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Program Chairpersons:
Robert Atlas, NOAA/AOML
Kayo Ide, University of Maryland

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Sunday, 17 January 2010
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday Annual Meeting Registration Begins
	12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday Weatherfest
	3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, B314 First-Time Attendee Briefing
	5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Sunday, B314 Annual Meeting Review and Fellows Awards
	6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Exhibit Hall B2 Fellows Reception
Monday, 18 January 2010
	7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday Registration Open
	9:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday, Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1 and 2 Presidential Forum
	10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Monday Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, B207 Session 1 Experiments involving observations, real or hypothetical: data impact tests and observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) I
Chair: Robert Atlas, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL
1:30 PM 1.1 Development of a sensor web simulator: status and preliminary results for a future satellite wind lidar mission   Recorded presentation Michael Seablom, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. J. Talabac, R. Burns, J. Ardizzone, S. A. Wood, E. M. Kemp, G. S. Wojcik, S. L. Applegate, H. N. Kleinwaks, G. D. Emmitt, and R. M. Atlas 1:45 PM 1.2 Evaluation of Space Based Doppler Wind Lidar in Joint OSSEs   Recorded presentation Michiko Masutani, NOAA/NWS/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and L. P. Riishojgaard, G. D. Emmitt, S. Greco, S. A. Wood, A. Stoffelen, G. J. Marseille, and J. S. Woollen 2:00 PM 1.3 Using an airborne doppler wind lidar to explore the potential impact of a future space-based wind lidar, particularly in the case of “cloud challenging” tropical cyclones   Recorded presentation G.D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. Greco and S. A. Wood 2:15 PM 1.4 The impact of Doppler Lidar wind profiles on numerical simulations of mesoscale weather systems   Recorded presentation Lei Zhang, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Z. Pu, B. Gentry, B. B. Demoz, and G. D. Emmitt
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall B2 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall B2 Poster Session Assimilation of observations and impact experiments
236 Development of a Regional Hurricane OSSE System   Yuanfu Xie, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and N. Prive, S. Koch, R. E. Hood, R. Atlas, J. Gamache, R. Rogers, S. Majumdar, T. L. Miller, and S. M. Mackaro   237 Dynamics and structure of three-dimensional error covariance of a mature tropical cyclone   Jonathan Poterjoy, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and F. Zhang   238 Ensemble sensitivities of WRF-ARW forecasts at high resolution   Elena Novakovskaia, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY   239 Simulation of observation and calibration for Joint OSSEs   Lars Peter Riishojgaard, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Masutani, J. S. Woollen, Y. Xie, N. Prive, T. Zhu, T. J. Kleespies, R. L. Vogel, H. Sun, H. Pryor, and E. Salmon   240 Impacts of data assimilation of simulated rain rates from the NASA HIRAD instrument on tropical cyclone precipitation forecasts in a mesoscale model   Cerese M. Inglish, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and T. N. Krishnamurti and T. L. Miller   241 Impacts of temporal and spatial resolutions of model initialization data   T.J. Malone, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY; and R. D. Leeper, R. Mahmood, and A. I. Quintanar   242 DART: A community facility for ensemble data assimilation   Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Hoar, K. Raeder, N. Collins, H. Liu, G. S. Romine, and A. F. Arellano   243 The Impact of Variational Assimilation of Quikscat Satellite Observations on Hurricane Ike 2008 Simulation   Duanjun Lu, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and R. S. Reddy and Q. L. Williams
	4:00 PM-5:15 PM, Monday, B207 Session 2 Field experiments: observational results from past field experiments; potential relevance of the field observations to operational prediction
Chair: Bill Proenza, NOAA/NWS, Fort Worth, TX
4:00 PM 2.1 Aerosol and Ocean Science Expeditions (AEROSE): Dedicated marine soundings for CrIMSS and GOES-R proxy datasets   Recorded presentation Nicholas R. Nalli, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, MD; and C. D. Barnet, E. Joseph, V. R. Morris, H. Xie, D. E. Wolfe, M. D. Goldberg, and P. J. Minnett 4:15 PM 2.2 NOGAPS adaptive observing and data denial experiments during T-PARC/TCS-08   Recorded presentation C. A. Reynolds, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. Langland, C. Velden, and H. Berger 4:30 PM 2.3 Use of the WC-130J reconnaissance aircraft for integrated atmospheric and oceanographic tropical cyclone (TC) observations in the Western North Pacific, Central Pacific and Atlantic basins: A national asset for the future   Recorded presentation Peter G. Black, SAIC/NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Hawkins, Y. Jin, L. C. J. Talbot, R. Deatherage, E. A. D'Asaro, P. Niiler, P. A. Harr, and R. L. Elsberry 4:45 PM 2.4 Measuring the structure of hurricanes with a microwave sounder   Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 5:00 PM 2.5 An observational and high-resolution model analysis of gale wind events in the Gulf of California   Recorded presentation Ariel E. Cohen, NOAA/NWSFO, Jackson, MS; and J. P. Cangialosi
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall B1 Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
	8:15 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, B313 Joint Session 4 Meteorological and Environmental Satellite Observing Systems: …to 15 Years Ahead (I) (Joint between the Meteorological and Environmental Satellite Observing Systems: From 50 Years Ago to 15 Years Ahead, the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), and the 6th Annual Symposium on Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems-NPOESS and GOES-R)
Cochairs: Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD; W. Paul Menzel, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI
8:15 AM J4.1 Meteorological and Environmental Satellite Observing Systems: …to 15 Years Ahead Introduction   Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD; and W. P. Menzel 8:30 AM J4.2 Earth Science Applications from Space—An Update on the Decadal Survey   Recorded presentation Richard A. Anthes, UCAR, Boulder, CO 8:45 AM J4.3 NASA's Earth Science Satellite Observation Program   Recorded presentation Michael H. Freilich, NASA, Washington, DC 9:00 AM J4.4 NOAA Plans for Next Generation, Space-based, Operational Earth   Recorded presentation Mary E. Kicza, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD 9:15 AM J4.5 IR Imaging Sounders for Geosynchronous orbit: A key capability for future multi-national observing systems   Recorded presentation Henry Revercomb, SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 9:30 AM J4.6 Preparing for a space-based Doppler wind lidar as a key observing system for weather and climate applications   Recorded presentation G. D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, B306 Joint Session 3 Data Collection, Interpretation, Assimilation, and Stewardship (Joint between the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 24th Conference on Hydrology, and the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology)
Chair: Stan Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO
8:30 AM J3.1 The Impacts on Air Traffic of Volcanic Ash from the 2009 Mt. Redoubt Eruption   Recorded presentation Alexander Matus, NASA, Hampton, VA; and L. A. Hudnall, J. J. Murray, and A. Krueger 8:45 AM J3.2 UrbanNet: Urban Environment Monitoring and Modeling with a Wireless Sensor Network   Recorded presentation Paul J. Croft, Kean Univ., Union, NJ; and P. Morreale, F. Qi, A. Tropek, and M. Andujar 9:00 AM J3.3 Network of Weather and Climate Observing Networks (NOWCON)   Recorded presentation Samuel P. Williamson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD; and J. E. Stailey and S. J. Taijeron 9:15 AM J3.4 Comparison of COOP and new HCN-M temperature products   Recorded presentation John R. Christy, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 9:30 AM J3.5 The Impact of Temporally Varying Snowfall Rates on Holdover Time using the LWE and Check Time Systems   Recorded presentation Roy Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Landolt, J. Black, and A. Gaydos
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, B207 Session 3 Assimilation of observations (ocean, atmosphere, and land surface) into models I
Chair: Brian J. Etherton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
8:30 AM 3.1 Severe Weather Forecasts using the Space and Time Mesoscale Analysis System (STMAS)   Huiling Yuan, CIRES and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and Y. Xie 8:45 AM 3.2 Development of a “seamless” mesoscale ensemble data assimilation and prediction system   Recorded presentation Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Wu, F. Vandenberghe, G. Descombes, H. Liu, and T. Warner 9:00 AM 3.3 Recent developments of WRFDA   Recorded presentation Xiang-Yu Huang, NCAR, Boulder, CO 9:15 AM 3.4 An assessment of independent vs joint data assimilation for a coupled atmosphere-ocean system   Recorded presentation Faez Bakalian, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; and H. Ritchie and K. Thompson 9:30 AM 3.5 The NCAR-ATEC 4D Weather (4DWX) Modeling System: Updates and New Developments   Recorded presentation John C. Pace, U.S Army, Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, UT; and S. F. Halvorson, S. Krippner, F. W. Gallagher III, J. A. Reynolds, Y. Liu, T. Warner, S. Swerdlin, F. Chen, J. Knievel, and J. Hacker
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B2 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B1 Exhibits Open
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, B313 Joint Session 7 Meteorological and Environmental Satellite Observing Systems: …to 15 Years Ahead (II) (Joint between the Meteorological and Environmental Satellite Observing Systems: From 50 Years Ago to 15 Years Ahead, the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), and the 6th Annual Symposium on Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems-NPOESS and GOES-R)
Cochairs: Robert Atlas, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; Timothy L. Miller, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL
11:00 AM J7.1 NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Applications in the Atmospheric and Hydrologic Sciences   Dara Entekhabi, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and E. Njoku and P. O’Neill 11:15 AM J7.2 Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2): Science and implementation   Recorded presentation Waleed Abdalati, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 11:30 AM J7.3 The Deformation, Ecosystem Structure, and Dynamics of Ice   Recorded presentation Paul A. Rosen, JPL, Pasadena, CA 11:45 AM J7.4 CLARREO: Cornerstone of the Future Climate Observing System   Recorded presentation David F. Young, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, Va
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, B207 Session 4A Atmospheric observations for weather and climate I
Chair: G.D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA
11:00 AM 4A.1 Tradeoffs in Hyperspectral Infrared Observations from Space for Weather and Climate   Recorded presentation Thomas S. Pagano, NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. T. Chahine 11:15 AM 4A.2 Assessing the influence of assimilating Clarus data into road and atmospheric forecasts   Recorded presentation Tressa L. Fowler, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. McDonough, S. D. Drobot, C. D. Burghart, and M. B. Chapman 11:30 AM 4A.3 Assessing impacts of integrating MODIS vegetation data in Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) model coupled to two types of Rc scheme   Anil Kumar, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and F. Chen, D. Niyogi, M. B. Ek, and C. D. Peters-Lidard 11:45 AM 4A.4 Planetary Boundary Layer Characteristics from GPS Radio Occultation Measurements   Recorded presentation Chi O. Ao, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Waliser, S. Chan, J. L. Li, J. Teixeira, B. Tian, and D. J. Seidel
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, B306 Session 4B Ocean observations for data assimilation and climate I
Chair: Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO
11:00 AM 4B.1 The impact of ocean observations in seasonal climate prediction (Invited)   Recorded presentation Michele M. Rienecker, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Keppenne, R. Kovach, and J. Marshak 11:30 AM 4B.2 POP-DART: An ensemble assimilation system for the parallel ocean program   Recorded presentation Tim Hoar, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Anderson, N. Collins, and B. Nadiga 11:45 AM 4B.3 Eddy and Chlorophyll-a Structures in the Kuroshio Extension Detected from Altimeter and SeaWiFS   Recorded presentation Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and Y. H. Kuo
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday, B208 Kuettner Symposium Luncheon
12:00 PM B1.1 Joach Kuettner—A Man in Love with the Sky   Einar Enevoldson, The Perlan Project, Emeryville, CA
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, B207 Session 5A Atmospheric observations for weather and climate II
Chair: Mark Powell, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Tallahassee, FL
1:30 PM 5A.2 Maintaining a local data integration system in support of weather forecast operations   Recorded presentation Leela R. Watson, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and P. F. Blottman, D. W. Sharp, and B. Hoeth 1:45 PM 5A.6 NOAA's unmanned aircraft program: recent accomplishments and future plans   Recorded presentation Robbie E. Hood, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and A. E. MacDonald, F. M. Ralph, G. A. Wick, B. Weatherhead, R. F. Rogers, C. W. Landsea, and J. J. Cione 2:00 PM 5A.4 WISDOM System 2009 Proof of Concept Test Results   Recorded presentation Justyna Nicinska, NOAA/OAR, Boulder, CO; and A. E. MacDonald and Y. Xie 2:15 PM 5A.5 Improvements in GOES/GOES-R water vapor calibration and validation   Recorded presentation Seth I. Gutman, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and D. L. Birkenheuer 2:30 PM 5A.3 Quantification of forecast impact of ASCAT surface winds assimilated into NCEP's GFS model   Li Bi, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Jung, D. A. Santek, and M. C. Morgan 2:45 PM 5A.1 From measurement to model domain: data ensembles of surface heat flux for improving climate model parameterizations   Meredith Franklin, ANL and University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and V. R. Kotamarthi, D. R. Cook, and M. L. Stein
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, B306 Session 5B Ocean observations for data assimilation and climate II
Chair: Tom Hamill, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM 5B.1 A Fully Conserved Adjustment Scheme for Ocean Data Assimilation Systems   Recorded presentation Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and C. Fan 1:45 PM 5B.2 Progress in the Canadian Operational Network of Coupled Environmental PredicTion Systems (CONCEPTS)   Recorded presentation Harold Ritchie, EC, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and F. Davidson, E. Dombrowsky, G. M. Flato, Y. Lu, P. Pellerin, M. Taillefer, K. Thompson, B. Topliss, D. Williams, and D. Wright 5B.3 Adjoint-based sensitivity analysis and 4DVAR data assimilation in an eddy resolving ocean model of the Peruvian Current System   Aneesh Subramanian, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and A. J. Miller, B. Cornuelle, and E. Di Lorenzo 2:00 PM 5B.4 Ensemble data assimilation for idealized California current system with ROMS-LETKF   Kayo Ide, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and T. Miyoshi, Z. Li, E. Kalnay, and J. C. McWilliams 2:15 PM 5B.5 The Impact of Ocean Model Limitations on Observing System Simulation Experiments   G. R. Halliwell Jr., Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and R. M. Atlas, W. C. Thacker, H. Yang, V. H. Kourafalou, and M. Le Henaff 2:30 PM 5B.6 Loop Current observing system assessment using OSSEs   Matthieu Le Henaff, RSMAS, Miami, FL; and V. H. Kourafalou, A. Srinivasan, and R. M. Atlas 2:45 PM 5B.7 Implementing the SWAN wave model at three east coast National Weather Service offices   Mark Willis, NOAA/NWS, Newport, NC; and E. Devaliere, J. Hanson, R. Hawkins, D. King, J. Lewitsky, T. Nicolini, S. Tjaden, C. Morgan, S. Schumann, M. Colby, and J. Elardo
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B1 Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
	3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, B207 Session 6A Experiments involving observations, real or hypothetical: data impact tests and observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) II
Chair: Timothy L. Miller, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL
3:30 PM 6A.1 Calibration of Synthetic Observations for a Joint Observing System Simulation Experiment   Recorded presentation Yuanfu Xie, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and N. Prive, T. Schlatter, S. Koch, M. Masutani, J. Woollen, T. Zhu, L. P. Riishojgaard, and R. M. Atlas 3:45 PM 6A.2 GSI Data Assimilation System: Community Support and Preliminary Testing Results   Recorded presentation Hui Shao, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, K. Park, K. Crosby, X. Y. Huang, L. Nance, B. Kuo, J. C. Derber, and M. Lueken 4:00 PM 6A.3 Application of ensemble sensitivity analysis to observational targeting for wind power forecasting   Recorded presentation Edward J. Natenberg, AWS Truewind, LLC, Albany, NY; and J. Zack, S. Young, R. Torn, J. Manobianco, and C. Kamath 4:15 PM 6A.4 A 27-year record of satellite-derived polar winds for retrospective analyses   David A. Santek, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. R. Key, R. Dworak, and M. Rienecker 4:30 PM 6A.5 Observing System Simulation Experiments for a COSMIC Follow-On Mission   Recorded presentation Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Iwabuchi, W. S. Schreiner, T. K. Wee, and Z. Ma 4:45 PM 6A.6 Developing an enhanced climate monitoring network for the Inter-American seas region   Recorded presentation Michael W. Douglas, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. F. Mejia and D. B. Enfield
	3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, B306 Session 6B Tropical cyclone data assimilation and impact experiments
Chair: C. A. Reynolds, NRL, Monterey, CA
3:30 PM 6B.1 Tests of a global EnKF system with an emphasis on tropical cyclone prediction   Jeffrey S. Whitaker, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and T. Hamill and P. Pegion 3:45 PM 6B.2 Development of the ensemble Kalman filter system for hurricane data assimilation at NOAA/AOML/HRD: Preliminary evaluation using environmental and vortex-scale dropwindsonde data   Altug Aksoy, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and K. J. Sellwood, P. Leighton, T. Vukicevic, S. D. Aberson, and F. Zhang 4:00 PM 6B.3 An airborne Doppler radar radial wind forward operator for the ensemble Kalman filter hurricane data assimilation system at NOAA/AOML/HRD: Preliminary results   Sylvie Lorsolo, CIMAS/University of Miami and AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and A. Aksoy 4:15 PM 6B.4 Study the impact of ensemble covariance in hurricane analysis and predictions using a hybrid ETKF-3DVAR data assimilation method   Xuguang Wang, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 4:30 PM 6B.5 H*Wind: An Integrated Observing System for Tropical Cyclones   Mark Powell, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Tallahassee, FL 4:45 PM 6B.6 High-resolution observations of inner core dynamics of Hurricane Alberto (2000) from MISR on NASA's Terra satellite   Dong L. Wu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. Diner, V. Jovanovic, K. Mueller, C. Moroney, D. Nelson, and M. J. Garay 5:00 PM 6B.7 Study of extratropical cyclone wind and corresponding SST fields by combining model and QuikSCAT satellite data   Zorana Jelenak, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and K. A. Ahmad, J. M. Sienkiewicz, and P. S. Chang 5:15 PM 6B.8 Ocean-surface wind impacts on hurricane forecasting, regional and global   S. Mark Leidner, AER, Norman, OK; and J. Ardizzone, J. -. C. Jusem, E. Brin, R. Hoffman, and R. Atlas
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, B215 Joint Session 5 Advances in Modeling, From Local through Regional to Large Scale, and From Deterministic to Ensemble-Probabilistic Prediction Part I (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 24th Conference on Hydrology)
Chair: Ed Olenic, NCEP, Camp Springs, MD
8:30 AM J5.1 On the seamless prediction of weather and climate   Recorded presentation Timothy N. Palmer, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom 8:45 AM J5.2 Performance of the NOAA FIM global ensemble prediction system for hurricanes during the 2009 season   Recorded presentation Tom Hamill, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker and S. Benjamin 9:00 AM J5.3 Why does cloud superparameterization improve the simulated daily rainfall cycle in a multiscale climate modeling framework?   Recorded presentation Michael S. Pritchard, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and R. C. J. Somerville 9:15 AM J5.4 North Pacific decadal variability and climate change in the IPCC AR4 models   Recorded presentation Jason C. Furtado, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and E. Di Lorenzo 9:30 AM J5.5 Aquaplanet GCM simulations of tropical intraseasonal variability   Recorded presentation Eric D. Maloney, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. Hannah 9:45 AM J5.6 Factors affecting forecast skill of the MJO over the Maritime Continent   Recorded presentation Augustin Vintzileos, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC - SAIC, Camp Springs, MD
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, B207 Session 7 Atmospheric observations for weather and climate: COSMIC
Chair: Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
8:30 AM 7.1 The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 Mission: Overview and Status   Recorded presentation Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. S. Schreiner, C. Rocken, R. A. Anthes, N. Yen, and J. J. Miau 8:45 AM 7.2 Assessment of Biases of Radiosonde Temperature Measurements in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere using COSMIC and CHAMP Radio Occultation Data   Recorded presentation Shu-peng Ho, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and X. Zhou, Y. H. Kuo, and D. Hunt 9:00 AM 7.3 Impact of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC GPS radio occultation and dropwindsonde data on regional model predictions during the 2008 Mei-yu season   Recorded presentation Fang-Ching Chien, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan; and B. Kuo 9:15 AM 7.4 The Impact of COSMIC GPS RO Data on the Analysis and Prediction of Tropical Cyclogenesis   Recorded presentation Xingqin Fang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. H. Kuo and H. Liu 9:30 AM 7.5 Examination of moisture distribution with 2008 and 2009 tropical cyclones using COSMIC data   Recorded presentation Christopher M. Hill, Mississippi State Univ., Stennis Space Center, MS; and P. J. Fitzpatrick and Y. Lau 9:45 AM 7.6 The Impacts of COSMIC Radio Occultation Observations on 2008 Typhoon Forecasts   Recorded presentation Tetsuya Iwabuchi, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. H. Kuo
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, B215 Joint Session 6 Advances in Modeling, From Local through Regional to Large Scale, and From Deterministic to Ensemble-Probabilistic Prediction Part II (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 24th Conference on Hydrology)
Chair: Ed Olenic, NCEP, Camp Springs, MD
10:30 AM J6.1 Quantifying Contributions to Polar Warming Amplification in a Coupled General Circulation Model   Recorded presentation Ming Cai, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and J. Lu 10:45 AM J6.2 The development of a coupled hurricane storm surge forecasting Model for the Pascagoula River   Recorded presentation David A. Ramirez Jr., NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA 11:00 AM J6.3 Evaluation of the new Australian climate model ACCESS   Recorded presentation Ian G. Watterson, CAWCR, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia; and L. Rikus, B. Hu, and T. Elliott 11:15 AM J6.4 Mesoscale circulations in the urban-coastal environment: a modeling analysis and assessment of sensitivity to high-fidelity representation of the urban canopy   Recorded presentation Michael Carter, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and J. M. Shepherd, S. Burian, and I. Jeyachandran 11:30 AM J6.5 Ensemble downscaling of seasonal forecasts   Recorded presentation R. W. Arritt, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 11:45 AM J6.6 The misrepresentation of Tropical SSTs in climate models   Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES/CDC and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and S. I. Shin
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, B207 Session 8 Atmospheric observations for weather and climate: COSMIC/TAMDAR
Chair: Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR, Boulder, CO
10:30 AM 8.1 The role of water vapor and its associated latent heating in extreme Beaufort coastal storm surge events   Recorded presentation John R. Gyakum, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and N. Liu, Y. H. Kuo, D. Small, and E. H. Atallah 10:45 AM 8.2 Observing the atmospheric diurnal cycle with GPS/COSMIC occultations   Feiqin Xie, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. Wu, A. J. Mannucci, and C. O. Ao 11:00 AM 8.3 An Update on the TAMDAR Sensor Network Deployment   Recorded presentation Neil A. Jacobs, AirDat LLC, Morrisville, NC; and P. Childs, M. Croke, Y. Liu, and X. Y. Huang 11:15 AM 8.4 An Introduction to the NCAR-AirDat Operational TAMDAR-Enhanced RTFDDA-WRF   Recorded presentation Peter Childs, AirDat, Morrisville, NC; and N. A. Jacobs, M. Croke, Y. Liu, W. Wu, G. Roux, and M. Ge 11:30 AM 8.5 Preliminary Verification of the NCAR-AirDat Operational RTFDDA-WRF System   Recorded presentation Meredith Croke, AirDat, Morrisville, NC; and N. A. Jacobs, P. Childs, Y. Liu, Y. Liu, and R. S. Sheu 11:45 AM 8.6 Evaluation of TAMDAR data impact on predicting warm-season convection using the NCAR-AirDat WRF-based RTFDDA system   Recorded presentation Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Wu, G. Roux, M. Ge, R. S. Sheu, T. Warner, N. Jacobs, P. Childs, and M. Croke
	11:00 AM-6:30 PM, Wednesday Exhibits Open
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, B207 Session 9A Assimilation of observations (ocean, atmosphere, and land surface) into models II
Chair: Thomas S. Pagano, NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA
1:30 PM 9A.1 Predictability of the Magnitude and the Spectrum of the Uncertainties in an Ensemble Forecast System   Recorded presentation Elizabeth A. Satterfield, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and I. Szunyogh 1:45 PM 9A.2 Application of the Partial Precipitable Water (PPW) Concept in the Determination of a Potential Ice Accretion Index Aloft   Recorded presentation Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD 2:00 PM 9A.3 EaKF based method for assimilating trace gas and primary aerosols in the GEOS-CHEM model: Preliminary Results   K.J. Liao, ANL, Argonne, IL; and V. R. Kotamarthi 2:15 PM 9A.4 AIRS mid-tropospheric co2 for assimilation by meteorological models   Moustafa Chahine, NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. T. Olsen, L. Chen, T. S. Pagano, X. Jiang, and Y. Yung
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, B306 Session 9B Experiments involving observations, real or hypothetical: data impact tests and observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) III
Chair: G. R. Halliwell, Jr., Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL
1:30 PM 9B.1 Assessment of Micro Rain Radar (MRR) observing network data and sensor density   Recorded presentation Brian J. Etherton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and J. L. Proud 1:45 PM 9B.2 Impacts on RUC short-term ceiling and visibility forecasts from high-resolution data   Recorded presentation William R. Moninger, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin and B. D. Jamison 2:00 PM 9B.3 Simulation of the impact of new aircraft- and satellite-based ocean surface wind measurements on wind analyses and numerical forecasts   Recorded presentation Timothy L. Miller, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and R. Atlas, P. G. Black, S. S. Chen, L. Jones, C. S. Ruf, E. W. Uhlhorn, R. Amarin, S. El-Nimri, J. F. Gamache, C. D. Buckley, T. N. Krishnamurti, and C. M. Inglish 2:15 PM 9B.4 Relative short-range forecast impact from aircraft, profiler, radiosonde, VAD, GPS-PW, METAR and mesonet observations within hourly assimilation in the RUC   Recorded presentation Stan Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and B. D. Jamison, W. R. Moninger, S. R. Sahm, B. E. Schwartz, and T. W. Schlatter
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall B2 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall B2 Poster Session Assimilation of observations and impact experiments
531 Results from UK Met Office investigations into new technology present weather sensors   Darren Richard Lyth, UK Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom   532 Using the TUV model and the EPIRM model in conjunction with MFRSR irradiance data to retrieve single scattering albedo, asymmetry parameter and aerosol size distribution in the El Paso-Juarez airshed   Angel E. Esparza, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX; and R. Medina-Calderon, R. M. Fitzgerald, and J. Polanco   533 “Hour-by-Month” climograms as a planning, decison-aid and educational tool in the visualization, summarization, and interpretation of visbility and ceilings' data   Charles J. Fisk, Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, CA   534 Variability of the boundary-layer depth over certain regions of the subtropical ocean from 3 years of COSMIC data   Sergey Sokolovskiy, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Lenschow, C. Rocken, W. Schreiner, D. Hunt, Y. H. Kuo, and R. Anthes   535 Evaluation of enhanced high resolution MODIS/AMSR-E SSTs and the impact on regional weather forecasts   Luke Schiferl, CIMSS/SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and K. K. Fuell, J. L. Case, and G. J. Jedlovec   536 A new CPC high-resolution gauge-satellite merged analysis for improved observation of global daily precipitation   Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and S. H. Yoo, R. J. Joyce, and Y. S. Yarosh   537 Evaluation of short duration nowcasting algorithms for optimizing projected runway visual range (RVR) conditions   Thomas A. Seliga, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and D. A. Hazen and L. Salcedo   538 Intercomparison of Global Positioning System-radio occultation and radiosonde vertical profiles of temperature and moisture over three mesoscale regions   Jeffrey S. Tilley, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND ; and S. T. Jorgenson, G. L. Mullendore, A. J. Homann, and B. Austin
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, B207 Session 10A Advanced Methods for Data Assimilation I
Chair: Kayo Ide, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
4:00 PM 10A.1 Regularization of error covariance with the Gaussian graphical model   Recorded presentation Genta Ueno, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Tsuchiya 4:15 PM 10A.2 A Bayesian method for estimating stochastic parameters   Recorded presentation Xiaosong Yang, COLA, Calverton, MD; and T. DelSole 4:30 PM 10A.3 Improve Ensemble-Based State Estimation and Forecasting with Simultaneous Parameter Estimation   Recorded presentation Xiao-Ming Hu, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon and F. Zhang 4:45 PM 10A.4 On the use of model physics parameters as control variables in data assimilation systems   Recorded presentation Derek J. Posselt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 5:00 PM 10A.5 Impact of “variable localization” in the background error covariance matrix within the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter   Recorded presentation Eugenia Kalnay, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and J. S. Kang and K. Ide 5:15 PM 10A.6 What constrains the growth of spread in ensemble Kalman filters?   Recorded presentation Tom Hamill, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and J. Whitaker
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, B306 Session 10B Experiments involving observations, real or hypothetical: data impact tests and observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) IV
Chair: Lars Peter Riishojgaard, JCSDA, Greenbelt, MD
4:00 PM 10B.1 Assimilation of simulated infrared brightness temperatures as part of an OSSE employing the Ensemble Kalman Filter   Recorded presentation Jason A. Otkin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. E. Lewis 4:15 PM 10B.2 Update on the NCEP GFS Forecast Skill Score Dropouts   Recorded presentation DaNa Carlis, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD MD; and J. C. Alpert, B. Ballish, and K. V. Kumar 4:30 PM 10B.3 Adjoint mesoscale observation sensitivity   Recorded presentation Clark M. Amerault, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Doyle 4:45 PM 10B.4 Assimilation of surface winds from satellites: present and future   Recorded presentation Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and R. Atlas, J. S. Whitaker, T. Hamill, and R. Torn 5:00 PM 10B.5 Definition of error statistics for ensemble forecasts and OSSE's   Recorded presentation Rod Frehlich, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 5:15 PM 10B.6 On the problems and challenges in regional OSSEs   Recorded presentation Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and R. Atlas
	5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall B1 Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
	7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1-4 AMS Annual Awards Banquet
Thursday, 21 January 2010
	7:30 AM-8:30 AM, Thursday, B208 Washington Symposium Breakfast
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, B217 Joint Session 1 Global environmental observing systems including, but not limited to, the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), and Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) - Part I (Joint between the 26th Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology and the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS))
Cochairs: Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD; John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant, Berryville, VA
8:30 AM J1.1 The Global Climate Observing System(GCOS) after World Climate Conference-3: The GCOS role in the new Global Framework for Climate Services   Recorded presentation John Zillman, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia 8:45 AM J1.2 GCOS Program and Associated Workplans   Recorded presentation Carolin Richter, GCOS Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland 9:00 AM J1.3 Spatial representativeness of GCOS Reference Upper-Air Network observations   Recorded presentation Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and T. Reale, B. Sun, and M. Pettey 9:15 AM J1.4 Impacts of Temporal and Spatial Mismatch between Radiosonde Launch and Satellite Overpass on the Accuracy Assessment of Satellite Retrievals: Daily vs. Weekly vs. Monthly Scales   Recorded presentation Bomin Sun, IMSG & NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Suitland, MD; and T. Reale, C. Z. Zou, M. Pettey, and F. Tilley 9:30 AM J1.5 Operational NESDIS daily 0.1degree global SST Analysis   Eileen Maria Maturi, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Harris, J. Sapper, H. Gu, L. Ma, and W. Meng
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, B207 Session 11 Advanced Methods for Data Assimilation II
Chair: Jeffrey S. Whitaker, ESRL/NOAA, Boulder, CO
8:30 AM 11.1 A comparison of the local ensemble transform Kalman filter and ensemble square root filter data assimilation schemes   Recorded presentation Brian W. Holland, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and X. Wang 8:45 AM 11.2 Estimation of observation error correlation within ensemble Kalman filter   Recorded presentation Eugenia Kalnay, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and T. Miyoshi and H. Li 9:00 AM 11.3 Adaptive estimation of inflation and observation errors in a simulated carbon cycle data assimilation   Recorded presentation Ji-Sun Kang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. Ide, E. Kalnay, and H. Li 9:15 AM 11.4 An adaptive covariance localization method with the LETKF   Recorded presentation Takemasa Miyoshi, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 9:30 AM 11.5 A comparison of EnKF localization techniques on balance   Recorded presentation Steven J. Greybush, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay, T. Miyoshi, and K. Ide
	9:45 AM-1:30 PM, Thursday Exhibits Open
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Exhibit Hall B2 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, B217 Joint Session 2 Global environmental observing systems including, but not limited to, the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), and Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS)- Part II (Joint between the 26th Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology and the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS))
Cochairs: Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD; John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant, Berryville, VA
11:00 AM J2.1 Quality assurance of PACRAIN tipping bucket gauge data   Recorded presentation Michael D. Klatt, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. S. Greene and M. L. Morrissey 11:15 AM J2.2 Climate observations and seasonal rainfall forecasting in the Pacific Islands   Recorded presentation Dean Solofa, SPREP, Apia, Samoa; and M. Morrissey and S. Postawko 11:30 AM J2.3 The Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Array (TAO) for the 21st Century   Recorded presentation Landry J. Bernard III, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS; and R. Bouchard, L. A. LeBlanc, R. Crout, J. Zhou, K. J. Kern, D. C. Petraitis, and C. C. Teng 11:45 AM J2.4 Effect of the Earth Science Decadal Survey on NASA and NOAA—Three Years Later   Recorded presentation Randall G. Bass, ITT Corp, Herndon, VA; and R. Fitzhugh and L. Jairam 12:00 PM J2.5 Observing the climate for development   Recorded presentation William E. Westermeyer, Global Climate Observing System Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland
	11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, B207 Session 12 Assimilation of observations (ocean, atmosphere, and land surface) into models III
Chair: Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL
11:00 AM 12.1 Development and Testing of a Generic Model for a 4DVAR version of GSI   Recorded presentation Miodrag Rancic, SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and D. Kleist and S. Peng 11:15 AM 12.2 Use of the Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation for hourly assimilation within the Rapid Refresh system   Recorded presentation Dezso Dévényi, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES-University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, S. S. Weygandt, S. G. Benjamin, and C. R. Alexander 11:30 AM 12.3 Recent development of the generalized cloud analysis package in Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation for the Rapid Refresh   Recorded presentation Ming Hu, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin, S. S. Weygandt, and D. Devenyi 11:45 AM 12.4 Evaluation of radar data assimilation methods used to initialize precipitation systems within the RUC, Rapid Refresh, and High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) models   Recorded presentation Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin, M. Hu, T. G. Smirnova, and J. M. Brown 12:00 PM 12.5 has been moved to 5B.7
	12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday, B206 Presidential Town Hall Meeting: Dr. Jane Lubchenco’s Plenary Luncheon (Cash and Carry lunch available outside of the meeting room)
12:15 PM Panelist: Jane Lubchenco   Jane Lubchenco, NOAA Administrater, Washington, DC
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
	5:00 PM-5:05 PM, Thursday AMS 90th Annual Meeting Adjourns

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