| Sunday, 19 June 2005 |
| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday
Registration Open |
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| Monday, 20 June 2005 |
| 7:30 AM, Monday
Registration continues through Thursday, 23 June |
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| 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, North & Center Ballroom
Session 1 Climate Products and Data Sets |
Organizer: Phillip A. Pasteris, Global Water Resources, Portland, OR
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| 9:00 AM | 1.1 | The U.S. historical climate network, version 2
Claude N. Williams Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. J. Menne |
| 9:15 AM | 1.2 | The California Climate Data Archive: an assessment after 18 months
Laura M. Edwards, DRI, Reno, NV; and K. T. Redmond and G. D. McCurdy |
| 9:30 AM | 1.3 | Development, testing, and public use of the NC CRONOS database (Climate Retrieval and Observations Network Of the Southeast)
Mark S. Brooks, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and R. Ellis, R. Boyles, and S. Raman |
| 9:45 AM | 1.4 | Development and analysis of a daily heat stress classification for the central United States
John Harrington Jr., Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS; and E. Bowles |
|  | 1.5 | Applied Climatology to the Upgraded Minimum Temperature Prediction Tool for the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center 
William P. Roeder, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; and M. McAleenan, T. N. Taylor, and T. L. Longmire |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:15 AM | 1.6 | A Mesoscale Analysis of Record
John Horel, NOAA/CIRP and Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and B. Colman |
| 10:30 AM | 1.7 | Developing a database to map and assess U.S. snowstorms: initial findings and concerns
Tamara G. Houston, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. Changnon |
| 10:45 AM | 1.8 | An analysis of the impact of data inhomogeneities on the snow record
Richard Heim Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 11:00 AM | 1.9 | A picture is worth a thousand words—station histories of early weather observations in the United States
Karen Andsager, Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Champaign, IL; and S. R. Doty, G. Conner, and G. Grice |
| 11:15 AM | 1.10 | Access to Environment Canada’s basic climate data and information on the Internet
Robert Morris, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and P. Jarrett |
| 11:30 AM | 1.11 | Depth-duration frequency for precipitation using the Oklahoma Mesonet
Andrew Reader, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, Oklahoma |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, North & Center Ballroom
Session 2 Climate Trends and Variability |
Organizers: Greg Johnson, USDA/NRCS, National Water and Climate Center, Portland, OR; Andrew C. Comrie, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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| 1:30 PM | 2.1 | Characteristics of major snowstorms in the United States, 1949-2000
Stanley Changnon, Changnon Climatologist, Mahomet, IL; and D. Changnon |
| 1:45 PM | 2.2 | Climate variability and change in Alaska
Martha Shulski, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and G. Wendler |
| 2:00 PM | 2.3 | Evaluating long-term trends in mountain snow measurements using a hydrologic model
Philip W. Mote, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. F. Hamlet |
| 2:15 PM | 2.4 | Sea–surface temperature and tropical cyclones: Breaking the paradigm
Patrick J. Michaels, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA and Cato Institute, Washington, DC; and P. C. Knappenberger and R. E. Davis |
| 2:30 PM | 2.5 | Impacts of precipitation trends on North Carolina's water supply
Peter J. Robinson, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC |
| 2:45 PM | 2.6 | Extremes in climate, extremes in fire
Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 2.7 | Examining the Frequency of Daily Extreme Events During Oklahoma’s Climate Record
Derek S. Arndt, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and M. A. Shafer |
| 3:45 PM | 2.8 | Examination of Regional Wind Trends Due to Global Climate Change to Improve Wind Resource Assessments
John W. Zack, Meso, Inc., Troy, NY; and G. E. Van Knowe and K. T. Waight III |
| 4:00 PM | 2.9 | Alternative metrics for measuring surface heating trends
Christopher A. Davey, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. A. Pielke |
| 4:15 PM | 2.10 | THE INTERDECADAL VARIABILITY OF NORTHERN HEMISPHERE BLOCKING
David Barriopedro, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; and R. Garcia-Herrera, A. R. Lupo, and E. Hernandez |
| 4:30 PM | 2.11 | Strong wind characteristics and changes during the last half-century at five NWS stations near Coastal South Carolina
Allen H. Weber, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC; and M. J. Parker and R. L. Buckley |
| 4:45 PM | 2.12 | Abrupt global temperature change and the instrumental record
Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and A. M. Waple |
| 5:00 PM | 2.13 | Land use change in the Ogallala Aquifer region of the Great Plains and its impacts on the long-term temperature
R. Mahmood, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY; and S. A. Foster, T. Keeling, K. G. Hubbard, and C. Carlson |
| 5:15 PM | 2.14 | An Examination of Extreme Climate Events Using 19th Century Daily Data
Michael A. Palecki, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. E. Kunkel, J. R. Angel, M. C. Kruk, and K. Andsager |
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| 5:30 PM, Monday
1 Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (cash bar) |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday
Joint Poster Session 1 General Poster Session I (Joint with Applied Climatology, SMOI, and AASC) |
| | JP1.1 | Using topography and synoptic categories to improve climate mapping
Alan McNab, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. F. Squires |
| | JP1.2 | Using geographical information systems for the spatial analysis of base reflectivity radar data and applications to the study of tropical cyclone precipitation patterns
Corene J. Matyas, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL |
| | JP1.3 | Spatial persistence of accumulated precipitation over monthly time intervals
Stuart A. Foster, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY; and D. R. Taylor, R. Mahmood, and S. Kenworthy |
| | JP1.4 | Real–time Regional Automatic Mapping of Nocturnal Winter Road Temperatures: Application of a Methodology of Analogous Situations, The Case of the Walloon Region (Belgium)
M. Erpicum IV, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium; and M. Frederic, T. Nyssen, G. Mabille, and S. Litt |
| | JP1.5 | Precipitation and Temperature dynamic maps of Mexico
Patricia Huerta, INEGI/National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Information, Aguascalientes, Mexico; and J. L. Ornelas |
| | JP1.6 | Building a Gridded Climatological Dataset for Use in the Statistical Interpretation of Numerical Weather Prediction Models
Rachel A. Trimarco, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. L. Sheets and K. K. Hughes |
| | JP1.7 | A model-based high resolution temperature cllimatology for New York
Brian N. Belcher, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Ithaca, NY; and A. T. DeGaetano |
| | JP1.8 | A climatology of the sea breeze circulation over the southern Arabian Gulf
Rebecca E. Eager, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman |
| | JP1.9 | Towards a wind energy climatology at advanced turbine hub heights
Marc Schwartz, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and D. Elliott |
| | JP1.10 | Evaluation of new snow depth and mass data sets for North America
Thomas L. Mote, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. L. Dyer, A. J. Grundstein, D. A. Robinson, and D. J. Leathers |
| | JP1.11 | Trends in Precipitable Water Over Southern Greece
Pavlos Kassomenos, Univ. of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece; and G. R. McGregor |
| | JP1.12 | Trends in fog frequency and duration in the Southeast United States
Gloria Forthun, Southeast Regional Climate Center, Columbia, SC; and M. B. Johnson, W. G. Schmitz, and J. Blume |
| | JP1.13 | Spatiotemporal Climate Variability Over Senegal And Its Relationships With Global Climate
Souleymane Fall, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and D. Niyogi and F. H. M. Semazzi |
| | JP1.14 | Spatial and temporal variability of precipitation runs in the Southeast U.S. and their potential impact on agriculture
Robert F. Banks, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and J. J. O'Brien and S. R. Smith |
| | JP1.15 | Interannual to interdecadal surface temperature variability of Florida
April E. Raulerson, COAPS/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and A. Arguez, J. J. O'Brien, and S. R. Smith |
| | JP1.16 | The Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network: Experiences with the development of a state-wide automated weather station network for Georgia
Gerrit Hoogenboom, Univ. of Georgia, Griffin, GA |
| | JP1.17 | Initial implementation of a Mississippi Mesonet within the context of COOP Modernization
Loren D. White, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and E. Matlack |
| | JP1.18 | Challenges in the development of the North Carolina Environment and Climate Observing Network (NC ECONet)
Ameenulla Syed, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and R. Boyles, S. Raman, and A. Sims |
| | JP1.19 | - Real-Time Collection and Distribution of MSC T&P Climate Data
John MacPhee, MSC, Downsview, ON, ON, Canada |
| | JP1.20 | Comparison of Co-Located Automated (NCECONet) and Manual (COOP) Climate Observations in North Carolina
Christopher Thomas Holder, State Climate Office of North Carolina and North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and R. P. Boyles, A. Syed, D. Niyogi, K. Wireman, and S. Raman |
| | JP1.21 | Precipitation patterns associated with El Niño / Southern Oscillation in Panama
Gloria Arrocha, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and J. J. O'Brien |
| | JP1.22 | Eight-hour ozone exceedances in eastern Texas
John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and J. Tobin and A. McNeel |
| | JP1.23 | Climate variability and extreme events due to intensification of the urbanization process–a study case at Oporto
Ana Monteiro, Oporto Univ., Porto, Portugal |
| | JP1.24 | Air Quality Impacts of Wildfires in Southeastern Arizona
Erika K. Wise, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| | JP1.25 | AN EVALUATION OF TWO ULTRASONIC SNOW DEPTH SENSORS FOR POTENTIAL USE AT AUTOMATED SURFACE WEATHER OBSERVING SITES
Wendy Ann Brazenec, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken |
| | JP1.26 | The National Weather Service MMTS (Maximum-Minimum Temperature System) -- 20 years after
Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO |
| | JP1.27 | The harmonization of climate data quality control monitoring with stations network in uganda
Fortunata Lubega, AER, 7025, Kampala, Uganda |
| | JP1.28 | The enhancement of QA/QC tests for West Texas Mesonet Wind Parameters
Ibrahim Sonmez, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and J. L. Schroeder, W. S. Burgett, and K. B. Haynie |
| | JP1.29 | Regime in which the daylight visual range exceeds Allard's RVR
J. P. Pichamuthu, Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| | JP1.30 | Quality control of pilot balloon data for climate monitoring
Javier Murillo, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. W. Douglas, J. M. Galvez, J. F. Mejia, R. Orozco, and C. Brown |
| | JP1.31 | Intensive “porpoising” with a research aircraft to determine atmospheric structure during the SALLJEX and NAME programs
Michael W. Douglas, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. F. Mejia |
| | JP1.32 | Conducting short duration field programs to evaluate sounding site representativness and potential climate monitoring biases—Examining the Low-Level Jet Over the Venezuelan Ilanos During the 2005 Dry Season
Michael W. Douglas, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Murillo and J. F. Mejia |
| | JP1.33 | Applications of the Hotplate Snow Gauge
Matthew L. Tryhane, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. D. Landolt and R. M. Rasmussen |
| | JP1.34 | Application of spread spectrum radio for real-time data transmission from mesonet and other observing systems
Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and E. Matlack and J. Finney |
| | JP1.35 | Air quality data collected by small, unmanned aircraft over industries in South Africa
Lucian Banitz, South African Weather Service, Irene, South Africa; and S. J. Piketh and M. W. Douglas |
| | JP1.36 | ECMWF 45-YEAR REANALYSIS DATA FROM NCAR
Joseph L. Comeaux II, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. J. Worley |
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| Tuesday, 21 June 2005 |
| 8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Tuesday, North & Center Ballroom
Keynote Session 1 Joint National and International Session on Climate Networks (Joint with Applied Climatology, SMOI, and AASC) |
Organizer: C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 8:00 AM | KS1.1 | Surface Observations for Climate
Sharon K. LeDuc, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 8:30 AM | KS1.2 | COOP Modernization: Building NOAA's Environmental Real-time Observation Network
Ken Crawford, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Pritchett, T. Ross, and G. Essenberg |
| 9:00 AM | KS1.3 | Observing the Marine Environment
Paul F. Moersdorf, NOAA/NWS, Stennis Space Center, MS |
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| 9:30 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday, North & Center Ballroom
Joint Session 1 National and International Observing Networks (Joint with Applied Climatology, SMOI, and AASC) |
Organizer: Pamela N. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA
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| 9:30 AM | J1.1 | U.S. Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Program Overview 
Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD |
| 9:45 AM | J1.2 | North of the border—The Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) Reference Climate Network
John MacPhee, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada |
| 10:00 AM | J1.3 | Reference station networks for monitoring climatic change in the conterminous United States
Russell S. Vose, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 10:15 AM | J1.4 | A GIS approach to site selection for the NWS Modernized Cooperative Network
William G. McPherson Jr., Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Yuan |
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| 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday
Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, Tuesday, North & Center Ballroom
Panel Discussion 1 Locating Observing Stations Where It Counts: What do We Have? What are We Misssing? (Joint with Applied Climatology, SMOI, and AASC) |
Moderator: Kelly Redmond, Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV
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| 11:00 AM | PD1.0a | Session Overview
Kelly Redmond, Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV |
| 11:15 AM | PD1.1 | NWS Observing Services Division Panelist
Mike Campbell, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 11:30 AM | PD1.2 | National Ecological Observatory Network Panelist
Bruce P. Hayden, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA |
| 11:45 AM | PD1.3 | Climate Reference Network Panelist
Michael R. Helfert, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 12:00 PM | PD1.4 | State Climatologist, AASC Panelist
David A. Robinson, Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist/Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ |
| 12:15 PM | PD1.5 | Panel Discussion I: Locating Observing Stations Where It Counts: What do We Have? What are We Misssing?
Kelly Redmond, Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Cash-and-Carry Lunch—Continuation of Panel Discussion 1 |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, North & Center Ballroom
Joint Session 2 Climate Observing Networks (Joint with Applied Climatology, SMOI, and AASC) |
Organizer: David A. Robinson, Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist/Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ
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| 1:30 PM | J2.1 | The New Jersey Weather and Climate Network: providing environmental information for a myriad of applications
David A. Robinson, Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist/Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ |
| 1:45 PM | J2.2 | The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS)—A Great Way to Learn and Teach about Our Climate
Henry Reges, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. C. Cifelli and N. J. Doesken |
| 2:00 PM | J2.3 | Building the Georgia Mesonet: A Step Toward the National Cooperative Mesonet
Pamela N. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and D. E. Stooksbury |
| 2:15 PM | J2.4 | 25 Years of Antarctic Automatic Weather Stations
Charles R. Stearns, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. A. Weidner, J. E. Thom, M. A. Lazzara, and S. L. Knuth |
| 2:30 PM | J2.5 | A dense surface network for atmospheric observations in a mountain valley: Deployment and observations in the Sierra Rotors project
Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV; and K. T. Redmond, G. D. McCurdy, D. Simeral, and M. Xiao |
| 2:45 PM | J2.6 | Use of MIRS to Conduct System Density Studies
Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
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| 1:30 PM-2:15 PM, Tuesday, South Ballroom
Session 3 Applications of Seasonal Predictions |
Organizer: Ann Gravier, USAF/AFCCC, Asheville, NC
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| 1:30 PM | 3.1 | Downscaling Seasonal Climate Predictions for Local Applications
Andrew C. Comrie, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and J. C. McPhee |
| 1:45 PM | 3.2 | Performance transparency and responsible brokerage of seasonal forecasts
Robert E. Livezey, OCWWS/NWS/NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Timofeyeva, B. Mayes, M. J. Brewer, and F. Horsfall |
| 2:00 PM | 3.3 | Diagnosis of skill variability as a basis for discriminating use of CPC long-lead seasonal forecasts
Marina M. Timofeyeva, UCAR, Boulder, CO and OCWWS/NWS/NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and R. E. Livezey |
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| 2:15 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, South Ballroom
Session 4 Air Quality, Health and Urban Climatology |
Organizer: David P. Brown, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
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| 2:15 PM | 4.1 | MODELING THE IMPACT OF VARIABLE CLIMATIC FACTORS ON THE RISK OF WEST NILE VIRUS IN ILLINOIS
Kenneth E. Kunkel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and R. Novak, R. Lampman, M. A. Palecki, and W. Gu |
| 2:30 PM | 4.2 | Climate effects on West Nile virus vector development and transmission risk
Arthur T. DeGaetano, Northeast Regional Climate Center/Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and L. C. Harrington, R. R. Anderson, and L. C. Levitan |
| 2:45 PM | 4.3 | Providing a climatological perspective for malaria early warning systems in Africa
Emily K. Grover-Kopec, IRI/Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and M. B. Blumenthal, S. J. Connor, M. Kawano, R. W. Klaver, and P. Ceccato |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 4.4 | Interannual variability of surface ozone and associated circulation patterns in the Northeast United States
David P. Brown, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; and C. Wake |
| 3:45 PM | 4.5 | An urban mixed layer climatology for North America using the AERMET model
Matthew Simpson, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman and A. H. Huber |
| 4:00 PM | 4.6 | Changing Heat Wave Sensitivity in U.S. Cities
Robert E. Davis, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and P. C. Knappenberger, P. J. Michaels, and W. M. Novicoff |
| 4:15 PM | 4.7 | Understanding the Variabiility of Winter Mortality Using Composite Back Trajectory Analysis
Glenn R. McGregor, Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; and P. Kassomenos |
| 4:30 PM | 4.8 | Modeling the Tallahassee Minimum Temperature Anomaly
Kelly G. Godsey, NOAA/NWS, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg, J. J. O'Brien, A. I. Watson, and R. L. Block |
| 4:45 PM | 4.9 | Analysis of diurnal conditions in Oklahoma City
Peter K. Hall Jr., Oklahoma Climatological Society, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 5:00 PM, Tuesday
Sessions end for the day |
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| 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Tuesday
Trolley Shuttle to Riverboat |
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| 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Tuesday
Riverboat Boarding |
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| 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, Tuesday
Riverboat Cruise Departs (Dinner on Board–Cash Bar) |
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| 8:30 PM, Tuesday
Riverboat Returns |
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| 8:30 PM-9:00 PM, Tuesday
Trolley Back to Hotel |
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| Wednesday, 22 June 2005 |
| 8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, North & Center Ballroom
Session 5 Climate Services (Joint with AASC) |
Organizer: Andrea Bair, Western Region Headquarters/NWS/NOAA, Salt Lake City, UT
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| 8:00 AM | 5.1 | Defining utilization
Mark A. Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK |
| 8:15 AM | 5.2 | NOAA's National Weather Service climate services activities
Barbara E. Mayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. E. Livezey |
| 8:30 AM | 5.3 | Connecting people and climate science through Cooperative Extension
Michael A. Crimmins, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| 8:45 AM | 5.4 | Climate Services Clearinghouse: A new perspective on climate products and services within the United States
Genevieve E. Maricle, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and R. A. Pielke |
| 9:00 AM | 5.5 | A RISA perspective on climate services: the CLIMAS experience
Gregg M. Garfin, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| 9:15 AM | 5.6 | An experiment in state climate services: the CalClim project
Laura M. Edwards, DRI, Reno, NV; and K. T. Redmond |
| 9:30 AM | 5.7 | Climate Assessment Tool for the Coastal Community of the Southeast U.S
Melissa Griffin, Florida Climate Center/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and J. J. O'Brien and D. E. Stooksbury |
| 9:45 AM | 5.8 | Creating county climate summaries for Oklahoma
Elizabeth M. Stoppkotte, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. D. Stokes and M. A. Shafer |
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| 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, North & Center Ballroom
Panel Discussion 2 Climate Services: Research, Outreach and Stakeholder Engagement |
Moderator: Gregg M. Garfin, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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| 10:30 AM | PD2.0a | A Climate Services Vision: First Steps Toward the Future
Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| 10:45 AM | PD2.1 | AASC Panelist
Kenneth C. Crawford, AASC/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 11:00 AM | PD2.2 | Private Sector Panelist
Heidi Cullen, The Weather Channel/Georgia Institute of Technology, Boulder, CO |
| 11:15 AM | PD2.3 | Regional Climate Center Panelist
Arthur T. DeGaetano, Northeast Regional Climate Center/Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY |
| 11:30 AM | PD2.4 | NOAA/Climate Services Division Panelist
Robert E. Livezey, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD |
| 11:45 AM | PD2.5 | RISA Panelist
Philip W. Mote, Univ. of Washington/AASC, Seattle, WA |
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| 12:00 PM-2:00 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break |
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| 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, North & Center Ballroom
Session 6 Applied Climatology in Drought and Flood Preparedness |
Organizer: Mark Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE
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| 2:00 PM | 6.1 | Orographic influence on frontally-produced flooding in northern Vermont
Lesley-Ann L. Dupigny-Giroux, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT; and J. R. Hanning and E. Engstrom |
| 2:15 PM | 6.2 | Predictions of storm surge flooding with the use of hurricane climatology
Bernhard Lee Lindner, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC; and D. St. Jean, C. Cockcroft, and S. Brueske |
| 2:30 PM | 6.3 | Air temperature rising trend and its Impact on Glacier Lakes over Dudhkoshi Basin of Eastern Nepal
Shakya Binod, Tribhuvan Univ., Kathmandu, SK, Nepal |
| 2:45 PM | 6.4 | A Web-Based National Drought Impacts Reporting Tool
Mark Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE; and M. J. Hayes, D. A. Wilhite, M. L. Higgins, and D. Wood |
| 3:00 PM | 6.5 | Strategies for Mitigating Drought: An Evaluation of State and Local Drought Triggers
Hope P. Mizzell, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Columbia, SC; and J. Caldwell and G. Carbone |
| 3:15 PM | 6.6 | A SEASONALLY ADJUSTED INDEX FOR PROJECTING AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT
Patrick Guinan, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and W. L. Decker and A. R. Lupo |
| 3:30 PM | 6.7 | Spatial and temporal extents of drought in the U.S
Ryan S. Kangas, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
| 3:45 PM | 6.8 | Experimental forest fire threat forecast
Justin M. Brolley, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and J. J. O'Brien and D. F. Zierden |
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| 3:00 PM-6:00 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open (Exhibit Poster Combined Reception 4:00-6:00pm) |
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| 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Wednesday
Joint Poster Session 2 General Poster Session II (with Exhibits Reception (Cash Bar)) (Joint with Applied Climatology, SMOI, and AASC) |
| | JP2.1 | The Southwest Climate Outlook: Insights on Communicating Climate Information to Stakeholders
Gregg M. Garfin, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| | JP2.2 | The integrated near-real time climate monitoring data base of NCDC's climate monitoring branch
Richard Heim Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| | JP2.3 | Customer satisfaction with NOAA's National Weather Service products and services
Barbara E. Mayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. E. Livezey |
| | JP2.4 | National Weather Service Climate Record Stewardship Activities
Robert J. Leffler, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Berger and R. E. Livezey |
| | JP2.5 | Development of a public interface for multi-sensor precipitation estimates
Katherine L. Horgan, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and M. Gentry, R. P. Boyles, and S. Raman |
| | JP2.6 | Characteristics of Jet Contrail Increases and Implications on Aviation Policy Decision-Making
David J. Travis, Univ. of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI; and A. M. Carleton |
| | JP2.7 | The Development of the Arizona Drought Impacts Database
Casey C. Thornbrugh, CLIMAS, Tucson, AZ; and G. Garfin and A. C. Comrie |
| | JP2.8 | Spatial distribution of tropical cyclone induced precipitation and operational applications in South Carolina
R. Jason Caldwell, South Carolina State Climatology Office, Columbia, SC; and H. P. Mizzell and M. Brown |
| | JP2.9 | Spatial and Temporal patterns of intra-seasonal oscillations over tropical Africa, their evolution and propagation
Lukiya Tazalika, Kampala, Uganda |
| | JP2.10 | Overview and update of the North America drought monitor and North America climate extremes monitoring system
Richard Heim Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| | JP2.11 | Evaluation of wet and dry periods in north west of Iran
Behrooz Sari Sarraf II, Tabriz Univ., Tabriz, Iran |
| | JP2.12 | Drought monitoring in Oklahoma: a collaborative endeavor
Derek S. Arndt, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and M. A. Shafer |
| | JP2.13 | Climatic controls on high and low streamflow in New England
Daniel G. Kingston, Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; and G. R. McGregor, D. M. Lawler, and D. M. Hannah |
| | JP2.14 | An Early Warning System for Riverine Drought Impacts: a National Weather Service Pilot Program
Cody L. Knutson, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE; and M. Svoboda and D. R. Kluck |
| | JP2.15 | A tale of two droughts: the effects of temperature on recent southwestern droughts
Gregg M. Garfin, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and J. Morrill, A. Comrie, J. McPhee, and S. Ponnaluru |
| | JP2.16 | Factoring climate variability into New York City's water management practices
Mary Elizabeth Riley, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and A. T. DeGaetano |
| | JP2.17 | Assessment of the utility of climate information for large Front Range water providers in Colorado
Jessica Lowrey, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and A. J. Ray |
| | JP2.18 | Artificial change point detection in temperature series in the USHCN version 2
Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. N. Williams |
| | JP2.19 | How Consistent are Surface Data for Climate Change Studies?: A Localized Analysis with Surface Air Temperature Observations from Cooperative Observer Station Data
Christopher Thomas Holder, State Climate Office of North Carolina/North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and D. Niyogi, R. P. Boyles, and S. Raman |
| | JP2.20 | Calculating a Daily Normal Temperature Range That Reflects Daily Temperature Variability
Christopher Thomas Holder, State Climate Office of North Carolina/North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and R. P. Boyles, S. Raman, and G. Fishel |
| | JP2.21 | Homogenization and Quality Control of long time series of Daily Temperature in Uruguay
Matilde Rusticucci, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and M. Renom |
| | JP2.22 | Estimating the Benefit of TRMM Tropical Cyclone Data in Saving Lives
Robert F. Adler, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |
| | JP2.23 | A Comprehensive Single-Station Quality Control Process for Historical Weather Data
Karen Andsager, Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Champaign, IL; and M. C. Kruk and M. L. Spinar |
| | JP2.24 | Managing Surface Station Metadata for Real-Time and Climate Applications
John Horel, NOAA/CIRP/Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. Splitt, J. Pechmann, and B. Olsen |
| | JP2.25 | An overview of the West Texas Mesonet
K. B. Haynie, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and J. Schroeder, I. Sonmez, and W. Burgett |
| | JP2.26 | A new synthetic current UV Index is developed to provide UV Index values at locations without UV measurements
Jeral G. Estupiñán, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and J. Koval and M. Bergin |
| | JP2.27 | Ship-board multi-sensor wind profiles from NEAQS 2004: Radar Wind Profiler, High Resolution Doppler Lidar, GPS Rawinsonde
D.E. Wolfe, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and C. W. Fairall, M. Ratterree, A. W. Brewer, S. Tucker, J. Intrieri, D. E. White, D. C. Law, B. J. McCarty, and A. B. White |
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| Thursday, 23 June 2005 |
| 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, South Ballroom
Joint Session 3 Data Quality Control and Metadata (Joint with Applied Climatology, SMOI, and AASC) |
Organizers: Christopher Daly, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; Glen Conner, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY
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| 8:00 AM | J3.1 | The Value of Weather Station Metadata
Janet E. Martinez, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and C. A. Fiebrich and R. A. McPherson |
| 8:15 AM | J3.2 | The Evolution of Station Histories
Glen Conner, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY |
| 8:30 AM | J3.3 | An End-to-End Quality Assurance System for the Modernized Coop Network
Christopher A. Fiebrich, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and R. A. McPherson, C. C. Fain, J. R. Henslee, and P. D. Hurlbut |
| 8:45 AM | J3.4 | Surface Temperature Analysis from Historical Data Sets for the ASOS and COOP Networks
X. Lin, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and K. G. Hubbard |
| 9:00 AM | J3.5 | Standardizing the quality assessment of data: partnership activities between NCDC and RCCs
Nathaniel Guttman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 9:15 AM | J3.6 | Simulating Change—Testing COOP Network Precip Homogeneity Methods
Tressa L. Fowler, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown and E. I. Tollerud |
| 9:30 AM | J3.7 | Adjustments for trace measurements in Canada
Éva Mekis, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada |
| 9:45 AM | J3.8 | The effect of modernization of climate reference networks on continuity of daily maximum and minimum temperature observations
Ewa J. Milewska, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and L. A. Vincent |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | J3.9 | Opportunities for improvements in the quality control of climate observations
Christopher Daly, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and K. T. Redmond, W. Gibson, M. Doggett, J. Smith, G. H. Taylor, P. A. Pasteris, and G. Johnson |
| | J3.10 | Assessing the impact of systematic observation errors on climate and operational precipitation analyses
Edward I. Tollerud, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and T. L. Fowler, B. G. Brown, and R. S. Collander |
| 10:45 AM | J3.11 | An update and future plans of NOAA's climate database modernization program (CDMP)
Thomas F. Ross, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 11:00 AM | J3.12 | Semiautomated quality control of historical sub-daily surface synoptic meteorological data: Application of attributes control methodology
Daniel Y. Graybeal, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY |
| 11:15 AM | J3.13 | Improvements to and Status of ARM's Data Quality Health and Status System
Randy A. Peppler, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. E. Kehoe, K. L. Sonntag, S. T. Moore, and K. J. Doty |
| 11:30 AM | J3.14 | Monitoring the quality of global radiosonde humidity data using ground-based GPS measurements
Junhong Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Zhang |
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| 8:00 AM-11:45 AM, Thursday, North & Center Ballroom
Session 7 Applied Climatology in Agriculture and Natural Resources |
Organizers: Dev Niyogi, Purdue Univ./Indiana State Climate Office, West Lafayette, IN; Jeff Andresen, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI
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| 8:00 AM | 7.1 | Why don’t Community Water System managers use weather and climate forecasts?
B. Yarnal, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and R. O'Connor, K. Dow, G. Carbone, and C. L. Jocoy |
| 8:15 AM | 7.2 | Determination of wetness duration for regional plant disease management using a geographic information system
Jeff Andresen, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI; and T. M. Aichele and A. M. Pollyea |
| 8:30 AM | 7.3 | Coastal climatology for commercial and recreational fishers: a web product
David Emory Stooksbury, Office of the State Climatologist, Athens, GA; and J. J. O'Brien, P. A. Christian, M. Griffin, S. L. Morey, L. G. Parker, and P. N. Knox |
| 8:45 AM | 7.4 | Climate variability and water availability in the southeast region
A. W. Badr, Southeast Regional Climate Center/South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Columbia, South Carolina; and J. A. Gellici |
| 9:00 AM | 7.5 | Climate Forecast Applied to Peanut Crop Insurance
Clyde William Fraisse, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and A. G. Y. Garcia, J. L. Novak, J. W. Jones, and G. Hoogenboom |
| 9:15 AM | 7.6 | Climate factors impacting productivity and yield trends in the midwest
D. P. Todey, South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD; and C. Shukla |
| 9:30 AM | 7.7 | Monitoring freeze injury potential to U.S. winter wheat during dormancy
Bradley R. Rippey, USDA, Washington, DC |
| 9:45 AM | 7.8 | Value based Ensemble Analysis and Potential Individual versus Simultaneous Climate Change Effects on Agriculture
Robert Mera, NCSU, Raleigh, NC; and D. Niyogi and F. Semazzi |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| | 7.9 | Frequency of precipitation in the Humid Pampa of Argentina
Olga C. Penalba, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and F. Robledo |
| | 7.10 | Low-level circulation patterns and precipitation in the Argentine Pampas. Association with soybean yield.
Maria Laura Bettolli, FCEN/UBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and O. C. Penalba and W. M. Vargas |
| 10:30 AM | 7.11 | Climate variability and change: the economic vulnerability of the skiing industry and surrounding communities in Arizona, USA
Rosalind H. Bark-Hodgins, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and B. G. Colby |
| 10:45 AM | 7.12 | A climate-based decision support system for agriculture in the Southeast U.S
David F. Zierden, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and J. J. O'Brien and C. W. Fraisse |
| 11:00 AM | 7.13 | A Modified SEBAL Model for Spatially Estimating Pecan Consumptive Water Use for Las Cruces, New Mexico
Junming Wang, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM; and T. W. Sammis, C. A. Meier, L. J. Simmons, D. R. Miller, and Z. Samani |
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| 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open |
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| 11:45 AM, Thursday
Meeting Adjourns |
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