Papers
Presented at the 11th WRF Users' Workshop
National Center for
Atmospheric Research
June 21 - 25, 2010
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LECTURE
SERIES: Fundamentals of WRF Physics (Part 1: Microphysics)
1. An overview of cloud and precipitation microphysics and its parameterization in models. Hugh Morrison (NCAR/NESL/MMM) ppt
2. The Incorporation of Aerosols into WRF Microphysics Schemes. Roy Rasmussen (NCAR/RAL) ppt
3. Interaction of micophysics with other physical processes. Song-You Hong (Yonsei University, South Korea) ppt
4. Microphysics options in WRF. Jimy Dudhia (NCAR/NESL/MMM) ppt
SESSION
1: WRF Model Development
1.1
WRF
Version 3.2: New features and updates. Jimy Dudhia (NCAR) ppt
1.2
WRFDA:
The 2010 update and recent development. Xiang-Xu Huang (NCAR)
ppt
1.3
WRF-Chem
v3.2: New developments and ongoing work. Georg Grell (NOAA/ESRL/GSD)
ppt
1.4
WRF
Software. Dave Gill (NCAR)
ppt
SESSION
2: WRF Model Development and Operation
2.1
Update
on WRF in NCEP operations. Geoff DiMego (NOAA / NWS / NCEP, USA), Zavisa Janjic, Tom Black,
Eric Rogers, Matt Pyle, Jun Du, Hui-Ya Chuang, Brad Ferrier, and Dusan Jovic ppt
2.2
NCEP
Operational Hurricane WRF (HWRF) Modeling System. Vijay Tallapragada (NCEP/EMC), Qingfu Liu, Young Kwon,
Zhan Zhang, Robert Tuleya, Janna O'Connor, Samuel Trahan, Naomi Surgi, Bill
Lapenta, and Stephen J. Lord ppt
2.3
Overview
of WRF-ARW FDDA Capabilities and Future Research and Development. Aijun Deng
(Penn State),
David Stauffer, Brian Gaudet, Brian Reen, Lili Lei, Raphael Rogers, Jimy
Dudhia, Franois Vandenberghe, Cindy Bruyere, Al Bourgeois, Joe Grim, Wanli Wu,
and Yubao Liu ppt
2.4
The
Air Force Weather Ensemble Prediction System. Evan Kuchera (AFWA), Scott Rentschler, Sandra
Jones, Adam Wilson, Glenn Creighton, and Steve Rugg ppt
2.5
The
Developmental Testbed Center: Current Activities and Future Plan. Y.-H. Kuo (NCAR), S. Koch, B. Brown, and L.
Nance
ppt
SESSION 3A: Data Assimilation
3A.1
Radar
radial velocity data assimilation using WRFDA-3DVAR over the central United States
and its impact on 0-12 hour precipitation forecast. Juanzhen Sun (NCAR)
ppt
3A.2
Balancing
Radar Assimilation with a nested Digital Filter. Todd Hutchinson (WSI Corporation), William
Ramstrom, and David Gill
ppt
3A.3
4DVar
Data Assimilation of Airborne Doppler Radar Winds in Hurricane Ike (2008). Ronald
Gordon
(RSMAS/University of Miami), and Shuyi S. Chen
ppt
3A.4
High-resolution
simulation over central Europe: Assimilation experiments during COPS IOP9c. Thomas
Schwitalla (University
of Hohenheim, Germany), Hans-Stefan Bauer, and Volker Wulfmeyer
ppt
3A.5
A
WRF-based rapid updating cycling forecast system of BMB and its performance
during the summer and Olympic Games 2008. Min Chen (IUM, China)
ppt
3A.6
Toward
a regional reanalysis over Northern High-Latitude Regions with the WRF model. Zhiquan
Liu (NCAR),
Hui-Chuan Lin, Wei Wang, Tae-Kwon Wee, Michael Barlage, Bill Kuo, David
Bromwich, Lesheng Bai, Keith Hines, and Sheng-Huang Wang ppt
3A.7
Research
on Atmospheric Data Assimilation Techniques for Antarctic Applications:
Preliminary Results. Qingnong Xiao (University of South Florida), Chengsi Liu, and Kekuan Chu
ppt
3A.8
Preliminary
Testing and Evaluation of the GSI Data Assimilation System. Kathryn Crosby (NCAR), Hui Shao, Ming Hu, Hans
Huang, and Louisa Nance
ppt
3A.9
Assimilation
of simulated infrared brightness temperatures using an Ensemble Kalman Filter
data assimilation system. Jason Otkin (CIMSS/UW-Madison), and Will Lewis
ppt
3A.10
A hybrid WRF-3DVAR and FDDA
modeling system for mesoscale weather data assimilation and prediction. Wei
Yu (NCAR), Yubao
Liu, Zhiquan Liu, Craig Schwartz, Yongxin Zhang, Dorita Rostkier-Edelstein, and
Adam Piterkovski
ppt
3A.11
Studying Typhoon Morakot with a
Coupled WRFDA-DART System. Craig Schwartz (NCAR), Zhiquan Liu, Yongsheng Chen, and Xiang-Yu
Huang
ppt
SESSION
3B: Regional Climate
3B.1
Wave
energy accumulation and tropical cyclone genesis. James Done (NCAR), Greg Holland, Stefan
Tulich, Cindy Bruyere, and Asuka Suzuki-Parker
ppt
3B.2
Thermodynamics
of Madden-Julian Oscillation in a regional model with constrained moistening. Samson
Hagos (PNNL), L.
Ruby Leung, and Jimy Dudhia
ppt
3B.3
Development
of a regional Arctic Climate System model: Performance of WRF for regional
pan-Arctic atmospheric simulations. John J. Cassano (University of Colorado, CIRES),
and Matthew E. Higgins
ppt
3B.4
Downscaling
WRF-generated wind resource climatology to high resolution. Mark Stoelinga (3TIER, Inc.), Michael Dunsmuir,
Jeff Edwards, and Jim McCaa ppt
3B.5
CWRF
incorporation of a conjunctive surface-subsurface process model to improve
seasonal-to-interannual hydroclimate forecasts. Xing Yuan (ISWS-UIUC), and Xin-Zhong Liang
ppt
3B.6
Arctic
and Antarctic tests of polar WRF. Keith M. Hines (Ohio State University), David H.
Bromwich, Francis Otieno, and Aaron Wilson
ppt
3B.7
Genesis
potential index for tropical cyclones in the nested climate model (NRCM)
experiments. Cindy Bruyere (NCAR), Greg Holland, James Done, and Asuka Suzuki-Parker
ppt
3B.8
Modeling
of the impacts of the Great Salt Lake salinity on local climate with the
Weather Research and Forecasting model. Lijuan Wen (Utah State University), and
Jiming Jin
ppt
3B.9
Aerosol Effects in China: Observations and Modeling . L. Ruby Leung (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Jiwen Fan, Yun Qian, Alexander P. Khain, Barry Lynn, and Zhanqing Li
ppt
3B.10 Ripley McCoy: Evaluation of a
coupled WRF-CLM model over the western United States. Ripley McCoy (Utah State University), Jiming
Jin, and Simon Wang
ppt
SESSION
4: Physics Development and Testing
4.1
WRF
Model Physics: Problems, Solutions, and a New Paradigm for Progress. Cliff
Mass (University
of Washington), and Dave Ovens ppt
4.2
Intercomparison
of PBL Parameterizations in WRF for a Day of CASES-99. Hyeyum Shin (Yonsei University), and Song-You
Hong ppt
4.3
Updates
to the Noah LSM in WRF version 3.2. Kevin Manning (NCAR), Mukul Tewari, Michael
Barlage, Fei Chen, Francisco Salamanca, and Alberto Martilli ppt
4.4
Calibration
and Validation of WRF3.0-CLM3.5 in Snowpack Simulations. Jiming Jin (Utah State University), and
Lijuan Wen ppt
4.5
The
Total Energy - Mass Flux PBL scheme in WRF: Experience in real-time forecasts
for California. Wayne M. Angevine (CIRES, University of Colorado), and Thorsten Mauritsen ppt
4.6
CCN
and IN activation from explicit aerosols and double-moment cloud water
additions to the Thompson et al bulk microphysics scheme. Trude Eidhammer (NCAR) and Greg Thompson ppt
4.7
Development
of CWRF for Regional Weather and Climate Prediction: General Model Description
and Basic Skill Evaluation—First Release. Xin-Zhong Liang (University of Illinois), Min Xu,
Xing Yuan, Tiejun Ling, Hyun I. Choi, Feng Zhang, Ligang Chen, Shuyan Liu,
Shenjian Su, F. Qiao, Julian X.L. Wang, Kenneth E. Kunkel, Wei Gao, Everette
Joseph, Vernon Morris, Tsann-Wang Yu, Jimy Dudhia, and John Michalakes
4.8
Test
Results of Hurricane Related Inland Streamflow Forecasts. Yihua Wu (NCEP), and Michael Ek ppt
4.9
Sensitivity
of WRF-RTFDDA Model Physics in Weather Forecasting Applications: From Synoptic
Scale to Meso-gamma Scale. William Y.Y. Cheng (NCAR), Yubao Liu, Yongxin Zhang,
Yuewei Liu, Dorita Rostkier-Edelstein, Adam Pietrkovski, Bill Mahoney, Thomas
T. Warner, and Sheldon Drobot ppt
SESSION
5A: Model Evaluation
5A.1
Effects
of Air-Sea Coupling on Tropical Cyclone Structure: A New Perspective from
Tracer and Trajectory Analysis in Coupled WRF. Chiaying Lee (RSMAS/University of Miami), and
S. S. Chen ppt
5A.2
An
investigation of a simulated low-level jet produced by different PBL schemes in
the WRF-ARW as verified against tower data. J. Brown (NOAA-ESRL/CIRES) ppt
5A.3
The
development of a WRF-RTFDDA-based high-resolution hybrid data-assimilation and
forecasting system for the Eastern Mediterranean. Dorita Rostkier-Edelstein, Yubao Liu, Tom Warner,
Will Y. Cheng, Yongxin Zhang, Wei Yu, Craig Schwartz, Zhiquan Liu, Wanli Wu,
Yuewei Liu, and Adam Pietrkowski ppt
5A.4
Recent enhancements to the Model Evaluation Tools (MET), including spatial cloud verification. Tressa L. Fowler (NCAR), Randy Bullock, John Halley Gotway, Paul Oldenberg, Tara Jensen, Barb Brown, and David Ahijevych ppt
5A.5
An
Operating System Designed to Predict the Development, Movement, and Dissipation
of Lightning (Cloud-to-Ground and Intra-Cloud) Using Microphysical and Other
Data from Cloud Resolving Weather Forecast Models. Barry Lynn (Weather It Is, LTD, Israel), and
Yoav Yair
5A.6
Realtime
Storm-scale Ensemble Forecast System as Part of NOAA HWT 2010 Spring
Experiment. Fanyou Kong (CAPS, OU), Ming Xue, Kevin W. Thomas, Yunheng Wang, Keith Brewster,
Jidong Gao, Steve J. Weiss, Jack Kain, Michael C. Coniglio, and Jun Du ppt
5A.7
Realtime
explicit convective forecasts in support of VORTEX2 and the NSSL Spring
Program: 2010. M. Weisman (NCAR), W. Wang and K. Manning ppt
5A.8
Evaluation
of Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterizations in WRF3.2. Wanli Wu (NCAR), Yubao Liu, Francois
Vandenberghe, Al Bourgeois, Joseph Grim, Jason Knievel, Thomas Warner, Dave
Stauffer, Michael Padovani, Gerald Luft, and Kelly Fling ppt
5A.9
Multiscale
Modeling and High Performance Computing of Mountain Waves using WRF Version 3.2
with Vertical Nesting. Alex Mahalov (ASU), Mohamed Moustaoui, Jimy Dudhia, and Dave Gill ppt
5A.10
Post-processing and verification
of analyses and forecasts of operational WRF RTFDDA systems for wind power
applications. Gregory Roux (NCAR), Yubao Liu, Matt Pocernich, Seth Linden, Will Y.Y.
Cheng, Luca Delle Monache, Bill Myers, Aime Fournier, Tom Hopson, and Keith
Parks ppt
5A.11
WRFv3.1.1 QNSE Test and
Evaluation. J. Wolff (NCAR), Louisa
Nance, John Halley Gotway, and Paul Oldenberg ppt
SESSION
5B: WRF Chemistry
5B.1
Modeling Secondary Organic Aerosols and Aerosol Radiative Forcing using the VolatiliyBasis Set Approach in WRF-Chem.
Manish Shrivastava (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Jerome Fast, James Barnard,
and Rahul Zaveri ppt
5B.2
Implementation
of the state of the art secondary organic aerosol mechanism into WRF-CHEM. R.
Ahmadov (CIRES/UC/NOAA),
and S. McKeen
5B.3
Production
and Transport of Ozone in the Amazon: Evaluation of WRF-Chem Simulations with
In-Situ Observations from the BARCA Campaign. Megan Bela (National Institute for Space
Research), Karla Longo, Saulo Freitas, Veronika Beck, and Demerval Moreira ppt
5B.4
Radiative
forcing of Sahara dust and its impacts on the hydrological cycle in the West
African monsoon system. Chun Zhao (PNNL), Xiaohong Liu, L. Ruby Leung, Sally A. McFarlane,
William I. Gustafson Jr., Jerome D. Fast, Richard Easter, Samson Hagos, and
Benjamin Johnson ppt
5B.5
The
impact of increase in unregulated ship emissions on NO3, and N2O5 in Alaska. Nicole
Molders (UAF,
Geophysical Institute, Dept. Atmospheric Sciences), Trang T. Tran, G. Newby,
W.R. Simpson, and W.R. Stockwell ppt
SESSION
6: Ongoing and Future Model Development
6.1
Modeling
the effects of regional climate change and variability on high impact weather. Greg
Holland (NCAR),
James Done, Cindy Bruyere, Asuka Suzuki-Parker, Cort Cooper, and Rowan Douglas ppt
6.2
Porting
the CAM5 Physics Suite into WRF. William I. Gustafson Jr. (Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory), Jerome D. Fast, Richard C. Easter, and Philip J. Rasch ppt
6.3
Update
and new developments of WRF Obs-nudging FDDA and its applications. Yubao
Liu (NCAR), Al
Bourgeois, Wanli Wu, Linlin Pan, William Y.Y. Cheng, Yuewei Liu, Francois
Vandenberghe, Gregory Roux, Tom Warner, John Pace, John Hannan, Josh Hacker,
and Dave Stauffer ppt
6.4
Recent
experience with ensemble data assimilation in WRF/DART. Chris Snyder (NCAR), Jeff Anderson, Steven
Cavallo, David Dowell, Glen Romine, and Ryan Torn ppt
6.5
The real-time Rapid Refresh (RR) and High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) forecasts systems: Recent enhancements and evaluation activities. Curtis Alexander (NOAA/ESRL/GSD), Steve Weygandt,
Tanya Smirnova, Stan Benjamin, John Brown, Ming Hu, Doug Koch, Kevin Brundage,
Susan Sahm, Brian Jamison, Patrick Hofmann, and Eric James ppt
6.6
Beyond
WRF: MPAS - A Global Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric Model. Bill Skamarock (NCAR), Joe Klemp, Michael Duda,
Todd Ringler, and John Thuburn ppt
POSTER
SESSION
WRF
Model Development
P.1
Development
and application of the Unified Post Processor for WRF NMM, WRF ARW, and GFS. Hui-Ya
Chuang (NCEP)
P.2
Search
And Rescue on-demand weather forecast tool. Olafur Rognvaldsson (Institute for Meteorological
Research)
P.3
Presentation
and Application of Nesting using the New Option of Vertical Grid Refinement
Implemented in WRF 3.2. Mohamed Moustaoui (ASU), Alex Mahalov, Dave Gill, and Jimy Dudhia
P.4
Additions
to WRF SCM and application in the KNMI Parameterization Testbed. Wayne M.
Angevine (CIRES,
University of Colorado), and Josh Hacker
P.5
Hurricane
WRF support by the Developmental Testbed Center. Ligia Bernardet (NOAA/CIRES), Shaowu Bao, Donald
Stark, Christopher Harrop, and Laurie Carson ppt
P.6
WRF
workflow on the Grid with WRF4G. V. Fernandez-Quiruelas (Universidad de Cantabria,
Spain), L. Fita, J. Fernandez, and A. Cofino
P.90
Intense ne-scale meteorology on Mars described through simulations with a new mesoscale model based on WRF dynamical core and LMD Martian physics. A. Spiga (Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, France)
P.91 Running WRF 3.2 on Windows 7, and Windows HPC Server 2008 R2. Wen-ming (Microsoft)
Data
Assimilation
P.7
Application
Research of radiance data assimilation in precipitation prediction based on
WRFDA. Yansong Bao (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology)
P.8
Jeddah
Rain storm analysis and numerical simulation. Junmei Ban (NCAR), Xin Zhang, and Xiangyu
Huang
P.9
Simulating
the Evolution of Hurricane Helene 2006 Using Dropsondes from the NAMMA 2006
Field Campaign. M.J. Folmer (Saint Louis University), R.W. Pasken, and B.E. Anderson
P.10
Influences
of different observations on forecasting a cold-air-damming event in the WRF-EnKF
system. Linlin Pan (NCAR), Yubao Liu, Wanli Wu, William Y.Y. Cheng, Gael Descombes, Hui
Liu, Jeff Anderson, Luca Delle Monache, Gregory Roux, Neil Jacobs, and Peter
Childs
P.11
Coupled
Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions during Noreasters. Stephen D. Nicholls (Rutgers University), and Steven
G. Decker
P.12
Ensemble
Kalman Filter Data Assimilation of AMSR-E Soil Moisture Estimates Into the
LIS-WRF Coupled Land/Atmosphere Model. Clay Blankenship (USRA), William Crosson, and
Jonathan Case
P.13
Radar
Reflectivity Data Assimilation with the Four-Dimensional Variational System of the Weather Research and
Forecast Model. Hongli Wang (NCAR), Juanzhen Sun, and Rong-Yun Guo
P.14
Multivariate
background errors in WRFDA: Impact of additional correlations and its
performance in Tropics. Syed R.H. Rizvi (NCAR), Yaodeng Chen, X.-Y. Huang, and Jinzhong Min
P.15
Radar
data assimilation using WRFDA 3DVAR for short-term prediction of convection. Mei
Xu (NCAR),
Juanzhen Sun, and Yubao Liu
P.16
Incremental
Vertical Interpolation Method as A alternative data assimilation for Regional
Models. Jae-Ik Song (Yonsei University, Korean Air Force, UCSD), Song-You Hong, Hyung-Woo
Kim, Sook-Jung Ham, Kei Yoshimura, and Masao Kanamitsu
P.17
Impact
of multiple external loops in wrf data assimilation system on typhoon prediction.
Ling-Feng Hsiao (Taiwan
Typhoon and Flood Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan), Yong-Run Guo, Der-Song
Chen, Tien-Chiang Yeh, and Ying-Hwa Kuo
P.88
Regional Precipitation Forecast with Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Profiles Assimilation. Shih-Hung Chou (NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center), Bradley T. Zavodsky, and Gary J. Jedlovec
P.89 Reanalysis dataset of the western North Pacific tropical cyclones in 2005 - 2008. Ning Pan (Fujian Meteorological Observatory, China), Shengjun Zhang, Tim Li, and Xuyang Ge
Regional
Climate Research
P.18
Evaluation
of regional climate simulation over Thailand. Chakrit Chotamonsak (ETM / Chiang Mai University,
Thailand), Eric P. Salath Jr., Jiemjai Kreasuwan, Somporn Chantara, and
Kingkeo Siriwitayakorn
P.19
Evaluation
of Retrospective, Multi-year, Continental Scale WRF (Version 3.1) simulations
that used the PX LSM and ACM2 PBL. Robert Gilliam (US EPA), and Jonathan Pleim
P.20
Precipitation
simulation of the Lena River basin using WRF in the period of 1986-2000. Xieyao
Ma (JAMSTEC),
Masayuki Hara, and Kazuyoshi Suzuki
P.21
Deep
Lake Simulations within the Weather research and Forecasting Model. Jian Zhu (Departments of Watershed
Sciences and Plants, Soils, and Climate), Jiming Jin, and Anmin Duan
P.22
The
Impact of a New Reservoir on Temperature and Humidity Change for the
Consideration of Pistachio and Pomegranates Production of Turkey. Elcin Tan (Istanbul Technical University),
Baris Onol, Yurdanur S. Unal, Gokay Biyik, and Mikdat Kadioglu
P.23
Internal
variability and internal grid nudging within the WRF model for Regional Climate
Modeling applications. Jared H. Bowden (EPA), Tanya Otte, Christopher Nolte, Jon Pleim,
Jerry Herwehe, and Martin Otte
P.24
Influence
of vegetation cover estimates on the simulation of the Northern Great Plains
regional climate. Phillip Stauffer (South Dakota School of Mines), William Capehart,
Christopher Wright, and Geoffery Henebry
P.25
Climate
downscaling for Arizona using WRF: Dependence of precipitation on model
resolution and convective parameterization. Ashish Sharma (Arizona State University), and
Huei-Ping Huang
P.26
CLWRF:
WRF modifications for regional climate simulation under future scenarios. L.
Fita (Universidad
de Cantabria, Spain), J. Fernandez, and M. Garcia-Diez
P.27
Development
of Dynamical Downscaling for Climate Decision Aid Applications. Kremena
Darmenova
(Northrop Grumman Information Systems), Glenn Higgins, Randall Alliss, Heather
Kiley, and Duane Apling
P.28
CWRF
Optimized Physics Ensemble Improving U.S. 1993 Flood Prediction. Ligang Chen (ISWS-UIUC), and Xin-Zhong Liang
P.29
A
Comparative CWRF Study of the 1993 and 2008 Summer U.S. Midwest Floods. Fengxue
Qiao (UIUC), and
Xin-Zhong Liang
P.30
Assessment
of WRF ability in predicting extreme anomaly on sub-seasonal scales. Jaime
Travers (St.
Louis University), and Zaitao Pan
P.31
Impacts
of climate change on California and Nevada regions revealed by a
High-resolution dynamical downscaling study. Lin-Lin Pan (NCAR), Shu-Hua Chen, Yubao Liu,
Dan Cayan, Mei-Ying Lin, Quinn Hart, Ming-Hua Zhang, and Jianzhong Wang
P.32
Assessing
High-Impact Weather Variations and Changes Utilizing Extreme Value Theory. Greg
Holland (NCAR),
James Done, Cindy Bruyere, Asuka Suzuki-Parker
P.33
Prototype
for the Arctic System Reanalysis. David H. Bromwich (Ohio State University), Le-Sheng
Bai, and Keith M. Hines
P.34
Northern
Alaskan Land Surface Response to Reduced Arctic Sea Ice Extent. Matthew E.
Higgins
(University of Colorado, CIRES), and John J. Cassano
P.35
Aerosol
Effects in China: Observations and Modeling. Ruby Leung (PNNL), Jiwen Fan, Yun Qian,
Alexander P. Khain, Barry Lynn, and Zhanzing Li
P.36
Using
the WRF Model for Wind Energy Resource Assessment. Andrea N. Hahmann (Risoe-DTU), Alfredo Pena, Jake
Badger, Ioanna Karagali, Xiaoli Larsen, and Mark Kelly
Physics
Development and Testing
P.37
Implementation
of the WRF-URBAN canopy model over the greater ATHENS area (GREECE). G.
Papaggelis
(National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), M. Tombrou, A.
Dandou . T. Kontos, and N. Soulakekkis
P.38
Characterization
of the radiative impact of mineral dust aerosols with the WRF-Chem-DuMo and
multi-satellite data. Irina N. Sokolik (Georgia Institute of Technology), V.V. Tatarskii,
X. Xi, and H. Choi
P.39
Sensitivity
of cloud water optical path to explicit presentation of hydrometeor spectra in
detailed bin microphysical scheme in WRF. Nichole McKinney (Saint Louis University), Lulin
Xue, and Zaitao Pan
P.40
Improvements
to Radiation on Upper-Level WRF Performance over the Antarctic. Jordan G.
Powers (NCAR),
Steven M. Cavallo, and Kevin W. Manning
P.41
Sensitivity
of an Idealized Hurricane Intensification to Physics Parameterizations: AHW vs
HWRF. Sara A. Michelson (NOAA/ESRL), and Jian-Wen Bao
P.42
Satellite
Detections and WRF Simulations of the Urban Heat Island over Mexico City. Yuyan
Cui (Saint Louis
University), and Benjamin de Foy
P.43
The
impact of cloud microphysics on precipitation using an integration of
observation and WRF simulation: A Squall line case study. Di Wu (University of North Dakota),
Xiquan Dong, Baike Xi, Zhe Feng, and Gretchen Mullendore
P.44
Some
Cold Region Physics Issues in WRF. Yihua Wu (NOAA/NCEP/EMC), and Michael Ek
P.45
Impacts
of the new Satellite Derived Land Products for WRF. Vince Wong (NCEP/EMC), and Michael Ek
P.46
Coupling
a Physical Lake Model into the Weather Research Forecasting Model. Hongping
Gu (Utah State
University), Jiming Jin, and Zachary M. Subin
Model
Evaluation
P.47
Stratocumulus
in WRF. Danil van Dijke (Meteo Consult BV, Netherlands)
P.48
The
Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) Objective Evaluation Performed During the
Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) 2010 Spring Experiment. Tara Jensen (NCAR), Steve Weiss, Jack Kain,
Michelle Harrold, Barb Brown, Ming Xue, Fanyou Kong, Patrick Marsh, Mike
Coniglio, and Russ Schneider
P.49
Inferring
Stratospheric Mountain Wave Breaking through Observations at the Tropopause. Bryan
K. Woods (Yale
University), and Ronald B. Smith
P.50
Simulation
of Lake Breezes in Milwaukee, WI. V. Thorson (Saint Louis University), and B.
de Foy
P.51
On
the Interaction of Typhoons and Southwesterly Flow. Fang-Ching Chien (National Taiwan Normal
University)
P.52
Air
quality in the US under summer heat wave conditions. Alma Hodzic (NCAR), Jeff Lee, Mary Barth, and
Christine Wiedinmyer
P.53
WRF
Code Modifications to Monitor Selected Fields Every Time Step for Enhanced
Severe Weather Guidance. Jonathan L. Case (ENSCO/NASA SPoRT Center), Scott R. Dembek, John
S. Kain, Steven J. Weiss, and Eugene W. McCaul
P.54
The
Model Evaluation Tools: Community Code for Verification. Tressa L. Fowler (NCAR), John Halley Gotway, and
Randy Bullock
P.55
Withdrawn
P.56
Improving
Lake-Effect Snow Forecasting through High Resolution MODIS Derived Ice Fields. Jonathan
D. D. Meyer (South
Dakota School of Mines and Technology), Mark R. Hjelmfelt, and William J.
Capehart
P.57
2010
HMT Forecast Demonstration Project, Verification Using the Model Evaluation
Tools (MET). John Halley Gotway (NCAR), Tara Jensen, Ed Tollerud, Paul Oldenburg, Huiling
Yuan, and Isidora Jankov
P.58
Withdrawn
P.59
Evaluating
WRF precipitation fields using Climate Prediction Center Morphing Technique
(CMORPH) data and the Model Evaluation Tools (MET). Stephen Masters (ENSCO, Inc.), and Mark Kienzle
P.60
WRF
model validation for complex terrain and integration with pollutant dispersion
models. Jorge Zarauz (Laboratorio Tecnologico del Uruguay), and Robert Pasken
P.61
European
summer precipitations: sensitivity to soil moisture initial conditions. Valerio
Capecchi
(Istitute of Biometeorology - CNR), Bernardo Gozzini, and Massimiliano Pasqui
P.62
Validation
of extended WRF forecasts for plant pathogen dispersal and disease occurrence. Ying
Song (Saint Louis
University), Zaitao Pan
P.63
Evolution
and structure of cloud cluster occurred over the Korean peninsula on 16 July
2009. Woo-Joo Shin
(Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea), and Tae-Young Lee
P.64
Sensitivity
Experiments with WRF of the Lower and Lateral Boundary Conditions over the
Eastern Mediterranean. Yongxin Zhang (NCAR), Yubao Liu, Dorita Rostkier-Edelstein, Will Cheng,
Wanli Wu, Yuewei Liu, Tom Warner, and Adam Piterkovsk
P.65
Withdrawn
P.66
Evaluating
WRF wind transport using cluster analysis, satellite remote sensing, particle
trajectories and Lidar data. B. de Foy (Saint Louis University)
P.67
Applications
of Vertical Nesting within ARW-WRF V3.2 to Studies of Highway Noise Pollution
and an Intense Weather Event in Phoenix Arizona. Stephen R. Shaffer (ASU), Mohamed Moustaoui, and
Alex Mahalo
P.68
The
2010 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiment: Evaluating the Fundamental Components
of a Warn-On-Forecast System. Patrick T. Marsh (NSSL/CIMMS/OU), John S. Kain,
and Steven J. Weiss
P.69
Neighborhood-based
verification of WRF precipitation forecasts from the 2009 and 2010 Spring
Forecasting Experiments. Kevin Manning (NCAR), and Morris Weisman
P.70
Verification
Dataset Choices and their Impact on WRF QPF forecasts for the HMT Winter
Exercise. Edward Tollerud (NOAA/ESRL), Tara Jensen, John Halley Gotway, Paul
Oldenburg, Huiling Yuan, and Isidora Jankov
P.71
Testing
and Application of a Forecast Confidence Index in a Variaty of Regions and with
Two Different Models. Lisa Phillips (IAS)
P.72
Implementation
of WRF Reference Configurations. Jamie Wolff (NCAR), Louisa Nance, Ligia Bernardet, and
Barbara Brown
P.87
Validation of boundary-layer winds from WRF Mesoscale Forecasts with applications to wind energy forecasting. Caroline Draxl (Risoe-DTU), Andrea Hahmann, Alfredo Pena, and Gregor Giebel
WRF
Chemistry
P.73
Using
MEGAN Biogenic Emissions to Study the Fate of Isoprene on the Regional Scale. Mary
Barth (NCAR),
Christine Wiedinmyer, Gabriele Pfister, Stacy Walters, Tiffany Duhl, Jeff Lee,
and Alma Hodzic
P.74
Chemical
Reaction Diagnostics as a Tool for Determining Ozone Chemical Pathways. John
Wong (University
of Colorado)
P.75
Biomass
burning effects on clouds and precipitation in the WRF-Chem simulations. Longtao
Wu (Jet
Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology), Hui Su and Jonathan
H. Jiang
P.76
Towards
high pollution episode forecasting of PM10/PM2.5 under very stable nocturnal
conditions and steep terrain using the WRF-Chem model. P. Saide (University of Iowa), G.
Carmichael, S. Spak, and L. Gallardo
P.77
Defining
Chemical Boundary Conditions in Regional Modeling. G.G. Pfister (NCAR), S. Walters, L.K. Emmons,
and M. Barth
P.78
WRF-Chem
simulated wildfire transport and impacts. Qian Tan (UMBC), Mian Chin, Xiaoyang
Zhang, Shobha Kondragunta, Roger Shi, and Toshihisa Matsui
P.79
Examining
the impact of smoke aerosol on clouds and precipitation using a regional model
WRF-Chem-SMOKE and A-Train data: A case study of Canadian boreal forest
wildfires in summer 2007. Zheng Lu (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Irina N. Sokolik
P.80
Numerical
study of a high ozone event in the lower troposphere from Indochina biomass
burning. Chuan-Yao Lin (Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica)
P.81
Modeling
Smoke Plume Patterns of 2007 Georgia Wildfires with WRF and Daysmoke. Yongqiang
Liu (USDA Forest
Service), Scott Goodrick, and Gary Achtemeier
P.82
Investigation
of Turbulent Mixing in a Coupled Air Quality and Weather Prediction Model. Evelyn
D. Grell
(CIRES/NOAA), Irina V. Djalalova, and Jian-Wen Bao
P.83
Effects
of the Icelandic volcano eruption on tropospheric chemistry. Alma Hodzic (NCAR), Steve Massie, Sasha
Madronich, and Jeff Lee
P.84
Potential
impacts of woodstove replacement on PM2.5 concentrations in Fairbanks. Nicole
Molders (UAF,
Geophysical Institute, Dept. Atmospheric Sciences), and Huy N.Q. Tran
P.85
Estimation
of CO2 over Iowa using WRF-VPRM mesoscale transport and biosphere models. Aditsuda
Jamroensan
(University of Iowa), Charles Stanier, and Gregory R Carmichael
P.86
Adapting
WRF-CHEM GOCART for Fine-Scale Dust Forecasting. Sandra Jones (Air Force Weather Agency), and
Glenn Creighton
INSTRUCTIONAL SESSIONS
Coupling WRF to Other Models ppt
Johh Michalakes (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Department of Energy)
NCAR Command Language (NCL: http://www.ncl.ucar.edu) ppt
Mary Haley (NCAR/CISL)
Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers (VAPOR: http://www.vapor.ucar.edu) ppt
Alan Norton (NCAR/CISL)
