WRF User's Workshop Agenda (Draft) Updated: June 1, 2007
Monday, June 11: Working Group Meetings
NOTE: These working groups are not limited to the existing "WRF working groups" All groups to meet at Center Green Campus.
9:00 - 12:00	Planetary Boundary Layer Physics Subgroup Lead: Wayne Angevine (NOAA)
9:30 - 11:30	Verification Lead: Chris Davis (NCAR)
	The main topics for discussion at the meeting are: (1) status and plans of a community WRF verification toolkit (2) Appropriateness and implementation of new verification methods (3) Other items covered in Section 9 of the plan of the Research Applications Board (http://wrf-model.org/development/wrab/docs/RAB-plan-final.pdf) Discussions at this meeting will factor into the Research Applications Board meeting later in the week.
1:00 - 2:00	Physics Lead: John Brown (NOAA)
1:00 - 2:00	WRF-Chem Lead: Georg Grell (NOAA)
2:00 - 4:00	Land-Surface Models Lead: Fei Chen (NCAR)
	Preliminary agenda would include: - MODIS global land-use data - future LSM physics development - fine-scale detailed urban data - link between land surface and atmospheric surface layer - land information system (LIS) in WRF
4:00 - 5:00	Joint Physics and WRF-Chem Leads: John Brown and Georg Grell
	With the realization of the increasing importance of science questions related to global climate change, two-way interactions of meteorology and chemistry are becoming a necessity in complex three-dimensional models. Radiation/aerosol/chemistry and microphysics/aerosol interactions are an area of particular interest, but PBL and surface processes may also be important. For this reason, the WRF-chem working group would like to form another working group (or subgroup) jointly with the physics working group, that will be exclusively focused on parameterizations that offer the possibility for full meteorological-chemical interactions. We think it would be useful to have a joint discussion to hear about areas of particular research needs from each groups perspective and to gauge interest in such a highly focused group.
2:00 - 3:00	Global WRF Lead: Bill Skamarock (NCAR)
	Working Group 1 (Numerics and Software) will be meeting on Monday 11 June 2007 (during the scheduled WRF working group meeting time at the 2007 WRF workshop) to discuss dynamical cores for global WRF models. The latitude-longitude grid WRF-ARW global model, developed by Mark Richardson and his group at CalTech for planetary atmospheres, is currently being tested for earth-atmosphere simulations. We expect that this capability will be included in the next major WRF-ARW release. We will be discussing the latitude-longitude WRF-ARW formulation along with other possible discretizations for future global WRF models. Anyone interested in global WRF numerics and capabilities is welcome to attend. For more information please contact Bill Skamarock at skamaroc@ucar.edu (303-497-8161).
3:00 - 5:00	Regional Climate Lead: Ruby Leung (PNNL)
	Topics for discussion: 1. Review community model development efforts on regional modeling 2. Lessons learned through RCM applications of WRF 3. Model development needs 4. Model evaluation and intercomparison 5. Other
2:00 - 4:00	Data Assimilation Lead: Dale Barker (NCAR)
	Potential topics for the meeting include: 1. Brief updates on WRF DA systems (WRF-Var, DART, GSI, nudging, etc). 2. Review of user requirements for community WRF DA. 3. Observation datasets for WRF DA. 4. Potential study areas for the new Data Assimilation Testbed Center (DATC).
3:00 – 4:00	WRF Software Lead: John Michalakes (NCAR)
4:00 – 5:00	Air-Sea Coupling and Hurricanes Lead: Shuyi Chen (UM)
	Group Meeting Rooms to be Announced
	Workshop venue: Center Green Building 1
Tuesday, June 12
8:30 - 10:00	Session 1: WRF Update
	WELCOME REMARKS
	WRF 2007 ANNUAL UPDATE. J. Dudhia (NCAR)
	OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND RESULTS FROM WRF-VAR. D. M. Barker (NCAR), J. R. Bray, M. Demirtas, H. Huang, Z. Liu, H. Shao, Q. Xiao
	A GLOBAL IMPLEMENTATION FOR THE ADVANCED RESEARCH WRF (ARW) MODEL. Richardson, M., A. Toigo, C. Newman, and W. Skamarock, John Michalakes
	WRF SOFTWARE. John Michalakes (NCAR), Thomas Henderson, Dave Gill, Michael Duda
	A LOOK AT THE CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE OF THE WRF DEVELOPMENTAL TESTBED CENTER. Robert Gall (NCAR), Steve Koch, Louisa Nance, Ligia Bernardet
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00	Session 2: Model Evaluation (I)
	ECMWF VS GFS INITIALIZATION INFLUENCE ON OPERATIONAL NMM. F. Pasi (LaMMA-IBIMET), B. Gozzini, A. Orlandi, D. Grifoni, F. Piani, G. Messeri, G. Giuliani, M. Rossi, C. Tei
	IMPACTS OF LAND INITIALIZATION ON WRF FORECAST FOR THE AFWA SOUTH-EAST ASIAN DOMAIN. Mukul Tewari (NCAR), Fei Chen, Dave Gill, Christa Peters-Lidard, Charles J. Alonge, Sujay Kumar, John Eylander
	WRF PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION ON KOREAN PENINSULA DURING THE MONTH OF JULY 2006. Han, Sang-Ok (KMA)
	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
	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
	EVALUATION OF WRF PERFORMANCE FOR CAPTURING OROGRAPHICALLY-INDUCED WAVES IN THE STRATOSPHERE. Douglas C Hahn (Air Force Research Laboratory)
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:00	Session 2: Model Evaluation (II)
	WATERWORLD: A REAL-IDEAL WRF HYBRID FOR HURRICANE SIMULATIONS. Robert G. Fovell (University of California, Los Angeles), Gretchen Mullendore
	ADVANCED RESEARCH WRF HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS OF THE INNER CORE STRUCTURE OF HURRICANES KATRINA AND RITA (2005). Kristen L. Corbosiero (NCAR), Wei Wang, Yongsheng Chen, Jimy Dudhia, and Christopher Davis
	DOWNSLOPE WINDSTORM IN ICELAND WRF/MM5 MODEL COMPARISON – I. ”lafur Rˆgnvaldsson (Institute for Meteorological Research), Jian-Wen Bao, H·lfd·n ¡g˙stsson, Haraldur ”lafsson
	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
	MULTI-SCALE WRF SIMULATIONS OF BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS. Ping Zhu (Florida International University), Bruce Albrecht, Pavlos Kollias
	WRF AND VERTICAL NESTING: MULTI-SCALE RESOLUTION OF T-REX MEASUREMENTS. M. Moustaoui (Arizona State University), A. Mahalov and B. Nichols
3:00 - 3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30	Session 3: Verification Techniques
	APPLICATION OF THE MODE OBJECT-BASED VERIFICATION TOOL FOR THE EVALUATION OF WRF PRECIPITATION FIELDS. Barbara G. Brown (NCAR), Lacey Holland, John Halley Gotway, Randy Bullock, David Ahijevych, Eric Gilleland, and Chris Davis
	A TOOLKIT FOR MODEL EVALUATION. Lacey Holland (NCAR), John Halley Gotway, Barbara Brown, Randy Bullock, Eric Gilleland, and David Ahijevych
	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
	USING WRF OUTPUT WITH THE SPATIAL FORECAST VERIFICATION METHODS INTER-COMPARISON PROJECT (ICP). Eric Gilleland (NCAR) and Dave Ahijevich
4:30 - 5:30	Developers' Forum
5:30 - 7:00	Workshop Reception
Wednesday, June 13
8:30 - 10:00	Session 4: Data Assimilation (I)
	STATUS OF WRF-VAR (4D). Xiang-Yu Huang (NCAR), Q. Xiao, Xin Zhang, J. Michalakes, W. Huang, D. M. Barker, J. Bray, Z. Ma, T. Henderson, J. Dudhia, Xiaoyan Zhang, D. J. Won, Y. R. Guo, H. C. Lin, Y. H. Kuo
	UPDATE OF RADIANCE ASSIMILATION IN WRF-VAR. Zhiquan Liu (NCAR), John Bray, Jianjun Xu, Huichuan Lin, Tomislava Vukicevic and Dale Barker
	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
	MESOSCALE WRF SURFACE-DATA ASSIMILATION: SPRING 2007 EXPERIMENTS AT THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY. David Dowell (NCAR), David Stensrud, Nusrat Yussouf, Michael Coniglio, Jeff Anderson, Chris Snyder
	IMPACT OF COSMIC RADIO OCCULTATION DATA ON ANALYSES OVER TROPICAL OCEANS. Hui Liu (NCAR), Jeffrey Anderson, Yongsheng Chen, Ying-Hua Kuo, and Chris Snyder
	AFAD/WRF DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM, SCIENTIFIC TUNING FOR AN OPERATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION. Radi Ajjaji (United Arab Emirates Air Force & Air Defense), Ahmad AL-Katheri, Abdullah Dhanhani
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00	Session 4: Data Assimilation (II)
	0 - 12H FORECASTS OF SUMMER CONVECTION USING NCAR/RAL "OBS-NUDGING"-BASED WRF-RTFDDA SYSTEM. Yubao Liu (NCAR), Mei Xu, Jenny Sun, Tom Warner and Scott Swerdlin
	UPDATE ON ANALYSIS NUDGING FDDA IN WRF-ARW. Aijun Deng (PSU), David R. Stauffer, Jimy Dudhia, Tanya Otte and Glenn K. Hunter
11:00 - 12:00	Session 5: Physics Development (I)
	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
	COMPARISONS OF SIMULATED CONVECTIVE CLOUDS BETWEEN A 1D CLOUD MODEL AND THE WRF MODEL. Shu-Hua Chen (National Central University) and Yang-Cheng Siao
	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
	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
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:00	Session 5: Physics Development (II)
	A WIND FARM PARAMETERIZATION FOR WRF. Manda Adams (University of Calgary) & David Keith
	IMPLEMENTATION OF THE QUASI-NORMAL SCALE ELIMINATION (QNSE) TURBULENCE MODEL IN WRF. Boris Galperin (University of South Florida), Semion Sukoriansky, Veniamin Perov
	IMPLEMENTATION OF PLEIM-XIU LAND SURFACE MODEL AND VERSION 2 OF THE ASYMMETRIC CONVECTIVE PBL MODEL IN THE WEATHER, RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODEL (WRF). Robert Gilliam (NOAA/ARL), Jonathan Pleim and Aijun Xiu
	WRF PBL SENSITIVITIES AND VERIFICATION IN FORECASTING LOW-LEVEL JET EVENTS. Brandon Storm (Texas Tech Univ), Jimy Dudhia, Sukanta Basu
	IMPLEMENTATION OF ALBEDO FROM MELTING SNOW INTO WRF. Vince Wong (NWS/NCEP), Kenneth Mitchell and Micheal Ek
	DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED URBAN MODELING SYSTEM IN WRF: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PLANS. Fei Chen (NCAR), Mukul Tewari, Shiguang Miao, Yubao Liu, Thomas T. Warner, Hiroyuki Kusaka
3:00 - 3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 - 6:00	Session 6: Poster
	P1: Model Evaluation
	A SENSITIVITY STUDY OF AN INTERMOUNTAIN CYCLONE TO MOIST PROCESSES AND OROGRAPHY. William Y.Y. Cheng (Colorado State University) and W. James Steenburgh
	BOUNDARY LAYER BEHAVIOR IN CALIFORNIA'S OWENS VALLEY USING THE WRF-ARW MODEL DURING. Mr. Robert E. Dumais (US Army Research Laboratory), Jr., Dr. Teizi Henmi, Dr. Ed Colon, Dr. Sen Chiao
	DISPARITY OF SHORTWAVE RADIATION FLUXES IN COMPLEX TERRAIN. Jeffrey E. Passner (US Army Research Laboratory) and Robert E. Dumais Jr.
	SUCCESSFUL SIMULATION OF THE METEOROLOGY OF THE KATHMANDU VALLEY, NEPAL. Arnico K Panday (MIT) and Ronald G Prinn
	A STUDY ON THE FORECASTING ACCURACY OF THE LAST VERSION OF MM5 AND WRF MODEL AS INPUT FIELDS OF AIR QUALITY. Seung-Hwan Lee, Yun-Seob Moon and Youn-Seo Koo
	WRF .VS. MM5 PERFORMANCE COMPARISON FOR CALIFORNIA'S SJV. Zhan Zhao (UC, Davis), Shuhua-Chen and M. J. Kleeman
	THE NCAR/RAL MESOSCALE ENSEMBLE ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING SYSTEM (MEAPS) - AN ANALYSIS OF THE "MODEL CLIMATOLOGY" OF WRF AND MM5. Yubao Liu (NCAR), Mei Xu, Gregory Roux, Ming Ge, Rong Sheu, Tom Warner and Scott Swerdlin
	COMPARISON OF ARW AND NMM SIMULATIONS OF LOW-LEVEL METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL VALLEY. S. A. Michelson (NOAA/ESRL and CU/CIRES), E. D. Grell, J.-W. Bao
	COMPARISON OF PRECIPITATION FORECASTS FROM MM5, WRF-ARW AND WRF-NMM OVER THE KOREAN PENINSULA DURING SUMMER SEASON. Jong-Chul Ha (National Institute of Meteorological Research, KMA), Yong-Hee Lee, Dong-Eon Chang, Hee-Choon Lee and Hee-Sang Lee
	PRECIPITATION FORECASTS USING THE WRF-ARW AND WRF-NMM MODELS DURING THE. Huiling Yuan (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory), Christopher J. Anderson, Paul J. Schultz,Isidora Jankov, and John A. McGinley
	WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING CORE TESTS. Louisa Nance (NCAR), Ligia Bernardet, Betsy Weatherhead, Greg Noonan, Tressa Fowler, Tanya Smirnova, Stan Benjamin, John Brown, and Andrew Loughe
	POLAR WRF TESTING IN ANTARCTICA. Jordan G. Powers (NCAR) and Kevin W. Manning
	WRF MODELED LOW-LEVEL JET CLIMATOLOGY COMPARED TO OBSERVED CLIMATOLOGIES: WEAKNESSES AND STRENGTHS. Brandon Storm (Texas Tech Univ), Sukanta Basu, and Jimy Dudhia
	LARGE-SCALE HIGH-RESOLUTION WRF MODEL SIMULATIONS USED FOR GOES-R RESEARCH ACTIVITIES. Jason A. Otkin (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Allen Huang
	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
	APPLICATION OF WRF INTO THE YELLOW RIVER BASIN IN THE PERIOD OF 1980-1997. Xieyao Ma (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Takao Yoshikane, Masayuki Hara and Fujio Kimura
	IMPACT OF IRRIGATION AREA ON CLOUD APPEARANCE AROUND THE YELLOW RIVER IN CHINA. Hiroaki Kawase (Frontier Research Center for Global Change), Takao Yoshikane, Masayuki Hara, Shingo Ohsawa and Fujio Kimura
	THE DIURNAL CYCLE OF AIR POLLUTION IN THE KATHMANDU VALLEY, NEPAL. Arnico K Panday (MIT) and Ronald G Prinn
	NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF TORNADOES GENERATED BY A TYPHOON NEAR A COASTAL LINE. Ken-ichi Shimose and Tetsuya Kawano (Kyushu University)
	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
	EVALUATION OF WRF FOR FROST WARNING AND CONSEQUENCES OF COLD AIR POOLING. Thara Prabhakaran (University of Georgia), Gerrit Hoogenboom,S. G. Gopalakrishnan
	SNOW ACCRETION PREDICTION METHOD USING WRF CALCULATION RESULTS. Koji Wada (Central Research Institute Of Electric Power Industry), Yasushi Toyoda, Soichiro Sugimoto and Hiromaru Hirakuchi
	SOIL MOISTURE UNCERTAINTY AND PRECIPITATION PREDICTABILITY IN WRF. W. Wu (NCAR), Y. Liu, A. Hahmann And T. Warner
	IMPACT OF VOLCANIC HEAT RELEASE ON LOCAL WEATHER FOR THE 2006 AUGUSTINE VOLCANO ERUPTION. Morgan E Brown (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Nicole Molders
	APPLICATION OF THE GRELL-DEVENYI CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION IN ENSEMBLE QPFS. J.-W. Bao (NOAA/ESRL), E. D. Grell , S. A. Michelson , G. A. Grell
	SENSITIVITY OF PRECIPITATION FORECASTS TO CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATIONS IN CATALONIA (NE SPAIN). Mercader, J. (University Of Barcelona), Codina, B., Sairouni, A., Cunillera, J.
	HIGH RESOLUTION WRF SIMULATION OF LANDFALL HURRICANE BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS AND TURBULENT STRUCTURES. Ping Zhu (Florida International University)
	GORDON EXTRA-TROPICAL DEPRESSION OVER PORTUGAL: A CASE STUDY WITH WRFV2. L. Carvalheiro (University of Aveiro), P. Correia, Y. Yamazaki, M. D. Mansso
	NUMERCIAL SIMULATIONS OF TYPHOON RUSA AND ASSOCIATED HEAVY RAINFALL. Dong-Kyou Lee and Suk-Jin Choi (Atmospheric Sciences, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences,Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)
	THE EVALUATIONS OF HURRICANE BDA SCHEME WITH WRF 3DVAR. Liqiang Chen (Institute of Atmospheric Environment, CMA), Qingnong Xiao
	OBJECT-BASED VERIFICATION OF ARW AND NMM PRECIPITATION FORECASTS. Chris Davis (NCAR), Barbara Brown, and Randy Bullock
	P2: Data Assimilation
	HURRICANE INITIALIZATION USING AIRBORNE DOPPLER RADAR DATA FOR WRF. Qingnong Xiao (NCAR), Xiaoyan Zhang, Chris Davis, John Tuttle, Greg Holland, and Pat Fitzpatrick
	DATA ASSIMILATION: AN OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENT USING BOTH MM5 AND WRF: EXPERIMENT CONFIGURATION AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS. Xiang-Yu Huang (NCAR), Hongli Wang, Yongsheng Chen, Xin Zhang, Stephen A. Tjemkes, Rolf Stuhlmann
	A MULTI-CASE STUDY OF ENSEMBLE-BASED ASSIMILATION OF RADAR OBSERVATIONS INTO CLOUD-RESOLVING WRF USING DART. Altug Aksoy (NCAR), Chris Snyder, David C. Dowell
	AN EVALUATION OF 3DVAR, NUDGING-BASED FDDA AND A HYBRID SCHEME FOR SUMMER CONVECTION. Wei Yu (NCAR), Yubao Liu and Tom Warner
	APPLICATION OF WRFVAR (3DVAR) TO A HIGH RESOLUTION (3-KM) WRF MODEL OVER BEIJING AREA. Y.-R. Guo (NCAR), S.-Y. Fan, W. Wang, M. Chen, J.-Q. Zhong, Y. Chu, X.-Y. Huang, Y.-C. Wang, and Y.-H. Kuo
	A SIMPLE METHOD ON THE FLOW DEPENDENT BACKGROUND ERRORS IN HYBRID WRF-VAR. Kwan-Young Chung (NCAR), S.R.H. Rizvi and Dale M. Barker
	AN APPLICATION OF WRF 3-D VAR RADIANCE ASSIMILATION TO A BAIU FRONTAL TORRENTIAL RAINFALL CASE USING TMI DATA Soichiro Sugimoto
	ASSIMILATION OF MULTIPLE-DOPPLER RADAR DATA WITH THE WRF 3-D VAR AND A CLOUD ANALYSIS. Soichiro Sugimoto (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry)
	AN IMPACT STUDY OF DROPSONDE AND QUIKSCAT WIND DATA ON WRF SIMULATION. Fang-Ching Chien (National Taiwan Normal University)
	P3: Physics Development
	WRF PBL PARAMETERIZATIONS: 1D TESTS. Wayne M. Angevine (CIRES / NOAA ESRL)
	IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROBABILISTIC CUP CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION IN WRF. William I. Gustafson Jr. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) and Larry K. Berg
	MICROPHYSICS MODIFICATION BASED ON SIMPLIED CONSTRAINED GAMMA DISTRIBUTION. M. Teshiba, G.-F. Zhang, M. Xue, R. D. Palmer, and P. B. Chilson
	THE RAMS CLOUD MICROPHYSICS PARAMETERIZATION IN WRF-ARW. Laura D. Fowler (CIRA)
	COMPARISON OF SUBGRID TURBULENCE CLOSURE SCHEMES IN WRF/CHEM Evelyn D. Grell, Jian-Wen Bao (NOAA/ESRL), Sara A. Michelson, Georg A. Grell and Stuart A. McKeen
	DOWNSLOPE WINDSTORM IN ICELAND WRF/MM5 MODEL COMPARISON – II. ”lafur Rˆgnvaldsson (Institute for Meteorological Research), Jian-Wen Bao, H·lfd·n ¡g˙stsson, Haraldur ”lafsson
	AN IMPROVEMENT IN MOISTURE FLUX OVER SNOW. J. Dudhia (NCAR), M. Tewari and F. Chen
	COUPLING OF CLM3 IN WRF AND AN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPROVED REGIONAL SNOW SIMULATIONS. Jiming Jin (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
	IMPROVING NWP OF WINTER WEATHER WITH ADVANCED GROUND-SNOW ANALYSIS AND DOWNSCALING GROUND-SNOW ANALYSIS AND DOWNSCALING. Andrea Hahmann (NCAR), Yubao Liu, Fei Chen and Tom Warner
	OFFLINE COUPLED WRF- DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODELING: PRELIMINARY TESTING FOR A WARM SEASON FLOOD EVENT IN THE SOUTHWESTERN US. Kinwai Tai (New Mexico Tech), Enrique R. Vivoni, David J. Gochis
	MODELING THE AIR-SEA-WAVE INTERACTION UNDER TYPHOON CONDITIONS: MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND A PRELIMINARY RESULT FOR TYPHOON IOKE (2006). Yoshiaki Miyamoto (Kyoto University), Hirohiko Ishikawa and Tetsuya Takemi
	REPRESENTING SATELLITE-DERIVED LAKE ICE CHARACTERISTICS IN WRF-ARW. WJ Capehart (South Dakota School of MInes), MR Hjelmfelt and DAR Kristovich
	WRF FIRE WEATHER FORECASTS. Nicole Mˆlders (University of Alaska Fairbanks,Geophysical Institute,)
	P4: WRF Chemistry
	PRELIMINARY COMPARISON OF OZONE CONCENTRATIONS IN QUITO (ECUADOR) PROVIDED BY EMISSION INVENTORY/WRF-CHEM MODELING, PASSIVE AND AUTOMATIC MONITORING NETWORK. R. Parra (Corpaire), V. DÌaz
	PRELIMINARY PERFORMANCE COMPARISON FOR WRF-CHEM-NMM AND WRF-NMM/CMAQ IN U.S CONTINENTAL AIR QUALITY PREDICTION. Youhua Tang (NOAA/NCEP), Jeffery T. McQueen, Georg A. Grell, Steven E. Peckham, Pius Lee, Marina Tsidulko, Ho-Chun Huang, Paula M. Davidson
	WRF/CHEM SMOKE DISPERSION FORECASTS FOR ALASKA'S INTERIOR. Martin Stuefer (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
	IMPACTS OF LAND COVER/USE UNCERTAINTIES ON REGIONAL AIR QUALITY FORECAST USING A COUPLED LAND-ATMOSPHERE-CHEMISTRY MODEL. Xiaoyan Jiang and Zong-Liang Yang
	AEROSOL MODELING STUDIES OVER MEGA-CITY REGIONS IN EAST ASIA. Hitoshi Matsui (University of Tokyo), Makoto Koike, Jerome D. Fast, David G. Streets
	DEVELOPMENT OF A GLOBAL/REGIONAL NESTED CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODEL. Masayuki Takigawa (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Masanori Niwano, Hajime Akimoto, and Masaaki Takahashi
	EVALUATION OF MID-ATLANTIC AIR QUALITY USING WRF-CHEM. Dale J. Allen (University of Maryland), Elena Yegorova, Christopher Loughner, Jeff Stehr, Patti Castellanos
	IMPLEMENTATION OF LIGHTNING PRODUCTION OF NOX INTO WRF. Mary Barth (NCAR), Christelle Barthe, Kenneth Pickering, Lesley Ott
	MODEL EVALUATION - DYNAMIC PROCESS ANALYSIS. Vizuete, W. (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Henderson, B.
	THE INFLUENCE OF AEROSOLS ON BIOGENIC EMISSIONS: A CASE STUDY IN EASTERN U.S. Christine Wiedinmyer (NCAR), Serena Chung, Jerome Fast, Alex Guenther
	P5: Forecasting Techniques
	FROM THE RADAR-ENHANCED RUC TO THE WRF-BASED RAPID REFRESH. Stan Benjamin, S. S. Weygandt, J. M. Brown, T. G. Smirnova, D. Devenyi, K. J. Brundage, G. A. Grell, S. Peckham, T. W. Schlatter, T. L. Smith, and G. S. Manikin
	METEOROLOGICAL GUIDELINE FOR FORECASTING ASIAN DUST USING WRF IN THE KOREAN PENINSULA. Yun-Seob Moon (Korea National University of Education)and Seung-Hwan Lee
	USING WRF-ARW IN OPERATIONAL FORECASTS. Gaofeng Chen (Shaanxi Meteorological Bureau), Zhiqian Ning, Jianzhong Hou, Shuangting Xie and Aijun Deng
	DIGITAL FILTER INITIALIZATION FOR WRF. Xiang-Yu Huang (NCAR), Min Chen, Ju-Won Kim, Wei Wang, Bill Skamarock, Tom Henderson
	GIS-BASED WEATHER WARNINGS FROM A WRF ENSEMBLE. J. Hacker (NCAR), B. Bush, J. Boehnert
	TWO WAY NESTED WRF MIDDLE-EAST AUTOMATIC WEATHER FORECAST APPLICATION. Radi Ajjaji (United Arab Emirates Air Force & Air Defense), Ahmad Al-Katheri, Abdullah Dhanhani
	P6: Computing/Software
	A WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATING WEATHER AND CLIMATE SIMULATIONS. Christopher Harrop (CIRES, ESRL/GSD), Ligia Bernardet, Mark Govett, Jeff Smith, Stephen Weygandt
	WRF DOMAIN WIZARD: THE WPS GUI. Jeff S Smith (Earth System Research Lab), Paula McCaslin, Mark Govett
	THE USE OF WRF PORTAL TO SUPPORT THE DTC. Mark W. Govett (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory) and Jeff Smith
	WRF PERFORMANCE ON INTEL PLATFORMS. Dubtsov Roman, Semenov Alexander, Shkurko Dmitry (Intel Corporation, Novosibirsk, Russia)
Thursday, June 14
8:30 - 10:00	Session 7: Regional Climate Modeling
	AN OVERVIEW OF NRCM ACTIVITIES AND LESSONS LEARNED. Ruby Leung (PNNL)
	NRCM SIMULATION OF EAST ASIA MONSOON. Bill Kuo (NCAR)
	POLAR-OPTIMIZED WRF. Keith M. Hines (Ohio State University), David H. Bromwich, and Lesheng Bai
	CWRF Scalable Representation of the Topographic Control on Terrestrial Hydrology. Xin-Zhong Liang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Hyun Il Choi
	Multi-Year Continental Scale Simulations of the South American Monsoon System (SAMS) with the WRF model. Mark Falvey (University of Chile) and RenÈ Garreaud
	Regional Climate Simulations over the Pacific Northwest. Eric Salathe (University of Washington), Richard Steed, Patrick Zahn
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00	Session 8: WRF Chemistry (I)
	UPDATES, EVALUATION AND VERIFICATION OF THE WRF/CHEM MODEL. Grell (NOAA/ESRL/CIRES) et. al.
	EXAMPLES OF USING WRF-CHEM TO ADDRESS AEROSOL-CLIMATE QUESTIONS. William I. Gustafson Jr. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Yun Qian, Elaine G. Chapman, Steven J. Ghan, Richard C. Easter, L. Ruby Leung, and Jerome D. Fast
	DEVELOPMENT OF AN OFFLINE WRF/CHEMISTRY MODEL. Mohit Dalvi (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), Georg Grell, Steven Peckham, Amit Kesarkar, Akshara Kaginalkar
	GAS/PARTICLE MASS TRANSFER TREATMENTS IN WRF/CHEM-MADRID: DEVELOPMENT, APPLICATION, AND EVALUATION. Xiaoming Hu (North Carolina State University) and Yang Zhang
	THE AEROSOL MODELING TESTBED: COORDINATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AEROSOL TREATMENTS USING WRF-CHEM. Jerome Fast (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), William Gustafson, Elaine Chapman, Douglas Baxter, Georg Grell, and Mary Barth
	RESULTS OF INTEGRATING THE MODELS-3 I/O API AND SMOKE EMISSIONS MODELS INTO WRF-CHEM. John McHenry (Baron Adv Met Sys/NCSU), Carlie Coats, Jeff Vukovich
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:00	Session 8: WRF Chemistry (II)
	A NEW DIRECT COUPLED METEOROLOGY AND CHEMISTRY MODEL: WRF-CHEMT. Julius S. Chang (National Central University), Shu Wei Hsu, Tsun-Hsien Liu, Jing Li, and Chih-Kang Chiang
	OZONE EVOLUTION IN THE MEXICO CITY PLUMES DURING THE MIRAGE-MEX FIELD CAMPAIGN. Xuexi Tie (NCAR)
2:00 - 3:00	Session 9: Forecast Techniques (I)
	USE OF HIGH RESOLUTION WRF-ARW OUTPUT AT A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE: THE 21 JULY 2002 & 9 AUGUST 2005 UPPER MICHIGAN BOW ECHO EVENTS. Thomas Hultquist (NOAA / NWS)
	EXPERIENCES WITH REALTIME 3 KM EXPLICIT CONVECTIVE FORECASTS WITH WRF-ARW DURING THE SPRING 2007 SEASON. Weisman (NCAR), Wang, Skamarock, Klemp
	DEVELOPMENT OF A PROTOTYPE FLASH-FLOOD PREDICTION SYSTEM FOR THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE USING THE COUPLED WRF/NOAH-DISTRIBUTED HYDROMETEROLOGICAL PREDICTION SYSTEM. David Gochis (NCAR), David Yates and Wei Yu
	AN ADAPTIVE TIME-STEP FOR INCREASED MODEL EFFICIENCY. Todd A. Hutchinson (Weather Services International (WSI), Inc.)
3:00 - 3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30	Session 9: Forecast Techniques (II)
	A TROPICAL CYCLONE INITIALIZATION SCHEME USING WRF 3DVAR. William Ramstrom (Weather Services International (WSI), Inc.)
	IMPACT OF ADDING WRF MEMBERS TO THE NCEP SHORT RANGE ENSEMBLE FORECAST SYSTEM. Jeff McQueen (NOAA/NWS/National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Environmental Modeling Center), Binbin Zhou, Jun Du, Geoff DiMego and Zoltan Toth
	AFWA'S USE OF WRF IN THE JOINT ENSEMBLE FORECAST SYSTEM (JEFS) PROJECT. Jeffrey Cunningham (U.S. Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA))
	THE JOINT MESOSCALE ENSEMBLE: A STATUS REPORT. J. Hacker (NCAR), C. Snyder, S.-Y. Ha, T. Henderson, M. Pocernich
4:30 - 5:30	Wrapup Discussion
5:30	Meeting Adjourned
Friday, June 15: Instructional Sessions
Instructional Sessions venue: Center Green Building 1
Times are tentative
8:30 – 11:30		WRF-Chemistry: A Mini Tutorial	GC Room 1
8:30 – 10:50		Verification Toolkit	GC Room 2
11:00 – 12:00		A scripting environment for basic WRF ensemble research	GC Room 3
11:00 – 11:30		WPS GUI: Domain Wizard	GC Room 2
Noon		Adjourn