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Program Chairpersons:
David J. Pace, FAA
Cecilia Miner, NOAA/NWS
Charles A. West, NOAA/NWS

Compact View of Conference

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
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, B314 Panel Discussion 1 Key Challenges and Opportunities in Aviation
Panelists: Jaime Figueroa, FAA, Washington, DC; Don Berchoff, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD Moderator: Steve Abelman, NOAA/NWS Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD
11:00 AM PD1.1 Key Challenges and Opportunities in Aviation -- NWS   Recorded presentation Don Berchoff, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD 11:15 AM PD1.2 Key Challenges and Opportunities in Aviation -- FAA   Recorded presentation Jaime Figueroa, FAA, Washington, DC
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, B314 Session 1 Convection, Decision Support Systems and Air Traffic Management, Part 1
Cochairs: Marilyn Wolfson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; Charles A. West, NOAA/NWS, Hampton, GA
1:30 PM 1.1 Evaluation of enroute convective weather avoidance models based on planned and observed flight   Recorded presentation Michael Matthews, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and R. DeLaura 1:45 PM 1.2 Methods for estimating air traffic capacity reductions due to convective weather for verification   Recorded presentation Geary J. Layne, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. A. Lack 2:00 PM 1.3 Traffic Management Advisor (TMA) – weather integration   Recorded presentation Michael Robinson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and H. J. Davison-Reynolds and J. E. Evans 2:15 PM 1.4 An Integrated Strategic-Tactical Approach to Managing Traffic Flows to the Northeast During Severe Convective Weather   Recorded presentation James Evans, MIT, Lexington, MA; and M. Robinson, J. Cho, and M. Evans
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall B2 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday Poster Session Convection, Decision Support Systems and ATM Posters
170 Objective verification of manual and automated forecasts of cumulonimbus clouds from World Area Forecast Centres   Andrew K. Mirza, Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom; and B. Lunnon, P. Gill, and L. Reid   171 Convection diagnosis and nowcasting system for transoceanic aircraft   Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and H. Cai, N. Rehak, D. Megenhardt, M. Steiner, M. Donovan, E. R. Williams, R. Bankert, and J. Hawkins   172 Optical Turbulence Simulations from a Numerical Weather Prediction Model in Support of Air to Air Laser Communications   Randall Alliss, Northrop Grumann TASC, Chantilly, VA; and B. Felton   173 Severe high altitude aircraft turbulence on thunderstorm peripheries   Donald W. McCann, McCann Aviation Weather Reaserch, Inc., Overland Park, KS; and J. A. Knox and P. D. Williams   174 How to represent the weather impact on aviation in a global air traffic model   Stephan Himmelsbach, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany; and T. Hauf and C. H. Rokitansky   175 Convective Initiation in the northern Mid-Atlantic during the Summer Season   Paul J. Croft, Kean Univ., Union, NJ; and A. Wuestenberg, D. Fadeski, and J. Schulte   176 Diameters of cumulonimbi over land and ocean and their dependence on cloud base height   Earle R. Williams, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and M. F. Donovan, Z. J. Luo, C. Kessinger, H. Cai, N. Rehak, D. Megenhardt, M. Steiner, J. Hawkins, R. Bankert, and D. Bou Karam   177 Operational Scoring of Forecasts of Convective Weather Impacts in the Route Availability Planning Tool (RAPT)   John Hayward, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and R. DeLaura and M. Matthews   178 Translating an Ensemble Weather Forecast into Operational Disruption for the National Airspace System   John Huhn, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA; and M. Duquette, D. Bright, J. Racy, G. Grosshans, and B. Sherman   179 The “Barn Door” Effect   Charles A. West, NOAA/NWS, Hampton, GA   180 Multi-sensor visualization and assessment of the state of the atmosphere during the June 1 2009 AF447 crash   Gregory Leptoukh, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Ostrenga, H. H. Aumann, Z. Liu, and A. Savtchenko
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday Poster Session Key Challenges and Opportunities in Aviation Posters
181 Weather Research Coordination and Challenges of NextGen   Darien L. Davis, NOAA/OAR/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and W. Fellner and J. J. Murray   182 The new Aviation Meteorology specialization in the Graduate Aeronautics program at Embry-Riddle   John M. Lanicci, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL; and E. A. Roberts   183 Aviation Weather Tools Available on the Houston Center Weather Service Unit Web Site   Eric Avila, NOAA/NWS, Houston, TX   184 Adventures in technology transfer   Marcia K. Politovich, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Wallace   185 Impacts of haze on high-capacity airport operations   Randall A. Skov, NOAA/NWS, Hampton, GA   186 A Look at Airport Delays Due to Ceiling and Visibility Conditions   Jennifer Black, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Herzegh, C. Kessinger, B. Lambi, and R. E. Bateman   187 Comparison of Precipitation Rate Intensities as Determined by Visibility Versus Liquid Water Equivalent Measurements   Jennifer Black, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Rasmussen and S. Landolt   188 A Combined Sensor Method for Detecting Frost Formation   Grant E. Gutierrez, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Landolt, R. Rasmussen, J. Black, and A. Gaydos   189 A Comparison of an Automated Freezing Drizzle Algorithm to Human Observations   Scott Landolt, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. K. Politovich, R. Rasmussen, and A. Gaydos   190 FRAM-S Freezing Fog Project: Emphasis On Visibility Forecasting   Ismail Gultepe, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and R. M. Rasmussen, B. Zhou, R. K. Ungar, and R. Nitu   191 Can CoSPA improve the predictability of C&V events?   Richard E. Bateman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Herzegh, C. Kessinger, and J. Black
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, B312 Joint Session 2 The emergence of new scientific partnerships (Joint between the Fifth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, 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 First Environment and Health Symposium)
Chair: Genevieve E. Maricle, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
4:00 PM J2.1 Climate Adaptation Partnerships in Semiarid North America   Recorded presentation Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 4:15 PM J2.2 The FEMA Hurricane Liaison Team: Bridging the Communication Gap (because Great Minds Don't Always Think Alike)   Matthew Green, FEMA, TBA, GA 4:30 PM J2.3 Partnership between the Državni hidrometeorološki zavod (DHMZ) and the University of Oklahoma (OU)   Recorded presentation Ivan Cacic, Državni hidrometeorološki zavod, Zagreb, Croatia; and B. Ivančan-Picek, B. Lipovšćak, K. Pandzic, B. Terek, V. Tutiš, G. Zuccon, K. Crawford, R. A. McPherson, K. L. Nemunaitis, and J. T. Snow 4:45 PM J2.4 The Norman, Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce Weather Committee: A Framework for New Partnerships Among Industry, Government and Academia   Recorded presentation Kelvin K. Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and W. L. Qualley, V. Rose, and A. M. Suggs 5:00 PM J2.5 The Weather And Society *Integrated Studies (WAS*IS) Program: yesterday, today, and tomorrow   Recorded presentation G. Thomas Behler Jr., NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. Gruntfest, J. Demuth, J. K. Lazo, and E. Laidlaw 5:15 PM J2.6 User engagement activities at NOAA's national climatic data center   Recorded presentation Tamara G. Houston, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, B314 Session 2 Convection, Decision Support Systems and Air Traffic Management, Part 2
Cochairs: Marilyn Wolfson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; Charles A. West, NOAA/NWS, Hampton, GA
4:00 PM 2.1 Improved thunderstorm weather information for pilots through ground and satellite based observing systems   Arnold Tafferner, DLR - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Wessling, Germany; and C. Forster, T. Hauf, and R. W. Lunnon 4:15 PM 2.2 Convective initiation nowcasting using SEVIRI infrared and visible data   Recorded presentation John R. Mecikalski, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. M. MacKenzie and M. Koenig 4:30 PM 2.3 The High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR): Recent enhancements and evaluation during the 2009 convective season   Recorded presentation Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and T. G. Smirnova, C. R. Alexander, S. G. Benjamin, K. J. Brundage, B. D. Jamison, and S. R. Sahm 4:45 PM 2.4 Creation of real-time probabilistic thunderstorm guidance products from a time-lagged ensemble of High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) forecasts   Recorded presentation Curtis R. Alexander, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES-Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and D. A. Koch, S. S. Weygandt, T. G. Smirnova, and S. G. Benjamin 5:00 PM 2.5 Aviation Impact Forecasting based on time-lagged HRRR Ensembles   Recorded presentation Matthias Steiner, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and D. Megenhardt, R. DeLaura, M. Robinson, S. S. Weygandt, and C. Alexander 5:15 PM 2.6 Evaluating supplemental relationships between convective forecast products for aviation   Recorded presentation Steven A. Lack, NOAA/ESRL/GSD/CIRES Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. J. Layne, M. P. Kay, S. Madine, and J. Mahoney
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall B1 Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception
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
	8:30 AM-9:30 AM, Tuesday, B314 Session 3 Convection, Decision Support Systems and Air Traffic Management, Part 3
Cochairs: Jeffrey A. Weinrich, Actionet Inc., Atlantic City, NJ; Charles A. West, NOAA/NWS, Hampton, GA
8:30 AM 3.1 A Comparison of Air Traffic Management Decision Aids and Meteorological Tools   Recorded presentation Charles A. West, NOAA/NWS, Hampton, GA 8:45 AM 3.2 Severe weather avoidance program performance metrics for New York departure operations   Recorded presentation Ngaire Underhill, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and R. DeLaura and M. Robinson 9:00 AM 3.3 Use of Aircraft-Based Data to Evaluate Factors in Pilot Decision Making in Enroute Airspace   Recorded presentation Bradley Crowe, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and R. DeLaura and M. Matthews 9:15 AM 3.4 Diagnosis of phase errors in high-resolution NWP model forecasts of precipitation and application to improved aviation weather forecasts   Recorded presentation Cody L. Phillips, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Pinto, D. Albo, and M. Steiner
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B2 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday Joint Poster Session Space Weather Products and Services for Aviation and Commercial Space Posters (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on Space Weather and the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology)
199 Validation of the operational D-Region Absorption Prediction (D-RAP) model at the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center   Rashid A. Akmaev, NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO; and A. Newman, M. V. Codrescu, J. Vickroy, C. Schultz, E. Nerney, S. Hill, and H. Sauer   200 Developments in Aviation Space Weather Services   Bryn Jones, SolarMetrics Limited, Chedworth, Glos., United Kingdom; and C. Dyer, A. Hands, R. Iles, K. Ryden, M. Smith, M. Stills, and G. Taylor
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday Poster Session In-flight Icing Posters
192 An investigation of wintertime midlevel mixed-phase clouds with supercooled water droplets using in-situ measurements   Yoo-Jeong Noh, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. H. Vonder Haar   193 The effect of advanced satellite products on an icing nowcasting system   Julie A. Haggerty, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Black, F. McDonough, P. Minnis, and W. L. Smith   194 Analysis of causes of icing conditions which contributed to the crash of Contentental flight 3407   Frederick R. Mosher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and D. Schaum
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday Poster Session Nowcasting and Modeling Posters
195 Analog ensemble scheme for objective, short-term cloud forecasting   Timothy J. Hall, The Aerospace Corporation, Chantilly, VA; and R. N. Thessin, G. J. Bloy, and C. N. Mutchler   196 Improving cloud nowcasting via incorporation of cloud type   John Forsythe, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and E. M. Guillot and T. H. Vonder Haar   197 Meteorological Support for Unmanned Aerial Systems at Dugway Proving Ground   Susan Krippner, Dugway Proving Ground West Desert Test Center, Dugway, UT; and E. N. Vernon and J. Pace   198 Snowbands generated by the release of inertial, symmetric, and conditional instabilities   David M. Schultz, Univ. of Helsinki/FMI, Helsinki, Finland; and R. S. Schumacher and J. Knox
	11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B1 Exhibits Open
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, B314 Session 4 Nowcasting and Modeling, Part 1
Cochairs: John Mecikalski, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; Lynn A. Sherretz, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; David I. Knapp, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM
11:00 AM 4.1 Status report on the Rapid Refresh   Recorded presentation Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Brown, S. G. Benjamin, T. G. Smirnova, M. Hu, D. Dévényi, K. J. Brundage, J. B. Olson, W. R. Moninger, C. R. Alexander, G. A. Grell, B. D. Jamison, S. E. Peckham, and T. L. Smith 11:15 AM 4.2 An objective verification of the North American Mesoscale Model for Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station   Recorded presentation William H. Bauman III, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL 11:30 AM 4.3 Feasibility study on using high resolution numerical models to forecast severe aircraft turbulence associated with thunderstorms   Recorded presentation Donald W. McCann, McCann Aviation Weather Reaserch, Inc., Overland Park, KS 11:45 AM 4.4 Estimating regional cloud base altitudes from local CloudSat observations via type-dependent statistical extrapolation   Recorded presentation Steven D. Miller, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. M. Forsythe, R. Bankert, P. T. Partain, and T. H. Vonder Haar
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, B315 Joint Session 1 Space Weather Products and Services for Aviation and Commercial Space (Joint between the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology and the Seventh Symposium on Space Weather)
Cochairs: Karen Shelton-Mur, HQ FAA, Washington, DC; Joseph Kunches, NOAA/SWPC, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM J1.1 Federal Aviation Administration Examination of Space Weather in support of Aviation   Recorded presentation Steven Albersheim, Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, DC; and M. J. Gunzelman, AvMET Applications Inc. 1:45 PM J1.2 NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center – Products and Services in Support of Aviation   Recorded presentation William J. Murtagh, NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO 2:00 PM J1.3 Integrating Space Weather Observations & Forecasts into Aviation Operations: “Aviation Space Weather User Requirements”   Recorded presentation Bryn Jones, SolarMetrics Limited, Chedworth, Glos., United Kingdom; and D. Boteler, G. Fisher, J. Kunches, W. J. Murtagh, D. Rome, D. Rose, and M. Stills 2:15 PM J1.4 The use of Space Weather products at Delta Airlines   Recorded presentation Andrew W. Schultz, Delta Air Lines, Minneapolis, MN; and H. Heitzman 2:30 PM J1.5 Protecting spaceflight participants and crew during "non-regulated" on-orbit operations   Recorded presentation Karen Shelton-Mur, HQ FAA, Washington, DC 2:45 PM J1.6 Radiation exposure during suborbital commercial spaceflight   Recorded presentation Ronald E. Turner, Analytic Services Inc. (ANSER), Arlington, VA; and S. Murray
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, B314 Session 5 Nowcasting and Modeling, Part 2
Cochairs: John Mecikalski, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; Lynn A. Sherretz, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; David I. Knapp, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM
1:30 PM 5.1 Comparisons of Nowcasting Techniques for Oceanic Convection   Recorded presentation Huaqing Cai, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and C. Kessinger, N. Rehak, D. Megenhardt, and M. Steiner 1:45 PM 5.2 Satellite Data Applications for Nowcasting of Convective Initiation   Recorded presentation Haig Iskenderian, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and J. R. Mecikalski, K. M. Bedka, C. Ivaldi, J. Sieglaff, W. Feltz, M. M. Wolfson, and W. M. MacKenzie 2:00 PM 5.3 Development of an advanced aviation nowcasting system in support of air traffic management by blending radar nowcasting data with NWP forecasts   Recorded presentation Peter P.W. Li, Hong Kong Observatory, Kowloon, Hong Kong; and W. K. Wong 2:15 PM 5.4 The ganged phased array radar risk mitigation system: integrating weather effects   Recorded presentation Mark Askelson, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and J. Tilley, C. Theisen, and R. Johnson 2:30 PM 5.5 Regime-based persistence probability of ceiling and visibility   Recorded presentation Alister Ling, Canadian Meteorological Aviation Centre West, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and B. Hansen and I. Gultepe 2:45 PM 5.6 A comparison of tropical storm (TS) and non-TS gust factors for assessing peak wind probabilities at the Eastern Range   Recorded presentation Francis J. Merceret, NASA, Kennedy Space Center, FL; and W. Crawford
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B1 Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
	3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, B314 Session 6 In-flight Icing
Cochairs: Tim Wilfong, Wilfong and Associates, Boulder, CO; Cecilia Miner, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
3:30 PM 6.1 A regional analysis of clouds containing supercooled liquid water   Recorded presentation Frank McDonough, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Wolff and M. K. Politovich 3:45 PM 6.2 A comparison of WRF-RR and RUC forecasts of aircraft icing conditions   Recorded presentation Cory A. Wolff, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. McDonough 4:00 PM 6.3 Impacts of high thin cloud on the Current Icing Product (CIP)   Recorded presentation Jeremy E. Solbrig, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. F. Lee, R. L. Bankert, C. A. Wolff, and S. D. Miller 4:15 PM 6.4 A new narrowbeam, multi-frequency scanning radiometer and its applications to in-flight icing detection   Recorded presentation David Serke, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Beaty, A. Reehorst, P. C. Kennedy, F. Solheim, R. Ware, M. K. Politovich, D. A. Brunkow, and B. Bowie 4:30 PM 6.5 Diagnosing icing severity and supercooled large drop regions within an operational aircraft icing nowcast system using advanced satellite products   Recorded presentation Frank McDonough, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Haggerty, J. Black, P. Minnis, and W. L. Smith 4:45 PM 6.6 Global icing forecast verification using CloudSat data   Recorded presentation Sean Madine, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and C. Lu, M. P. Kay, and J. L. Mahoney 5:00 PM 6.7 Further ruminations on predicting icing severity   Recorded presentation Marcia K. Politovich, NCAR, Boulder, CO 5:15 PM 6.8 Weather Conditions Associated with Jet Engine Power-loss and Damage Due to Ingestion of Ice Particles: What We've Learned Through 2009   Recorded presentation Matthew L. Grzych,, Boeing, Colorado Springs, CO
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, B314 Joint Session 4 Weather Information Users: The Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), Part 1 (Joint between the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology and the Presidential Forum)
Cochairs: David J. Pace, FAA, Washington, DC; Cecilia Miner, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
8:30 AM J4.1 NextGen Weather Requirements: An Update   Recorded presentation Cheryl G. Souders, FAA, Washington, DC; and T. Kays, C. Miner, S. Abelman, R. C. Showalter, F. Bayne, J. Tauss, E. R. Dash, J. A. May, and L. Leonard 8:45 AM J4.2 The 4-D Weather Data Cube: Roadmap to 2022   Recorded presentation Mark B. Miller, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. E. Ryan and D. A. Miller 9:00 AM J4.3 The 4-D Weather Single Authoritative Source for air traffic management   Recorded presentation Edward R. Johnson, NOAA/NWS, Siver Spring, MD; and R. Heuwinkel, S. Abelman, and C. Miner 9:15 AM J4.4 The 4-D Weather Data Cube: Data Services, standards and IT architecture   Recorded presentation Timothy Hopkins, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and R. C. Deininger, C. MacDermaid, and M. B. Miller 9:30 AM J4.5 Satellite data and products in the NextGen 4-D data cube   Recorded presentation David B. Johnson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Richards, W. Feltz, and T. J. Schmit 9:45 AM J4.6 User-specific evaluation technologies for the NextGen weather Single Authoritative Source   Recorded presentation Jennifer Luppens Mahoney, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. Madine
	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
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, B314 Joint Session 12 Weather Information Users: The Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), Part 2 (Joint between the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology and the Presidential Forum)
Cochairs: David J. Pace, FAA, Washington, DC; Cecilia Miner, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
J12.1 Gridding Localized Aviation MOS Program (LAMP) guidance for aviation forecasting   Judy E. Ghirardelli, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Glahn 10:30 AM J12.1A Progress on Next Generation Air Transportation System 4-D Weather Cube   Recorded presentation Cecilia Miner, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Abelman, J. G. Stobie, S. Larsen, and B. Williams 10:45 AM J12.2 Upcoming improvements in NOAA modeling toward meeting NextGen aviation requirements   Recorded presentation Stan Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and G. DiMego 11:00 AM J12.3 Introduction to the NCEP Very Short Range Ensemble Forecast System (VSREF)   Recorded presentation Binbin Zhou, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Du and G. DiMego 11:15 AM J12.4 Translating weather into traffic flow management impacts for NextGen   Recorded presentation Tenny A. Lindholm, STAR Institute, Boulder, CO; and R. Sharman, J. A. Krozel, V. Klimenko, S. Krishna, N. Downs, and J. S. B. Mitchell 11:30 AM J12.5 An Example of NextGen Weather Information Integration and Management   Recorded presentation Russ Sinclair, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL; and T. Hicks, C. Felix, and K. Bourke 11:45 AM J12.6 Aviation Weather Avoidance Service for Four-dimensional Flight Trajectories   Recorded presentation Tom Hicks, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL
	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, B314 Session 7 Range and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs: Edward H. Teets, Jr., NASA, Edwards, CA; Ryan K. Decker, NASA/MSFC; Timothy Oram, NWS Spaceflight Meteorology Group, Houston, TX
1:30 PM 7.1 Aerospace Meteorology: Some Lessons Learned   Recorded presentation William W. Vaughan, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and D. L. Johnson 1:45 PM 7.2 Predicting lightning potential on different time scales at the White Sands Missile Range   Recorded presentation Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and W. Deierling, E. Nelson, N. Oien, D. Megenhardt, and M. Steiner 2:00 PM 7.3 Recent improvements in lightning reporting at 45th Weather Squadron   Recorded presentation F. Clay Flinn, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; and W. P. Roeder, D. F. Pinter, S. M. Holmquist, M. D. Buchanan, T. M. McNamara, M. McAleenan, K. A. Winters, P. S. Gemmer, M. E. Fitzpatrick, and R. D. Gonzalez 2:15 PM 7.4 Estimates of Cn2 from numerical weather prediction model output   Recorded presentation Rod Frehlich, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Sharman, F. Vandenberghe, W. Yu, Y. Liu, J. Knievel, and G. Y. Jumper
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall B2 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday Joint Poster Session Weather Information Users: The Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) Posters (Joint between the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology and the Presidential Forum)
456 Real-Time Verification of NWS Aviation Services Products Supporting the NextGen Initial Operating Capabilities   Jamie L. Vavra, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. L. Mahoney   457 Four dimensional weather visualization   Adam R. Edson, ITT Visual Information Solutions, Springfield, VA   458 AFWA and Industry: A Case Study in NextGen Evolution   Ronald P. Lowther, PhD, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Bellevue, NE; and D. C. Plum, M. M. Brill, and K. M. Starr   459 Transformation of the NAS to NextGen and the FAA Weather Architecture Impacts: An Update   Cheryl G. Souders, FAA, Washington, DC; and R. C. Showalter, J. Tauss, and L. Leonard   460 Evaluating compoents of the forecast process for populating and maintaining the NextGen Weather Information Database   William Roberts, OAR, Boulder, CO; and L. K. Cheatwood and T. J. LeFebvre   461 MADIS web services in support of NextGen   Joanne Edwards, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. F. Barth, L. A. Benjamin, P. A. Miller, and D. Helms   462 The Network Enabled Verification Service (NEVS): Evaluating weather forecast quality in NextGen   Sean Madine, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and N. D. Matheson, M. A. Petty, D. S. Schaffer, T. Pease, and J. L. Mahoney 463 Aviation Weather Route Optimization for Four-dimensional Flight Trajectories   David I. Knapp, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and T. Jameson and T. Hicks   464 A Weather and Aviation Data Server for NextGen Applications   Christopher G. Herbster, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach, FL; and M. Masscotte, S. Lewandowski, F. R. Mosher, J. Campino, R. Haley, N. Gusack, D. Finkelsztein, and P. Beaudoin   465 WRF Model Simulations of Convective Weather for the Evaluation and Testing of NextGen Decision Making Tools   Christopher G. Herbster, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach, FL; and N. Gusack, M. Masscotte, and F. Mosher   467 NextGen Weather Demonstration Coordination   Steve Abelman, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Strande   Poster 466 has been moved. New paper number J12.1A
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday Poster Session Range and Aerospace Meteorology Posters
468 Lidar Wind Profiler Comparison to Weather Balloon for Support of Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle Landings   Franzeska Houtas, NASA, Edwards, CA; and E. H. Teets   469 The 2009 update to the Lightning Launch Commit Criteria   Todd M. McNamara, U.S. Air Force, Patrick AFB, FL; and W. P. Roeder and F. J. Merceret
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, B212 Joint Session 7 Communication Among Stakeholders That Addresses Issues of Policy, Operations, and New Opportunities (Joint between the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the First Environment and Health Symposium, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 24th Conference on Hydrology, the Presidential Forum, the Third Annual CCM Forum, and the Fifth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research)
Chair: Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
4:00 PM J7.1 Great expectations: Improving climate data services   Trisha U. Ralph, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and H. Lau and T. H. Sopoco 4:15 PM J7.2 Customer satisfaction at NOAA's NESDIS data centers   Recorded presentation Tamara G. Houston, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC 4:30 PM J7.3 Applied climatology guidance for development of Army materiel for world wide use   Recorded presentation Charles C. Ryerson, Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; and L. Spears, G. Stullenbarger, and L. Page 4:45 PM J7.4 NOAA Climate Users Engagement Using Training and Education Activities   Recorded presentation Marina Timofeyeva, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Verdin, J. Jones, and R. S. Pulwarty 5:00 PM J7.5 Developing indicators to support climate change policy and programs   Recorded presentation Jason Samenow, EPA, Washington, DC 5:15 PM J7.6 Beyond the boundary: it takes a village to provide climate services   Recorded presentation Daniel Ferguson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and G. Owen
	4:00 PM-5:45 PM, Wednesday, B204 Joint Session 11 Probabilistic Forecasting for the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) (Joint between the 8th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, and the Presidential Forum)
Cochairs: John K. Williams, NCAR, Boulder, CO; John J. Murray, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; Jun Du, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD
4:00 PM J11.1 A proposed framework for estimating and reducing hourly-updated forecast uncertainty products for aviation applications in NextGen   Recorded presentation Stan Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and G. DiMego 4:15 PM J11.2 Advances in the Collaborative Storm Prediction for Aviation (CoSPA)   Recorded presentation J. Pinto, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Williams, M. Steiner, D. Albo, S. Dettling, W. Dupree, D. Morse, H. Iskenderian, T. Xiaofeng, M. Wolfson, C. Reiche, S. Weygandt, S. Benjamin, and C. Alexander 4:30 PM J11.3 Probabilistic forecasting of ceiling and visibility at CONUS terminals: Development progress   Recorded presentation Paul H. Herzegh, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Lambi, J. Cowie, G. Wiener, R. Bateman, and J. Black 4:45 PM J11.4 Using a genetic algorithm to estimate source term parameters of volcanic ash clouds   Recorded presentation Kerrie J. Long, Penn State University, State College, PA; and D. Truesdell and S. E. Haupt 5:00 PM J11.5 Techniques for providing probabilistic forecasts of turbulence for NextGen   Recorded presentation Matthew J. Pocernich, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. D. Sharman and J. K. Williams 5:15 PM J11.6 Regionalized probabilistic turbulence forecasting using machine learning with in-situ data   Recorded presentation Jennifer Abernethy, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO; and R. D. Sharman and J. K. Williams 5:30 PM J11.7 A probabilistic global turbulence nowcast and forecast system   Recorded presentation John K. Williams, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. J. Kessinger, R. D. Sharman, W. F. Feltz, and A. Wimmers
	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, B314 Session 9 Radar
Cochairs: James G. Stobie, ENSCO, Inc., Falls Church, VA; Jeffrey A. Weinrich, Actionet Inc., Atlantic City, NJ
8:30 AM 9.1 Characteristics of microbursts in central Arizona   Recorded presentation Elizabeth J. Thompson, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and K. M. Willingham and K. Howard 8:45 AM 9.2 Developing, implementing, and evaluating a concept of operations - lessons learned from the Route Availability Planning Tool (RAPT)   Recorded presentation Michael Robinson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and R. DeLaura and N. Underhill 9:00 AM 9.3 An evaluation of various methods for tracing the propagation of electromagnetic energy through the atmosphere   Recorded presentation Randall Johnson, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and M. Askelson, J. Tilley, and C. Theisen 9:15 AM 9.4 A multi-radar data fusion method for small scale features   Recorded presentation Chris Theisen, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and M. Askelson and J. J. Mewes 9:30 AM 9.5 Forecast improvement from radar data assimilation within the Rapid Update Cycle, Rapid Refresh, and High Resolution Rapid Refresh forecasts initialized with RUC/RR grids   Recorded presentation Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin, M. Hu, T. G. Smirnova, S. E. Peckham, J. M. Brown, K. J. Brundage, G. S. Manikin, and Y. Yang
	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
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday Poster Session Turbulence and Wind Shear Posters
CoChair: Rodney J. Potts, CAWCR, Melbourne, Vic. Australia Chair: William W. Vaughan, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
470 Converting turbulence eddy dissipation rate (EDR) into aircraft response metric, RMS-g   Larry B. Cornman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Meymaris   471 Alerting of terrain-induced windshear using wind data measured over the mountains   Gerrit Kuhlmann, Institut fuer Meteorologie und Klimatologie, Hannover, Germany, Germany; and T. Hauf and P. W. Chan   472 Evaluations of upper-level turbulence diagnostics by graphical turbulence guidance (GTG) in the East Asia   Jung-Hoon Kim, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and H. Y. Chun, R. D. Sharman, and W. Jang   473 Use of EDR observations for verification of atmospheric turbulence forecasts   Brian Pettegrew, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. Loughe, J. E. Hart, J. K. Henderson, and J. L. Mahoney   474 Sydney Airport Wind Shear Encounter - 15 April 2007   Rodney J. Potts, CAWCR, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and B. Hanstrum and P. Dunda   475 Improvements to an operational clear-air turbulence diagnostic index   Gary P. Ellrod, NOAA-Retired, Granby, CT; and J. Knox   476 Wave-induced turbulence: Insights from T-REX   Vanda Grubisic, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and J. R. French, S. J. Haimov, and M. Xiao
	11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, B305 Joint Session 10 Verification of Probabilistic Forecasts (Joint between the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, and the 8th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science)
Cochairs: Bjarne Hansen, EC, Dorval, QC Canada; Barbara G. Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO; Valliappa Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK
11:00 AM J10.1A A comparison between raw ensemble output, Bayesian model averaging and logistic regression using ECMWF ensemble precipitation reforecasts   Maurice J. Schmeits, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands; and C. J. Kok J10.1 The three dimensions of prediction and service   Philip Chadwick, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada 11:15 AM J10.2 Determining Optimal Thresholds for Inland Locations of Tropical Cyclone Incremental Wind Speed Probabilities to Support the Provision of Expressions of Uncertainty within Text Forecast Products   Recorded presentation Pablo Santos, NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and M. DeMaria and D. W. Sharp 11:30 AM J10.3 Verification of aviation turbulence detection, nowcast, and forecast products   Recorded presentation John K. Williams, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. J. Pocernich, R. D. Sharman, and J. Abernethy 11:45 AM J10.4 Evaluation of a probabilistic convective nowcast for CoSPA   Recorded presentation D. Ahijevych, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Williams, S. Dettling, H. Cai, and M. Steiner 12:00 PM J10.5 Choosing a scoring rule for verification of forecast probability distributions: Continuous ranked probability score or ignorance score?   Recorded presentation Jonathan R. Moskaitis, National Research Council, Monterey, CA
	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, Săo Paulo, Săo 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
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, B314 Session 10 Turbulence and Wind Shear I
Cochairs: William W. Vaughan, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; Rodney J. Potts, CAWCR, Melbourne, Vic. Australia
1:30 PM 10.1 Climatology of turbulence statistics determined from rawinsonde and ACARS/AMDAR data   Robert Sharman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Frehlich 1:45 PM 10.3 Optimum routing of aircraft in the presence of meteorological hazards: an approach taking forecast uncertainty into account   Recorded presentation R. W. Lunnon, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and L. Reid, A. Mirza, and P. Gill 2:00 PM 10.4 Latest developments of windshear alerting services at the Hong Kong International Airport   P. W. Chan, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China; and M. L. Kuo 2:15 PM 10.5 Update on the turbulence nowcast product GTGN for NextGen IOC   Recorded presentation Julia M. Pearson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. B. Cornman and G. Wiener 2:30 PM 10.6 Improving forecasts of clear-air turbulence at NOAA's Aviation Weather Center with state-of-the-art diagnostics   Recorded presentation John A. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and G. P. Ellrod and S. Silberberg 2:45 PM 10.2 Objective verification of manual and automated forecasts of clear air turbulence from World Area Forecast Centres   Philip Gill, UK Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom; and B. Lunnon, L. Reid, and A. Mirza
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
	3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, B314 Session 11 Turbulence and Wind Shear II
Cochairs: William W. Vaughan, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; Rodney J. Potts, CAWCR, Melbourne, Vic. Australia
3:30 PM 11.1 The Meteorological Environment Surrounding the Air France #447 Disaster   Recorded presentation Michael Kaplan, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. R. Vollmer 3:45 PM 11.2 A Numerical study of clear-air turbulence (CAT) encounters occurred in Korea   Recorded presentation Jung-Hoon Kim, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and H. Y. Chun 4:00 PM 11.3 The use of GPS signals to estimate turbulence intensity in the troposphere and stratosphere   Recorded presentation Larry B. Cornman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. K. Goodrich and A. Weekley 4:15 PM 11.4 Progress toward satellite-based atmospheric turbulence interest field detection   Recorded presentation Wayne F. Feltz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and K. Bedka, A. Wimmers, R. Sharman, and J. K. Williams 4:30 PM 11.5 Gravity waves and clear air turbulence generated by convective storms in different wind shear environments   Recorded presentation Pao K. Wang, Univ. if Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. H. Su 4:45 PM 11.6 A mechanism for convectively-induced turbulence   Robert Sharman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. G. Fovell and S. B. Trier
	5:00 PM-5:05 PM, Thursday AMS 90th Annual Meeting Adjourns

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