Joint MPAS/WRF Users Workshop 2026

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Monday June 22

12:00 - 1:00

Name Badge Pick-Up (South-facing entrance)

Short Lectures: NOAA-Contributed Model Developments
Chair: Clark Evans, NOAA OAR/GSL

1:00 - 1:35

1. The new (old) Grell-Freitas-Li convective parameterization

Georg A. Grell, Saulo R. Freitas and Haiqin Li

1:35 - 2:10

2. The NSSL Multimoment Bulk Cloud Microphysics Scheme

Edward Mansell, NOAA/National Severe Storms Lab

2:10 - 2:20

Coffee Break

2:20 - 2:55

3. An overview of the MYNN-EDMF within the context of general boundary layer and turbulence modeling

Joseph B. Olson1, Xia Sun1,2 and Anders Jensen1
1: NOAA-Global Systems Lab; 2: Cooperative Inst. for Research in Environmental Sciences

2:55 - 3:30

4. TEMPO: The Thompson-Eidhammer Microphysics Parameterization for Operations

Anders Jensen, NOAA/OAR GSL

3:30 - 3:40

Coffee Break

3:40 - 4:15

5. WoFSCast: A Graphcast-based emulator for the Warn-on-Forecast System

Corey Potvin, NOAA/OAR NSSL

Tuesday June 23

7:45 - 8:30

Name Badge Pick-Up (South-facing entrance)

Session 1A: Model Development Updates
Chair: Jordan Powers, NSF NCAR

8:30 - 8:45

6. Opening Remarks

8:45 - 9:05

7. MPAS Update

Bill Skamarock, NSF NCAR

9:05 - 9:25

8. The Weather Research and Forecasting Model: 2026 Annual Update

Jimy Dudhia, Wei Wang, Anthony Islas, Ming Chen, Kelly Werner, NSF NCAR

9:25 - 9:45

9. Data Assimilation with MPAS-JEDI: 2026 Annual update

C. Snyder, Z. Liu, B.-J. Jung, C. Schwartz, D. Ahiyevich, J. Ban, I. Hernåndez-Baños, J. Jang, J.-H. Kim, W. Skamarock, A. Stokely, S. Toedtli, W. Wang, J. Wittig, Z. Ying, NSF NCAR

Session 1B: Model Development Updates
Chair: Bill Skamarock, NSF NCAR

9:45 - 10:00

10. Updates on the Development of MUSICA

Mary Barth1, Kyle Shores1, Gabriele Pfister1, Avelino Arellano2, Rajesh Kumar1, Forrest Lacey1, Soyoung Ha1, Jun Park1, Shih-Wei Wei1, David Fillmore1, Michael Duda1, Matthew Dawson1,3
1: NSF NCAR; 2: Univ. of Arizona; 3: Cohere Consulting LLC

10:00 - 10:15

11. Large-Eddy-Simulation (LES) in MPAS

Jimy Dudhia and Bill Skamarock, NSF NCAR/MMM

10:15 - 10:30

12. Development and Evaluation of the Coupled MPAS-Hydro Modeling System

Yongxin Zhang, Soren Rasmussen, Aubrey Dugger, Ryan Cabell, Arezoo RafieeiNasab, NSF NCAR

10:30 - 10:45

13.CESM Development Activities: Advances in Interoperability, Hybrid Modeling, and Computational Performance towards Next-Generation Earth System Modeling

David Lawrence, NSF NCAR

10:45 - 11:15

Coffee Break

Session 2: MPAS in NOAA Research and Operations (Part 1)
Chair: Curtis Alexander, NOAA/GSL

11:15 - 11:30

14. Integrating MPAS into NOAA

Ligia Bernardet1,2, Dustin Swales1,2, Clark Evans1, Grant Firl1,2,3, Dusan Jovic4,5, Soren Rasmussen2,6, Denise Worthen4,5, Jacob Carley4, Eric Aligo7,8, Lulin Xue2,6, Youngsun Jung4, Maoyi Huang7, Chandra Kondragunta7, John Ten Hoeve7, Kevin Garrett4
1: NOAA OAR GSL; 2: DTC; 3: CSU CIRA; 4: NOAA NWS EMC; 5: Lynker; 6:NSF NCAR RAL; 7: NOAA OAR WPO; 8: Science and Technology Corporation

11:30 - 11:45

15. NOAA/GSL Model Development and Forecasting Activities using MPAS for Future NOAA Operational Modeling Systems

Clark Evans1, Curtis R. Alexander1, Ligia Bernardet1, Terra T. Ladwig1, Ming Hu1, David C. Dowell1, Ravan Ahmadov1, and Guoqing Ge1,2
1: NOAA/OAR/Global Systems Lab; 2: Cooperative Inst. for Research in Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Colorado

11:45 - 12:00

16. Progress on integrating JEDI with MPAS for the next version of the operational convection-allowing Rapid Refresh Forecast System

Ming Hu, Terra Ladwig, Chunhua Zhou, Guoqing Ge, Haidao Lin, David Dowell, Junjun Hu, Sijie Pan, Hongli Wang, Ruifang Li, Shawn Murdzek, Liao-Fan Lin, Huiying Luo, Keenan Eure, Eric James, Amanda Back, Jeff Beck, Angela Burke

12:00 - 12:15

17. Spring 2026 Severe Weather Forecasting with Experimental CONUS 3-km MPAS Systems

David Dowell, GSL, Kent Knopfmeier, NSSL, Terra Ladwig, Chunhua Zhou, Jaymes Kenyon, Ming Hu, Guoqing Ge, Clark Evans, Joe Olson, and Anders Jensen, GSL, Adam Clark, NSSL

12:15 - 12:30

18. MPAS evaluations for severe weather forecasting during the 2026 NOAA/Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment

Adam Clark1,3, Kent Knopfmeier1,2, Yunheng Wang1,2, Nusrat Yussouf1,2, Israel Jirak4, Louis Wicker1,3, Clark Evans5, Terra Ladwig5, Ming Hu5, David Dowell5, Craig Schwartz6, and Soyoung Ha6
1: NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Lab; 2: Cooperative Inst. for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, Univ. of Oklahoma; 3: School of Meteorology, Univ. of Oklahoma; 4: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center; 5: NOAA/OAR Global Systems Lab; 6: NSF NCAR

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch Break

Session 3A (Parallel): Physics Evaluation (Center Bay Auditorium)
Chair: Robert Fovell, Univ. at Albany, SUNY

1:30 - 1:45

19A. Evaluation of MPAS Atmosphere with NOAA/GSL-Led Physics for Simulating Midlatitude Mesoscale Convective Systems

Jose Antonio Mantovani Jr., DTC NSF NCAR, NOAA OAR, INPE, Ligia Bernardet, Clark Evans, Joseph Olson, David Turner, NOAA OAR GSL, Haiqin Lib, NOAA OAR GSL, CU CIRES, Kathryn Newman, NSF NCAR, Zhe Feng, PNNL, Ivette H. Banos, NSF NCAR, Dirceu Luis Herdiesf, INPE

1:45 - 2:00

20A. Comparison of NSSL and TEMPO Microphysics Schemes Across Various Regional-MPAS Simulations virtual

Abraham Roseman, Falko Judt, Wei Wang, Ting-Yu Cha, Giuseppe Torri

2:00 - 2:15

21A. WRF Physics and Domain Sensitivity Evaluation Using a WRF–CRTM–MODE Framework: A Case Study of Heavy Rainfall in Southern Brazil virtual

Gabriel Welter Hartmann¹ and Franciano Scremin Puhales²
¹Graduate Program in Meteorology, Federal Univ. of Santa Maria, Brazil; ²Department of Physics, Federal Univ. of Santa Maria, Brazil

2:15 - 2:30

22A. Adventures in Designing a Convection-Permitting MPAS System for the Bahamas Using a 1-km Mesh

Matthew Wilson, James Pinto, and Victor Weeks NSF NCAR/RAL

Session 3B (Parallel): Fire-related Applications (North Bay Auditorium)
Chair: Maria Frediani, NSF NCAR

1:30 - 1:45

19B. The WRFx Wildfire Forecasting System: Recent Developments and Applications

Angel Farguell, Chase Porter, and Aurelien Costes SJSU, Jan Mandel, UC Denver, Adam Kochanski, SJSU

1:45 - 2:00

20B. Recent Advances in Heat-Flux and Crown-Fire Representation in WRF-SFIRE

Aurélien Costes, Angel Farguell Caus, David Quinones, and Adam K. Kochanski, San Jose State Univ.

2:00 - 2:15

21B. Integrating the Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) into cheMPAS-Fire for Biomass Burning Smoke Forecasting

Gonzalo A. Ferrada (1)(2), Ravan Ahmadov (2), Johana Romero-Alvarez (1)(2), Li Zhang (1)(2), Jordan Schnell (1)(2), Michael J. Pavolonis (3), Jason Otkin (4)
1: Cooperative Inst. for Research in Environmental Studies, Univ. of Colorado; 2: Global Systems Lab, NOAA; 3: National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, NOAA; 4: Space Science and Engineering Center, Cooperative Inst. for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Univ. of Wisconsin

2:15 - 2:30

22B. The Community Fire Behavior model available in WRF 4.8

Pedro A. Jimenez, Anthony Islas, Masih Eghdami, and Maria Frediani, NSF NCAR

2:30 - 3:00

Coffee Break

Session 4: MPAS in NOAA Research and Operations (Part 2)
Chair: Ligia Bernadet, NOAA/GSL

3:00 - 3:15

23. NOAA GSL experimental pollen and aerosol forecasting in the MPAS-A (cheMPAS-Fire)

Jordan Schnell1,2, Haiqin Li1,2, Sudheer Bhimireddy1,2, Eric James2, Minsu Choi1,2, Gonzalo Ferrada1,2, Guoqing Ge1,2, Huiying Luo2,4, Johana Romero-Alvarez1,2, Ben Koziol3,5, Ravan Ahmadov2
1: Cooperative Inst. of Environmental Science; 2: Global System Lab, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; 3: NOAA/EPIC; 4: Cooperative Inst. for Research in the Atmosphere; 5: RedLine Performance Solutions, LLC

3:15 - 3:30

24. Improving the aerosol representation and microphysics coupling in NOAA’s RRFSv2 numerical weather prediction model with MPAS dynamical core

Haiqin Li1,2, Jordan Schnell1,2, Anders Jensen2, Ravan Ahmadov2, Joseph Olson2, Clark Evans2, Man Zhang1,2, Guoqing Ge1,2, Minsu Choi1,2, Sudheer Bhimireddy1,2, Johana Romero-Alvarez1,2
1: Cooperative Inst. for Research in Environmental Sciences at the Univ. of Colorado-Boulder; 2: NOAA/OAR/Global Systems Lab

3:30 - 3:45

25. Investigating Resolution Tradeoffs within the MPAS-WoFS Prediction System

Louis J. Wicker, NSSL, William C. Skamarock, NSF NCAR, Adam Clark, NSSL, Jessica McDonald, amd Nusrat Yussouf, CIRWO/NSSL

3:45 - 4:00

26. Real-Time Global Variable-Resolution Hurricane Forecasts using the Model for Prediction Across Scales during the 2025 Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program Real-Time Experiment

Clark Evans1, Samuel Trahan1,2, Christina Holt1,2, Benjamin W. Green1,2, and Ligia Bernardet1
1: NOAA/OAR/Global Systems Lab; 2: Cooperative Inst. for Research in Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Colorado

4:00 - 4:15

27. Developing the prototype MPAS and JEDI based Atmospheric River Prediction System (AR-PS)

Guoqing Ge, Sijie Pan, Haidao Lin, Keenan Eure, Samuel Trahan, Jeff Beck, Terra Ladwig, Clark Evans, Anders Jensen
1: CIRES; 2: NOAA/GSL

Session 5: Transitioning WRF to MPAS
Chair: Gretchen Mullendore, NSF NCAR

4:15 - 4:30

28. WRF versus Regional MPAS: How Do They Compare?

Cliff Mass, David Ovens, Univ. of Washington

4:30 - 4:45

29. Best Practices in Using MPAS for Weather and Forecasting Research

Abigail Jaye, NSF NCAR/MMM

4:45 - 5:30

Discussion: Transitioning WRF to MPAS (Moderator: Gretchen Mullendore)

5:30 - 7:00

RECEPTION AT CENTER GREEN

Wednesday June 24

8:00 - 8:30

Poster Set-Up (CG-1 Lobby)

Name Badge Pick-Up (South-facing entrance)

Session 6A (Parallel): Data Assimilation (Center Bay Auditorium)
Chair: Chris Snyder, NSF NCAR

8:30 - 8:45

30A. Impact of GNSS-RO and GNSS-R Data Assimilation on Tropical Cyclogenesis: Typhoon Gaemi (2024)

Shu-Ya Chen and Quan Pham Xuan, Global Atmospheric Observation and Data Application Research Center

8:45 - 9:00

31A. Evaluating Tropical Cyclone Forecasts using MPAS-JEDI: A Case Study of Typhoon Usagi (2024)

Feng Hsiao and Sen Chiao, Howard Univ.

9:00 - 9:15

32A. Assimilating Radar-Derived Boundary Layer Height in MPAS Using an Ensemble Kalman Filter to Improve Dryline-Cold Convective Initiation virtual

Ayoola Abe, Nakul N. Karle, and Sen Chiao

9:15 - 9:30

33A. Global impact of Tomorrow.io commercial microwave radiances in clear-sky using MPAS-JEDI

Ivette Hernandez Banos1, Zhiquan (Jake) Liu1, Hsiao-Chun Lin2, Thaisa Giovana Lopes1,3, David Ahijevych1, Benjamin Ruston2, John Braun2, and Jan-Peter Weiss2
1: NSF NCAR; 2: Univ. Corporation for Atmospheric Research; 3: National Inst. for Space Research, São Jose dos Campos, Brazil

9:30 - 9:45

34A. Impact of Tomorrow.io Microwave Sounder Data Assimilation on Hurricane Melissa (2025) Prediction in Regional MPAS-JEDI

Hsiao-Chun Lin, UCAR, Zhiquan (Jake) Liu and Ivette Hernandez Banos NSF NCAR, Thaisa Giovana Lopes, NSF NCAR and National Inst. for Space Research, Brazil, David Ahijevych, NSF NCAR, John Braun, and Jan-Peter Weiss, UCAR

9:45 – 10:00

35A. Impacts of All-Sky Himawari-9 AHI Radiance Assimilation on Cloud and Precipitation Forecasting over the Maritime Continen

Xuewei Zhang,1,3 Lipeng Jiang,1,4 Zhiquan Liu1, Tao Sun2, I-Han Chen2, Dale Barker2
1: NSF NCAR; 2: Centre for Climate Research Singapore 3: Nanjing Univ. of Information Science & Technology, China; 4: Earth System Modeling and Prediction Center, China Meteorological Administration, China

10:00 - 10:15

36A. Evaluation of ML emulators for covariance propagation in realistic DA workflows

Simon Toedtli, David Ahijevych, Wei Wang, Chris Snyder, NSF NCAR

10:15 - 10:30

37A. Advancing Operational MPAS-JEDI Data Assimilation for The Weather Company's GRAF® System

James Cipriani, David Heeps, Brett Wilt, and John Wong, The Weather Company

Session 6B (Parallel): Coupling / Tropical Modeling (North Bay Auditorium)
Chair: Saulo Freitas, INPE

8:30 – 8:45

30B. Integrating MPAS-A into the COAWST Modeling System: Technical implementation and sensitivity analysis for the South Atlantic

Jayant Pendharkar, Luciano Pezzi, and Mylene Cabrera, Lab for Ocean and Atmospheric Studies - LOA Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Div. - DIOTG General Coordination of Earth Sciences - CGCT National Inst. for Space Research – INPE

8:45 – 9:00

31B. Developing a Forecast-Based Flood Watch Framework for Jakarta (Indonesia) with WRF and WRF-Hydro

Alia Nasution, Brian Jewett, and Joseph Trujilo Falcon

9:00 – 9:15

32B. Mechanistic Insights into Regional Air-Sea Coupling Effects on East Asian Summer Climate: A Comparative Modeling Study with A New Regional Earth System Model

Kai Li1,3,4, Li Dan1,2, Liwei Zou2, Hui Zheng1, Zhongfeng Xu2, Jianping Tang5, Jing Peng6, Ziyan Zheng1, Fuqiang Yang7, Wei Pan1, Zong-liang Yang8
1: Key Lab. of Regional Climate & Environment for Temperate East Asia, Inst. of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAP/CAS), China; 2: State Key Lab. of Earth System Numerical Modelling & Application, IAP/CAS, China; 3: Climate Change Research Centre, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia; 4: Shanghai Key Lab. of Ocean-land-atmosphere Boundary Dynamics & Climate Change, China; 5: School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing Univ., China; 6: School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen Univ., China; 7: The Earth System Science Numerical Simulator Facility, China; 8: Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Univ. of Texas

9:15 – 9:30

33B. Evaluation of Track Predictions for the 2025 Near-Equatorial Cyclone Senyar using MPAS-A

Sompoke Kingkaew, CACAAS Co., Ltd., Thailand

9:30 - 9:45

34B. Sensitivity of WRF to Initialization Timing, Physics, and Boundary Forcing for Hurricane Simulations in the Gulf of Mexico

Hafeez O. Oladejo, Diana N. Bernstein, School of Ocean Science and Engineering, The Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center

9:45 – 10:00

35B. Tropical Convective Organization as Revealed by an MPAS-JEDI Mesoscale Reanalysis of the 2022 PRECIP/TAHOPE/T-PARC II Campaigns

Rosimar Rios-Berrios1, Jake Liu1, Rong Kong1, Aiqing Shu2, Abby Jaye1, Ting-Yu Cha1, Chris A. Davis3, and Wen-Chau Lee1
1: NSF NCAR; 2: Nanjing Univ. of Information Science & Technology; 3: Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst

10:00 - 10:15

36B. Assessing kilometer‑scale MPAS‑A performance in representing the East Pacific ITCZ and convectively coupled equatorial waves

Fouzia Fahrin, Iowa State Univ., Alex O Gonzalez, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Falko Judt, NSF NCAR, Alex Kinsella, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.

10:15 - 10:30

37B. Tropical precipitation improvement with CESM3 driven by deep-atmosphere MPAS

Hing Ong 1, Adam Herrington 2, Owen Hughes 3, Christiane Jablonowski 3, Peter Hjort Lauritzen 2, Da Yang 4
1: Univ. of Maryland Global Campus; 2: NSF NCAR; 3: Univ. of Michigan; 4: Stanford Univ.

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

Session 7A (Parallel): Model Evaluation (Center Bay Auditorium)
Chair: Cliff Mass, Univ. of Washington

11:00 - 11:15

38A. MPAS-NoahMP Regional Refinement for Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction

Zhe Zhang, Cenlin He, Abby Jaye, Judith Berner, Michael Barlage, Meg Fowler, Yaga Richter, Zong-Liang Yang

11:15 - 11:30

39A. Forecast evaluation of The Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) with a 70 km model top

Byoung-Joo (BJ) Jung, Jihyeon Jang, May Wong, Hyeyum (Hailey) Shin, Bill Skamarock, Chris Snyder, NSF NCAR/MMM

11:30 - 11:45

40A. Implementing new arbitrary horizontal operators in MPAS virtual

Felipe A. V. de Bragança Alves & Pedro S. Peixoto, Inst. de Matemática e Estatística, Univ. de São Paulo

11:45 - 12:00

41A. Significant Imprints of Vertical Resolution on Scale Interactions in Global MPAS Simulations

Alexander Lojko and William Skamarock, NSF NCAR, Daniel Shipley, Univ. of Reading, Elliot McKinnon-Gray, Univ. of Reading

Session 7B (Parallel): Land-surface and PBL Physics (Part 1) (North Bay Auditorium)
Chair: David Bromwich, Ohio State Univ.

11:00 - 11:15

38B. Advancing CLMU for regional urban climate simulations through WRF coupling: intercomparison with NOAH–SLUCM

Yuan Sun 1, Keith W. Oleson 2, Cenlin He 3, Zhonghua Zheng 1
1: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Manchester; 2: Climate and Global Dynamics Lab, NSF NCAR; 3: Research Applications Lab, NSF NCAR

11:15 - 11:30

39B. The role of land cover type in the evolution of flash drought: WRF-ARW model and sensitivity

Yibo Chen, Jordan I Christian, Univ. of North Dakota

11:30 - 11:45

40B. Study of Changing Land Use Land Cover from Forests to Cropland on Rainfall: Case Study of Alabama's Black Belt Region

Salem Ibrahim1,2, Gamal El Afandi1, Amira Moustafa1, and Muhammad Irfan1
1: College of Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition Sciences, Tuskegee Univ.; 2: Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, The Pennsylvania State Univ.

11:45 - 12:00

41B. Performance of Polar WRF in the Polar Regions and Transition to a Regional Earth System Model

David H. Bromwich1, Lesheng Bai1, Keith M. Hines1, Saurav dey Shuvo1, and Rui Sun2
1: Polar Meteorology Group, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Ohio State Univ.; 2: Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, Univ. of California-San Diego

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch Break

Session 8A (Parallel): Chemistry Applications (Center Bay Auditorium)
Chair: Gabriele Pfister, NSF NCAR

1:00 - 1:15

42A. From WRF-Chem to CheMPAS-A: Building Next-Generation Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Capabilities with QUACS

A. Arellano, Jr., Univ. of Arizona, G. Pfister, NSF NCAR, G. Carmichael, Univ. of Iowa, C-H. Lu, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, M. Barth and R. Kumar, NSF NCAR, M. Dawson, Cohere Consulting LLC, K. Shores and M. Duda, NSF NCAR, J. Johnson, Cohere Consulting LLC, D. Fillmore, NSF NCAR

1:15 - 1:30

43A. CheMPAS-A: Integrating MUSICA Chemistry into MPAS-Atmosphere

David Fillmore and Gabriele Pfister, NSF NCAR/ACOM, Avelino Arellano, Univ. of Arizona, Mary Barth, NSF NCAR/ACOM, Matt Dawson, Cohere, Michael Duda, NSF NCAR/MMM, Jiwon Gim, NSF NCAR/ACOM, Rajesh Kumar, Forrest Lacey, and Scott Meech, NSF NCAR/RAL, Kyle Shores, NSF NCAR/ACOM, Katherine Thayer-Calder, NSF NCAR/CGD, Victor Weeks, NSF NCAR/RAL

1:30 - 1:45

44A. Regional High-Resolution Methane Emissions Estimated Using TROPOMI and WRF-Chem/Chem-DART

Yu Yan Cui1, Arthur P. Mizzi2, Shang Liu3, Matthew S. Johnson4, Guoqing Ge5,6, Chia-Hua Hsu7, Jason Schroeder8, Jorn Herner8, and Donglai Xie1
1: Environmental Defense Fund; 2: Bay Area Environmental Research Inst., NASA Earth eXchange; 3: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern Univ.; 4: Earth Science Div., NASA Ames Research Center; 5: Cooperative Inst. for Research in Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; 6: NOAA Global Systems Lab; 7: National Inst. for Environmental Studies, Japan; 8: Research Div., California Air Resource Board

1:45 - 2:00

45A. Evaluating the Atmospheric Composition Impacts of the Williams Flats Fire

Simon Rosanka(1,3), Timothy Juliano(2,4), Ann Marie Carlton(1), Mary Barth(2)
1: Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of California; 2: NSF NCAR; 3: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Inst. of Climate and Energy Systems – Troposphere (ICE-3), Germany; 4: AiDASH

2:00 - 2:15

46A. Satellite aerosol data assimilation with MPAS-GOCART2G-JEDI

Soyoung Ha1, Shih-Wei Wei1, Jun Park1, Maryam Abdi-Oskouei2,3, Cheng Dang4, Ben Johnson4, Cheng-Hsuan Lu4, Rajesh Kumar1, Mary Barth1, Gabriele Pfister1, Forrest Lacey1, Michael Duda1, Jaqueline Natiele Pereira5
1: NSF NCAR; 2: NASA Goddard Flight Center; 3: Morgan State Univ.; 4: Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, UCAR; 5: National Inst. for Space Research, Brazil

2:15 - 2:30

47A. Integration of a Smoke Plume Rise Scheme into MPAS-GOCART2G: Application to the 2019 Williams Flats Fire

Jaqueline Pereira, Saulo Freitas, Mary Barth, Soyoung Ha, William Skamarock, Rajesh Kumar, Forrest Lacey, Jun Park, Michael Duda, National Inst. for Space Research (INPE), Brazil, and NSF NCAR

Session 8B (Parallel): Land-surface and PBL Physics (Part 2) (North Bay Auditorium)
Chair: Joseph Olson, NOAA/GSL

1:00 - 1:15

42B. Diagnosis of Evaporation–Soil Moisture Regimes in MPAS-NoahMP: What conditions lead to disagreement with observations?

Nazanin Tavakoli1, Paul A Dirmeyer 1,2, Zhe Zhang3, Cenlin He3, Meg Fowler3
1: Dept. of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences, George Mason Univ. (GMU); 2: Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, GMU; 3: NSF NCAR

1:15 - 1:30

43B. Mesoscale to Microscale Modeling Toward Operational Hectometer-Scale Forecasts in the Seoul Metropolitan Area

Hyeyum Hailey Shin and Jimy Dudhia, NSF NCAR, Song-Lak Kang, Dept. of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Gangneung-Wonju National Univ., South Korea, Jae-Jin Kim, Jihoon Shin, and Woosok Moon, Div. of Earth and Environmental System Sciences, Pukyong National Univ. South Korea

1:30 - 1:45

44B. Evaluating Planetary Boundary Layer and Convective Parameterizations in WRF Sensitivity Analysis for Extreme Precipitation in Jackson, Mississippi

Gamal El Afandi1, Reda Algendy1
1: College of Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition Sciences, Tuskegee Univ.

1:45 - 2:00

45B. Comparing MPAS and WRF in simulating boundary layer dynamics

Akinleye Folorunsho, Dept. of Environmental Science, Baylor Univ., Jimy Dudhia, NSF NCAR/MMM, Yang Li, Dept. of Environmental Science, Baylor Univ.

2:00 - 2:15

46B. Scale by scale Statistics in WRF Hybrid LES model for Momentum and Temperature

Kazim Sayeed (1), Clement Blervacq (1), Florencia Rodriguez (1), Manuel Fossa (1), Nicolas Massei (1), Luminita Danaila (1)
1: Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière - UMR CNRS 6143 M2C, Univ. de Rouen Normandie, France

2:15 - 2:30

47B. Evaluating Default WRF and MPAS‑A Performance in Simulating Urban Extreme Precipitation

Jorge Bravo and marouane Temimi, Stevens Institute of Technology, Zhe Zhang, NSF NCAR RAL

Poster Session (CG-1 Lobby) & Coffee Break
2:30 - 5:00

Poster Set-Up (CG-1 Lobby) - Poster presenters can also set up before the workshop on Wed morning

Poster Session: Model Development Updates

P1. A Regional Coupled MPAS-A–MOM6 Prototype for Air-Sea Interaction Research and Prediction

Dan Amrhein, NSF NCAR/ CGD & CISL, Falko Judt, NSF NCAR/MMM, Ben Barr, NSF NCAR/ CGD & MMM, Ufuk Turuncoglu, NSF NCAR/ CGD & ESMF, Brian Dobbins and Aidan Janney, NSF NCAR/CGD, Ann Tsay, NSF NCAR/ CGD & ESMF, Sheri Voelz, NSF NCAR/ CISL & CSF, Soudeh Kamali, NSF NCAR/ HAO, CSF, & EdEC, Michael Duda, NSF NCAR/MMM, Gustavo Marques, NSF NCAR/CGD, Robert Oehmke, NSF NCAR/ CGD & ESMF

P2. Implementation of the MPAS Dynamical Core in the Unified Forecast System Weather Model

Dustin Swales1,2, Ligia Bernardet1,2, Grant Firl1,2,3, Soren Rasmussen2,4, Lulin Xue2,4
1: NOAA Global Systems Lab; 2: Developmental Testbed Center; 3: Colorado State Univ., Cooperative Inst. for Research in the Atmosphere; 4: NSF NCAR, Research Applications Lab

P3. Preventing computational instabilities and spurious precipitation features in the lateral boundaries of high-resolution regional MPAS

Michael Toy, CIRES/NOAA-GSL/DTC, Clark Evans, NOAA-GSL, Jeffrey Beck, NOAA-GSL/DTC, William Skamarock, NSF NCAR/MMM, Sudheer Bhimireddy, CIRES/NOAA-GSL

P4. The NSF NCAR Community Software Facility: partnering to support our community models

Sheri Voelz, Soudeh Kamali, Kate Kuzemka, Jon Petch, Gretchen Mullendore

P5. WRF-Hydro: MPAS and Forcing Engine Engineering Updates

Soren Rasmussen, Ryan Cabell, Yongxin Zhang, Aubrey Dugger, Arezoo RafieeiNasab, NSF NCAR

Poster Session: Data Assimilation

P6. Development of a MPAS-JEDI Prototype in CWA: System Setup and Preliminary Results

Ying-Jhen Chen, Chin-Cheng Tsai, Deng-Shun Chen, Craig Schwartz, Junmei Ban, and Zhiquan Liu, CWA Taiwan, Fujitsu Taiwan Ltd., and NSF NCAR

P7. Improved Forecasting of an Extreme Arctic Cyclone in August 2016 with 4DEnVar Assimilation Using MPAS-JEDI

Qian Xie, David H. Bromwich, Lesheng Bai, Polar Meteorology Group, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Ohio State Univ.

P8. Assimilation of GOES-16 all-sky Radiances in the Regional MPAS-JEDI System: A Case Study of Hurricane Ian (2022)

Yuki Kanno, CRIEPI, Juanzhen Sun, Zhiquan Liu, and Ivette Hernández Baños, NSF NCAR

P9. Withdrawn

P10. Pre-Run Composite Convective Anomalies for Automated WRF Nest Placement and Forecast Triage: A Low-Cost Radar-DA Case Study over Southeast Brazil

Leandro Machado Cruz, Tania Ocimoto Oda, Inst. de Estudos do Mar Almirante Paulo Moreira (IEAPM), Brazilian Navy

P11. An OSSE study of the impact of airborne dual-polarimetric radar data on forecasting afternoon thunderstorm during PRECIP 2022

Junkyung Kay, Wen-Chau Lee, Jothiram Vivekanandan, Gwo Jong Huang, Ting-Yu Cha, Brad Klotz, NSF NCAR/EOL

P12. Data Assimilation with WRF in Peru using the LETKF Technique: A First Evaluation.

Alan Gerardo Llacza Rodriguez, National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology, Cristian Alexander Miñope Altamirano, National Agrarian Univ. of La Molina

P13. Toward Assimilation of Spaceborne Active Sensors in MPAS-JEDI

Junmei Ban1, Zhiquan(Jake) Liu1, Zhuming Ying1, Byoung-Joo Jung1, Chris Snyder1, Isaac Moradi2,3, Benjamin Ruston4, and Benjamin Johnson4
1: NSF NCAR; 2: Cooperative Inst. for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS)/Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), Univ. of Maryland; 3: NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO); 4: Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

P14. Implementation of RTTOV14 CPP Interface for All-sky Data Assimilation in MPAS-JEDI

Ju-Hye Kim, Zhiquan (Jake) Liu, Byoung-Joo Jung, and Junmei Ban, NSF NCAR

Poster Session: MPAS at NOAA

P15. EPIC’s Role in Facilitating the Integration of MPAS into UFS

Eric Aligo1,2, Ben Koziol1,3, Jong Kim1,2, Jennifer Vogt1, and Maoyi Huang1, Youngsun Jung4, Ligia Bernardet5,6, Jacob Carley4
1: NOAA/OAR/WPO/EPIC; 2: Science and Technology Corporation; 3: RedLine Performance Solutions, LLC; 4: NOAA/NWS/EMC; 5: NOAA/OAR/GSL; 6: DTC

P16. Global Variable Resolution Hurricane Modeling: Troubles and Revelations

Samuel Trahan, NOAA GSL / CU CIRES, Clark Evans, NOAA GSL, Christina Holt, NOAA GSL / CU CIRES

Poster Session: Forecast Applications

P17. Hybrid AI-NWP forecasting with regional MPAS and AI NWP emulators for medium-range weather hazard prediction

Ryan Sobash and David Ahijevych, NSF NCAR/MMM

P18. Advancing the Indonesian Ocean Forecast System through High-Resolution Coupled Atmosphere–Wave–Ocean Modeling

Furqon Alfahmi1, Wido Hanggoro1, Danang Eko1, Nuryanto1, Ahmad Fahim1, John McHenry2 and Francisco Dos Santos3, Moha Garamti4, and David Yates4
1: Indonesian Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics, Indonesia; 2: Baron Weather; 3: Collecte Localisation Satellites; 4: NSF NCAR

P19. Adapting to a Rapidly Changing High-Performance Computing (HPC) Landscape: Lessons Learned from Deploying Operational MPAS to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

John Wong, James Cipriani, David Heeps, Brett Wilt

P20. MPAS Performance in the Polar Regions

David H. Bromwich, Lesheng Bai, Brian Rakoczy, and Sheng-Hung Wang, Polar Meteorology Group, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Ohio State Univ.

Poster Session: Post-processing

P21. Annual Updates to METplus Verification and Diagnostic Capabilities

John Halley Gotway (1,2), Michelle Harrold (1,2), Molly Smith (2,3), Dan Adriaansen (1,2), Tracy Hertneky (1,2), Christina Kalb (1,2), Will Mayfield (1,2), George McCabe (1,2), Kathryn Newman (1,2), John Opatz (1,2), Julie Prestopnik (1,2), Howard Soh (1,2), Jonathan Vigh (1,2), and Minna Win-Gildenmeister (1,2)
1: NSF NCAR/RAL; 2: DTC; 3: CIRES@NOAA/GSL

P22. Advancing Community Adoption of MPAS through Testing and Evaluation

Will Mayfield, K Newman, M Kavulich, M Harrold, and J Opatz, NSF NCAR/DTC

Poster Session: Physics Development and Evaluation

P23. Modeling Rooftop Snow Processes for Advancing Heavy Snow Load Hazard Analysis

Tzu-Shun Lin1, Cenlin He1, Yifan Cheng2, & Andrew J. Newman1
1: NSF NCAR; 2: Univ. at Buffalo, The State Univ. of New York

P24. Modeling Rimed Ice Crystal Shape Using the Triple-Moment NTU Bulk Microphysics Scheme in WRF Model

Tzu-Chin Tsai, Central Weather Administration (CWA), Taiwan (R. O. C.), Jen-Ping Chen, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan (R. O. C.), and Ling-Feng Hsiao, CWA, Taiwan (R. O. C.)

P25. Investigation of Aerosol Impacts on Extratropical Cyclones Using MPAS with Aerosol-Aware Cloud Microphysics

Qi Ge1, Yuan Wang1, Hugh Morrison2, Melissa Cholette3, Jason Milbrandt3, and Bill Skamarock2
1: Stanford Univ.; 2: NSF NCAR; 3: Environment and Climate Change, Canada

P26. Integrating nature-based solutions into WRF-SLUCM for enhanced urban hydrometeorological simulations

Yuqi Huang and Chenghao Wang, Univ. of Oklahoma, Cenlin He, NSF NCAR/RAL

P27. Revisions to the Sub-Grid-Scale Orographic Stress for Gravity-Wave Drag, Surface-Layer Drag, and Updates in the Shin-Hong PBL Scheme

Songyou Hong1 , Jimy Dudhia1, Hyeyum Hailey Shin2, Wei-Wang1, Jihyeon Jang1, Anthony Islas1, and Michael Duda1
1: NSF NCAR/MMM; 2: NSF NCAR/RAL

Poster Session: Chemistry Applications

P28. MELODIES-MONET: A User Friendly, Open-Source Python Tool for Model Evaluation

Gabriele Pfister (1), Pablo Lichtig (2), Louisa K. Emmons (1), Rebecca Schwantes (3), David Fillmore (1), Rebecca R Buchholz (1), Benjamin Gaubert (1), Rajesh Kumar (1), Margaret Bruckner (4), Barry Baker (5), Noribeth Mariscal (6)
1: NSF NCAR; 2: National Commission for Atomic Energy (CNEA), Argentina; 3: NOAA Chemical Sciences Lab; 4: Cooperative Inst. for Research in Environmental Sciences, CU Boulder; 5: Air Resources Lab, NOAA OAR; 6: Max Planck Inst. for Meteorology, Germany

P29. Developing Modular Atmospheric Chemistry Parameterizations for MPAS-A via the QUACS Framework: A Dust Mobilization Example

Chayan Roychoudhury1, Rajesh Kumar2, Gabriele Pfister2, Avelino Arellano Jr1.
1: Dept. of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Univ. of Arizona; 2: NSF NCAR

P30. Improving radiative impact of smoke aerosols in cheMPAS-Fire

Minsu Choi1,2, Ravan Ahmadov2, Haiqin Li1,2, Jordan L. Schnell1,2, Johana Romero-Alvarez1,2, Sudheer Bhimireddy1,2, Gonzalo A. Ferrada1,2, Li (Kate) Zhang1,2, Huiying Luo2,3
1: Cooperative Inst. of Research in Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; 2: NOAA Global Systems Lab; 3: Cooperative Inst. for Research in the Atmosphere

P31. Withdrawn

P32. Quantifying Aerosol Uncertainty using MPAS-A GOCART-2G in Support of PACE AOD Assimilation

Presenting Author: Forrest Lacey, NSF NCAR; Co-Authors: Soyoung Ha, Jun Park, and Chen Hau Lan, NSF NCAR, Jaqueline Pereira, INPE National Inst. for Space Research, Brazil, Rajesh Kumar, Mary Barth, and Gabriele Pfister, NSF NCAR

P33. Multiscale Modeling of Ozone Formation in Arizona: Insights from Variable-Resolution Global and Regional Simulations

Mohammad Amin Mirrezaei1, Wenfu Tang2, Benjamin Gaubert2, Yafang Guo3, Louisa K. Emmons2, Armin Sorooshian1,4, and Avelino Arellano1
1: Dept. of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Univ. of Arizona (UA); 2: NSF NCAR/ACOM; 3: Spheros Environmental; 4: Dept. of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, UA

P34. Implementation of emissions from SILAM and EDGAR into WRF-Chem over the Central Andes (Cusco, Peru) for January 2024

Alan Gerardo Llacza Rodriguez, National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology, Lorena Alexandra Huaman Bueno, National Agrarian Univ. of La Molina

P35. Influence of aging Wildfire Aerosols on Cloud Microphysical Properties

Chen-Hau Lan, National Central Univ. (NCU), Taiwan, NSF NCAR/MMM, Cheng-Hsuan Lu Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Univ. at Albany, State Univ. of New York, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Univ. Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Soyoung Ha, NSF NCAR/MMM, Pay-Liam Lin, NCU, Taiwan

P36. The influence of shear on fire plume injection heights

Branson Starr1, Dr. Ming Cai1, Dr. Jie Sun1, Dr. Bryan Quaife2, Dr. Kevin Speer2
1: Florida State Univ. (FSU), Earth, Ocean, & Atmospheric Sciences; 2: FSU, Scientific Computing

P37. Climate-Driven Changes in Anthropogenic–Biogenic VOC Interactions and Secondary Pollutant Formation over East Asia: WRF-Chem Simulations

Seung-Hee Baek¹, Hyo-Jung Lee¹², Younha Kim³, Yu-Jin Jo¹, Min-Jun Park¹, Hyun-Che Park¹, Seung-Hyeon Jeong¹, Yu-Min Jeong¹
¹: Dept. of Atmospheric Science, Pusan National Univ. (PNU), Republic of Korea; ²: Inst. of Environmental Studies, (PNU), Republic of Korea; ³: International Inst. for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

P38. Evaluation of Aerosol–Meteorology Feedback during the SIJAQ Campaign Using WRF-Chem Simulations

Sangs-Seok Oh1, Hyo-Jung Lee1,2, Jong-Min Kim1, Han-Jun Ji1, Min-Seong Kim1, Ji-Min Jung1, Cheol-Hee Kim1,2
1: Dept. of Atmospheric Science, Pusan National Univ. (PNU), Republic of Korea; 2: Inst. of Environmental Studies, PNU, Republic of Korea

P39. WRF-Chem sensitivity to anthropogenic emissions, a summertime tagged tracer and wintertime PM emission analysis

Liam Sheji1, Cheng-Hsuan Lu1,2, Rajesh Kumar3, Shih-Wei Wei1,2, Stefano Alessandrini3, Lucille Borlaza-Lacoste4, Ellie Hojeily1, Hsin-Chih Lai5, Li-Wei Lai5, Md. Aynul Bari4, Philip K. Hopke6
1: Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York; 2: Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research; 3: Research Applications Laboratory, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR); 4: Environmental and Sustainable Engineering, College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering, University at Albany, State University of New York, 5: Environmental Research and Information Center, Chang Jeng Christian University, 6:Departments of Public Health Sciences and Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry AND Institute for a Sustainable Environment, Clarkson University

Poster Session: Land-surface and PBL physics

P40.Impact of urban geometry and artificially generated inflows on precipitation associated with thunderstorms

Seika Tanji, Motohiro Tanaka and Tetsuya Takemi, Kyoto Univ.

P41. Nonlinear interactions between urbanization and global warming amplify citywide cooling energy demand

Mukul Tewari, Atmospheric Science Research Center, Univ. at Albany, NY, Pallav Ray, Florida Inst. of Technology

Poster Session: Model and Physics Evaluation

P42. MPAS Exploration of an Antarctic Atmospheric Mass Loss Event

Jordan G. Powers, NSF NCAR

P43. Withdrawn

P44. Evaluation of the Reproducibility of Japan Sea Polar Air Mass Convergence Zone using MPAS

Shutaro Iiyoshi, Nozomu Takada, and Sho Yoshida, Meteorological Engineering Center, Inc.

P45. A Prototype Tool for Targeted Latent Heating Sensitivity Experiments in Global MPAS Simulations

Alexander Lojko and May Wong, NSF NCAR

P46. Evaluation of MPAS across scales

Mohammad Rubaiat Islam and Zhiquan Liu, NSF NCAR/MMM

P47. Evaluation of MPAS forecasts for stratocumulus clouds in the Southeast Pacific

Thaisa Giovana Lopes¹², Ziquan (Jake) Liu¹, Ivette Hernandez Baños¹
¹: NSF NCAR; ²: Postgraduate Div., Coordination of Teaching, Research and Extension, National Inst. for Space Research, Brazil

P48. Global MPAS Nudging Experiments to Diagnose Forecast Errors

May Wong and Alex Lojko, NSF NCAR

P49. Development and Demonstration of a cloud-based MPAS modeling System to Support Aviation Planning across the Bahamas Airspace

James Pinto, Victor Weeks, Matthew Wilson, Arnaud Dumont and Roelof Bruintjes, NSF NCAR/RAL

Session: Coupling / Tropical Modeling

P50.InaCAWO: A Three-Way-Coupled Modeling System for Indonesia

Akhmad Fahim, Danang Eko Nury, Agie Wandala, Bertha Sanditya, Samuel Adiprabowo, and Furquon Alfahmi, BMKG, Moha Garamti and David Yates, NSF NCAR, John McHenry, Baron and Francisco Dos Santos (CLS), Andri Ramdhani, CLS

P51.A comparative study of MPAS and WRF regional simulations in reproducing tropical cyclone characteristics over Japan

Sho Kawazoe, Yuki Kanno, Atsushi Hashimoto, and Masamichi Ohba, CRIEPI

P52. Validation of Ensemble Forecasts - The impact of numerical schemes and spatio-temporal resolution on typhoon trajectories simulation with WRF

Taiga Shibakawa & Nozomu Takada, Meteorological Engineering Center, Inc., Japan , Tetsuya Takemi, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University

P53. Withdrawn

Thursday June 25

Session 9: Physics Development and Evaluation (Part 1)
Chair: Anders Jensen, NOAA/GSL

8:30 - 8:45

48. Land Model Updates in WRF v4.8 Release virtual

Cenlin He, NSF NCAR/RAL

8:45 - 9:00

49. The role of deep root water uptake in modeling South American hydroclimate using MPAS-Noah-MP

Bieri, Carolina A.; Zhang, Zhe; He, Cenlin; Liu, Changhai, NSF NCAR

9:00 - 9:15

50. A Comprehensive Double-Moment Cloud Microphysics Parameterization Scheme

Songyou Hong1 , Jian-Wen Bao2, Haiqin-Li2, Jimy Dudhia1, and Taeho Moon3
1: NSF NCAR/MMM; 2: NOAA, ESRL; 3: UNIST, Korea

9:15 - 9:30

51. Evaluating the RCON microphysics scheme in MPAS

Nicholas Shepard, Cliff Mass, and David Ovens, Dept. of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Univ. of Washington

9:30 - 9:45

52. A new droplet charging scheme in WRF

C. Miller, K. Nicoll, R. G. Harrison, Dept. of Meteorology, Univ. of Reading, UK

9:45 – 10:00

53. Rethinking the Atmospheric Surface Layer Without Similarity Theory virtual

Kiran Alapaty, ARAM, Jimy Dudhia, Pedro Jimenez, and Wei Wang, NSF NCAR, Temple Lee, NOAA

10:00 - 10:15

54. Implementing the SHOC PBL scheme in MPAS virtual

Guilherme Tavares Farache, Saulo Ribeiro de Freitas, Paulo Yoshio Kubota

10:15 - 10:45

Coffee Break

Session 10: Physics Development and Evaluation (Part 2)
Chair: Pedro Jimenez, NSF NCAR

10:45 - 11:00

55. Stochastic Physics Implementation and Testing in the MPAS Dycore virtual

Gerard Ketefian, CIRES@NOAA/GSL, DTC, Will Mayfield, NSF NCAR/RAL, DTC, Jeff Beck, OAA/GSL, DTC, Ning Wang, CIRA@NOAA/GSL, DTC, Christina P. Kalb, Michael J. Kavulich, and Michelle A. Harrold, NSF NCAR/RAL, DTC

11:00 - 11:15

56. Simulating tropical squall lines across a wide range of spatial scales using a cold-pool gust-front parameterization.

Saulo R. Freitas, Guilherme Farache, and André Lyra, INPE, Georg A. Grell, NOAA

11:15 - 11:30

57. Evaluation and Modifications of MPAS-A for Regional Forecasting at the Central Weather Administration of Taiwan

Wu, Y.-J., C.-H. Lin,W. Wang, H.-L. Huang, P.-H. Lin, L.-F., Hsiao, CWA Taiwan and NSF NCAR

11:30 - 11:45

58. HRRR/RRFS physics development for improved marine cloud forecasts in WFIP3

Joseph B. Olson, NOAA/GSL, Xia Sun, CIRES, NOAA/GSL, Bianca Adler and Laura Bianco, CIRES, NOAA/PSL, Anders Jensen, David D. Turner, and Clark Evans, NOAA/GSL, Joseph Sedlar and Kelly Balmes, CIRES, NOAA/GML

11:45 - 12:00

59. Comparison of MPAS and WRF forecasts for a set of coastal/marine case studies during WFIP3

Xia Sun (1,2), Joseph Olson (2), Laura Bianco (1,3), Bianca Adler (1,3), David Turner (2), Joseph Sedlar (1,4), Anders Jensen (2), Clark Evans (2)
1: Cooperative Inst. for Research in Environmental Sciences; 2: NOAA Global Systems Lab; 3: NOAA Physical Science Lab; 4: NOAA Global Monitoring Lab

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch Break

Session 11: Post-processing / Forecasting Applications (Part 1)
Chair: James Cipriani, The Weather Company

1:00 - 1:15

60. UXarray for Kilometer-Scale MPAS Analysis and Model Intercomparison on Native Meshes

Orhan Eroglu, NSF NCAR, Hongyu Chen, UC-Davis, John Clyne, NSF NCAR, Robert Jacob and Rajeev Jain, Argonne, Brian Medeiros, NSF NCAR, Paul Ullrich, UC-Davis, Colin Zarzycki, Penn State

1:15 - 1:30

61. MPAS‑Viewer: A post‑processing tool for dynamic visualization of MPAS data within QGIS

Jorge Bravo and Marouane Temimi, Stevens Inst. of Technology

1:30 - 1:45

62. MPASdiag: Data Processing, Visualization and Analysis Toolkit for MPAS from Native Unstructured Mesh

Rubaiat Islam & Zhiquan Liu, NSF NCAR/MMM

1:45 - 2:00

63. WRF ensemble forecasts of extreme precipitation events in southeastern Michigan virtual

Kevin Gray, Francina Dominguez, Brian Jewett, and Deffi Putri, Univ. of Illinois

2:00 - 2:15

64. WRF Ensemble Updates at the US Air Force’s 16th Weather Squadron

Burkely Gallo, Andrew Elliott, Evan Kuchera, Scott Rentschler, Glenn Creighton, Samuel Childs, Gordon Brooks, James Keane, Matthew Vaughan, Christopher Melick, and William Sedlacek, 16 WS, Offutt AFB, NE

2:15 - 2:30

65. Working Towards Rapid-Refresh Regional Modeling using MPAS-JEDI at the U.S. Air Force's 16th Weather Squadron

Samantha Baker, Matthew Vaughan, Maresa Searls, Andrew Elliott, Reid Strickler, Bill Cassel, Burkely Gallo, Jason Martinelli, and Evan Kuchera, 16 WS, Offutt AFB, NE

2:30 - 3:00

Coffee Break

Session 12: Forecasting Applications (Part 2)
Chair: Louis Wicker, NSSL

3:00 - 3:15

66. Introducing the Model for Ocean-laNd-Atmosphere predictioN (MONAN); a South American effort to develop the next generation Earth System model for the community

Saulo R. Freitas, Paulo Kubota, Antonio Manzi, Eduardo Khamis, Ariane Frassoni, João Gerd, Ronald Buss, and the INPE Team, National Inst. for Space Research (INPE), Brazil

3:15 - 3:30

67. Novel Real-Time Global 3- and 3.75-km MPAS Forecasts

Craig S. Schwartz, Falko Judt, William C. Skamarock, Michael G. Duda, Ryan Johnson, and Ryan A. Sobash, NSF NCAR

3:30 - 3:45

68. Real-Time Global 3.75-km Forecasts: A New Frontier in Tropical Weather Prediction

Falko Judt, Craig Schwartz, Rosimar Rios-Berrios, Ryan Johnson, NSF NCAR

3:45 - 4:00

69. Downscaling AI model forecasts with MPAS and WRF: Application to downslope windstorms

Robert Fovell, Univ. at Albany, SUNY

4:00 - 4:55

Open Discussion (Moderated by Bill Skamarock)

4:55 - 5:00