Poster Session 2 |
| | Environmental Applications |
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Chairperson: Ralph Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD |
| P2.1 | MODIS atmosphere and ocean applications using TeraScan software
Kota S. Prasad, SeaSpace Corporation, Poway, CA; and R. L. Bernstein |
| P2.2 | Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) on India's Oceansat-1 satellite: applications for ocean, atmosphere, and land
R. L. Bernstein, SeaSpace Corporation, Poway, CA; and K. Prasad |
| P2.3 | Estimation of Ocean Surface Salinity in the Indian Ocean using Satellite Observations
Bulusu Subrahmanyam, COAPS/Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and J. J. O'Brien |
| P2.4 | Sea surface temperature determination during day-time using 3.9 and 11 micron top-of-atmosphere radiance observations
Stuart McCallum, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; and C. Merchant, E. Maturi, A. Harris, and N. Nalli |
| P2.5 | A Simple GOES Skin Temperature Product 
Donald W. Hillger, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Ft. Collins, CO; and S. Q. Kidder |
| P2.6 | Production of an enhanced blended infrared and microwave sea surface temperature product
Gary A. Wick, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO |
| P2.7 | Relationship between passive microwave measurements and snow parameters
Norman C. Grody, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD |
| P2.8 | Identification and retrieval of snowfall from the Advanced Microwace Sounding Unit (AMSU)
Cezar Kongoli, QSS Group, Inc., Lanham, MD; and P. Pellegrino, R. Ferraro, and N. Grody |
| P2.9 | Inference of snow pack properties of grain size, density and stratification from microwave signatures of snow cover
Cezar Kongoli, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and N. C. Grody |
| P2.10 | Satellite detection of precipitation over the North Pacific
Jeremy A. Smith, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and L. A. McMurdie and J. Weinman |
| P2.11 | A downscaling analysis of the urban influence on rainfall: TRMM satellite component
J. Marshall Shepherd, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. J. Burian |
| P2.12 | Diurnal Cycle of Hydrological Parameters as Observed from the NOAA Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
Ralph Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and P. Pellegrino |
| P2.13 | Hydrological Product Composites from AMSU
Huan Meng, QSS Group, Inc. Lanham, MD and NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and R. R. Ferraro |
| P2.14 | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM): Status, Science Highlights and Future
Robert F. Adler, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |
| P2.15 | Characterization of Rainfall Asymmetries in Tropical Cyclones Using TRMM/TMI
Manuel Lonfat, RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and F. D. Marks, Jr. and S. S. Chen |
| P2.16 | Tropical cyclone precipitation types observed by microwave spaceborne and airborne instrumentation
Robbie E. Hood, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and D. Cecil and F. J. LaFontaine |
| P2.17 | UW-CIMSS satellite products: Recent research and developments
Christopher S. Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| P2.18 | A new statistical method for estimating tropical cyclone intensity from GOES-IR imagery
James P. Kossin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. L. Olander and C. S. Velden |
| P2.19 | A method for integrated satellite reconnaissance fix accuracy
Roger T. Edson, Anteon Corporation and University of Guam, Mangilao, Guam; and M. A. Lander |
| P2.20 | Use of QuikScat Data in Studying the Evolution of Tropical Cyclone Structure
Johnny C. L. Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China; and C. K. M. Yip |
| P2.21 | Statistical forecast on precipitation over Taiwan area during typhoon invasion using GMS-5 data
Peter Da-Gang Pan, Weather Center Weather Wing, Taipei, Taiwan; and K.-P. Lu |
| P2.22 | PAPER WITHDRAWN
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| P2.23 | The Advanced Satellite Aviation-Weather Products (ASAP) initiative for diagnosing and nowcasting weather hazards for improved aviation safety
John R. Mecikalski, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. B. Johnson and J. J. Murray |
| P2.24 | Wind divergence forcing of the cloudiness along the California coast
Clive E. Dorman, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. Koracin and L. Riddle |
| P2.25 | Examining high wind events using satellite cloud cover composites over the Cheyenne, WY region
Cynthia L. Combs, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. Weiland, M. DeMaria, and T. H. Vonder Haar |
| P2.26 | Diagnostics of Intensive Atmospheric Vortices over the Multiwave Satellite-Derived Sounding Data
Alexander F. Nerushev, Institute of Experimental Meteorology, Obninsk, Russia; and N. V. Tereb and E. K. Kramchaninova |
| P2.27 | Aerosol Optical Depth Analysis with NOAA GOES and POES in the Western Atlantic
Arunas P. Kuciauskas, NRL, Monterey, CA; and D. L. Westphal and P. A. Durkee |
| P2.28 | A two-year analysis of fire activity in the Western Hemisphere as observed with the GOES wildfire automated biomass burning algorithm
Elaine M. Prins, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and C. C. Schmidt, J. M. Feltz, J. S. Reid, D. L. Westphal, and K. Richardson |
| P2.29 | Estimation of dust aerosol optical thickness and its shortwave radiative forcing from GOES8 imager
Jun Wang, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. A. Christopher |
| P2.30 | DirectMet ® GIS: Real-time integration of meteorological satellite data into the world of GIS
George Schwenke, Global Science & Technology, Inc., Greenbelt, MD and Broadneck Senior High School, Annapolis, MD; and R. Boyd, P. Gifford, E. Valente, Jr., E. Shaffer, and C. Dobbins |
| P2.31 | Calibration of GOES water vapor spatial gradients with tropopause folding events
Anthony J. Wimmers, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and J. L. Moody |
| P2.32 | Advance and withdrawal of the African monsoon flow deduced from Meteosat-7 data
Françoise Désalmand, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; and A. Szantai, G. Sèze, I. Jobard, and L. Barros |