5th Meeting THORPEX DAOS

(MADISON, Wisconsin, 19-20 September 2012)

• Actions and reports from the recent ICSC and WWRP/JSC meetings and post THORPEX plans
  J. Caughey
  
  
  

• Report from THORPEX Africa WG Meeting (Geneva, 8-10 May 2012)
  S. Majumdar
  
  

• DAOS Links to WWRP/Mesoscale Weather Forecasting Research (MWFR) WG
  D. Barker
  
  

• The Fifth WMO Workshop on the Impact of Various Observing Systems on NWP
  (Sedona, AZ, 22 - 25 May 2012)
  R. Gelaro, E. Andersson
  
  

• Actions from DAOS-4
  R. Saunders

• New Interpretations of Targeting Techniques for Tropical Cyclones
  B. Hoover, C. Velden, C. Reynolds, S. Majumdar
  
  

• Targeted Observations for Improving Numerical Weather Prediction: An overview
  S. Majumdar
  

• Impact of Targeted Dropsonde Data on Mid-latitude Numerical Weather Forecasts during the 2011 Winter Storms Reconnaissance Program
  T. Hamill, C. Cardinali, F. Yang, S. Majumdar
  
  

• Impact of observations in the Southern Polar Area during the Concordiasi field experiment
  F. Rabier, V. Guidard, A. Doerenbecher, A. Vincensini, C. Cardinali, R. Gelaro, R.Langland, A. Cress        
  
  

• DIAMET - DIAbatic influences on Mesoscale structures in Extratropical sTorms
  G. Vaughan, J. Methven, I. Renfrew, D. Parker
  
  

• Data Assimilation aspects and the HyMeX campaign
  Y. Michel and N. Fourrié
  
  

• Update on GEO Hyperspectral Sounders:   GIFTS and GeoMetWatch “Storm"
  H. Revercomb
  
  

• Update on Satellite Observations
  R. Saunders and C. Velden
  
  

• Impact of Satellite Atmospheric Motion Vectors in the GMAO GEOS-5 Global Data Assimilation System
  R. Gelaro, D. Merkova, W. McCarty, King-Sheng Tai
  
  

• International Winds Working Group (IWWG) 11th Workshop -- AMV Impact Studies
  D. Santek, C. Velden
  

• General Observational Developments – Topic 3: In-situ observations
  S. Klink, T.Keenan, B. Calpini

• Comparison of Model Analyses/Errors
  R. Langland
  
  

• An Integrated Ensemble/Variational Hybrid Data Assimilation System
  T. Auligne
  
  

• Use of Ensembles in Variational Data Assimilation
  A. Lorenc
  
  

• Assimilation of Aerosol Observations
  R.B. Pierce, Arlindo da Silva, M. Pagowski, G. Grell, P. Saide, G. Carmichael, S. Lu
  

• Fast Implementation of Localization for Ensemble DA
  B. Wang, J.J. Liu
  
  

• Tropical Cyclone Mesoscale Data Assimilation
  S. Majumdar, C. Velden

• Using regional-scale OSSEs to explore the impact of infrared brightness temperature observations
  J. Otkin