2014 Joint DTC/EMC Hurricane WRF Tutorial

EMC/MMM/DTC Joint Hurricane Tutorial. Jan 14-16, 2014

Tutorial Presentations

Tuesday 14, 2014

• Tutorial Introduction - Fred Toepfer (PDF)
• Overview of the NCEP Operational HWRF Modeling System - Vijay Tallapragada (PDF)
• NMM Dynamic Core & HWRF - Zavisa Janjic (PDF)
• The Coupled System - Sheinin (PDF)
• 2013 HWRF Nesting - Samuel Trahan (PDF)
• HWRF Physics - Young C. Kwon (PDF)
• HWRF Initialization Overview - Ligia Bernardet (PDF)
• Introduction to DA and GSI - Hui Shao (PDF)
• HWRF Initialization & GSI Customization - Mingjing Tong (PDF)

Wednesday 15, 2014

• Ocean model and initialization - R. Yablonsky (PDF)
• Ocean, Waves and Sea Spray in HWRF - Hyun-Sook Kim (PDF)
• Use of GFDL Vortex Tracker - Tim Marchok (PDF)
• Building the HWRF Components - Donald Stark (PDF)
• Mechanics of Running HWRF - Biswas (PDF)
• Idealized Capability - Ligia Bernardet (PDF)

Thursday 16, 2014

• Aircraft observations of Hurricanes to imporve the understanding and prediction of Tropical Cyclones - Robert Rogers (PDF)
• Forecast Verification - Kathryn Newman (PDF)
• Introduction to the HWRF-based Ensemble Prediction System - Zhan Zhang(PDF)