4th Workshop on the Use of Isentropic & other Quasi-Lagrangian Vertical Coordinates in Atmosphere & Ocean Modeling

Tuesday - October 7, 2008

Introductory Comments	Alexander MacDonald NOAA/ESRL Louis Uccellini NOAA/NWS/NCEP
Performance comparison of hybrid isentropic-sigma vs. sigma configurations of the FIM global model	Stan Benjamin NOAA/ESRL
Daily Numerical Weather Prediction with the Global University of Wisconsin Hybrid Isentropic Coordinate Model	Todd Schaack SSEC/U. Wisconsin
The hybridisentropic grid generator in FIM.	Rainer Bleck NOAA/ESRL, NASA/GISS
The development and performance of NCEP GFS in sigma-theta coordinates	Hann-Ming Henry Juang NCEP
Entropy as a Property and Process in Understanding and Modeling Weather and Climate; Retrospection and Introspection	Don Johnson U. Wisconsin
The linkage of tropical/extratropical coupling with the stratospheretroposphere coupling: A global mass circulation view in the isentropic coordinate	Ming Cai Florida State
Continuing Development of Models Based on the Generalized Vertical Coordinate	Ross Heikes Colorado State University
Potential temperature as a diagnostic variable and retrofitting a finite-volume horizontal pressure-gradient force to the C-grid	Tim Dowling U. Louisville
RAQMS global chemical and aerosol assimilation and forecasting studies during the NOAA 2006 TEXAQS and 2008 ARCPAC field campaigns	Brad Pierce NESDIS, U. Wisconsin

A Hybrid-Isentropic Vertical Coordinate for the WRF-ARW Model	Jimy Dudhia (for Guenther Zaengl)
A New Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric Model Based on a Hybrid Vertical Coordinate	Michael Toy Colorado State University
A mass-conservative version of the semi-Lagrangian semi-implicit HIRLAM using Lagrangian vertical coordinates	Peter Hjort Lauritzen NCAR
Initialization of layer models for numerical weather prediction	Rainer Bleck
Verification of the NCEP Operational GFS Predictions for the Stratosphere Circulation Anomalies in an Isentropic Potential Vorticity Coordinate	Chul-Su Shin and Ming Cai Florida State
Impacts of Physical Parameterizations in Global UW Hybrid Model Simulations	Allen Lenzen SSEC/U. Wisconsin
Climate Simulations with an Isentropic Finite Volume Dynamical Core	Chih-Chieh Chen NCAR
Qualitative Assessment of Differences In Performance Between the Flow-following Icosahedral Model and the Global Spectral Model	John Brown and Ed Szoke NOAA/ESRL
Layer Modeling 50 years ago -- How it all started	Rainer Bleck

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