3rd Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems
SUN 10 JAN___________________________
7:30 AM-6:00 PM	CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
MON 11 JAN___________________________
7:00 AM-6:00 PM	CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
8:00 AM	SESSION 1: HARMONIZING OBSERVING SYSTEMS DIRECTED AT WEATHER AND CLIMATE OBJECTIVES Chairperson(s): Fred Zbar, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
8:00 AM	1.1	INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION OF OBSERVING SYSTEMS FOR WEATHER AND CLIMATE. John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland
8:30 AM	1.2	AN ASSESSMENT OF NAOS ACTIVITIES FROM THE WEATHER PERSPECTIVE. Thomas W. Schlatter, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO
8:45 AM	1.3	AN ASSESSMENT OF NAOS ACTIVITIES FROM THE CLIMATE PERSPECTIVE. William Murray, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD
9:00 AM	1.4	NAOS EXPERIMENTS ON THE U.S. UPPER AIR OBSERVING SYSTEM USING THE NCEP GLOBAL AND REGIONAL FORECAST SYSTEM. Yuejian Zhu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and E. Rogers, P. Shafran, and S. Lord
9:15 AM	1.5	THE FUTURE OF THE NATION'S RADIOSONDE NETWORK. Ronald McPherson, AMS, Boston, MA
9:45 AM	1.6	OPTIMAL OBSERVATION DISTRIBUTION FOR NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION. Gonzalo Miguez-Macho, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Paegle
10:00 AM	COFFEE BREAK
10:30 AM	1.7	ACARS OPERATIONAL ASSESSMENT -- DESCRIPTION AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS. Richardson Decker, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. D. Mamrosh and C. E. Weiss
10:45 AM	1.8	THE OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS FOR NPOESS. Midhiko Masutani, NOAA/NCEP/NWS/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Campana and S. J. Lord
11:00 AM	1.9	THE INFLUENCE OF STATIC STABILITY ON MESOSCALE MODEL PRECIPITATION FORECAST SENSITIVITY TO WATER VAPOR INITIALIZATION. Brad D. Hoggatt, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and D. Houghton and G. Tripoli
11:15 AM	1.10	DEVELOPMENT OF AN ELECTRONIC, SPATIALLY-EXPLICIT CATALOG OF METADATA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS. Robert W. Reeves, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and W. Scherer, J. Townshend, J. Savage, P. Davis, and J. Schultz
11:30 AM	1.11	THE CLIMATE REFERENCE NETWORK. Thomas Karl, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC
12:00 PM	LUNCH BREAK
1:30 PM	JOINT SESSION J8: ADAPTIVE OBSERVING STRATEGIES (Joint with 23rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology) Chairperson(s): Stephan P. Nelson, NSF, Arlington, VA; Greg J. Holland, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and Wendall Nuss, NPS, Monterey, CA
1:30 PM	J8.1	TARGETING AND SAMPLING STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE HURRICANE FORECASTS. Sim Aberson, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL
2:00 PM	J8.2	HURRICANES AT LANDFALL. Mark D. Powell, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL
2:15 PM	J8.3	INTEGRATED OBSERVATIONS OF THE TROPICAL ATMOSPHERE AND OCEAN AND APPLICATIONS TO TROPICAL CYCLONES. Patrick A. Harr, NPS, Monterey, CA; and R. L. Elsberry, M. Duncan, and K. Emanuel
2:30 PM	J8.4	ADAPTIVE OBSERVATIONS FOR HURRICANE PREDICTION. Zhan Zhang, Florida State Univ., Tallahasse, FL; and T. N. Krishnamurti
2:45 PM	J8.5	USING ENSEMBLES TO SIMULATE THE IMPACT OF TARGETED OBSERVATIONS. Craig H. Bishop, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. Majumdar, I. Szunyogh, Z. Toth, and S. D. Aberson
3:30 PM	J8.6	IMPLEMENTING A DOPPLER WIND LIDAR ON NPOESS USING ADAPTIVE TARGETING STRATEGIES. George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Assoc., Charlottesville, VA; and Z. Toth and R. Atlas
3:00 PM	COFFEE BREAK
3:45 PM	J8.7	THE AUTONOMOUS AEROSONDE GOES OPERATIONAL. Greg J. Holland, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic, Australia; and T. McGeer, G. Tyrrell, K. McGuffie, and J. Becker
4:00 PM	J8.8	THE BASIC AEROSONDE OBSERVATIONS SUITE. Jon Becker, ES&S Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia; and G. Holland, G. Tyrrell, and T. McGeer
4:15 PM	J8.9	AEROSONDE OPERATIONS IN 1998. Tad McGeer, The Insitu Group Inc., White Salmon, WA; and G. Holland, G. Tyrrell, J. Becker, J. Vagners, and P. Ford
4:30 PM	J8.10	THE AEROSONDE FIELD DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY. Kendal McGuffie, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; and G. J. Holland, G. Tyrrell, J. Becker, and T. McGeer
4:45 PM	J8.11	AEROSONDE DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE TROPICAL CYCLONE FORECASTING. Greg Tyrrell, ES&S Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia; and L. Leslie and G. J. Holland
5:00 PM	J8.12	HIGH ALTITUDE ROBOTIC AIRCRAFT- A NEW METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION CAPABILITY. Basil Papadales, MIRADA, Inc., Issaquah, WA; and S. Schoenung
5:15PM	J8.13	ENSEMBLE-BASED TARGETED OBSERVATIONS DURING NORPEX. Istvan Szunyogh, UCAR Visiting Scientist at EMC/NCEP, Washington, DC; and Z. Toth, S. Majumdar, R. Morss, C. Bishop, and S. Lord
5:30 PM	SESSIONS END FOR THE DAY
5:00-7:00 PM	FORMAL OPENING OF EXHIBITS WITH RECEPTION (CASH BAR)
TUE 12 JAN___________________________
7:30 A.M.	REGISTRATION CONTINUES THROUGH FRIDAY, 15 JANUARY
9:30 A.M.-2:15 P.M.	EXHIBIT HOURS
8:00-10:00 AM	SYMPOSIUM ON CLIMATE AND SOCIETAL ISSUES
10:30 AM	SESSION 8: ADAPTIVE OBSERVING STRATEGIES (Part II) Chairperson(s): Wendall Nuss, NPS,Monterey, CA
10:30 AM	8.1	THE CALIFORNIA LAND-FALLING JETS EXPERIMENT (CALJET)- OBJECTIVES AND DESIGN OF A COASTAL ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM DEPLOYED DURING A STRONG EL NINO. F. M. Ralph, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and . et al.
10:45 AM	8.2	OBSERVATIONS OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE LOW-LEVEL JET IN LANDFALLING WINTER STORMS USING THE CALJET OBSERVATIONAL NETWORK. O. Persson, CIRES/NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and M. Ralph, B. Walter, P. Neiman, C. King, A. White, and J. Wilczak
11:00 AM	8.3	AN INTEGRATED COASTAL OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME AIR-SEA INTERACTION MEASUREMENTS. David P. Rogers, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and I. Brooks and L. Regier
11:15 AM	8.4	ESTIMATION OF UPPER-OCEAN HEAT CONTENT IN THE EXTRA-TROPICAL EASTERN PACIFIC DURING THE 1998 EL NINO EVENT USING SATELLITE AND IN-SITU DATA. James M. Wilczak, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and R. R. Leben and J. W. Bao
11:30 AM	8.5	PRECIPITATION MICROPHYSICS OBSERVED DURING THE 5–6 FEBRUARY STORM OF CALJET. Allen B. White, NOAA/ERL/ETL and CIRES, Boulder, CO; and P. Neiman, C. King, J. Jordan, M. Ralph, and O. Persson
11:45 PM	8.6	SATELLITE CLOUD-TRACK WIND USE IN COASTAL MESOSCALE NUMBERICAL FORECASTS. Wendall A. Nuss, NPS, Monterey, CA; and D. K. Miller
12:15 PM	CONFERENCE LUNCHEON
2:15 PM	SESSION 2: LOCALIZED INTEGRATED OBSERVING Chairperson(s): Michael Hardesy, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO
2:15 PM	2.1	AMS REMOTE SENSING LECTURE- A REVIEW OF RAMAN LIDAR- METEOROLOGICCAL APPLICATIONS. S. Harvey Melfi, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
3:00 PM	2.2	A HIGHLY MOBILE INTEGRATED OBSERVING SYSTEM. J. Cogan, Information Science & Technology Directorate, ARL, WSMR, NM; and E. Measure, E. Vidal, G. Vaucher, E. Creegan, B. Weber, and D. Wolfe
3:15 PM	2.3	FIRST YEAR RESULTS AND NEXT STEPS FOR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VIDEO CAMERA DEMONSTRATION PROJECT. Brian McInerney, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and A. Horvitz
3:30 PM	COFFEE BREAK (EXHIBIT HOURS 3:30-7:00 PM)
4:00 PM	2.4	DIURNAL AND SEASONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURES AND SPECTRAL EMISSIVITIES OVER THE SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS ARM-CART STUDY AREA. David A. Faysash, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and E. A. Smith
4:15 PM	2.5	ANALYSIS OF ERROR SOURCES IN PROFILER OBSERVATION OF LOW-LEVEL JETS. Chad J. Daniel, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and R. W. Arritt
4:30 PM	2.6	COMPARISON OF BOUNDARY LAYER DEPTHS MEASURED BY RADAR AND LIDAR DURING THE MERMOZ-II FIELD PROGRAM. Norman Donaldson, Environment Canada, King City, ON, Canada; and K. Strawbridge
4:45 PM	2.7	THE USE OF THE GAUSS-MARKOV THEOREM IN WINDS ANALYSIS. Rodney E. Cole, MIT/Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA
5:00 PM	SESSIONS END FOR THE DAY
WED 13 JAN___________________________
8:00 AM	HORTON LECTURE
8:30 AM	SESSION 2: LOCALIZED INTEGRATED OBSERVING (Continued) Chairperson(s): Michael Hardesty, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO
8:30 AM	2.8	INVESTIGATING LAND-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS USING THE OKLAHOMA MESONET. Jeffrey B. Basara, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. A. Brotzge and K. C. Crawford
8:45 AM	2.9	ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES FROM SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATIONS OF UPWELLING AND DOWNWELLING SPECTRAL RADINCE. Shu-peng Ho, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and W. L. Smith and H. L. Huang
9:00 AM	2.10	A PICO-SCALE RAINGAUGE NETWORK FOR SMALL SPATIAL SCALE RAINFALL CORRELATION AND ITS USE TO VERIFY RADAR AND SATELLITE DATA. John D. Ensworth, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. L. Morrissey and W. F. Krajewski
8:30 AM	SESSION 3: INTEGRATED OBSERVING OF THE TROPICAL ATMOSPHERE AND OCEAN Chairperson(s): Robert Houze, Univ. of Washington, Seattle,WA
8:30 AM	3.1	PAST, CURRENT, AND FUTURE FIELD PROGRAMS OVER TROPICAL OCEANS: EXPERIMENT DESIGNS FOR HITTING MOVING (AND EVOLVING) TARGETS. (INVITED PRESENTATION). Ed Zipser, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
9:00 AM	3.2	THE FIRST YEAR OF TRMM AND ITS CONNECTION TO A GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASURING SYSTEM (INVITED). Christian Kummerow, NASA, Washington, DC; and J. Simpson
9:30 AM	3.3	THE ENSO OBSERVING SYSTEM (INVITED). Michael J. McPhaden, PMEL, Seattle, WA
10:00 AM	COFFEE BREAK (EXHIBIT HOURS 10:00 AM-1:30 PM)
10:30 PM	3.4	THE DESIGN AND EVOLUTION OF THE PACS-SONET OBSERVING SYSTEM IN LATIN AMERICA. Michael W. Douglas, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and W. Fernandez and M. Pena
10:45 PM	3.5	ACCURATE MEASUREMENT OF SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE IN THE AMERICAS FROM GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES. Gary A. Wick, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, Colorado; and J. J. Bates and D. J. Scott
11:00 PM	3.6	SYSTEMATIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SATELLITE-BASED PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGIES OVER THE TROPICAL OCEANS. Franklin R. Robertson, NASA /MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and E. W. McCaul and D. E. Dan Fitzjarrald
11:15 AM	3.7	SATELLITE AND IN SITU OBSERVATIONS OF EXTRAORDINARY DRYING OF THE SUBTROPICS DURING THE 1997-1998 ENSO EVENT. John J. Bates, NOAA/ERL /CDC, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Shaw, J. H. Churnside, and H. M. Zorn
11:30 AM	3.8	THE NORTH WEST CAPE TROPICAL CYCLONE BOUNDARY LAYER OBSERVATORY. Jeff D. Kepert, BMRC, Melbourne, Australia; and G. J. Holland
11:45 PM	3.9	COMBINED PASSIVE AND ACTIVE MICROWAVE ANALYSIS OF A SQUALL LINE USING TRMM. Michael I. Biggerstaff, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and E. K. Seo and S. M. Hristova-Veleva
12:00 PM	LUNCH BREAK
1:30 PM	JOINT SESSION J4: DATA ASSMILATION DIMENSIONS OF INTEGRATED OBSERVING SYSTEMS (Joint with Second Hayes Symposium on Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability—The 1997/1998 ENSO Cycle) Chairperson(s): Eric Lindstrom,NASA,Washington, DC
1:30 PM	J4.1	RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR MEDIUM AND EXTENDED-RANGE FORECASTS- METHODS, RESULTS, AND PROSPECTS. Anthony Hollingsworth, ECMWF, Reading, Berkshire, UK
2:00 PM	J4.2	INVITED PAPER. Ants Leetmaa, NOAA/NWS, Camp Springs, MD
2:30 PM	J4.3	TOWARDS OPERATIONAL OCEAN STATE NOWCASTING FROM ASSIMILATION OF SATELLITE ALTIMETRY AND IN-SITU DATA. Ichiro Fukumori, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and T. Lee, D. Menemenlis, Y. Chao, and L. L. Fu
3:00 PM	COFFEE BREAK (EXHIBIT HOURS 3:00-7:30 PM)
3:30 PM	J4.4	CONTRIBUTIONS OF OBSERVING SYSTEMS TO PREDICTIONS OF THE ONSET AND INTENSITY OF THE ENSO EVENT. D. James Baker, NOAA, Washington, DC
4:00 PM	J4.5	CORRELATIONS BETWEEN TOPEX ALTIMETER AND TEMPERATURE PROFILE DATA IN THE EQUATORIAL PACIFIC. David Adamec, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
4:30 pm	J4.6	USE OF OCEAN REMOTE SENSING DATA TO ENHANCE PREDICTIONS WITH A COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL. Michele M. Rienecker, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
3:30 PM	JOINT SESSION J5: INTEGRATED OBSERVING OF THE POLAR REGIONS (Joint with Fifth Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography) Chairperson(s): William Neff, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and Chris Fairall, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO
3:30 PM	J5.1	SHEBA INSTRUMENTATION. Don Perovich, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD
3:45 PM	J5.2	GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENTS IN SUPPORT OF REMOTE SENSING OVER ANTARCTICA. Von P. Walden, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
4:00 PM	J5.3	OBSERVATIONS OF LARGE THERMAL TRANSITIONS DURING THE ARCTIC NIGHT FROM A SUITE OF SENSORS AT SHEBA. P. Ola G. Persson, NOAA/ETL and CIRES, Boulder, CO; and T. Uttal, J. Intrieri, C. W. Fairall, E. Andreas, and P. Guest
4:15 PM	J5.4	ARM CART NORTH SLOPE INSTRUMENTATION. Bernie Zak, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD
4:30 PM	J5.5	TREE-RING GROWTH FLUCTUATIONS AS AN INDICATOR OF CIRCULATION PROCESSES OVER THE NORTH-WESTERN PART OF THE RUSSIAN PLAIN. Andrey V. Pushin, Inst of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; and M. M. Chernavskaya and D. Y. Zemtsov
6:00 PM	RECEPTION (CASH BAR)
7:30 PM	AMS ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET
THU 14 JAN___________________________
8:00 AM	WALTER ORR ROBERTS LECTURE
8:30 AM	JOINT SESSION J4: DATA ASSIMILATION DIMENSIONS OF INTEGRATED OBSERVING SYSTEMS (Continued) (Joint with Second Hayes Symposium on Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability—The 1997/1998 ENSO Cycle) Chairperson(s): Eric Lindstrom, NASA, Washington, DC
8:30 AM	J4.7	A STUDY OF THE ASSIMILATION OF WATER VAPOR CHANNEL DERIVED SATELLITE WINDS AND THEIR IMPACT ON A FORECAST OF HURRICANE GEORGES. William J. Badini, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and S. J. Neiman, B. D. Hoggatt, and G. J. Tripoli
8:45 AM	J4.8	VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION OF INFRARED DATA FROM METEOSAT. Olga V. Zhiltsova, Moscow State Univ., Moscow, Russian Federation, Russia
9:15 AM	J4.9	THE USE OF ACARS AIRCRAFT DATA IN THE NAVY'S 3DVAR DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM. Patricia M. Pauley, NRL, Monterey, CA; and E. H. Barker and R. Daley
9:15 AM	J4.10	A COMPARISON OF MESOSCALE ADJOINT MODLES USED FOR TARGETED OBSERVATION PLANNING- THE PERSPECTIVE OF SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS. Y. -R Guo, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. W. Bao and Y. H. Kuo
9:30 AM	J4.11	THE IMPACT OF CALJET IN SITU DROPSONDES ON THE NUMERICAL MODEL PREDICTIONS OF A LAND-FALLING CYCLONE. Sara A. Michelson, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and J. W. Bao, J. M. Wilczak, F. M. Ralph, and R. J. Zamora
9:45 AM	J4.12	IMPROVED MM5 AND QLM NUMERICAL MODEL FORECASTS USING SCATTEROMETER DATA. Pat J. Fitzpatrick, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and S. Mehta, Y. Li, E. Valenti, J. K. Lee, and E. Barker
10:00 AM	J4.13	FORECAST ERROR SENSITIVITY AND ADAPTIVE OBSERVATIONS WITH THE QUASI-INVERSE LINEAR AND ADJOINT NCEP GLOBAL MODELS. Zhao-Xia Pu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and S. J. Lord and E. Kalnay
10:15 AM	COFFEE BREAK (EXHIBIT HOURS 9:00 AM-1:30 PM)
10:30 AM	SESSION 6: MULTI-DISCIPLINARY OBSERVATIONS; AIR-SEA EXCHANGES AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY Chairperson(s): Worth Nowlin, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; Richard Hallgren, AMS, Boston, MA
10:30 AM	6.1	ACOUSTIC THERMOMETRY OF OCEAN CLIMATE (ATOC). Walter Munk, SIO, LaJolla, CA
11:00 AM	6.2	DIFFERENCES IN SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANALYSES PRODUCED BY DIFFERENT METHODS--IMPLICATIONS FOR CLIMATE STUDIES. Richard W. Reynolds, NOAA/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD
11:30 AM	6.3	USING THE OCEAN AS A RAIN GAUGE. Raymond W. Schmitt, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA
12:00 PM	LUNCH BREAK
1:30 PM	SESSION 6: MULTI-DISCIPLINARY OBSERVATIONS; AIR-SEA EXHANGES AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY (CONTINUED) Chairperson(s): Worth Nowlin, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; Richard Hallgren, AMS, Boston, MA
1:30 PM	6.4	MONITORING THE OCEANS USING DATA-ASSIMILATIVE MODELS- IMPLICATIONS FOR INTEGRATED IN-SITU AND REMOTE OBSERVING SYSTEMS. Lakshmi H. Kantha, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2:00 PM	6.5	PROFILING FLOATS AND GLIDERS - OBTAINING IN SITU DATA REQUIRED TO CONSTRAIN GLOBAL OCEAN AND COUPLED CIRCULATION MODELS. Dean Roemmich, SIO, LaJolla, CA
2:30 PM	6.6	A STRATEGY FOR MARINE METEOROLOGICAL AND AIR-SEA FLUX OBSERVATION. Robert A. Weller, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and P. K. Taylor
3:00 PM	COFFEE BREAK
3:30 PM	6.7	A SYSTEM FOR MEASURING LONG-TERM REGIONAL TO GLOBAL SEA LEVEL CHANGE. Gary T. Mitchum, Univ. of Miami, St. Petersburg, FL
4:00 PM	6.8	SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS OF OCEAN SURFACE WINDS- DEVELOPING A CONSISTENT CLIMATE RECORD. Michael Freilich, Univ. of Oregon, Corvallis, OR; and F. Wentz, D. Chelton, B. Vanhoff, and R. Dunbar
4:30 PM	6.9	MONITORING OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE EXCHANGES FROM SPACE. W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA
4:45 PM	6.10	PAPER WITHDRAWN.
5:00 PM	6.11	OCEANOGRAPHIC OBSERVATORIES FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS. N. Hogg, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and T. Joyce, M. McCartney, R. Pickart, J. Toole, and R. Weller
5:15 PM	6.12	PARAMETERIZATION OF RETRIEVAL OF SST FROM GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES. A . Chinnaswamy, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and F. H. Carr
1:30 PM	SESSION 7: INTEGRATED OBSERVATIONS FROM RADAR, SATELLITE, AND OTHER REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGIES Chairperson(s): Ramesh Kakar, NASA, Washington, DC
1:30 PM	7.1	INVITED PAPER TBD. G. Asrar, NASA, Washington, DC
2:00 PM	7.2	EVALUATION OF ORBITAL BIASES OF EARTH RADIATION BUDGET DATA PRODUCTS. G. Louis Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Hampton, VA; and D. A. Rutan and D. F. Young
2:15 PM	7.3	INTERCALIBRATION OF UPPER TROPOSPHERIC HUMIDITY OBSERVATIONS FROM THE GEOSTATIONARY AND POLAR-ORBITING SATELLITES. John J. Bates, NOAA/ERL /CDC, Boulder, CO; and W. Rossow
2:30 PM	7.4	SATELLITE DERIVED LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURES FOR MODEL ASSIMILATION. Ronnie J. Suggs, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and G. J. Jedlovec and W. M. Lapenta
2:45 PM	7.5	EARLY INTERCOMPARISON OF CERES AND ERBE RESULTS. David A. Rutan, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith, T. P. Charlock, and R. N. Green
3:00 PM	COFFEE BREAK
3:30 PM	7.6	REMOTELY SENSED SPECIFIC HUMIDITY- DEVELOPMENT OF A DERIVED PRODUCT FROM THE GOES IMAGER CHANNEL 3. Anthony J. Wimmers, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and J. L. Moody
3:45 PM	7.7	NOAA-15 ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT (AMSU) SURFACE AND PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS- CURRENT STATUS AND OUTLOOK. Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and N. Grody and F. Weng
4:00 PM	7.8	ON THE COMBINED USE OF MESOSCALE PREDICTION AND SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS IN THE DIAGNOSTIC OF HEAVY PRECIPITATION EVENTS IN THE NORTHERN MEDITERRANEAN SHORE. WITHDRAWN. Giulia Panegrossi, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and G. J. Tripoli, A. Mugnai, C. Accadia, S. Dietrich, F. S. Marzano, L. Roberti, and E. A. Smith
4:15 AM	7.9	TEMPORAL SAMPLING ERRORS OF MONTHLY MEAN DATA PRODUCTS FROM THE EARTH RADIATION BUDGET SATELLITE NONSCANNING RADIOMETERS. Douglas A. Spangenberg, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith and D. F. Young
4:30 PM	7.10	THE DETERMINATION OF THE SMOOTHING PARAMETER FOR SOUNDING RETRIEVAL FROM GOES RADIANCE MEASUREMENTS. Shu-Peng Ho, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and W. L. Smith and H. L. Huang
4:45 PM	7.11	IMPACT OF GOES-10 RAPID SCAN DATA FOR ESTIMATING CONVECTIVE RAINFALL. Gilberto A. Vicente, NOAA, Washington, DC; and J. C. Davenport and R. A. Scofield
5:00 PM	7.12	LIMB-DARKENING FUNCTIONS AS MEASURED BY THE CERES ALONGTRACK EXPERIMENT. Natividad Manalo-Smith, AS&M, Inc., Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith, T. P. Charlock, and F. Rose
FRI 15 JAN___________________________