The 2010 Blue Book, by list of authors

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

Author(s)	Title	Country	Pages
L. Berre, G. Desroziers, L. Raynaud	Upgrade to 4D-Var of the operational ensemble variational assimilation at Météo-France	France	1-03
R. Danielson, L. Fillion, H. Ritchie	Assimilation of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) wind information in Environment Canada's high-resolution 3D-Var analysis system	Canada	1-05
T. Egawa	Assimilation of SSMIS Imager Channels in the JMA's Global 4D-Var Data Assimilation System	Japan	1-07
N. Fourrié, V. Guidard, F. Rabier	Impact of hyperspectral infrared sounders in Numerical Weather Prediction models of Meteo-France	France	1-09
T. Ishibashi	Optimization of Error Covariance Matrices and Estimation of Observation Data Impact in the JMA Global 4D-Var System	Japan	1-11
Y. Ishikawa	Data Assimilation of GPS Precipitable Water Vapor into the JMA Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction Model	Japan	1-13
F. Karbou, F. Rabier, E. Gérard, J.-P. Lafore, J.-L. Redelsperger, O. Bock	The Use of Microwave Surface Sensitive Observations over Land and over Sea-Ice at Météo-France	France	1-15
M. Kazumori, H. Onoda	Impacts of Surface Pressure Observations in the Antarctica on JMA's Global Data Assimilation and Forecasting	Japan	1-17
M. Kazumori	Initial Results of a Direct Radiance Assimilation Experiment in the JMA Mesoscale 4D-Var data assimilation system	Japan	1-19
Y. Kosaka, A. Okagaki	Recent Modifications of Tropical Cyclone Bogus Data in the JMA Global Data Assimilation System	Japan	1-21
T. Kuroda, K. Saito, M. Kunii, H. Seko	Mesoscale LETKF Data Assimilation on Cyclone Nargis	Japan	1-23
H. Murata	Status of ATOVS Radiance Data Utilization in the JMA Global Data Assimilation System	Japan	1-25
H. Onoda	Resumption of Indian Radiosonde Temperature Data Usage in the JMA Data Assimilation System	Japan	1-27
E. Ozawa, Y. Sato	Assimilation of Metop-A and GRACE-A GPS-RO data for JMA's GSM	Japan	1-29
F. Rabier, A. Bouchard, V. Guidard	Developments in the context of the Concordiasi project over Antarctica	France	1-31
H. Sako	Assimilation of Aircraft Temperature Data in the JMA Global 4D-Var Data Assimilation System	Japan	1-33
H. Seko, M. Kunii, T. Kawabata, T. Miyoshi	Ensemble experiments of local heavy rainfall that occurred in Osaka, Japan, 5 September 2008	Japan	1-35
H. Seko, T. Tsuda, N. Yoshida, Y.-H. Kuo	Data Assimilation of Side-looking Radio Occultation by Observing System Simulation Experiment	Japan	1-37
M. Takahashi	Operational use of Metop-A/ASCAT Winds in the JMA Global Data Assimilation System	Japan	1-39
B. Wang, J. Liu, B. Lu	An Economical Approach to Four-dimensional Variational Data Assimilation	China	1-41
E. Wattrelot	Assimilation of radar reflectivity in the AROME model	France	1-43
K. Yoshimoto	Improvement of Conventional Observation Data Usage in the JMA Mesoscale 4D-VAR Data Assimilation System	Japan	1-45

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

Author(s)	Title	Country	Pages
L.C. Ashcroft, I. Simmonds, A.B. Pezza	Indian Ocean influences on Cold Events over southern Australia	Australia	2-03
E.S. Glebova, A.E. Pokhil	Atlantic hurricanes and European weather	Russia	2-05
S. Shimokawa, H. Ozawa	On analysis of typhoon activities from a thermodynamic viewpoint	Japan	2-07
I. Simmonds, K. Keay	Fall Arctic synoptic changes and sea ice reductions	Australia	2-09
I. Simmonds, R. Badlan	Recent southern Semiannual Oscillation fluctuations in ERA-Interim	Australia	2-11
I. Simmonds, E.-P. Lim	Effect of temporal covariances on the apparent mean Eady growth rate	Australia	2-13

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

Author(s)	Title	Country	Pages
D.Y. Alferov, G.S. Rivin	Numerical experiments with finite difference schemes using data of regional atmospheric model COSMO-RU	Russia	3-03
M. Déqué	A big brother multi-pole experiment with stretched grid GCMs	France	3-05
V. Shashkin, M. Tolstykh	Semi-Lagrangian mass-conservative advection scheme on the sphere on the reduced grid	Russia	3-07
T. Shimokawabe, T. Aoki, J. Ishida, C. Muroi	GPU Acceleration of the Meso-scale Atmospheric Model “ASUCA”	Japan	3-09

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

Author(s)	Title	Country	Pages
J.-F. Geleyn, M. Vanandruel, I. Bašták, D. Degrauwe, F. Váña	An alternative method for handling the interactions between turbulence and phase changes	France	4-03
L. Gerard	Improvement of convection parameterization in high resolution limit	Belgium	4-05
T. Kato, Y. Yamada, M. Nakano	Improvement of Kain-Fritsch Convection Parameterization Scheme To Suppress its False Predictions of Rainfall Areas along Coastal Lines	Japan	4-07
V. Krasnopolsky, M. Fox-Rabinovitz, P. Rasch, Y. Kogan, A. Belochitski, P. Blossey	Development of stochastic/ensemble neural network convection parameterizations for climate models using CRM simulated data	USA	4-09
M. Narita	Modification to the mixing rate of a convective cloud in the Kain-Fritsch scheme	Japan	4-11
V. Shnaydman	Improved numerical solution of three-dimensional turbulence closure equations	USA	4-13
M. Ujiie, D. Miura	Development of Land-surface Processes in the JMA Nonhydrostatic Model	Japan	4-15
A. Yurova, M. Tolstykh	Introduction of mire parameterization into numerical weather prediction model SL-AV	Russia	4-17

05. Development of and studies with regional and smaller-scale atmospheric models, regional ensemble, monthly and seasonal forecasting

Author(s)	Title	Country	Pages
L. Auger, E. Bazile, L. Berre, P. Brousseau, Y. Bouteloup, F. Bouttier, F. Bouyssel, L. Descamps, G. Desroziers, N. Fourrié, E. Gérard, V. Guidard, A. Joly, F. Karbou, C. Labadie, C. Loo, V. Masson, P. Moll, C. Payan, J.-M. Piriou, F. Rabier, L. Raynaud, O. Rivière, Y. Seity, E. Sevault, F. Taillefer, E. Wattrelot, K. Yessad	The 2010 upgrades of the Météo-France NWP system	France	5-03
J. Du, B. Zhou, G. DiMego	Fog Prediction from a Multimodel Mesoscale Ensemble Prediction System	USA	5-05
S. Hayashi	Statistical verification of short range forecasts by NHM and WRF-ARW over Southeast Asia and Japan areas	Japan	5-07
Y. Ikuta, Y. Honda	Fuzzy Verification of Hydrometeors in a High-resolution Model Using a Radar Simulator	Japan	5-09
J. Ishida, C. Muroi, K. Kawano, Y. Kitamura	Development of a New Nonhydrostatic Model ASUCA at JMA	Japan	5-11
T. Ishimizu, M. Ujiie	Experimental operation of a high-resolution local forecast model at JMA	Japan	5-13
A. Murata	Precipitation Efficiency in Numerically Simulated Heavy Rainfall Associated with Typhoons Man-Yi (2007) and Fitow (2007)	Japan	5-15
K. Ono, Y. Honda, M. Kunii	Development of a Mesoscale Ensemble Prediction System Using a Singular Vector Method	Japan	5-17
H. Seko, S. Hayashi, K. Saito	Generation mechanisms of convections by gravity waves	Japan	5-19

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

Author(s)	Title	Country	Pages
H. Douville	Relative influence of the tropical troposphere and extratropical stratosphere on Northern Hemisphere winter climate variability	France	6-03

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

Author(s)	Title	Country	Pages
S.N. Denisov, M.M. Arzhanov, A.V. Eliseev, I.I. Mokhov	Methane emissions from Western Siberian wetlands: sensitivity to climate change from multi-model estimations	Russia	7-03
A.V. Malyshkin, I.I. Mokhov	Qualitative Analysis of Ice Sheets Mass Balance Variations Under Global Climate Change	Russia	7-05

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

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

Author(s)	Title	Country	Pages
K. Dehara, H. Mori, M. Hirai N. Adachi	Verification of the new JMA's EPS for Long Range Forecasting based on SVS-LRF	Japan	9-03
M. Hirai, I. Ishikawa, A. Shimpo, H. Sato, T. Soga, H. Mori, N. Adachi, Y. Fujii, S. Matsumoto,T. Yasuda	Replacement of the JMA's EPS for Long Range Forecasting in February 2010	Japan	9-05
H. Ritchie, C. Beaudoin, J.-M. Bélanger, S. Desjardins, M. Faucher, R. Lalbeharry, S. Peel, P. Pellerin, R. Rattan, F. Roy, G. Smith	Recent Developments in MRD coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Modelling	Canada	9-07
A. Wada, Y. Kawai, N. Usui	Impacts of diurnally-varying sea-surface temperature on the predictions of Typhoon Hai-Tang in 2005. Part I. Intensity prediction	Japan	9-09
A. Wada, Y. Kawai, N. Usui	Impacts of diurnally-varying sea-surface temperatureon the predictions of Typhoon Hai-Tang in 2005. Part II. The impact on the thermodynamics field around Hai-Tang's center	Japan	9-11
A. Wada, N. Usui	The influence of the variation of oceanic precondition on the prediction of Typhoon Hai-Tang in 2005	Japan	9-13
A. Wada, N. Kohno, Y. Kawai	Formulation of the effect of breaking surface waves on entrainment and its impact on Typhoon Hai-Tang in 2005	Japan	9-15