WRF User's Workshop Agenda Posted: May 17, 2007
Monday, June 11	Working Group Meetings
9:00 - 12:00	Planetary Boundary Layer Physics	Lead: Wayne Angevine (NOAA)
9:30 - 11:30	Verification	Lead: Chris Davis (NCAR)
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)
4:00 - 5:00	Joint Physics and WRF-Chem	Leads: John Brown and Georg Grell
2:00 - 3:00	Global WRF	Lead: Bill Skamarock (NCAR)
1:00 - 5:00	Regional Climate	Lead: Ruby Leung (PNNL)
2:00 - 4:00	Data Assimilation	Lead: Dale Barker (NCAR)
Tuesday, June 12
8:30 - 10:00	Session 1: WRF Update
	Welcome Remarks
	WRF 2007 Annual Update	J. Dudhia
	Overview Of Recent Developments and Results from WRF-Var	D. M. Barker, 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
	WRF Software	J. Michalakes
	A Look at the Current Status and Future of the WRF Developmental Testbed Center	Robert Gall, 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, B. Gozzini, A. Orlandi, D. Grifoni, F. Piani, G. Messeri, G. Giuliani, M. Rossi, C. Tei
	Impact of adding WRF members to the NCEP Short Range Ensemble Forecast System	McQueen,
	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, 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, 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
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, Gretchen Mullendore
	Advanced Research WRF High Resolution Simulations of the Inner Core Structure of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (2005)	Kristen L. Corbosiero, Wei Wang, Yongsheng Chen, Jimy Dudhia, and Christopher Davis
	DOWNSLOPE WINDSTORM IN ICELAND WRF/MM5 MODEL COMPARISON ñ I	”lafur Rˆgnvaldsson, 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, Jian-Wen Bao, Paul J. Neiman and Paul J. Schultz
	Multi-Scale WRF Simulations of Boundary Layer Clouds	Ping Zhu, Bruce Albrecht, Pavlos Kollias
	WRF and Vertical Nesting: Multi-Scale Resolution of T-REX Measurements	M. Moustaoui, 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, Lacey Holland, John Halley Gotway, Randy Bullock, David Ahijevych, Eric Gilleland, and Chris Davis
	A Toolkit for Model Evaluation	Lacey Holland, 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, 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 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, 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, 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, Dale Barker, Chris Snyder, Tom Hamill
	Mesoscale WRF Surface-Data Assimilation: Spring 2007 Experiments at the National Severe Storms Laboratory	David Dowell, David 8Stensrud, Nusrat Yussouf, Michael Coniglio, Jeff Anderson, Chris Snyder
	Impact of COSMIC radio occultation data on analyses over tropical oceans	Hui Liu, Jeffrey Anderson, Yongsheng Chen, Ying-Hua Kuo, and Chris Snyder
	AFAD/WRF Data Assimilation System, Scientific tuning for an operational implementation.	Radi AJJAJI, Ahmad AL-Katheri, Abdullah Dhanhani
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00	Session 4: Data Assimilatino (II)
	0 - 12h Forecasts of Summer Convection Using NCAR/RAL “obs-nudging”-based WRF-RTFDDA System	Yubao Liu, Mei Xu, Jenny Sun, Tom Warner and Scott Swerdlin
	Update on Analysis Nudging FDDA in WRF-ARW	Aijun Deng, David R. Stauffer, Jimy Dudhia, Tanya Otte and Glenn K. Hunter
11:00 - 12:00	Seesion 5: Physics Development (I)
	New Cloud-Radiative Transfer Processes in WRF and Their Impact on Precipitation	J. J. Shi, 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 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, Julie K. Lundquist, Fotini K. Chow, and Katherine A. Lundquist
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:00	Seesion 5: Physics Development (II)
	A wind farm parameterization for WRF	Manda Adams & David Keith
	IMPLEMENTATION OF THE QUASI-NORMAL SCALE ELIMINATION (QNSE) TURBULENCE MODEL IN WRF	Boris Galperin, 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, Jonathan Pleim and Aijun Xiu
	WRF PBL Sensitivities and Verification in Forecasting Low-Level Jet Events	Brandon Storm, Jimy Dudhia, Sukanta Basu
	Implementation of Albedo from Melting Snow into WRF	Vince Wong, Kenneth Mitchell and Micheal Ek
	Developing an Integrated Urban Modeling System in WRF: Current Status and Future Plans	Fei Chen, Mukul Tewari, Shiguang Miao, Yubao Liu, Thomas T. Warner, Hiroyuki Kusaka
3:00 - 3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 - 6:00	Session 6: Poster
	A Sensitivity Study of an Intermountain Cyclone to Moist Processes and Orography	William Y.Y. Cheng and W. James Steenburgh
	Boundary layer behavior in Californiaís Owens Valley using the WRF-ARW model during	Mr. Robert E. Dumais, Jr., Dr. Teizi Henmi, Dr. Ed Colon, Dr. Sen Chiao
	Disparity of Shortwave Radiation Fluxes in Complex Terrain	Jeffrey E. Passner and Robert E. Dumais Jr.
	Successful Simulation of the Meteorology of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal	Arnico K Panday 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 Californiaís SJV	Zhan Zhao, Shuhua-Chen and M. J. Kleeman
	The NCAR/RAL Mesoscale Ensemble Analysis and Forecasting System (MEAPS) ñ An Analysis of the ìmodel climatologyî of WRF and MM5	Yubao Liu*, 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 Californiaís Central Valley	S. A. Michelson, 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, 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, Christopher J. Anderson, Paul J. Schultz,Isidora Jankov, and John A. McGinley
	Weather Research and Forecasting Core Tests	Louisa Nance, Ligia Bernardet, Betsy Weatherhead, Greg Noonan, Tressa Fowler, Tanya Smirnova, Stan Benjamin, John Brown, and Andrew Loughe
	Explicit simulations on Shanghai Spring Rainfall Events by high-resolution WRF	Leiming Ma, Yuhua Yang, Xudong liang
	Polar WRF Testing in Antarctica	Jordan G. Powers and Kevin W. Manning
	WRF modeled low-level jet climatology compared to observed climatologies: Weaknesses and Strengths	Brandon Storm, Sukanta Basu, and Jimy Dudhia
	The error of soil temperature in NCEP/GFS model and its impact on temperature forecast	Yang Yuhua,Liang Xudong,Ma Leiming
	Large-Scale High-Resolution WRF Model Simulations Used for GOES-R Research Activities	Jason A. Otkin and Allen Huang
	A Case Study Analysis of WRF-Simulated and MODIS-Derived Cloud Data	Jason A. Otkin, Tom Greenwald, Erik R. Olson, and Mat Gunshor
	Application of WRF into the Yellow River basin in the period of 1980-1997	Xieyao Ma, Takao Yoshikane, Masayuki Hara and Fujio Kimura
	Impact of Irrigation Area on Cloud Appearance around the Yellow River in China	Hiroaki Kawase
	The Diurnal Cycle of Air Pollution in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal	Arnico K Panday and Ronald G Prinn
	Using WRF simulation and RUC-analyses to examine the structure and environment of convectively generated aircraft turbulence cases	Trier, S., Bob Sharman, and Rob Fovell
	Numerical simulation of tornadoes generated by a typhoon near a coastal line.	Ken-ichi Shimose
	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, Gerrit Hoogenboom,S. G. Gopalakrishnan
	snow accretion prediction method using WRF calculation results	Koji WADA, Yasushi Toyoda, Soichiro Sugimoto and Hiromaru Hirakuchi
	Soil Moisture Uncertainty and Precipitation Predictability in WRF	W. WU, Y. LIU, A. HAHMANN and T. WARNER
	Impact of Volcanic Heat Release on Local Weather for the 2006 Augustine Volcano Eruption	Morgan E Brown, Nicole Molders
	Application of the Grell-Devenyi Convective Parameterization in Ensemble QPFs	J.-W. Bao, E. D. Grell , S. A. Michelson , G. A. Grell
	Sensitivity of precipitation forecasts to cumulus parameterizations in Catalonia (NE Spain)	Mercader, J., Codina, B., Sairouni, A., Cunillera, J.
	High Resolution WRF Simulation of Landfall Hurricane Boundary Layer Winds and Turbulent Structures	Ping Zhu
	Gordon Extra-Tropical Depression over Portugal: a case study with WRFV2	L. Carvalheiro, P. Correia, Y. Yamazaki, M. D. Mansso
	The Evaluations of Hurricane BDA Scheme with WRF3DVR	Liqiang Chen, Qingnong Xiao
	Object-based Verification of ARW and NMM Precipitation Forecasts	Chris Davis, Barbara Brown, and Randy Bullock
	Hurricane Initialization Using Airborne Doppler Radar Data for WRF	Qingnong Xiao, 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, 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, Chris Snyder, David C. Dowell
	An evaluation of 3DVAR, nudging-based FDDA and a hybrid scheme for summer convection	Wei Yu, Yubao Liu and Tom Warner
	Application of WRFVar (3DVar) to a High Resolution (3-km) WRF Model over Beijing Area	Y.-R. Guo, 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, 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
	An impact study of dropsonde and QuikSCAT wind data on WRF simulation	Fang-Ching Chien
	WRF PBL parameterizations: 1D tests	Wayne M. Angevine
	Performance of WRF PBL schemes and LSMs in simulations of nocturnal boundary layers	Mariusz Pagowski
	Implementation of the Probabilistic CuP Cumulus Parameterization in WRF	William I. Gustafson Jr. 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
	Comparison of Subgrid Turbulence Closure Schemes in WRF/Chem	Evelyn D. Grell, Jian-Wen Bao, Sara A. Michelson, Georg A. Grell and Stuart A. McKeen
	DOWNSLOPE WINDSTORM IN ICELANDWRF/MM5 MODEL COMPARISON ñ II
	An improvement in moisture flux over snow	J. Dudhia, M. Tewari and F. Chen
	Coupling of CLM3 in WRF and an Analysis of the Improved Regional Snow Simulations	Jiming Jin
	Improving NWP of winter weather with advanced ground-snow analysis and downscaling ground-snow analysis and downscaling	Andrea Hahmann, 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, Enrique R. Vivoni (New Mexico Tech), David J. Gochis (NCAR)
	MODELING THE AIR-SEA-WAVE INTERACTION UNDER TYPHOON CONDITIONS: MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND A PRELIMINARY RESULT FOR TYPHOON IOKE (2006)	Yoshiaki Miyamoto, Hirohiko Ishikawa and Tetsuya Takemi
	Representing Satellite-Derived Lake Ice Characteristics in WRF-ARW	WJ Capehart, MR Hjelmfelt and DAR Kristovich
	WRF fire weather forecasts	Nicole Mˆlders
	WRF simulation of the West African Monsoon (WAM) onset: comparison between 2005 and 2006 to assess the role of the processes involved in the intraseasonal variability of the WAM.	S. Bastin, A. Verrelle, S. Janicot, P. Drobinski
	Preliminary comparison of ozone concentrations in Quito (Ecuador) provided by emission inventory/WRF-Chem modeling, passive and automatic monitoring network	R. Parra, V. DÌaz
	Preliminary Performance Comparison for WRF-CHEM-NMM and WRF-NMM/CMAQ in U.S Continental Air Quality Prediction	Youhua Tang, 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 Alaskaís Interior	Martin Stuefer
	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, Makoto Koike, Jerome D. Fast, David G. Streets
	Development of a global/regional nested chemical transport model	Masayuki Takigawa, Masanori Niwano, Hajime Akimoto, and Masaaki Takahashi
	Evaluation of Mid-Atlantic air quality using WRF-CHEM	Dale J. Allen, Elena Yegorova, Christopher Loughner, Jeff Stehr, Patti Castellanos
	Implementation of Lightning Production of NOx into WRF	Mary Barth, Christelle Barthe, Kenneth Pickering, Lesley Ott
	Model Evaluation - Dynamic Process Analysis	Vizuete, W., Henderson, B.
	The Influence of Aerosols on Biogenic Emissions: A Case Study in Eastern U.S.	Christine Wiedinmyer, Serena Chung, Jerome Fast, Alex Guenther
	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 and Seung-Hwan Lee
	Using WRF-ARW in Operational Forecasts	Gaofeng Chen, Zhiqian Ning, Jianzhong Hou, Shuangting Xie and Aijun Deng
	Digital Filter Initialization for WRF	Xiang-Yu Huang, Min Chen, Ju-Won Kim, Wei Wang, Bill Skamarock, Tom Henderson
	The Joint Mesoscale Ensemble: A status report	J. Hacker, C. Snyder, S.-Y. Ha, T. Henderson, M. Pocernich
	Two way nested WRF Middle-East automatic weather forecast application	Radi AJJAJI, Ahmad Al-Katheri, Abdullah Dhanhani
	A Workflow Management System for Automating Weather and Climate Simulations	Christopher Harrop, Ligia Bernardet, Mark Govett, Jeff Smith, Stephen Weygandt
	WRF Domain Wizard: The WPS GUI	Jeff S Smith, Paula McCaslin, Mark Govett
	The Use of WRF Portal to Support the DTC	Mark W. Govett and Jeff Smith
Thursday, June 14
8:30 - 10:00	Session 7: Regional Climate Modeling
	Regional Climate Simulations	Ruby Leung
	CWRF Scalable Representation of the Topographic Control on Terrestrial Hydrology	Xin-Zhong Liang and Hyun Il Choi
	Multi-Year Continental Scale Simulations of the South American Monsoon System (SAMS) with the WRF model	Mark Falvey and RenÈ Garreaud
	NRCM simulation of East Asia Monsoon.	Bill Kuo
	Regional Climate Simulations over the Pacific Northwest	Eric Salathe, Richard Steed, Patrick Zahn
	Polar-Optimized WRF	Keith M. Hines, David H. Bromwich, and Lesheng Bai
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 et al
	Examples of Using WRF-Chem to Address Aerosol-Climate Questions	William I. Gustafson Jr., Yun Qian, Elaine G. Chapman, Steven J. Ghan, Richard C. Easter, L. Ruby 6Leung, and Jerome D. Fast
	Development of an Offline WRF/Chemistry model	Mohit Dalvi, Georg Grell, Steven Peckham, Amit Kesarkar, Akshara Kaginalkar
	Gas/Particle Mass Transfer Treatments in WRF/Chem-MADRID: Development, Application, and Evaluation	Xiaoming Hu and Yang Zhang
	The Aerosol Modeling Testbed: Coordinating the Development of Aerosol Treatments using WRF-chem	Jerome Fast, 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, 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, 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
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
	Experiences with Realtime 3 km Explicit Convective Forecasts with WRF-ARW during the Spring 2007 Season	Weisman, 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, David Yates and Wei Yu
	An Adaptive Time-Step for Increased Model Efficiency	Todd A. Hutchinson
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
	Impacts of Land Initialization on WRF Forecast for the AFWA South-East Asian Domain	Mukul Tewari, Fei Chen, Dave Gill, Christa Peters-Lidard, Charles J. Alonge, Sujay Kumar, John Eylander
	AFWA's Use of WRF in the Joint Ensemble Forecast System (JEFS) Project	Jeffrey Cunningham
	GIS-based weather warnings from a WRF ensemble	J. Hacker, B. Bush, J. Boehnert
4:30 - 5:30	Wrapup Discussion
5:30	Meeting Adjourned
Friday, June 15	Instructional Sessions
	Verification Toolkit (2 hours)
	A scripting environment for basic WRF ensemble research ( 1hour)
	WRF-Chemistry: A Mini Tutorial (3 hours)
	WPS GUI: Domain Wizzard (0.5 hours)
Noon	Adjourn