Guo-Yuan Lien

Fall 2011-present Graduate Research Assistant (Co-adviser: Prof. Eugenia Kalnay)

Travis Sluka

Summer 2012-present Graduate Research Assistant

Prof. Shu-Chih Yang

Summer 2012 Visiting professor from National Central University, Taiwan

Dr. Juan Ruiz

Summer 2012 Visiting researcher from University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Keiichi Kondo

Summer 2012 Visiting graduate student from Tsukuba University, Japan

Tetsuro Miyachi

Summer 2012 Visiting graduate student from Kyoto University, Japan

Masaru Kunii

April 2010-March 2012 Visiting Faculty Research Assistant from Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency

• Working on WRF-LETKF, Tropical Cyclone forecasts, and observation impact study using the ensemble sensitivity method (Liu and Kalnay 2007; Li et al. 2008)

Publications from research at UMD

1. Miyoshi, T. and M. Kunii, 2012: Using AIRS retrievals in the WRF-LETKF system to improve regional numerical weather prediction. Tellus, A, in press.
2. Kunii, M. and T. Miyoshi, 2012: Including uncertainties of sea surface temperature in an ensemble Kalman filter: a case study of Typhoon Sinlaku (2008). Weather and Forecasting, in press. doi:10.1175/WAF-D-11-00136.1
3. Kunii, M., T. Miyoshi, and E. Kalnay, 2012: Estimating the Impact of Real Observations in Regional Numerical Weather Prediction Using an Ensemble Kalman Filter. Mon. Wea. Rev., 140, 1975-1987. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-11-00205.1
4. Miyoshi, T. and M. Kunii, 2012: The Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter with the Weather Research and Forecasting Model: Experiments with Real Observations. Pure and Appl. Geophys., 169, 321-333. doi:10.1007/s00024-011-0373-4