TCI Science Meeting - October 2016

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Tuesday, 18 October 2016
Session Chair: Jim Doyle
0830 Opening Remarks, Logistics, Workshop Goals - [PPSX] Jim Doyle
0845 TCI Data Mangement Update Scot Loehrer
0900 HIRAD Wind Speed Retrievals from TCI Flights Dan Cecil
0920 Inner Core Structure of Hurricane Patricia (2015) Michael Bell
0940 Impacts of Tropopause Height and Radiation on Idealized Tropical Cyclones Bonnie Brown
1000 Convective Asymmetries Measured by eXpendable Digital Dropsondes (XDDs) in Tropical Cyclones Connor Nelson
1020 Break  
Session Chair: Will Komaromi
1040 Tropopause variations in tropical cyclones: TCI observations and modeling Patrick Duran
1100 Ensemble-based Diagnostics of Tropical Cyclone Outflow - [PPSX] Sharan Majumdar
1120 Secondary eyewall formation by jet-outflow-interaction Yi Dai
1140 An Evaluation of AMV Characteristics Using HDSS Dropsondes - [PPSX] Brian McNoldy
1200 Lunch  
Session Chair: Dave Ryglicki
0120 Use of HDSS sondes to calculate Zero Wind Centers, Vortex Structure, and Storm-relative Winds Russ Elsberry
0140 TCI Dropsonde Analysis of the Tropical Cyclone Warm Core Structure Compared to Satellite Observations Derrick Herndon
0200 Environmental Effects Versus Internal Physical Processes During the Interrupted Rapid Decay of Hurricane Joaquin Russ Elsberry
0220 A new dynamic initialization scheme utilizing TCI datasets and rapidscan atmospheric motion vectors - [PPSX] Eric Hendricks
0240 The impact of assimilating TCI observations on the analysis and prediction of tropical cyclones - [PPSX] Xuguang Wang
0300 Break  
Session Chair: Dan Stern
0320 NRL TCI Research Overview, and Outflow and Predictability Studies Jim Doyle
0340 Convective Envelopes in a Sheared, Rapidly Intensifying Tropical Cyclone David Ryglicki
0400 Simulating TC-trough interaction in an idealized modeling framework - [PPSX] Will Komaromi
0420 Understanding Atypical Mid-Level Wind Speed Maxima in Hurricane Eyewalls Dan Stern
0440 A comparison of real-time COAMPS-TC forecasts with TCI dropsonde observations Jon Moskaitis
0500 Discussion Jim Doyle
0530 Adjourn  
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Session Chair: Patrick Duran
0800 Adjoint-derived initial-condition sensitivity and observation-impact on intensification of Hurricane Joaquin (2015) using the NAVGEM Brett Hoover
0820 Numerical simulations of Hurricane Joaquin with assimilation of TCI observations and AMVs and sensitivity to cumulus parameterization schemes Zhaoxia Pu
0840 Simulating Hurricane Joaquin (2015) with WRF-ARW: Challenges and current progress Will Miller
0900 Evolution of outflow and inertial stability in Hurricanes Iselle and Julio Brad Barrett
0920 Analysis of moist entropy production in the core and its impact on the dynamic and thermodynamic structure of outflow properties Greg Tripoli
0940 Retrieval of Sea Surface Temperature from XDD dropsonde sounding data Mark Beaubien
1000 Break  
Session Chair: Jim Doyle
1010 Tropical cyclones-Pacific Asian Research Campaign for Improvement of Intensity estimations/forecasts (T-PARC II） Munehiko Yamaguchi
1030 AMS TCI Journal Collection and BAMS Status Jim Doyle
1045 Discussion: Joint Observational Analysis and Modeling Activities  
  SHOUT 2016:Examples of Global Hawk Observations for Operational Impact Peter Black
1130 Next Steps, Action Items, and Future TC DRI Ideas  
1230 Meeting Adjourn