F5  Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction in Support of Wave Propagation Modeling

Friday, January 11  08:20-12:00  Room 150

Session Chairs:  Katherine Horgan, tracy haack

08:20  F5-1  MESOSCALE MODELING AND EM PROPAGATION DURING THE SMARTEX FIELD CAMPAIGN

Tracy Haack*1, Sally Garrett2

1NRL, Monterey, CA
2DTA, Auckland, New Zealand


08:40  F5-2  USING THE OUTPUT DATA OF THE WEATHER FORECAST MODEL COSMO TO PREDICT THE TURBULENT MODULAR TRANSFER FUNCTION OVER A TROPICAL OCEAN AND COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS DURING THE SMARTEX TRIAL

Detlev Sprung*1, Erik Sucher1, Ulrich Trempel2

1Signatorics, Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image exploitation IOSB, Ettlingen, Germany
2Wehrtechnische Dienststelle fr Waffen und Munition (WTD91), Meppen, Germany


09:00  F5-3  REDUCED TURBULENT MIXING IN A MESOSCALE NWP MODEL FOR RADAR PROPAGATION FORECASTING

Stuart Fox*

Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom


09:20  F5-4  INTEGRATION OF REFRACTIVITY FROM CLUTTER AND NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION

Caglar Yardim*, Ali Karimian

Marine Physical Lab., University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA


09:40  F5-5  SURFACE AND ELEVATED DUCTS AND IMPLICATIONS ON THE MODELING OF MESOSCALE NWP REFRACTIVITY AND RADIO-WAVE PROPAGATION

Andy S. Kulessa*1, Jorg M. Hacker2

1EWRD, Defence Science & Technology Organisation, Edinburgh, SA, Australia
2Airborne Research Australia, Salisbury South, SA, Australia


10:20  F5-6  EXTENDED AND PERSISTENT SURFACE BASED RADIO FREQUENCY DUCTING OVER ARID LAND

Robert E. Marshall*, Katherine L. Horgan, Isha M. Renta, Victor R. Wiss

NSWCDD, Dahlgren, VA


10:40  F5-7  COMPARISON OF CLIMATE REANALYSIS DATA WITH DATA FROM A HIGH-RESOLUTION MESOSCALE MODEL

Ian Will*

Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC


11:00  F5-8  A COMPARISON OF DUCT CLIMATOLOGIES BASED ON VARIOUS DATA SOURCES

Thomas R. Hanley*1, Jonathan Z. Gehman1, Brian T. Taylor1, Tracy Haack2

1Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD
2Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA


11:20  F5-9  A RADIOSONDE-BASED UPPER-AIR ELECTROMAGNETIC DUCTING CLIMATOLOGY DATABASE AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM

Paul Frederickson*1, Tom Murphree1, Chuck Skupniewicz2, David Ramsaur2, Megan Hutchins2, Amalia Barrios3

1Department of Meteorology, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
2Climatology Division, Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, Monterey, California
3Atmospheric Propagation Branch, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Pacific, San Diego, California


11:40  F5-10  CLIMATOLOGIES OF POD WITH THE COUPLED SYSTEM WRF-APM

Francois C. Vandenberghe*1, Eric Mandine2, Michel Aidonidis3

1Research Applications Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO
2C-S Information System, Toulon, France
3Meteo-France, Brest, France