SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS

(last revised 7/17/2008)

The following is a list of concise summary articles on various projects in progress or recently completed in the EMC/Mesoscale Modeling Branch, sorted by the names of the first authors.

Michael E. Baldwin

Thomas L. Black

A Test of the Eta Lateral Boundary Conditions Scheme

Keith F. Brill

Hui-Ya Chuang

William G. Collins

Preprint on wind profiler quality control for 13th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (Aug 1993)
Preprint on VAD wind quality control for 11th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation (Aug 2000)
Preprint on non-linear quality control in NCEP's 3dvar for 11th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation (Aug 2000)
Preprint on observation error quality control within the CQCHT for 11th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation (Aug 2000)
Determination of New Adjustment Tables in Order to Bring Radiosonde Temperature and Height Measurements From Different Sonde Types into Relative Agreement
Monitoring of Radiosonde Heights and Temperatures by the Complex Quality Control For the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis

Geoff DiMego

Zavisa Janjic

Sajal K. Kar

A Fully-Implicit Semi-Lagrangian Nonhydrostatic Model Employing a Pressure-Hybrid Vertical Coordinate

Dennis Keyser

Observational Data Processing at NCEP - Last Revised 4/2/2008
BUFR Table A - Last Revised 4/1/2008
BUFR Table B Descriptors and Mnemonics in NCEP Observational Database - Last Revised 3/27/2008
BUFR Table D Descriptors and Mnemonics in NCEP Observational Database - Last Revised 4/3/2008
**NEW** NCEP BUFR File Structure [with emphasis on embedded BUFR table (A, B, D) messages] - Last Revised 4/2/2008
Satellite Data Ingest at NCEP - Last Revised 3/28/2008
Observational Data Dumping at NCEP - Last Revised 1/22/2008

Table 1.a: List of valid BUFR data types - Last Revised 03/28/2008
Table 1.b: Data group mnemonics used to generate BUFR dump files in the various NCEP networks; these dump files are then read by the subsequent PREPBUFR processing steps - Last Revised 01/22/2008
Table 1.c: Data group mnemonics used to generate BUFR dump files in the various NCEP networks; these dump files are then read by the subsequent analysis codes (they do not pass through the PREPBUFR processing steps) - Last Revised 02/11/2008

User Guide to Interpreting Data Dump Counts in Data Dump Status Files - Last Revised 3/28/2003
PREPBUFR Processing at NCEP - Last Revised 1/22/2008

Table 18. Summary of the current NCEP analysis system usage of data types that do not pass through PREPBUFR processing - Last Revised 03/28/2008

Redesign of the NOAA/NCEP Wind Profiler Quality Control Module - Last Revised 1/3/2003
Summary of Changes to the PREPDATA Program - Last Revised 12/4/2007
Historical Summary of Satellite Processing at NCEP - Last Revised 4/2/2008
**NEW** Non-Satellite Data Historical Documentation - Last Revised 4/2/2008
NMC Office Note 124 - Last Revised 3/2001
NMC Office Note 29 - Last Revised 3/2001
PREPBUFR Report Types used by Global GFS and GDAS GSl analyses - Last Revised 1/22/2008

above but in even more detail - Last revised 1/11/2008

PREPBUFR Report Types used by Global CDAS/reanalysis analyses - Last Revised 3/28/2008
PREPBUFR Report Types used by NAM and NDAS GSI analyses (WRF-NMM model) - Last Revised 1/22/2008

above but in even more detail - Last revised 1/11/2008

PREPBUFR Report Types used by upper-air Rapid Update Cycle 3DVAR analysis - Last Revised 2/6/2007
BUFRLIB Software User Guide (written by Jeff Ator NCEP/NCO) - Last Revised 3/13/2007
TCVITALS Documentation - Last Revised 8/16/2007

Ying Lin

Geoff Manikin

Eta Model Support For Aviational Forecasting Efforts Using the Eta Model (Presentation given at 2000 AMS Aviation Conference)
Eta Model Product Generator Documentation

Jeff McQueen

Simplifying The FVS Statistical Calculation And Plotting Process - Last Revised 3/12/2008
Running FVS Verification Software - Last Revised 3/12/2008

Fedor Mesinger

The Sigma vs. Eta issue

Ken Mitchell

Land-surface modeling and land data assimilation in the ncep mesoscale eta model

R. James Purser

Eric Rogers

Enhancements to the Operational "Early" Eta Analysis and Forecast System at the NCEP

Perry C. Shafran

NCEP Verification System (NVS) Documentation (23 Feb 07)
FVS Made Easy (18 Apr 07)

Qingyun Zhao

Binbin Zhou

NCEP Grid to Grid Verification System (17 Jul 08)

Julia Zhu

The New Precipitation Verification Package: Changes and User Guide

Dusanka Zupanski and Milija Zupanski

Eta-Adjoint Based 4DVAR