First US-China Symposium on Meteorology: Mesoscale Meteorology and Data Assimilation

February 26-28, 2008

National Weather Center

Norman, Oklahoma U.S.A.

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• 9:00-9:30 am China Keynote Address -- Huizhu Liu¹, C. Bernhofer², B. Ketzer², and F. Berger³ (¹Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; ²Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany; ³Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg, Lindenberg, Germany) “The Water and CO2 Flux Exchange of the Steppe Grassland Ecosystem in Xinlin Watershed, Inner Mongolia”
• 9:30-10:00 am: United States Keynote Address -- Robert Houze (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington) “Mesoscale Observations in Hurricanes: Katrina and Rita”
• 10:00-10:15 am: Debin Su^{1, 2}, Daren Lu¹, Jinli Liu¹, Shu Duan¹, and Jin Li² (¹Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; ²Beijing Meteorological Observatory, Beijing, China) “Analysis of Local Severe Weather with the Composite Meso-scale Observation Network in Beijing”
• 10:15-10:30 am: Yang Hong^{1, 2}, Robert F. Adler², George J. Huffman^{2, 3}, and Baxter Vieux¹ (¹University of Oklahoma, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Norman, Oklahoma; ²NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory of Atmosphere, Greenbelt, Maryland; ³Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, Maryland) “Optimally Merging Multiple Precipitation Sources for Hydrometeorological Applications”
• 10:30-11:00 am: Coffee Break
• 11:00-11:15 am: Lin-Lin QI (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “Analyses of a Surprise Snowstorm over Liaoning in China”
• 11:15-11:30 am: Christopher Fiebrich (Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma) “Technical Update on the Oklahoma Mesonet”
• 11:30-11:45 am: Dong Chaohua (National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China) “The New Generation Polar Satellite FY-3 and Its Potential Applications”
• 11:45-12:00: Angela Rowe (Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado) “Elevation-Dependent Trends in Precipitation Observed during NAME (North American Monsoon Experiment)”
• 12:00-12:15 pm: Cheng Xueling, Zeng Qingcun, Hu Fei, and Peng Zhen (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “Gustness and Coherent Structure of Strong Wind in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer”
• 12:15-12:30: Thomas J. Galarneau, Jr. and Lance F. Bosart (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York) “Life-Cycle of Tropical Storm Erin (2007)”
• 12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch – National Weather Center Atrium

• 1:30-2:00 pm: United States Keynote Address -- Richard Rotunno (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado) “Moist Convection and Mesoscale Predictability”
• 2:00-2:30 pm: China Keynote Address -- Wu Rongsheng, and Fang Juan (Key Laboratory for Mesoscale Severe Weather, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China) “Some Dynamic Aspects of Mei-Yu Front and Frontogenesis”
• 2:30-3:00 pm: Poster Session Preview (Themes 1 and 2)
• 3:00-4:00 pm: Poster Session (Themes 1 and 2) including refreshments
• 4:00-4:15 pm: H. Dawn Reeves (NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma) “Effects of Water Vapor on Flow and Precipitation Patterns over a Mountain”
• 4:15-4:30 pm: Shouting Gao (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “Generalized Potential Temperature and its Application”
• 4:30-4:45 pm: Matthew Wandishin (NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma) “On the Predictability of Mesoscale Convective Systems”
• 4:45-5:00 pm: Yao Xiuping¹,²,³, Wu Guoxiong³, and Yu Yubin¹ (¹China Meteorological Administration Training Center, Beijing, China; ²Institute of Heavy Rain, China Meteorological Administration, Wuhan, China; ³Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “Research on the Dry Intrusion Accompanying the Low Vortex Precipitation”
• 5:00-5:15 pm: Qin Xu (NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma) “Theoretical Formulations and Numerical Methods for Diagnosing Balanced Dynamics in Synoptic-scale and Mesoscale Domains”
• 5:15-5:30 pm: Xiaopeng Cui (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “Surface Rainfall Equation and Tropical Surface Rainfall Processes”

• 9:00-9:30 am: China Keynote Address -- Jiang Zhu (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “Data Assimilation for Dust Storm Forecast”
• 9:30-10:00 am: United States Keynote Address -- Chris Snyder (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado) “Ensemble Kalman Filtering for the Atmospheric Mesoscale”
• 10:00-10:15 am: Yi Yang¹, Chongjian Qiu¹, and Jiandong Gong² (¹College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China;² National Meteorological Center, China Meteorlogical Administration, Beijing, China) “WRF-Var Developed with Physical Initialization to Assimilate Doppler Radar Data”
• 10:15-10:30 am: S. Lakshmivarahan (School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma) “On the Role of Unscented Transformation in Dynamic Data Assimilation: An Overview”
• 10:30-11:00 am: Coffee Break
• 11:00-11:15 am: Zhang Weimin^{1, 3}, Cao Xiaoqun², Zhu Xiaoqian², Wang Shuchang², and Song Junqiang² (¹Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; ²National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, Changsha, China; ³International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Beijing, China) “Variational Data Assimilation using Wavelet Background Error Covariance: Implementation and Initialization of Typhoon Kaemi (2006)”
• 11:15-11:30 am: Chungu Lu (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado) “Recovery of Mesoscale Covariance using Time-Phased Ensembles”
• 11:30-11:45 am: Chunyan Sheng¹,² and Lei Huang³(¹Shandong Provincial Meteorological Observatory, Jinan, China; ²Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; ³Shandong Provincial Atmospheric Observation Center, Jinan, China) “Simulation of “4•28” Squall Line Event by Assimilating Radar Data”
• 11:45-12:00: TBD
• 12:00-12:15 pm: Cui Chunguang and Li Hongli (Institute of Heavy Rain, Chinese Meteorological Administration, Wuhan, China) “Mesoscale Analysis of a Heavy Rain Event in Meiyu Front”
• 12:15-12:30 pm: Hui Shao, Dale Barker, Yong-Run Guo, Syed Rizvi, Ying-Hwa Kuo, and Jordan Powers (Research Applications Laboratory, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado) “Impact of COSMIC Refractivity Observations in Multi-domain Applications at the NCAR DATC”
• 12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch – National Weather Center Atrium

• 1:30-2:00 pm: United States Keynote Address -- Lance Bosart (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York) “Mesoscale Structures Within Transient Synoptic-Scale Systems: Science and Forecast Challenges”
• 2:00-2:30 pm: China Keynote Address -- TBD
• 2:30-3:00 pm: Poster Session Preview (Themes 3 and 4)
• 3:00-4:00 pm: Poster Session (Themes 3 and 4) including refreshments
• 4:00-4:15 pm: Howard Bluestein (School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma) “On the Difficulty of Forecasting Major Severe Convective Events”
• 4:15-4:30 pm: Zhang Jiashen (National Meteorological Satellite Center, China MeteorologicalAdministration, Beijing, China) “Image Analysis of FY-2 Satellite for Mesoscale Weather Events in China”
• 4:30-4:45 pm: Roger Edwards (Storm Prediction Center, NOAA National Weather Service, Norman, Oklahoma) “Predicting Tropical Cyclone Tornadoes: Past, Present and Future”
• 4:45-5:00 pm: Sun Jianhua, Xu Guangkuo, and Zhao Sixiong (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “A Simulation Study on the Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) along Meiyu front during 3-4 July 2003”
• 5:00-5:15 pm: Fanyou Kong (Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma) “Post-Analysis of the 2007 Realtime Storm-Scale Ensemble Forecast Experiment”
• 5:15-5:30 pm: Linna Zhao¹ Zhi-Gang Zhang¹ and Qing-Cun Zeng² (¹National Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; ²Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bejing, China) “Gustness and Coherent Structure in the of Atmospheric Boundary Layer during Dust Event”
• 6:00-9:00 pm: Reception and Symposium Dinner at Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

• 9:00-9:30 am: China Keynote Address -- Sixiong Zhao (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “Numerical Simulation of Disastrous Weather Systems in China during Recent Years”
• 9:30-10:00 am: United States Keynote Address -- Shuyi Chen (Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science,University of Miami, Miami, Florida) “Challenges in the Coming Age of Cloud-Resolving Coupled Air-Sea-Land Modeling in Tropical Cyclones and Coastal Environment”
• 10:00-10:15 am: Qinghong Zhang, Chunxi Zhang, and Zuyu Tao (Department of Atmospheric Science and Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China) “Study of Mesoscle Convective Cloud Bands in Cold Vortex over Eastern Asia”
• 10:15-10:30 am: Ming Xue (Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms and School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma) “Numerical Simulation and Prediction of Supercell Tornadoes”
• 10:30-11:00 am: Coffee Break
• 11:00-11:15 am: Wang Zifa (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “Model Estimate of Contribution to Air Pollution in Beijing from Surrounding Regions”
• 11:15-11:30 am: Jun Du, Geoff DiMego, Zoltan Toth, Eric Rogers, Matt Pyle, Binbin Zhou, and Jeff McQueen (Environmental Modeling Center, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Camp Springs, Maryland) “An Overview of NCEP Short-Range Ensemble Prediction System, High-Resolution-Window WRF System and On-Demand High-Impact Ensemble System”
• 11:30-11:45 am: Hengchi Lei (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “A Numerical Simulation of Cloud Physical Structure and Microphysical Process Associated with Stratiform Precipitation in Northwest China”
• 11:45-12:00: Liguang Wu (Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland) “Impacts of Saharan Air Layer on Hurricane Peak Intensity”
• 12:00-12:15 pm: Zhaoxia Hu, Hengchi Lei, Xueliang Guo, and Meiyuan Huang (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “Numerical Simulation of a Hybrid-Type Hailstorm in Munich and the Mechanism of Hail Storm Formation”
• 12:15-12:30 pm: Weiping Dai (Trinity Consultants, Dallas, Texas) “Practices and Challenges in Applying Mesoscale Data to Air Quality Analyses”
• 12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch – National Weather Center Atrium

• 1:30-2:00 pm: United States Keynote Address -- Harold Brooks (NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma) “Severe Thunderstorm Environments from Observations and Reanalysis Data: Climate Impacts on Weather Events”
• 2:00-2:30 pm: China Keynote Address -- Wang Huijun (Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “A Simple Scheme for Improving the Seasonal Prediction of Summer Precipitation”
• 2:30-3:00 pm: Poster Session Preview (Themes 5 and 6)
• 3:00-4:00 pm: Poster Session (Themes 5 and 6) including refreshments
• 4:00-4:15 pm: John F. Mejia¹ and Michael W. Douglas² (¹Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; ²NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma) “Relationships of TEWs and Spatial-Temporal Variability of MCSs in the North American Monsoon Region”
• 4:15-4:30 pm: Lin Zhaohui, Chen Hong, Zhang Dongling, and Zeng Qingcun (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “Large-Scale Circulation Aanomalies Related with the Spring Dust-Storm Activities and its Experimental Seasonal Prediction”
• 4:30-4:45 pm: Donna Tucker (Department of Geography, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas) “The Effect of Winds on Monthly Precipitation Patterns in Complex Terrain”
• 4:45-5:00 pm: Mei Huang and Gongbing Peng (Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “The Influence of Mesoscale Weather Events on the CO₂ Exchanges Between Atmosphere and Ecosystem”
• 5:00-5:15 pm: Jeffrey B. Basara and James E. Hocker (Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma) “Quantifying Land-Atmosphere Interactions Using the Oklahoma Mesonet”
• 5:15-5:30 pm: Chen Wen¹, Jian Mao-Qiu², Kang Li-Hua¹, and Wang Ding¹ (¹Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; ²Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China) “Anomalies in the Summer Rainfall over China and their Relation to Global Sea Surface Temperature and Atmospheric Heat Sources”

POSTER SESSIONS

Tuesday February 26, 2008, 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Themes 1 and 2

THEME 1 = OBSERVATIONS OF MESOSCALE PHENOMENA

Ming Fang¹ and Richard J. Doviak² (¹Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, ²NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma) “WSR-88D Observed Spatial Spectra of Turbulence in Precipitation”

Peter Hall, Jr. and Cynthia R. Morgan (Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma) “An Overview of Oklahoma Mesonet Quality Assurance”

Yuxiang HE and Hui XIAO (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “Dual-Polarization Radar Retrieval Microphysical Vertical Structure in the Vicinity of the Melting-Layer Radar”

Jana Lesak Houser and Howard B. Bluestein (School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma) “Mesoscale Observations of a Winter-Storm Event in Central Oklahoma using Data from the CASA, Dual-Polarization, Doppler-Radar Network”

Bradley G. Illston1, Jeffrey B. Basara1, Ronald Elliott2, Christopher A. Fiebrich1, Kenneth C.
Crawford1 (1Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 2 Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma) “Mesoscale Monitoring of Soil Moisture across a Statewide Network”

John F. Mejia1 and Michael W. Douglas2 (1Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 2NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma) “Moisture Surges Observed by the NOAA WP-3D Aircraft during the North American Monsoon Experiment”

Pengfei Zhang (Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma) “Kelvin-Helmholtz Waves Observed by a Polarimetric Prototype of the WSR-88D Radar”

Yaping ZHANG (Chongqing Municipal Meteorological Observatory, Chongqing, China) "7.17" Heavy Rain Event: Comparison of CG and IR Brightness Temperature”

Yongguang  ZHENG1, Jiong CHEN 1, and Peijun ZHU 2 (1National Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; 2 Department of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China) “Climatological Distribution and Diurnal Variation of Mesoscale Convective Systems over China and its Vicinity during Summer”

THEME 2 = THEORY OF MESOSCALE PHENOMENA

Chungu Lu and S.E. Koch (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado) “Turbulence and Small-Scale Gravity Waves in the Spectral, Structure-Functional and Multifractal Spaces”

Lingkun RAN and Shouting GAO (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “A Three-Dimensional Wave-Activity Relation for Pseudomomentum”

Wednesday February 27, 2008, 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Themes 3 and 4

THEME 3 = DATA ASSIMILATION AND MESOSCALE APPLICATIONS

Robert Aune (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/CoRP, Advanced Satellite Products Branch, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Studies, Madison, Wisconsin) “A Local Real-time Mesoscale Prediction System for MODIS Direct Broadcast Sites”

Michael Coniglio1 and Louis J. Wicker2 (1Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 2NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory) “Ensemble Kalman Filter Analyses and Forecasts of Tropical Storm Erin over Oklahoma”

Shun Liu, David Parrish and Geoff DiMego (Environmental Modeling Center, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Camp Springs, Maryland) “Radar Data Processing and Assimilation at NCEP”

Yubao Liu, Alfred Bourgeois, Laurie Carson, Mei Xu, Joshua Hacker, Francois Vandenberghe, Andrea Hahmann, Fei Chen, Rong sheu, Wei Yu, Wanli Wu, Gregory Roux, Tom Hopson, Ming Ge, Christopher Davis, Daran Rife, Jason Knievel, Tom Warner, Terri Betancourt and Scott Swerdlin  (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado) “The NCAR RTFDDA System: Mesoscale Data Assimiliation and Ensemble Analysis and Forecast”

Edward Mansell (NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma) “Improved Mesoscale Model Initial Conditions through Lightning Assimilation”

Dagmar Merkova, I.Szunyogh, E. J. Kostelich, and G. Gyarmati (Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland) “Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filtering with a Limited Area Model”

Kodi L. Nemunaitis and Jeffery B. Basara (Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma) “The Structure of the Convective Boundary Layer in and around Oklahoma City”

Lili Lei and David R. Stauffer (Department of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania) “A Hybrid Nudging-EnKF Approach to Data Assimilation”

David J. Stensrud1, Nusrat Yussouf2, David C. Dowell3, and Michael C. Coniglio2 (1NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, 2Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 3National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado) “Surface Data Assimilation using an Ensemble Kalman Filter: Analysis and Forecast Results from Spring 2007”

Vince Wong, Kenneth Mitchell and Michael Ek (NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Camp Springs, Maryland) “Parameterization Schemes for WRF Winter Simulation”

Yuanfu Xie1, Steve Koch1, John McGinley1, Steve Albers1, Marilyn Wolfson2, and Michael T Chan2
 (1NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, 2Lincoln Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology) “Boundary Detection with Space-Time Mesoscale Analysis System: A Sequential 3DVAR Approach”

 

Qin Xu1, Kang Nai2, Li Wei2, Pengfei Zhang2, Shun Liu3, and David Parrish3 (1NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, 2Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meterological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 3NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction) “Estimating Mesoscale Wind Forecast Error Statistics by Using Radar Velocity Observations”

Qin Xu1, Li Wei2, Huijuan Lu2, Kang Nai2, and Pengfei Zhang2 (1NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, 2Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meterological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma ) “Designing Phased-Array Scans Based on Information Content from Observations for Radar Data Assimilation"

THEME 4 = FORECASTING OF MESOSCALE PHENOMENA

Daniel T. Dawson II1, Ming Xue1, Jason A. Milbrandt2, M.K. Yau3, Guifu Zhang4 (1Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms and School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 2Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Prévision Numérique, Meteorological Service of Canada, Dorval, Quebec, Canada, 3Department of  Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
4School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma) “Analysis of Low-Level Downdraft, Cold Pool, and Tornado Behavior of Simulated Supercell Storms of the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak with Single and Multi-Moment Microphysics”

Yan GUO1 and Leslie R. Lemon2 (1Jiangxi Meteorological Observatory, Jiangxi, China, 2Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, NWS Warning Decision Training Branch (WDTB), Norman, Oklahoma “U.S. to China Transfer to Warning Techniques: The TBSS as a Large Hail Indicator in Jiangxi, China”
Yang Hong1,2, Robert F. Adler2, George J. Huffman2,3, and Baxter Vieux1 (1School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences ,University of Oklahoma, , Norman, Oklahoma; 2NASA GSFC, Laboratory of Atmosphere, Greenbelt, Maryland; 3Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, Maryland) “Real-Time Application of Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis for Floods and Landslides”

Xianghong LI (Guilin Meteorological Bureau, China Meteorological Administration, Guilin, China) “Analysis and Nowcasting of Convective Weather in Guangxi, China, Using Radar Data”
Sandeep Pattanaik and T.N.Krishnamurt (Department of Meteorology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida) “Impact of Rain Rate Initialization, Cloud Microphysics and Angular Momentum Torques on Hurricane Intensity”

Diandong Ren and Lance M. Leslie (School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma) “High Resolution Modeling of Tropical Cyclone Lifecycles over the Southeast Indian Ocean”

Xiquan WANG 1, Yanbin QI 2, ZiFa WANG 1, Hu GUO 3, and Tong YU 4 (1Nansen-Zhu International Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;  2Jilin Province Weather Modification Offices, Changchun, China;  3Beijing Meteorological Observatory, Beijing, China;  4Beijing Environmental Protection Monitoring Center, Beijing, China) “The Influence of Synoptic Pattern on PM10 Heavy Air Pollution in Beijing”

Hongyu WU 1 and Dehui CHENG 2   (1Guizhou Research Institute of Mountainous Area Environment and Climate,  Guiyang, China;  2State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China) “Mesoscale Numerical Simulation of Heavy Rain in East of Southwest China”

Huiling Yuan, John A. McGinley, Paul J. Schultz, Chris J. Anderson, and Chungu Lu (NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado) “Short-Range Precipitation Forecasts from Time-Lagged Multimodel Ensembles during the HMT-West 2006 Campaign”

Yushu ZHOU, Jie CAO, and Shouting GAO (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “The Application of Generalized Moist Potential Vorticity in Non-Uniformly Saturated Atmosphere to Analyses and Forecast of Torrential Rain”

Thursday February 28, 2008, 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Themes 5 and 6

THEME 5 = SIMULATION OF MESOSCALE PHENOMENA

Yun CHEN, Baogui BI, Lifu HE, and Tao CHEN  (National Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China) “Numerical Simulation on Rainstorm in South China”

Ying H            AN1,2 and Rongsheng WU2 (1Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China, 2The Key Laboratory of Mesoscale Severe Weather, Nanjing University, Nanjing) “The Effect of the Cold Air Intrusion on the Development of Tropical Cyclone”

Yi-Shan LIAO and Jun LI (Institute of Heavy Rain, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China) “Numerical Simulation of the Development of a Meso-B Scale Vortex during a Heavy Rain Process”

Hamish Ramsay (Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma) “The Effects of Complex Terrain on Severe Landfalling Tropical Cyclone Larry”

Yan SHI and Hong FANG (Institute of Heavy Rain, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China) “Wind Field Retrieval of a Hail Event Using Simple Adjoint Method”

Beizheng WANG (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “Dynamical Analysis and Numerical Simulation of Abrupt Track Change”

Hui XIAO, Ya-Qin CUI, Yu-Xiang HE, Hui-Ling YAMG, and Dan CUI (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “Improvement of Artificial Ice Crystal Parameterization of the IAP-CSM3D”

Bing ZHANG, Chun-Guang CUI, Yan SHI,  and Yi-Shan LIAO (Institute of Heavy Rain, Wuhan, CMA, Wuhan, China.) “Comparison Experiments on Microphysical Schemes of the AREM”

He ZHANG, Qingcun ZENG, and Zhaohui LIN (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “Development of the New Generation IAP AGCM 4.0”

 

THEME 6 = CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MESOSCALE PHENOMENA, REGIONAL CLIMATE, AND LARGER-SCALE CIRCULATION

Jeffrey B. Basara and James E. Hocker (Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma) “Using Geographic Information Systems to Quantify the Occurrence of Severe Weather Phenomena”

Michael Douglas1, John F. Mejia2, and Raquel Orozco2 (1NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, 2Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meterological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma ) “Using MODIS Imagery to Develop Cloud Climatologies at the Mesoscale”

Ronghui HUANG and Guanghua CHEN (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “The Interannual Variations of Moving Tracks of Tropical Cyclones over the Northwest Pacific and their Physical Mechanism”

M. Issa Lele and Peter J. Lamb (Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma) “Variability of Intertropical Front (ITF) and Rainfall over West African Soudano-Sahel Zone”

Dongling ZHANG and Qingcun ZENG (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “The Essence of the Global Monsoon System and a New Index Defining the Monsoon Regions”

Feng ZHANG, Qingcun ZENG, and Zhaohui LIN (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “The Overall Performance and the Improvement on the Simulations of the Pacific Subtropical High and Summer Monsoon in East Asia of IAP AGCM 3.1”

Sixiong ZHAO and Qingcun ZENG (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) “A Study of East Asian Strong Cold Wave-Surge Crossing Equator and Influencing the Development of Tropical Cyclone and Heavy Rainfall in the Southern Hemisphere”