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Monday, 18 January 2010
	7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday Registration Open
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
	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
	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
	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, B213 Session 1 Spacecraft and ground-based observations of planetary atmospheres
Chair: Mark I. Richardson, CALTECH, Pasadena, CA
1:30 PM 1.1 Isotopic ratios in Titan's stratosphere from Cassini CIRS and implications for evolution of the atmosphere   Conor A. Nixon, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. E. Jennings, P. N. Romani, A. Jolly, B. Bézard, A. Coustenis, N. A. Teanby, P. G. J. Irwin, S. Vinatier, and F. M. Flasar 1:45 PM 1.2 Satellite-derived cloud motion winds in the north polar region of Mars   David A. Santek, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. Sorensen, S. Limaye, and B. Cantor 2:00 PM 1.3 Assimilating TES radiances with the DART/Planet-WRF ensemble data assimilation system   Greg Lawson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and J. Anderson and N. Collins 2:15 PM 1.4 Martian Atmospheric Data Assimilation Using an Ensemble Kalman Filter   Matthew J. Hoffman, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and S. J. Greybush, R. J. Wilson, G. Gyarmati, R. N. Hoffman, K. Ide, E. J. Kostelich, T. Miyoshi, I. Szunyogh, and E. Kalnay 2:30 PM 1.5 Martian atmosphere breeding: elucidating atmospheric instabilities   Steven J. Greybush, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay, M. J. Hoffman, T. Miyoshi, K. Ide, and R. J. Wilson 2:45 PM 1.6 Assimilation of TES data into a Mars general circulation model using LETKF   Eugenia Kalnay, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. J. Greybush, M. J. Hoffman, R. J. Wilson, J. Eluszkiewicz, R. N. Hoffman, K. Ide, and T. Miyoshi
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B1 Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
	3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, B216 Joint Session 4 Research on extreme weather and climate events and inter-relationships (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the First Environment and Health Symposium, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 24th Conference on Hydrology, the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy, and the Committee on Climate Services)
Chair: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
3:30 PM J4.1 The relative increase of record high maximum temperatures compared to record low minimum temperatures in the U.S   Recorded presentation Gerald Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Tebaldi, G. Walton, D. R. Easterling, and L. R. McDaniel 3:45 PM J4.2 A common Midwestern question: Where have all our 90°F days gone?   Recorded presentation David Changnon, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL; and V. Gensini and J. Prell 4:00 PM J4.3 Using large scale circulation indices to predict the intensity of cold air outbreaks over extended time scales across the southeastern U.S   Recorded presentation Charles E. Konrad, NOAA Southeastern Regional Climate Center, Chapel Hill, NC 4:15 PM J4.4 Heat waves and cold spells in a warming climate   Recorded presentation Karsten Steinhaeuser, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and A. R. Ganguly 4:30 PM J4.6 Extreme european weather regimes   Recorded presentation Ricardo Morais Fonseca, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom; and B. J. Hoskins and M. Blackburn 4:45 PM J4.7 Meteorological features of observed trends in U.S. heavy precipitation events   Recorded presentation Kenneth E. Kunkel, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. R. Easterling, B. E. Gleason, D. A. R. Kristovich, R. A. Smith, and L. Ensor 5:00 PM J4.8 Contemporary climatic changes in North America and Northern Eurasia with foci on extreme events and transitions through environmentally and socio-economically significant thresholds   Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Knight and T. R. Karl 5:15 PM J4.5 Climatological, meteorological, and societal implications for the large number of fatalities from central Florida Dry Season tornadoes during El Niño   Bartlett C. Hagemeyer, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and L. A. Jordan, A. L. Moses, S. M. Spratt, and D. F. Van Dyke
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
	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
	11:00 AM-6:30 PM, Wednesday Exhibits Open
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall B2 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, B314 Session 2 Numerical modeling of planetary meteorology and climate dynamics
Chair: Mark I. Richardson, CALTECH, Pasadena, CA
4:00 PM 2.1 Striving towards simulating all known atmospheres equally well: vertical coordinate and pressure-gradient force   Recorded presentation Timothy E. Dowling, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 4:15 PM 2.2 Simulation of Venus' general circulation   Christopher Lee, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 4:30 PM 2.3 Atmospheric circulations of terrestrial planets orbiting low mass stars   Recorded presentation Adam R. Edson, ITT Visual Information Solutions, Springfield, VA; and S. Lee, P. R. Bannon, D. Pollard, and J. Kasting 4:45 PM 2.4 Formation of zonal jets by large-scale latent heating on the giant planets   Recorded presentation Adam P. Showman, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and Y. Lian 5:00 PM 2.5 Methane in Titan's weather and climate   Recorded presentation Jonathan L. Mitchell, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA 5:15 PM 2.6 The dynamics and structure of Titan's middle atmosphere   Recorded presentation F. Michael Flasar, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
	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
	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, B211 Session 3 Martian Atmosphere and Climate
Chair: Mark I. Richardson, CALTECH, Pasadena, CA
11:00 AM 3.1 Modeling the global Martian atmosphere   Recorded presentation R. John Wilson, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and M. I. Richardson 11:15 AM 3.2 Application of mesoscale atmospheric models to Mars missions   Recorded presentation Scot C. R. Rafkin, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 11:30 AM 3.3 Dust lifting on Mars: towards better representations of reality   Recorded presentation Claire E. Newman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and M. I. Richardson and A. D. Toigo 11:45 AM 3.4 Global constraints on precipitation in Mars' ancient past   Recorded presentation Alejandro Soto, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and M. I. Richardson 12:00 PM 3.5 Modeling Milankovitch cycles on Mars   Recorded presentation Mark I. Richardson, CALTECH, Pasadena, CA; and M. Mischna
	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
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, B211 Joint Session 8 New challenges for applied meteorology and climatology (Joint between the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the First Environment and Health Symposium, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy, and the Fifth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research)
Chair: Melissa Griffin, Florida Climate Center/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL
1:30 PM J8.1 Developing useful science: methods for engaging stakeholders and evaluating integrated climate tools   Recorded presentation Gigi Owen, CLIMAS/University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and K. Averyt, K. Werner, and D. Ferguson 1:45 PM J8.2 10 years of the U.S. Drought Monitor: a look back and a look forward   Recorded presentation Mark D. Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE; and B. Fuchs, S. Scott, and J. Nothwehr 2:00 PM J8.3 User-driven downscaling: advances in data apportioning and analysis to augment adaptation planning   Recorded presentation Edwin P. Maurer, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA; and L. D. Brekke, T. Pruitt, K. D. White, E. Ochs, P. Duffy, and E. H. Girvetz 2:15 PM J8.4 Trends of U.S. snowfall and snow cover in a warming world, 1948-2008   Recorded presentation Richard R. Heim Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC J8.5 Use of the Brazilian Model of Climate and Health (BHMC) in order to estimate admissions for respiratory diseases in Brazil   Micheline S. Z. S. Coelho, Weather Brasilian Service, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 2:30 PM J8.6 Martian dust storm hazards: improving characterization and forecasting   Nicholas Heavens, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and M. I. Richardson, I. J. McEwan, and M. W. Busch
	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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