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

Contact person:Michiko Masutani x7551
Telephone Extension is for (301)763-8000
January 2006
Tuesday 10, noon Rm. 707 Adel Hanna
EPA/CMAS
A Community Approach to the Development and Applications of Environmental Decision Support Systems
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person: Jeff McQueen x 7226
Friday 20, 2pm Rm. 707 C Roberto Mechoso
UCLA
Modeling the Eastern Pacific Climate: Progress and Challenges
ppt presentation
Contact person: Hua-Lu Pan x 7234
Tuesday 24, noon Rm. 707 Sei-Young Park and Joo-Hyung Son
KMA/NWPD
Introduction of the KMA statistical model and ensemble model (by Joo-Hyung Son)
ppt presentation
Introduction of the KMA assimilation system with the First Guess at Appropriate Time(FGAT) (by Sei-Young Park)
ppt presentation
Contact person: Michiko Masutani x7551
February 2006
Wednesday 1, noon Rm. 209 Vijay Tallapragada
Florida State University
Hurricane Modeling Diagnostics
(Angular Momentum, Scale Interactions and Chi-Psi Interactions)

Abstract
Contact person:Naomi Surge x7285
Tuesday 7, noon Rm. 209 Yannick Tremolet
ECMWF
Accounting for an imperfect model in 4D-Var
Abstract
pdf presentation
Contact person: John Derber x 7740
Tuesday 21, noon Rm.707 Miodrag Rancic
University of Maryland
Global expansion of the regional models of atmosphere through a framework of quasi-uniform rectangular grids
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person: Michiko Masutani x7551
Friday 24, noon Rm. 707 Roberto Buizza
ECMWF
The new ECMWF VAREPS (VAriable Resolution EPS)
Abstract
Contact person: Zoltan Toth x 7596
Tuesday 28, noon Rm.209 Fabrice Ardhuin
SHOM, Brest, France
Wave-current interactions: from theory to practical applications
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person: Hendrik L. Tolman x7253
March 2006
Tuesday 7, noon
Ocean
Rm. 707 Roxana C. Wajsowicz
University of Maryland
Persistence and Predictability Barriers for the Tropical Indian Ocean Climate
Abstract
Flyer in pdf
Contact person: Sudhir Nadiga x7276
Tuesday 7, 3pm
Ocean
Rm. 209 Subrahmanyam Bulusu
University of South Carolina
Ocean surface salinity in the tropical oceans using satellite derived OLR
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person: Desiraju Rao x7207
Tuesday 28, noon Rm. 707 Ning Zeng
University of Maryland
ENSO, drought, and seasonal-interannual prediction of ecosystem and the carbon cycle
Abstract
Contact the speaker for the presentation
Contact person: Augustin Vintzileos x7270
April 2006
Tuesday 4, 2pm Rm. 707 Kerry A. Emanuel
MIT
Hurricane Risk: Present and Future
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person: Naomi Surge x7285
Tuesday 11, noon Rm. 707 Dag Lohmann
Risk Management Solutions
Modeling Flood Risk for the Insurance Industry
Abstract
Contact person: Ken Mitchell 301-316-5027
May 2006
Tuesday 2, noon Rm. 707 Horst Boettger
ECMWF
Recent developments in operations at ECMWF
Abstract
pdf presentation
pdf with Voice
Contact person: Steve Lord x 7202
Wednesday 3, 10am
Ocean
Rm. 209 Peter Sheng
Univ. Florida
Towards An Interoperable and Integrated Regional Coastal Hazard Forecasting System
Abstract
Contact person: Desiraju Rao x 7207
Friday 12, noon Rm. 707 John Gamache
NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division
Automated Quality Control and Analysis of NOAA WP-3D Airborne Doppler Data and its Use during the 2005 Hurricane Season
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person:Jim Purser x7267 Naomi Surge x7285
Tuesday 16, noon Rm. 707 Rex Fleming
SpectraSensors, Inc.
The Variety of New Commercial Aircraft Sensors for Weather, Climate, and Air Quality Applications: Their Accuracy and Use
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person: Fred Toepfer x7200
Friday 19, 10am Rm. 209 Stan Benjamin, Jim Lee and Rainer Bleck
ESRL
Development and testing of the Flow-following Finite-Volume Icosahedral Model (FIM)
ppt presentation
Contact person: Steve Lord x7202
June 2006
Monday 19, noon Rm. 707 U. C. Mohanty
Centre for Atmospheric Sciences IIT Delh , India
Simulation of Bay of Bengal Cyclones using Mesoscale Models
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person: Sundararaman G. Gopalakrishnan x 7293
Tuesday 20, noon
Ocean
Rm. 209 Kris Karnauskas
ESSIC
Improvements to the equatorial Pacific cold tongue in an OGCM: possible implications for the NCEP GODAS and CFS
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person:SudhirNadiga x7276
July 2006
Tuesday 11, noon Rm. 707 Emilia Kyung Jin
COLA
Predictability of Coupled CGCMs: NCEP CFS, CLIPAS and DEMETER
Abstract
pdf presentation
Contact person:SudhirNadiga x7276 Contact person: Augustin Vintzileos x7270
Tuesday 18, noon Rm. 707 Brian Cosgrove
NASA/GSFC Hydrological Sciences Branch
Offline development and initialization of coupled models; a perspective from the 12km North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDASE) project
Abstract
Contact person:Jesse Meng 301-316-5026
August 2006
Tuesday 15, noon Rm. 707 Michael Schulz
CEA/CNRS
INCA aerosol model development and the link to the AeroCom model intercomparison framework
Abstract
Contact person:Sarah Lu x7582
Tuesday 29, 10am Rm. 209 Carlie Coats and John McHenry
Baron AMS
WRF "Lite": Streamlining the WRF
Abstract
Contact person:Nelson Seaman x 7222
September 2006
Tuesday 5, noon Rm. 707 Ronald Errico
NASA/GSFC/GMAO
The use of an OSSE to estimate characteristics of analysis error
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person:Zoltan Toth x7596
Tuesday 19, noon Rm. 707 Nash'at Ahmad
SAIC-GMU
Euler Solutions using Flux-based Wave Decomposition
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person:Jim Purser x7267
Friday noon, noon Rm. 707 Jose A. Garcia-Moya
Spanish Meteorological Institute (INM)
Multi-model Short-range ensemble forecasting at Spanish Met Institute (INM)
Abstract
pdf presentation
Contact person:Jun Du x7593
Tuesday 26, noon Rm. 707 Akihiko Shimpo
JMA visiting Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Implementation of cloud water schemes into ECPC G-RSM
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person: Hua-Lu Pan x 7234
October 2006
Tuesday 3, noon
Ocean
Rm. 209 Boyin Huang
NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC
Impacts of River Runoffs on Salinity, Circulation, and Temperature in OGCM
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person:Jiande Wang x7273
Tuesday 10, noon Rm. 707 Jialin Lin
NOAA/OAR/ESRL/PSD-CIRES
Understanding the Tropical Biases in GCMs: Double-ITCZ, ENSO, MJO and Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person:Hua-Lu Pan x 7234
Tuesday 17, noon Rm. 209 Victor Koren
NOAA/NWS/Office of Hydrological Development
Sensitivity of energy budget and temperature-index snow models to data uncertainties
Abstract
Contact person:Ken Mitchell 301-316-5027
Tuesday 24, 10am Rm. 209 Kenneth Schere & Jonathan Pleim
NOAA/ARL/ASMD
Experiences with Software Frameworks in Air-Quality Modeling Systems at NOAA/ASMD
Contact person:Nelson Seaman (301) 764-8000 X 7222
Tuesday 24, noon
Joint with JCSDA
Rm. 707 Stefan Kinne
Max Plank Institute,Germany
Aerosol Optical Depth
(Combining different data-sets from remote sensing to a recommended composite)

Abstract
Contact person:Tom Zhao (301)763-8059 (ext. 213)
November 2006
Friday 3, 10am Rm. 707 Steve Mullen
University of Arizona
Opportunities in Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting (PQPF) Research
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person:Zoltan Toth x7596
Tuesday 7, noon Rm. 707 Qilong Min
SUNY Albany
Effects of Saharan dust and dry air on clouds and precipitation
Abstract
Contact person:Sarah Lu x7582
Tuesday 21, noon Rm. 707 Bradley Ballish
NCEP/NCO
Comparison of Aircraft and Radiosonde Data with Implications for Bias Correction
Abstract
ppt presentation
Tuesday 28, noon Rm. 209 Sei-Young Park
Korea Meteorological Administration visitor to EMC
Quality Control and the application of Cross Validation in the Real Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) system
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person:Manuel Pondeca x7734
December 2006
Friday 1, 10:30am Rm. 209 Larry Breaker
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Nonlinear aspects of sea surface temperature in Monterey Bay
Abstract
Contact person:D.B. Rao x7207
Monday 4, 11am Rm. 707 Dazhong Yin
University of Arizona
A wind-blown dust simulation and forecast system for public health services
Abstract
Contact person:Zavisa Janjic x 7243
Tuesday 5, noon Rm. 209 Brad Pierce
NASA Langley Research Center
Impacts of background ozone production on Houston and Dallas, TX Air Quality during the NOAA 2006 TEXAQS field mission
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person:Sarah Lu x7582
Monday 18, 10am Rm. 209 Ming-Jen Yang
National Central University
A Modeling Study of Typhoon Nari (2001): Model Verification and Topographic Effects
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person:Sarah Lu x7582
Tuesday 19, noon Rm. 707 Arun Chawla
EMC/NCEP
Developing Bathymetric and Obstruction grids for WAVEWATCH III applications from a blend of global high resolution shoreline and bathymetry databases
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person:Hendrik Tolman x7253
January 2007
Wednesday 24, noon Rm. 209 Yuanfu Xie
NOAA/ESRL
NOAA/ESRL Space-Time Mesoscale Analysis System
A sequential 3DVAR approach

Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person:Michiko Masutani x7551
Tuesday 30, noon Rm. 707 Guo Deng
Chinese Meteorological Administration
A Brief Introduction of NWP at NMC/CMA
Abstract
ppt presentation
Contact person:Yuejian Zhu x7052
February 2007
Tuesday 20, noon Rm. 707 Joe Sela
NCEP/EMC
A two time level Semilagrange version of NCEP's Spectral Model
pdf presentation
Contact person:Mark Iredel x 7237
March 2007
Tuesday 20, noon Rm. 209 Koji Kato
JMA
Two subjects in one seminar
Inter-calibration between MTSAT-1R and AIRS
Objective method to determine the Typhoon intensity using IR1 images
Abstract
Contact person:Michiko Masutani x7551
Thursday 22, noon
Ocean
Rm. 209 Steve Piacsek
Oceanographic Division NRL
WARMING TRENDS IN THE NORWEGIAN AND GREENLAND SEAS IN THE 1986-1993 PERIOD: ANALYSIS OF OBSERVATIONS AND SIMULATIONS
Abstract
Contact person:Sudhir Nadiga x7276
Tuesday 27, noon Rm. 707 Masahiro Kazumori
JMA Visiting NCEP/EMC
Contact person:Michiko Masutani x7551
April 2007
Tuesday 17, noon Rm. 707 Haixia Liu
NCEP/EMC
Contact person:Michiko Masutani x7551
Tuesday 24, noon Rm. 707 Ferdinand Baer
Univ. Maryland (College Park)
Climate MOdeling with Spectral Elements
Abstract
Contact person:Ake Johansson x7260

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If you are interested in giving a seminar at EMC:
Michiko Masutani Michiko.Masutani@noaa.gov (301)763-8000 ext. 7551
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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