WRF BIN MICROPHYSICS SCHEME. Lulin Xue (Saint Louis University, USA), Amit Teller, Changhai Liu, and Roy Rasmussen (NCAR, USA), and Zaitao Pan (Saint Louis University, USA)  
 

 

 

 

POSTER SESSION
 

 

 

Physics Development
 

 

P3.1

THE GABLS3 SINGLE-COLUMN MODEL INTERCOMPARISONL WRF RESULTS. W.M. Angevine (CIRES / NOAA ESRL, USA)  
 

 

P3.2

COUPLING A HIGH-RESOLUTION DYNAMIC ECOHYDROLOGICAL MODEL (TRIBS-VEGGIE) AND WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING (WRF) MODEL. Bisht, G., Narayan, U., Bras, R. L., Ivanov, V. I., and Vivoni, E. R. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) 
 

 

P3.3

THE RAMS CLOUD MICROPHYSICS PARAMETERIZATION IN WRF-ARW: COMPARISON AGAINST THE THOMPSON AND MORRISON CLOUD SCHEMES. Laura Fowler, Greg Thompson, and Hugh Morrison (Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, USA) 
 

 

P3.4

SENSITIVITY STUDY OF CLOUD-RESOLVING CONVECTIVE SIMULATIONS WITH WRF USING THE PLIN AND WSM6 MICROPHYSICAL PARAMETERIZATIONS. Song-You Hong, Kyo-Sun Lim, Ju-Hye Kim, and Jeong-Ock Jade Lim (Yonsei University, Korea), and Jimy Dudhia (NCAR, USA) 
 

 

P3.5

A NEW UNIFIED MIXED-PHASE PARTICLE FALL SPEED IN BULK MICROPHYSICS PARAMETERIZATIONS. Jimy Dudhia (NCAR, USA), and Song-You Hong and Kyo-Sun Lim (Yonsei University, Korea) 
 

 

P3.6

A NEW DOUBLE MOMENT APPROACH FOR THE WARM-RAIN PROCESS BASED ON THE WSM6 SCHEME (WDM6). Kyo-Sun Lim and Song-You Hong (Yonsei University, Korea) 
 

 

P3.7

INTRODUCTION OF WRF INTO COUPLED WATER CYCLE MODEL. Haruyasu Nagai, Katsunori Tsuduki, And Takuya Kobayashi (Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan) 
 

 

P3.8

A QNSE-BASED SURFACE LAYER PARAMETERIZATION. S. Sukoriansky, B. Galperin and E. Atlaskin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) 
 

 

P3.9

COUPLED ARW-OCEAN MODELING OF TROPICAL CYCLONES. Chiaying Lee and Shuyi S. Chen (University of Miami, USA) 
 

 

P3.10

TESTING OF THE GODDARD CLOUD MICROPHYSICS SCHEME WITH THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODEL IN A SNOW STORM UP IN ONTARIO, CANADA. Jainn J. Shi, Toshihisa Matsui, Wei-Kuo Tao, Arthur Hou, Stephen Lang, Robert Cifelli, C. Peters-Lidard, Gail Jackson, Steve Rutledge, Walter Petersen (Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, USA) 
 

 

P3.11

Withdrawn
 

 

P3.12

EVALUATION OF A BULK MICROPHYSICAL SCHEME USING TWO COOL SEASONS OF HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS. Yanluan Lin, Brian A. Colle, and Sandra E. Yuter (Stony Brook University-SUNY, USA) 
 

  P3.13 IDEALIZED SQUALL LINE SIMULATIONS WITH THE NEW MORRISON 2-MOMENT MICROPHYSICS SCHEME: COMPARISON WITH A ONE-MOMENT SCHEME. Hugh Morrison, George Bryan and Greg Thompson (NCAR)
  P3.14 DAYTIME SENSITIVITY TO MORPHOLOGY IN MESOSCALE URBAN BOUNDARY LAYER MODELLING. David D. Flagg, Peter A. Taylor (York University, Toronto, Ontario), Jinliang Liu (Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Canada

 

 

 

 

 

WRF Chemistry
 

 

P4.1

OFF-LINE LINKAGE OF AN AIR QUALITY MODEL TO WRF/NMM & WRF/ARW. D.W. Byun, F. Ngan, and P. Percell (University of Houston, USA) 
 

 

P4.2

DEVELOPING NEW CHEMICAL MECHANISMS FOR WRF. William R. Stockwell, Wendy S. Goliff, Askar Fahr, Tatiana Gonzalez, Rosa M. Fitzgerald, Duanjun Lu (Howard University, USA) 
 

 

P4.3

DEVELOPMENT OF NMMB-AQ: CURRENT STATUS. Youhua Tang (Scientific Applications International Corporation, USA), Jeffery T. McQueen, and Thomas L. Black (NOAA, USA), Zavisa Janjic (UCAR, USA), Mark D. Iredell, and Paula M. Davidson (NOAA, USA) 
 

 

P4.4

USING GLOBAL WRF/CHEM TO STUDY CLIMATE-CHEMISTRY INTERACTIONS. Xinyu Wen, Xiao-Ming Hu, Ying Pan, Yang Zhang, William C. Skamarock, Francis Vitt, Prakash Karamchandani, and Georg A. Grell (NC State University, USA) 
 

 

P4.5

UPDATES ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF WRF/CHEM-MADRID. Yang Zhang, Xiao-Ming Hu, Ying Pan, Xin-Yu Wen, Yao-Sheng Chen, Jerome D. Fast, Georg A. Grell, Steven E. Peckham, Kenneth L. Schere, and Carey J. Jang (North Carolina State University, USA) 
 

 

P4.6

THE ROLE OF ADVECTION SCHEME AND CHEMICAL MECHANISMS ON THE WRF-CHEM SIMULATION OF NITROGEN DIOXIDE COLUMN DENSITY. G. J. Frost, S.-W. Kim, S. A. McKeen, E.-Y. Hsie, and M. K. Trainer (NOAA, USA) 
 

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P4.7

USING WRF FOR PARAMETERIZATION DEVELOPMENT: THE MAKING OF ECPP FOR MMF MODELS. Williams I. Gustafson Jr., Richard C. Easter, Larry K. Berg, and Steven J. Ghan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, USA) 
 

 

P4.8

APPLICATION OF WRF/CHEM-MADRID WITH UPDATED EMISSIONS TO THE JULY 2004 NEW ENGLAND AIR QUALITY STUDY EPISODE. Xiao-Ming Hu, Yang Zhang, Shaocai Yu, Kenneth L. Schere, Stuart A. McKeen, Georg A. Grell, and Steven E. Peckham (North Carolina State University, USA) 
 

 

P4.9

SENSITIVITY OF THE WRF-CHEM SIMULATIONS TO THE UNCERTAINTIES IN THE LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS AND THE SOIL INITIALIZATION. E. D. Grell, J.-W. Bao, S. A. Michelson, G. A. Grell (NOAA/ESRL, USA) 
 

 

P4.10

COMPARISON OF ONLINE AND OFFLINE MODELING WITH WRF/CHEMT. Julius S. Chang, Hsu Wei Hsu, Tsun Hsien Liu, Tufu Chen, Chi Kang Chiang, and Jing Li (National Central University, Taiwan) 
 

 

P4.11

UPDATE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AEROSOL MODELING TESTBED. Jerome Fast, William Gustafson Jr., Elaine Chapman, Jeremy Rishel, and Douglas Baxter (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA), Georg Grell (NOAA, USA), and Mary Barth (NCAR, USA) 
 

 

P4.12

SENSITIVITY OF WRF-CHEM SIMULATIONS TO THE UNCERTAINTIES IN THE LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS AND THE SOIL INITIALIZATION. E.D.Grell, J.-W. Bao, S.A. Michelson and G.A. Grell (CIRES/NOAA, USA) 
 

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P4.13

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CB05 CHEMICAL MECHANISM INTO WRF/CHEM. Jerold Herwehe, Ying Pan, and Yang Zhang (NOAA/OAR/ARL/Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division, USA) 
 

 

P4.14

Withdrawn 
 

 

P4.15

Withdrawn
 

 

P4.16

WRF-CHEM MODELING STUDY FOR THE WASHINGTON, DC AND BALTIMORE, MD METROPOLITAN AREAS. Christopher P. Loughner, Dale J. Allen, and Elena Yegorova (University of Maryland, College Park, USA) 
 

 

P4.17

A GIS EMISSIONS PRE-PROCESSOR (GEM-PP) TO INGEST CORINAIR EMISSION. Gian Paolo Marra, Dario Conte, Cristina Mangia, Umberto Rizza (CNR-ISAC, Italia) 
 

 

P4.18

PROJECTION OF SURFACE OZONE OVER EAST ASIA IN 2020. Masayuki Takigawa, Masanori Niwano, and Hajime Akimoto (Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Japan), Masaaki Takahashi (Frontier Research Center for Global Change & University of Tokyo, Japan), and Kazuhiko Kobayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan) 
 

 

P4.19

WRF-CHEM SIMULATIONS OF MID-ATLANTIC AIR QUALITY. Elena Yegorova, Dale Allen, and Christopher Loughner (University of Maryland, USA) and Ken Pickering (Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, USA)  
 

 

P4.20

COMPARISON OF MODEL SIMULATED AEROSOL VERTICAL PROFILE WITH SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS. Qian Tan, Mian Chin, and Hongbin Yu, UMBC/GEST (UMBC, USA) 
 

 

P4.21

APPLICATION OF THE WRF-CHEM MODEL IN THE ANALYSIS OF OROGRAPHIC VENTING OF ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER AIR IN CALIFORNIAÕS CENTRAL VALLEY. J.-W. Bao, S.A. Michelson, E.D. Grell, G.A. Grell (NOAA/ESRL, USA) 
 

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P4.22

IMPLEMENTATION AND PRELIMINARY TESTS OF AN AIR QUALITY FORECASTING SYSTEM BASED ON WRF-CHEM OVER MIDDLE-EAST, ARABIAN PENINSULA AND UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. Ajjaji Radi (United Nations Development Programme, UAE), Ahmad Awad Al-Katheri and Abdullah Dhanhani (Air Force & Air Defense, UAE) 
 

 

P4.23

A COMPARISON OF AIR QUALITY SIMULATION USING MM5 AND WRF FOR 2004 SUMMER HIGH OZONE EPISODE IN KOREA. Nankyoung Moon, & Kangyeol Lee (Korea Environment Institute, Korea), & Soontae Kim (University of Houston)
 

 

 

 

 

 

WRF Data Assimilation
 

 

P5.1

RADIANCE DATA ASSIMILATION FOR WRF MODEL: OVERVIEW AND RESULTS. Zhiquan Liu, Tom AulignŽ, Hui-Chuan Lin, Dale Bark, Xiaoyan Zhang, Xin Zhang, Hui shao and Xiangyu Huang (NCAR) and Dongliang Wang (Shanghai Typhoon Institude)
 

 

P5.2

THE IMPACT OF ASSIMILATING ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER DATA ON THE NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF HURRICANE DENNIS. Zhaoxia Pu (University of Utah, USA) 
 

 

P5.3

IMPACT OF OUTER LOOP FOR WRF DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM (WRFDA). Syed Rizvi, Y.-R Guo, H. Shao, M. Demirtas and X.-Y. Huang (NCAR, USA) 
 

 

P5.4

IMPACT STUDIES OF SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS IN THE ANTARCTIC MESOSCALE PREDICTION SYSTEM: AMSU-A RADIANCE MEASUREMENTS. Hui Shao, Zhiquan Liu, Thomas Auligne, Dale Barker, Jordan Powers and Xiang-Yu Huang (NCAR, USA) 
 

 

P5.5

DOPPLER RADAR DATA ASSIMILATION WITH WRF 3D-VAR: IHOP RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES. Qingnong Xiao, Eunha Lim, Xiaoyan Zhang, Juanzhen Sun and Zhiquan Liu (NCAR, USA) 
 

 

P5.6

ASSIMILATION OF DOPPLER RADAR DATA WITH WRF 4DVAR FOR A CONVECTIVE CASE. Y.-R. Guo,  and J. Sun (NCAR, USA), E. Lim (KMA, S. Korea), X.-Y. Huang, and X. Zhang (NCAR, USA), and S. Sugimoto (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan) 
 

 

P5.7

IMPACT OF THE GSI DATA ASSIMILATION ON WRF- NMM FORECAST OF TROPICAL CYCLONES OVER NORTH INDIAN OCEAN. K. Naga Ratna (India Meteorological Department, India), Ming Hu (NOAA, USA), Xiang-Yu Huang, and S.R.Rizvi (NCAR, USA) and S. Pattnayak (ITT, India) 
 

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P5.8

ASSIMILATION AND SIMULATION OF CYCLONE GONU (2007) USING THE UAE WRFVAR SYSTEM. Ahmad Awad Al-Katheri (Air Force & Air Defense, UAE), Ajjaji Radi, and Abdullah Dhanhani (United Nations Development Programme, UAE) 
 

 

P5.9

Withdrawn 
 

 

P5.10

ASSIMILATION EXPERIMENTS WITH COSMIC GPS RADIO OCCULTATION MEASUREMENTS AND GROUND-BASED GPS PWV: TYPHOON ÒNARIÓ IN 2007. Jaewon Lee, Jungho Cho, Jeongho Baek, and Jong-Uk Park (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, South Korea) 
 

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P5.11

ASSIMILATION OF AMSU-A RADIANCE FOR IMPROVING KATRINA FORECAST. Dongliang Wang and Zhiquan Liu (NCAR, USA) 
 

 

P5.12

AN OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENT FOR METEOSAT THIRD GENERATION INFRA-RED SOUNDING RETRIEVALS USING BOTH MM5 AND WRF. Xiang-Yu Huang, Hongli Wang, Yongsheng Chen, and Xin Zhang (NCAR, USA), Stephen A. Tjemkes, and Rolf Stuhlmann (EUMETSAT) 
 

 

P5.13

AN ENSEMBLE-BASED FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION SCHEME. Chengsi Liu (LASG and NCAR, USA), Qingnong Xiao (NCAR, USA) and Bin Wang (LASG) 
 

 

P5.14

ASSIMILATION OF ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS) PROFILES USING WRF-VAR. Shih-Hung Chou (NASA, USA), Bradley Zavodsky (University of Alabama, USA), Gary Jedlovec, and William Lapenta (NASA, USA) 
 

 

P5.15

HIGH-RESOLUTION SHORT-RANGE NWP OF HIGH-IMPACT WEATHER EVENTS ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA. Meral Demirtas, Dale Barker, Jimy Dudhia, and Dave Gill (NCAR, USA), Ji-Hyun Ha (SNU, S. Korea), Seung-On Hwang (KMA, S. Korea) and Eunha Lim (NCAR, USA)
 

 

 

 

 

 

Regional Climate
 

 

P6.1

EVALUATION OF A WRF DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING SIMULATION OVER CALIFORNIA. Peter Caldwell, Hung-Neng S. Chin, David C. Bader, and Govindasamy Bala (Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA) 
 

 

P6.2

A PARAMETRIC STUDY OF WRF PHYSICS FOR THE REGIONAL CLIMATE APPLICATION OVER CALIFORNIA Hung-Neng S. Chin, Peter M. Caldwell, and David C. Bader (Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA) 
 

 

P6.3

CWRF PBL SCHEMES FOR CLIMATE APPLICATION: VALIDATION AGAINST FIELD CAMPAIGNS. Xin-Zhong Liang, Shuyan Liu, Everette Joseph, and Vernon R. Morris (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) 
 

 

P6.4

EVALUATION OF LONG DURATION WRF SIMULATIONS IN THE ARCTIC. Mark W. Seefeldt and John J. Cassano (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA) 
 

 

P6.5

IMPROVING SYSTEMATIC ERRORS IN A REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL FOR THE UNITED STATES PACIFIC NORTHWEST. Richard C. S