01. Atmospheric data assimilation schemes, analysis and initialization, data impact studies, observing system experiments

Oleg Alduchov and Vladimir Gordin

Anisotropy of Meteorological Fields

Russia

Oleg Alduchov and Irina Chernykh

Errors in detecting of cloud boundaries for detailed radiosonde profiles

Russia

Vladimir Bayev and Vladimir Gordin

On Impact of Radiosondes' Shift into Objective Analysis

Russia

Teruyuki Kato and Yoshiaki Sato

Importance of vertical water vapor analysis - A problem in assimilating TPW with 4DVar

Japan

Michael Keil

Assimilating long-duration balloon data using a Partial OSSE

UK

Ekaterina Klimova

A suboptimal Kalman filter algorithm with the simplified models for calculation of the forecast error covariances

Russia

Ching-Chi Lam

Case Study on the Impact of Radar-derived TREC Winds on Model Forecast of Heavy Rain Associated with Landfalling Tropical Cyclone

Hong Kong, China

Rolf Langland

Estimation of Observation Value Using the NAVDAS Adjoint System

U.S.

Amos Lawless and Nancy Nichols

The convergence of incremental 4D-Var using non-tangent linear models

U.K.

S. Mark Leidner and Ross Hoffman

Rain Quality Control for SeaWinds Near Real-time Data

USA

Ying Lin , Geoff DiMego, Dennis Keyser and Eric Rogers

Assimilation of GOES Cloud Top Pressure Data into the Eta Model

USA

Jean-Francois MAHFOUF and Stephane LAROCHE

On the lower boundary condition of tangent-linear models

CANADA

Jesse Meng

INTERCOMPARISON OF GLOBAL LAND SURFACE SOLAR INSOLATION IN OPERATIONAL GCMS

USA

Kazuya Nojima and Yoshiyuki Nakamura

On the use of BUFR-formatted AMVs from METEOSAT satellites

Japan

Kozo Okamoto and Masahiro Kazumori

The experiments of direct assimilation of ATOVS radicances in the JMA 3D-Var system

Japan

Andreas Rhodin

Modeling of Covariance Matrices by Generalized Diffusion Operators - A Hierarchical Approach

Germany

Ian Roulstone

Data Assimilation for Convective Scale NWP

UK

Hiromu Seko , Hiromu Seko, Hajime Nakamura, Ko Koizumi and Tetsuya Iwabuchi

DATA ASSIMILATION EXPERIMENTS IN NERIMA HEAVY RAINFALL - HOW USEFUL ARE DOPPLER RADAR RADIAL WIND AND GPS-DERIVED WATER VAPOR? -

Japan

Monique Tanguay

Adjoint of the non-hydrostatic GEMDM LAM

Canada

Masami Tokuno and Yasuaki Ohhashi

Assimilation of QuikSCAT/SeaWinds Ocean Surface Wind Data into the Global Data Assimilation System at JMA

Japan

Mamadou Tounkara, P. Caille and J. Pailleux

The impact of tropical radiosonde data on the ARPEGE analyses and forecasts

France


02. Data sets, diagnostic and dynamical investigations, statistical post-processing , multi-year reanalyses and associated studies

Irina Chernykh and Oleg Alduchov

About Cloudiness Low Boundary over Antarctic Peninsula

Russia

Alexey V. Eliseev and Igor I. Mokhov

Intercomparison of NCEP and ERA reanalyses in terms of characteristics of surface aire temperature annual cycle

Russian

M. Goeber and C.A. Wilson WGNE assessment of Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts from Operational Numerical Weather Prediction Models over the U.K. UK

Igor Mokhov and Alexandre Chernokulsky

Global cloudiness: Tendencies of change from ISCCP data

Russia

Igor Mokhov and Mirseid Akperov

Intense Arctic and Antarctic mesocyclones (polar lows) and their variability

Russia

Kazutoshi Onogi , Hiroshi Koide, Nobuo Yamazaki, Hirotaka Kamahori, Kiyotoshi Takahashi, Jun'ichi Tsutsui and Hiroaki Hatsushika

Preliminary Experiments for Japanese 25-year Reanalysis Project

Japan

E.V. Perekhodtseva

STATISTICAL MODELS FOR OPERATIVE FORECAST OF DANGEROUS CONVECTIVE PHENOMENA LIKE RAINFALLS, SQUALLS AND TORNADOES IN THE EUROPEAN PART OF RUSSIA AND IN EUROPE

Russia

Harun Rashid and Ian Simmonds

Optimal nonmodal growth as a contributing cause to the Southern Hemisphere annular mode variability

Australia

Gdaly Rivin and Erdmann Heise

Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) meteorological data set for the development of a flood forecasting system

Germany

Gregory Roff

GRIPS GCM simulated polar vortex intercomparison

Australia

Ryan Sharp and Mark Bourassa

Tropical Cyclogenesis Detection in the East Pacific Hurricane Basin

United States

Ian Simmonds

Origins of northern Antarctic Peninsula air masses

Australia

Shawn Smith and Mark Bourassa

Tropical Pacific wind comparisons: objective FSU versus NCEP reanalysis products

USA

03. Computational studies including new techniques, the effect of varying model resolution, parallel processing

Pierre Bénard

Horizontal diffusion operators in models with a stretched horizontal geometry

France

Pierre Bénard

Stable algorithms for the NH version of the LAM "Aladin"

France

Luca Bonaventura , M. Giorgetta, D. Majewski, A. Muller, A. Rhodin, B. Ritter and E. Roeckner

ICON : Development of an icosahedral, non-hydrostatic global model

Germany

Michael Cullen

Preserving long-term accuracy in semi-implicit schemes for slightly compressible flow

U.K.

Tsukasa Fujita

Higher order finite difference schemes for advection of NHM

Japan

Keiichi Katayama and Hiromasa Yoshimura

Development of a 20 km mesh global NWP model on the Earth Simulator

Japan

William Merryfield and Norman McFarlane

A generalized hybrid transformation for tracer advection

Canada

Kazuo Saito

Time-splitting of advection in the JMA Nonhydrostatic Model

Japan

Mikhail Tolstykh

Variable resolution version of the SL-AV global NWP model

Russia

Hiromasa Yoshimura and Takayuki Matsumura

A Semi-Lagrangian Scheme Conservative in the Vertical Direction

Japan

Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo , Peng Yu and James J. Obrien

A new interpolation method for high frequency forcing fields

USA

04. Parameterization of important atmospheric and surface processes, effects of different parameterizations

I.V. Akimov

Verification of precipitation calculation method based on parameterization of distribution function evolution

Russia

Guenther Doms and Detlef Majewski

A Prognostic Cloud Ice Scheme for NWP-Models

Germany

Pierre Etchevers

The SNOWMIP project : validation of albedo and short wave radiation budget simulated by several snow models.

France

Masayuki hirai and Mitsuo Oh'izumi

Development of a New Land-surface Model for JMA-GSM

Japan

Yu-Tai Hou

Application of RRTM longwave radiation to NCEP GFS

US

Hideaki Kawai

Impact of a Cloud Ice Fall Scheme Based on an Analytically Integrated Solution

Japan

Dmitrii Mironov and Bodo Ritter

A first version of the ice model for the global NWP system GME of the German Weather Service

Germany

Akihiko Murata and Mitsuru Ueno

Numerical simulations of a tropical cyclone using the Arakawa-Schubert scheme with vertically variable entrainment rate

Japan

Masayuki Nakagawa

Development of a Cumulus Parameterization Scheme of the Operational Global Model at JMA

Japan

Jon Radakovich , Guiling Wang, Shian-Jiann Lin, Sharon Nebuda and Bo-wen Shen

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NCAR COMMUNITY LAND MODEL (CLM) IN THE NASA/NCAR FINITE-VOLUME GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL (fvGCM)

USA

Bodo Ritter , Reinhold Schrodin and Aurelia Mueller

Implementation and testing of a multi-layer soil model in the NWP models of DWD

Germany

Z. Sun and L. Rikus

Implementation of ARM derived ice water content in NWP model

Australia

Mikhail Tolstykh

The use of combined closure in convection parameterization scheme

Russia

Mitsuru Ueno

An objective method to diagnose the contribution of steering flow at each level to tropical cyclone motion

Japan

Syoukichi Yabu

The Doppler Absorption in the Thermal Infrared Radiation Parameterization of JMA Global Spectrum Model

Japan

05. Development of and studies with regional and smaller-scale atmospheric models

L.V. Berkovich and Yu.V. Tkacheva

The hydrodynamic short-range of the local weather forecasting

Russia

Francois Bouttier

Arome; a new operational mesoscale NWP system for Meteo-France

France

Neill Bowler and Clive Pierce

Development of a short range QPF algorithm based upon Optic Flow techniques

United Kingdom

John Du and Geoff DiMego

NCEP Short-Range Ensemble Forecasting (SREF) System : Multi-IC, Multi-Model and Multi-Physics Approach

USA

Ramon de Elia and Rene Laprise

Predictability of Limited-Area Models: Twin and Big-Brother Experiments

Canada

William Jr. Gallus and Isidora Jankov

Convective system rainfall forecast accurage as a function of large-scale forcing

USA

T. Haiden

NWP research in Austria

Australia

Dale Hess , Martin Cope, Kamal Puri, Manuela Burgers and Margaret Young

The Australian Air Quality Forecasting System

Australia

Zavisa Janjic , Tom Black and Geoff DiMego

The NCEP Nonhydrostatic Mesoscale Forecasting Model

US

Xudong Liang and Johnny Chan

Convective Asymmetries Associated with Tropical Cyclone Landfall. Part I: F-Plane Simulations

China

Wataru Mashiko and Chiashi Muroi

DEVELOPMENT OF A TWO-WAY MULTIPLY-NESTED MOVABLE MESH TYPHOON MODEL USING THE CLOUD RESOLVING NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL

Japan

T. Paccagnella , Cesari D., Nerozzi F. and Tibaldi S.

The Limited-Area Ensemble Prediction System COSMO-LEPS

Italy

A.E. Pokhil and A.D. Naumov

Analysis of the evolution and motion of tropical cyclones on the basis of calculations using the ETA model and satellite data

Russia

Kai Sattler and Henrik Feddersen

Study on limited-area short-range ensemble approaches targeted for heavy rain in Europe

Denmark

Hiromu Seko and Hiromu Seko

NUMERICAL STUDY OF THE SHAPES AND MAINTENANCE MECHANISMS OF MESO-β SCALE LINE-SHAPED PRECIPITATION SYSTEM IN THE MIDDLE-LATITUDES

Japan

S. Senotrusova and V. Svinuhov

Model of real classification of meteorological parameters for regional prognosis

Russia

Xiaqiong Zhou and Johnny Chan

Convective Asymmetries Associated with Tropical Cyclone Landfall. Part I: F-Plane Simulations

China

06. Developments in global forecast models, case studies, predictability investigations, ensemble forecasting monthly and seasonal forecasting

B. K. Basu Summer Monsoon precipitation over India - a comparison of model predicted and observed values India

Sandrine Edouard and Bernard Dugas

The use of a hybrid vertical coordinate in the CMC-MRB Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) model

Canada

Hann-Ming Henry Juang

A REDUCED SPHERICAL TRANSFORM FOR THE NCEP SEASONAL FORECAST GLOBAL SPECTRAL ATMOSPHERIC MODEL

USA

Xudong Liang and Yihong Duan Optimal-controlled Ensemble Prediction Technique and its Appilcation in ENSO Prediction China

Wataru Ohfuchi and AFES Working Team

Global atmospheric simulations with the T1279L9 6 resolution

JAPAN

Tim Palmer and Francisco Doblas-Reyes

Development of a European Multi-Model Ensemble System for Seasonal to Inter-Annual Prediction (DEMETER)

UK

Dong-Wook Shin and Steve Cocke

Ensemble Configurations for Typhoon-related Rainfall Forecasts

USA

G.V. Sourkova

Changes of the zonal atmospheric circulation at the Last Glacial Maximum as it is simulated by atmospheric global circulation models in PMIP

Russia

07. Global and regional climate models, sensitivity and impact experiments, response to external forcing

Vivek Arora and George Boer

The temporal variability of soil moisture and surface hydrological quantities

Canada

Irina Chernykh and Oleg Alduchov

Joint Analys is of Climatic Changes of Surface Temperature and Cloudiness Vertical Structure in Antarctic Region on base CARDS

Russia

Michel Déqué and Florence Sevault

Impact of an IPCC-B2 scenario on Mediterranean sea temperature

France

Michael Fox-Rabinovitz and Lawrence Takacs

A 12-year (1987-1998) ensemble simulation of the U.S. climate with a variable-resolution stretched-grid GCM

U.S.A.

Nikolaus Groll and Martin Widmann

Teleconnections and upscaling relationships for the Eemian

Germany

R. S. Harwood, R. M. Doherty, I. A. Mackenzie and D. S. Stevenson

Chemistry and Climate Studies with the Met Office Unified Model

UK

Hann-Ming Henry Juang and Yucheng Song

REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATIONS OF THE 1990 NORTH AMERICAN SUMMER MONSOON

USA

Igor Mokhov and Andrey Karpenko

Model projections of extreme runoff (floods) in Siberian ri vers basins

Russia

David Noone

Sensitivity of the vertical coupling of Northern wintertime annular modes to anomalous high-latitude surface heating

USA

V.P. Parkhomenko

Sea Ice Cover Sensitivity analysis in Global Climate Model

Russia

Sebastian Wagner

Atmosphere-Sea Ice interaction during the Dalton Minimum within a historical simulation with ECHO-G

Germany

Richard Wardle and Ian Simmonds

Late Quaternary Southern Hemisphere extratropical cyclone characteristics

Australia

08. Development of and advances in ocean modelling and data assimilation, sea-ice modelling, wave modelling

L. CavalerI and L. Bertotti

LONG-TERM CALIBRATION OF WIND AND WAVES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Italy

A.A. Deo and D.W. Ganer

Ocean mixed layer response to a Bay of Bengal cyclone : A Case Study

India

Masayoshi Ishii and Kenji Sakamoto

Ocean data assimilation system using temperature, salinity, and sea surface height observations, and its impact on El Nino prediction

Japan

Erik Kvaleberg and Steven L. Morey

Modeling frontal instabilities in the Gulf of Mexico

USA

Arkadiy S. Safray and Igor V. Tkatchenko

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF OPEN BOUNDARY CONDITIONS BY MODELLING OF THE INTERNAL-WAVE TRANSFORMATION AT THE EDGE OF THE SHELF BY M2 TIDAL FORCING

Russia

Hideharu Sasaki , Nobumasa Komori and Hirohumi Sakuma

Fifty years Time-integration of Global Eddy-resolving Simulation

Japan

Bulusu Subramanyam , James O'Brien and John Morrison

Examination of Heat Transport in the Indian Ocean using altimetry and MICOM

USA

Akiyoshi Wada

Improvement of wind induced mixing and entrainment in MRI mixed layer model

Japan

Peng Yu and Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo

A new gridding method for satellite altimeter data

U.S.A.

Alexander Zelenko and Yurii Resnyansky

Water exchange between the Arctic Ocean and adjacent basins: Essential role of short-term variations

Russia

09. Development of and studies with coupled ocean-atmosphere models

Kenneth R. Sperber , Julia M. Slingo , Wei Li, Peter J. Gleckler and Charles Doutriaux

The Madden-Julian Oscillation in GCMs

USA

Keiko Takahashi , Nobumasa Komori and Tetsuya Sato

Developing coupled ocean-atmosphere global climate model for the Earth Simulator

Japan

Akiyoshi Wada

Validation of typhoon intensity prediction by MRI typhoon-ocean coupled model

Japan

Akiyoshi Wada

Typhoon-ocean coupled model with upgraded mixed layer model

Japan