The University of Tokyo (Japan) , 28 January - 1 February 2008

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Extended Abstracts

Monday, January 28

Introduction of the reanalyses

The JRA-25 Reanalysis, K. Onogi
Evolution of Reanalysis at ECMWF, S. Uppala, et al.
Reanalysis at NCEP: Past, Present and Future, R. Kistler et al.
Assimilating Earth System Observations at NASA: MERRA and Beyond, S. Schubert et al.

Applications of reanalysis products

Detection of Key Atmospheric Features in Reanalysis Data, P. A. Arkin et al.
Use of Reanalyses to Examine Climate Model Errors via NWP Type Forecasts, D. L. Williamson
Numerical Simulation of a Bay of Bengal Tropical Cyclone: A Comparison of the Results from Experiments with Jra-25 And Ncep Reanalysis Fields, D. V. Bhaskar Rao et al.
A Stochastic Model of the Madden-Julian Oscillation, C. Jones et al.
A Comparison of Vertically-Integrated Water and Energy Cycle Diagnostics from Several Reanalyses, K. E. Trenberth et al.
Importance of the Low-level Diabatic Heating on the Formation of the Summertime Subtropical Highs: Sensitivity to Diabatic Heating Data Set, T. Miyasaka and H. Nakamura
Typhoon Landfall Mode in ERA-40 and JRA-25 Reanalysis Datasets, T. Nakazawa and K. Rajendran
Characteristics of Storm Tracks in JMA's Seasonal Forecast Model, A. Shimpo
Usage of Atmospheric Reanalysis Data for Dynamical Diagnoses of the Atmospheric Circulation and Climate Variability, H. Nakamura
Impacts of Persistent Circulation Anomalies on Precipitation over Northern Eurasia during Summer, Y. Fukutomi

Tuesday, January 29

Applications of reanalysis products (contd.)

Dynamical Downscaling of Global Reanalysis, M. Kanamitsu et al.
Global Dynamical Downscaling of Reanalysis with Bias Correction, K. Yoshimura and M. Kanamitsu
Climate Classification Using Reanalysis Data, N. Yamazaki et al.
Intra-Seasonal Oscillations of Indian Monsoon: Dynamics through NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Data, A. A. Kulkarni et al.
Dynamical Seasonal Prediction of Typhoons with the New Coupled Model (JMA/MRI-CGCM), Y. Takaya et al.
Using Reanalyses for the Estimation and Minimization of Sampling Errors in the VOS-based Air-sea Fluxes, S. K. Gulev and T. Jung
Ocean Reanalysis and its Application to Water Mass Analyses in the Pacific, Masafumi Kamachi et al.
Status and Prospects of Ocean State Estimation Detlef Stammer, Institut fuer Meereskunde, Center for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Universitat Hamburg - Germany
Climate Variability from the New ECWMF Ocean Reanalysis ORA-S3, Magdalena A. Balmaseda et al.
Interannual Variabilities of Eastern Subtropical Mode Waters in the North and the South Identified from Reanalysis Datasets Obtained by 4DVAR Data Assimilation, Takahiro Toyoda et al.

Characteristics of reanalysis products

Global Hydrological Cycles Estimated by Reanalysis Products, T. Oki et al.
GEWEX Water and Energy Budget Studies, J. Roads
Evaluation of Variations in the late-80s Observing System and the Impacts on the GEOS-5 Data Assimilation System, M. Bosilovich et al.
Multiple Regression Analysis of the JRA-25 Monthly Temperature, J. Tsutsui and S. Kadokura
Intercomparison of Horisontal Wind Speed Components from NCEP/NCAR-Reanalysis and NCEP-DOE Reanalysis II, J. Winterfeldt

Wednesday, January 30

Characteristics of reanalysis products (condt.)

Submonthly Convective Variability over the East Asia during the Meiyu/Baiu Season, T. Yasunari and H. Fujinami
Anomalous Modes of Moisture Transport by East Asian Summer Monsoon and Associated Rainfall Patterns in China, Jilong Chen et al.
The Products and Validation of GAME Reanalysis and JRA-25: Precipitation, A. Yatagai et al.
Summer Monsoon Variability over South and East Asia: Understanding Tele-connections through NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Data, R. H. Kripalani
Comparisons of Atmospheric Precipitable Water between NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis and Ground-based GPS Measurements, J. Wang and L. Zhang
Uncertainties in the Climate Mean State of Global Reanalyses, Observations, and a Modern Climate Model, T. Reichler and J. Kim
A Comparative Study on the Dynamics of the Pacific-Japan (PJ) Teleconnection Pattern as Revealed in Reanalysis Datasets, Y. Kosaka and H. Nakamura
Examination of Tropical Cyclogenesis using the High Temporal and Spatial Resolution JRA-25 Dataset, M. Sugi
Tropical Cyclones in Reanalysis - A Low-Frequency Perspective, M. Fiorino and R. Hart
Trends in SST and Reanalysis 850 and 200 hPa Wind Data of Asian Summer Monsoon Season during the Recent Six Decades, Porathur V. Joseph, S. Thazhe Purayil
Comparison of Long-term Downward Radiation Observations at Tateno with JRA-25 and ERA-40 Data, N. Ohkawara and Y. Hirose
Comparisons of Brewer-Dobson Circulations, T. Iwasaki et al.
Interannual Variation of Spring Total Ozone and Winter Planetary-scale Wave Activity in Re-analyses Data, C. Kobayashi
The Daily 3D Ozone Produced by CTM for JRA-25, T. Maki et al.
Arctic Clouds and Radiative Fluxes in Large-scale Atmospheric Reanalyses, J. E. Walsh et al.
Fresh Water Flux over Global Oceans in the NCEP CDAS, CDAS2, GDAS, GFS, and CFS, P. Xie et al.

Thursday, January 31

Data assimilation techniques for reanalysis including ocean and land

Applying Advanced Data Assimilation Techniques to Real Atmospheric Models, A. C. Lorenc
Homogenization of the Global Radiosonde Temperature and Wind Dataset using Innovation Statistics from Reanalyses, L. Haimberger et al.
How Can We Gain A Climate Quality Reanalysis If We Are Dependent Upon Radiosonde Data?, Peter W. Thorne et al.
Atmosphere-Land Coupled Data Assimilation by Using Satellite Microwave Radiometers, T. Koike and D. Ndegwa Kuria
Reprocessing Long-term Satellite Data for Next Generation Reanalyses, Cheng-Zhi Zou
Use of the SSU and AMSU-A Observations in Reanalyses, S. Kobayashi et al.
Ensemble Kalman Filtering for Reanalysis, E. Kalnay
Ensemble Data Assimilation for Historical Reanalysis, J. Whitaker et al.
Use of the Ensemble Kalman Filter in the GMAO Ocean Data Assimilation System, C. L. Keppenne et al.
GFDL's Coupled Ensemble Data Assimilation System, 1980-2006 Oceanic Reanalysis and Its Impact on ENSO Forecasts, S. Zhang
Developments of a Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter at JMA, T. Miyoshi et al.
Particle Kalman Filtering for Data Assimilation in Meteorology and Oceanography, Ibrahim Hoteit et al.
A Global 4D-Var Data Assimilation Experiment with a Fully Coupled GCM, N. Sugiura et al.
Developments in Bias Correction for Reanalysis, Dick Dee et al.
Uncertainties in SST and Sea Ice Analyses, Nick Rayner et al.

Friday, February 1

Future reanalysis

The 20th Century Reanalysis Project, Gilbert P. Compo et al.
Arctic System Reanalysis, D. H. Bromwich and K. M. Hines
The New Reanalysis and Reforecasts of the NCEP Climate Forecast System (CFSRR), S. Saha et al
GCOS/WCRP Working Group on Observational Data Sets for Reanalysis, Russell S. Vose