Presidential Symposium on the Advances of Environmental Remote Sensing—The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite Systems (Expanded View)

Saturday, 10 January 2004
7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Saturday
Short Course/Student Conference Registration
 
Sunday, 11 January 2004
7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration
 
7:30 AM, Sunday
Conference Registration
 
Monday, 12 January 2004
7:30 AM, Monday
Registration continues through Thursday, 15 January
 
Tuesday, 13 January 2004
8:30 AM, Tuesday
 
8:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604
 
9:00 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604
Session 1 NPOESS Program Overview and System Architecture (Room 602/603/604)
Chairperson: John D. Cunningham, NOAA/NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD
9:00 AM1.1National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)Program Overview and System Architecture   wrf recording
John D. Cunningham, NOAA/NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD
 
9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break.
 
9:45 AM, Tuesday, Hall 4AB
Poster Session 1 NPOESS USERPORT: A Path to Operational Use of NPOESS Data (Electronic Poster; Hall 4AB)
Chairpersons: Timothy C. Spangler, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; Tom F. Lee, NRL, Monterey, CA; Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA; Robert Arnone, NRL,; Patrick N. Dills, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; Sherwood Wang, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO
P1.1NPOESS UserPort: A Path to Operational Use of NPOESS Data  
Thomas F. Lee, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Wang and R. Arnone
 
11:00 AM-11:30 AM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604
Session 2 NPOESS Performance (Room 602/603/604)
Chairpersons: Fred Ricker, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA; Michael Mader, Raytheon Company, Aurora, CO
11:00 AM2.1National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) System Performance   wrf recording
Fred Ricker, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA; and M. Mader
 
11:30 AM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open
 
11:30 AM-12:15 PM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604
Session 3 Improved Imagery Capability (Room 602/603/604)
Chairpersons: Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA; Carl Hoffman, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD
11:30 AM3.1NPOESS IMPROVED IMAGERY CAPABILITIES   wrf recording
Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. D. Miller, J. Turk, T. F. Lee, K. A. Richardson, R. Arnone, P. Gaiser, and R. Wade
 
12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
NOAA Satellite Systems Forum (Box Lunches Courtesy of ITT)
 
1:30 PM-2:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604
Session 4 Improved Sounding Capability (Room 602/603/604)
Chairpersons: Bill Smith, NASA/LARC, Langley, VA; Leo Andreoli, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
1:30 PM4.1Improved Sounding Capability  
William L. Smith, Jr., NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and S. A. Mango
 
2:00 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604
Session 5 Satellite Data Assimilation and Numerical Weather Prediction Benefits (Room 602/603/604)
Chairpersons: Robert M. Atlas, Data Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; Stephen J. Lord, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; Robert S. "Scott" Turek, Raytheon Company, Aurora, CO
2:00 PMpaper 5.1 moved, new paper number 5.2  
2:01 PM5.1aAssimilation of Polar Orbiting Space-Based Data and Its Impact on Weather Prediction   wrf recording
Robert Atlas, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
2:30 PM5.2Data Assimilation and Numerical Weather Prediction Benefits (formerly paper 5.1, New paper Number 5.2)  
Stephen Lord, NCEP/EMC, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Derber, P. VanDelst, Y. Tahara, L. M. McMillin, Y. Han, T. J. Kleespies, M. Goldberg, and R. Treadon
 
3:30 PM-4:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604
Session 6 Severe Weather Prediction Benefits (Room 602/603/604)
Chairpersons: David H. Staelin, MIT, Cambridge, MA; Stephen A. Mango, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD
3:30 PM6.1Contributions of Passive Microwave Sounders to Severe Weather Understanding and Predictive Capabilities   wrf recording
David H. Staelin, MIT, Cambridge, MA
 
4:00 PM-4:30 PM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604
Session 7 Climate Change and Prediction Benefits (Room 602/603/604)
Chairpersons: Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; Stan Schneider, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD
4:00 PM7.1 Climate Requirements and NPOESS  
Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. J. Bates and M. Goldberg
 
4:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604
Panel Discussion 1 NPOESS Users Panel (Room 602/603/604)
Moderator: Elbert W. (Joe) Friday, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC Panelists: Gregory Withee (Invited), NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; RADM Steven Tomaszeski, United States Navy,; Brig Gen Thomas E. Stickford (Invited), United States Air Force,; John J. (Jack) Kelly (Invited), NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; Jack A. Kaye, NASA, Office of Earth Systems, Washington, DC; Tillman Mohr, EUMETSAT,
4:30 PMPD1.1THE NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE SYSTEM (NPOESS) USERS’ PANEL  
Michael L. Jamilkowski, Raytheon Company, Silver Spring, MD
 

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