Improving US Winter Storm Forecasts using Simulated Dropsondes in the GFS Model

Jason M English1,2, Tanya Rae Peevey2,3, Hongli Wang4, Lidia Cucurull5 and Andrew Kren6, (1)NOAA GSL, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA Boulder, ESRL Global Systems Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA Boulder, ESRL Global Systems Division, Boulder, United States, (6)University of Miami and NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL, United States