National Centers for Environmental Prediction
Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) Seminar


NOAA Science Center (World Weather Building)



Poster for seminars are posted at
http://wwwt.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/seminars/poster/{Last Name}.seminar.poster.jpg
Poster for the next seminar

Telephone Extension is for (301)763-8000
November 2007
Tuesday 6, noon
Rm 707 Sakari Uppala
ECMWF
From ERA-40 to the 3rd generation ECMWF reanalysis ERA-Interim
Abstract
Presentation in ppt
Contact person: Suru Saha x7236 Bob Kistler 803-642-9683
Tuesday 13, noon
Rm 209 Dake Chen
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
Indo-Pacific Tripole: An Intrinsic Mode of Tropical Climate Variability
Abstract
Contact person: Sudhir Nadiga x 7276
Monday 26, 2pm
Cancelled
Rm 707 Tilden Meyer
Contact person: Mike Ek 301-316-5030
Tuesday 27, noon
Rm 707 Mike Charles
NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
Verification of Extratropical Cyclones Within NCEP Forecast Models Using An Automated Tracking Algorithm
Abstract
Presentation in ppt
Contact person: Zoltan Toth x7596
December 2007
Tuesday 4, 10am
Rm 707 Dick Reynolds
NOAA/NCDC
Daily SST Analyses - The The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Abstract
PPT presentation
Contact person: Ming Ji
Tuesday 4, noon
Rm 707 Junjie Liu and Eugenia Kalnay
UMCP
New applications of Ensemble Kalman Filter
Abstract
Contact person: Michiko Masutani x7551
Wednesday 5, noon
Rm 707 Michele Rienecker
NASA/GSFC/GMAO
MERRA - NASA's atmospheric reanalysis project
Abstract
Pdf presentation
Contact person: Sudhir Nadiga x 7276
Friday 7, 11am
Rm 209 John Pleim
NOAA/ARL
A New Combined Local and Non-Local Boundary Layer Model: ACM2
Abstract
Contact person: Jeff McQueen x7226
Tuesday 11, noon
Rm 209 Ernesto Munoz
UMCP
The Caribbean low-level jet: From seasonal to inter-decadal variability
Contact person: Michiko Masutani x7551
January 2008
Friday 11, noon
Rm 707 Hans Huang
NCAR
Benefit of the MTG candidate Infra-Red Sounding mission to regional forecast
- An Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) on regional scales

Abstract
Contact person: Michiko Masutani x7551
Tuesday 29, noon
Rm 707 Ake Johansson
NCEP/EMC
Convectively Forced Gravity Wave Drag
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person: Michiko Masutani x7551
February 2008
Tuesday 12, noon
Rm 707 Winston Chao
NASA/GSFC/
A Conceptual Explanation for the Double ITCZ Bias in GCM Simulations
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person: Michiko Masutani x7551
Tuesday 19, noon
Rm 209 Federico Grazzini
ARPA-SIM (Hydrometeorological service of Emilia-Romagna), Bologna, Italy
Predictability of a large-scale flow conducive to extreme precipitation over western Alps
Abstract
ppt presentation

Contact person: Zoltan Toth x7596
March 2008
Tuesday 25, noon
Rm 707 Isaac Ginis
University of Rhode Island
Modeling of boundary layer and air-sea interface processes in hurricanes
ppt presentation
Contact person: Naomi Surge x7285
April 2008
Tuesday 1, noon
Rm 707 Joint OSSE Team
Speakers: Michiko Masutani(EMC), Erik Andersson(ECMWF), Oreste Reale(NASA/GLA), Jack Woollen (EMC), Dave Emmitt(SWA), Lars Peter Riishojgaard (JCSDA,NASA/GMAO)
Summary of full OSSEs at NCEP and Emerging Internationally collaborative Joint OSSEs
Abstract
presentation will be posted
Contact person: Michiko Masutani x7551
Tele conference
Toll Free 800-857-1738, Toll Number: 1-210-234-0002
Pass code 39480
Tuesday 22, noon
Rm 707 QinFu Liu
NCEP/EMC
Hurricane initialization in HWRF model
ppt presentation
pdf presentation additional material
Abstract
Contact person: Naomi Surge x7285
Tuesday 29, noon
Rm 707 Beth Ebert
Center for Australian Weather and Climate Research (CAWCR)
A partnership between the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO
Melbourne, Australia

Fuzzy forecast verification - giving credit to forecasts that are "close enough"
ppt presentation
Abstract
Contact person: Zoltan Toth x 7596
May 2008
Tuesday 13 noon

Rm 209 Qin Xu
NOAA/Nat. Severe Storms Laboratory
Recent work on radar data quality control (QC) and error covariance estimation at NSSL
pdf presentation for posting
Abstract
Contact person: Jim Purser x7267
Tuesday 20 noon

Rm 707 Leo Donner
GFDL
Toward AM3: GFDL's Next-Generation Atmospheric General Circulation Model
ppt presentation
Abstract
Contact person: Hua Lu Pan x 7234
June 2008
Tuesday 3 noon

Rm 707 Nedjeljka Zagar
NCAR
Quantifying uncertainties in atmospheric analyses and forecasts by using normal modes
ppt presentation avaible with request
Abstract
Contact person: Michiko Masutani x7551
Wednesday 4 1pm

Rm 209 George Halliwell
RSMAS, University of Miami
Evaluating and Improving HYCOM Performance for Simulating the Ocean Response to Tropical Cyclones
Abstract
Contact person: Hyun-Sook Kim x7207
Tuesday 17 noon

Rm 707 Mike Baldwin
Purdue University
Development of a verification methods testbed at the WRF DTC
ppt presentation
Abstract
Contact person: Ying Lin x 7248
Tuesday 17 3:00pm

Rm 209 Madeleine Thomson
International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Climate Information for Public Health: from research to practice
ppt presentation
Contact person: Augustin Vintzileos x 7270
Monday 30 3:00pm

Rm 707 Song You Hong
Yonsei University (Korea)
A new global atmospheric model with a double-Fourier spectral dynamical core
pdf presentation Abstract
Contact person: Henry Juang x7220
July 2008
Friday 11 noon
EMC/JCSDA Joint Seminar
Rm 707 David Tan
ECMWF
Data Processing for ESA's Doppler Wind Lidar Mission ADM-Aeolus
ppt presentation (8MB)
pdf presentation (2.5MB) 3 slide missing
pdf presentation (2.9MB)
Abstract
Contact person: Michiko Masutani x7551
Tuesday 15 noon

Rm 707 David Raymond
New Mexico Tech
Tropical Cyclone Development in the GFS and in Nature
Abstract
Contact person: Hua Lu Pan
Friday 18 noon

Rm 707 Michael Naughton
BMRC
The Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator
ppt presentation
Abstract
Contact person: Mozheng Wei x7581
Monday 21 9am

Rm 707 Alexander McDonald
ESRL
Ideas for Improving Hurricane Forecasts
ppt presentation
Abstract
ppt Abstract
Contact person: Julian Wang
Friday 25 11am

Rm 209 Adrian Simmons
ECMWF
Monitoring and forecasting atmospheric constituents for provision of climate and air-quality information services

ppt presentation
Abstract
Contact person: Steve Lord
August 2008
Monday 4th 10:30am

Rm 707 Remi Montroty
Meteo France
Impact of rain-affected SSM/I data assimilation on the analyses and forecasts of tropical cyclones and study of flow-dependent ensemble background errors
pdf presentation
Abstract
Contact person:Steve Lord
Tuesday 12 1:30pm

Rm 707 Julius Chang
National Central University, Taiwan
Comparison of online and offline modeling with WRF/chemT
ppt presentation
Abstract
Contact person:Ho-Chun Huang x7249
Thursday 21 11am

Rm 209 Gregory Osterman
NASA/JPL
The Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) on the Aura satellite: Science findings and air qualtiy applications
Abstract
Contact person:Jeff McQueen x 7226
Wednesday 27 1 pm

Rm 209 Zhanqing Li
University of MD
Evaluation of clouds produced by the NCEP forecasting models using MODIS-CLOUDSAT-CALIPSO satellite products
ppt presentation
Contact person: Brad Ferrir x7290, Fanglin Yang x7296
September 2008
Tuesday 16 noon

Rm 707 Ching Yee Chang
Univ. Maryland
Seasonal and Interannual Ocean-Atmosphere Variability in the Tropical Atlantic: Observed Structure and Model Representation
Abstract
Contact person: Sarah Lu x7582
Friday 19 noon

Rm 707 Yihua Wu
EMC
The development of the HWRF land surface component
pdf presentation
Abstract
Contact person: Yihua Wu x (301)316-5052
Tuesday 30 noon

Rm 707 Dan Tyndall
Univ. Utah
A two-dimensional variational analysis for surface temperature is developed for a limited domain
ppt presentation
Abstract
Contact person: Manuel Pondeca x7734
October 2008
Tuesday 14 noon

Rm 707 Fuqing Zhang
The Pennsylvania State University
Convective-resolving hurricane initialization and prediction through assimilation of Doppler radar observations
pdf presentation
Abstract
Contact person: Naomi Surge x 7285
Friday 17, 10am Rm 707 Joao Teixeira
NASA/JPL
Model Uncertainty in Ensemble Forecasting: Stochastic Physics and Truncation Error.
Contact person: Zoltan Toth x7596
Tuesday 21st noon Rm 707 Keith Brill
NCEP/HPC
Quantitative Assessment of Bias Sensitivity of Performance Measures for Dichotomous Forecasts
pdf presentation
Abstract
Contact person: Edwin Danaher
Tuesday 28 noon Rm 707 Guomin Wang
Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research/Australia
Seasonal Prediction System and Applications at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
ppt presentation
Abstract
Contact person: Xingren Wu 7277
November 2008
Tuesday 4 noon Rm 707 Guang Ping Lou
EMC
NCEP Operational Global Cyclone Tracking and Verification System
ppt presentation
Abstract
Contact person: Guang Ping Lou x7252
Tuesday 18 noon Rm 209 Gareth Berry
SUNY Albany
Intercomparison of African easterly wave representation in operational numerical weather prediction models
pdf presentation
Abstract
Contact person: Michiko Masutani x7551
December 2008
Monday 8 3pm Rm 209 Chris Landsea
NOAA/National Hurricane Center
The Joint Hurricane Testbed: Transitioning from Research to Operations
ppt presentation
Abstract
Contact person:Naomi Surge x 7285
Tuesday 9, noon Rm 209 Slobodan Nickovic
WMO
Sand and Dust Storm Monitoring: International Research Coordination and Example of Dust Model Developments
ppt presentation Part A
ppt presentation Part B
Abstract
Contact person: Zavisa Janjic x 7243
Thursday 11 noon Rm 707 Chris Landsea
NOAA/National Hurricane Center
Hurricanes and Global Warming: Expectations versus Observations
ppt presentation
Abstract
Contact person:Naomi Surge x 7285
January 2009
Tuesday 6 noon Rm 707 Eugenia Kalnay
Univ. Maryland College Park
Ideas on Ensemble Kalman Filter
pdf presentation
Abstract
Contact person:Michiko Masutani x7551
Tuesday 27 noon Rm 209 Ted Mettlach
NOAA/National Data Buoy Center
Data Quality Control at NDBC
ppt presentation
Abstract
Contact person:Jack Woollen (301)445-5067
Friday 30 noon Rm 707 Gert-Jan Marseille
KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute)
ADM-Aeolus, for global 3D wind coverage
ppt presentation
Abstract
Contact person:Michiko Masutani x7551
February 2009
Monday 2 noon Rm 707 Gert-Jan Marseille
KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute)
ADM-Aeolus, for global 3D wind coverage
ppt presentation
Abstract
Contact person:Michiko Masutani x7551
March 2009
Tuesday 31 noon Rm 707 Ana Nunes
University of California, San Diego
Contact person:Ed Olenic
June 2009
Friday 19 noon Rm 707 Ad Stoffelen
KNMI
Contact person:Michiko Masutani x7551

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Sudhir Nadiga Sudhir.Nadiga@noaa.gov (301)763-8000 ext.7276 (Ocean related)
Tuesday noon a room is researved for the EMC seminar. If you wish to organize a seminar other time we could also arrange.
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