| Sunday, 19 June 2005 |
| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday
Conference Registration |
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| Monday, 20 June 2005 |
| 7:30 AM, Monday
Registration Continues through Thursday, 23 June |
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| 9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Monday, South Ballroom
Session 1 Remote Sensing I |
Organizer: Kenneth Knapp, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 9:00 AM | 1.1 | (Abstract 92496 moved to JP2.27) WSR-88D Radar Data Services at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center
Stephen Del Greco, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 9:15 AM | 1.2 | The challenges for an operational wind profiler—remote and unattended 
John Nash, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and T. Oakley |
| 9:30 AM | 1.3 | LIDAR based Measurements of Turbulent Dissipation above Urban Areas
Marko Princevac, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and P. Diagne and R. Calhoun |
| 9:45 AM | 1.4 | Comparison of precipitation fields estimated by gage, radar and multiple sensors (gage and radar) for SE Wisconsin and NE Illinois
Nancy E. Westcott, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and H. V. Knapp |
|  | 1.5 | Analysis of Multi-Peak Picking (MPP) and NIMA Signal Processing On The Met Office's Operational VHF Radar Wind Profiler
Herb Winston, Vaisala, Boulder, CO; and R. Lehtinen |
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| 10:15 AM-10:30 AM, Monday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, South Ballroom
Session 2 Precipitation Measurements |
Organizer: Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 10:30 AM | 2.1 | Analysis of field observations of an all-weather vibrating-wire precipitation gauge
Claude E. Duchon, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 10:45 AM | 2.2 | A ten-year comparison of daily precipitation from the 4" diameter clear plastic rain gauge versus the 8" diameter metal standard rain gauge
Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO |
| 11:00 AM | 2.3 | Assessing bias in the Canadian snow depth dataset
Natasha Neumann, MSC, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; and C. D. Smith and A. Eccleston |
| 11:15 AM | 2.4 | Estimating the wind bias in solid precipitation measurements using the Geonor accumulating precipitation gauge on the Canadian Prairies
Craig D. Smith, MSC, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; and N. Neumann and C. Campbell |
| | 2.5 | Modeling Precipitation in the Ross Island Region, Antarctica Using Assimilated Observational Data
Shelley L. Knuth, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. J. Tripoli, J. E. Thom, and C. R. Stearns |
| 11:30 AM | 2.6 | Rainfall monitoring network in the Amazonian jungle
Bernhard Lee Lindner, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC; and C. A. Delvasto |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Monday, South Ballroom
Session 3 Advances in Upper-air Measurements |
Organizer: Nancy Westcott, Illinois State Water Survey and Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
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| 1:30 PM | 3.1 | The ATM radiosonde and implications for radiosonde accuracy
F. J. Schmidlin, NASA/GSFC, Wallops Island, VA |
| 1:45 PM | 3.2 | Initial Results from the WMO High Quality Radiosonde test Mauritius
John Nash, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and B. Pathack, R. Smout, and S. Kurnosenko |
| 2:00 PM | 3.3 | Testing Radiosonde Replacement System (RRS) Radiosondes
Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. J. Fitzgibbon |
| 2:15 PM | 3.4 | The driftsonde observing system development
Harold L. Cole, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. F. Hock |
| 2:30 PM | 3.5 | Comparisons of 7-year radiosonde data from two neighboring stations and estimation of random error variances for four types of radiosondes
Junhong Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Young |
| 2:45 PM | 3.6 | Development of the Canadian Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR) Program and Plans for the Future
Gilles Fournier, Environment Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and S. D. Holden |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Monday
Coffee Break |
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| 5:30 PM, Monday
1 Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (cash bar) |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday
Joint Poster Session 1 General Poster Session I (Joint with Applied Climatology, SMOI, and AASC) |
| | JP1.1 | Using topography and synoptic categories to improve climate mapping
Alan McNab, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. F. Squires |
| | JP1.2 | Using geographical information systems for the spatial analysis of base reflectivity radar data and applications to the study of tropical cyclone precipitation patterns
Corene J. Matyas, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL |
| | JP1.3 | Spatial persistence of accumulated precipitation over monthly time intervals
Stuart A. Foster, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY; and D. R. Taylor, R. Mahmood, and S. Kenworthy |
| | JP1.4 | Real–time Regional Automatic Mapping of Nocturnal Winter Road Temperatures: Application of a Methodology of Analogous Situations, The Case of the Walloon Region (Belgium)
M. Erpicum IV, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium; and M. Frederic, T. Nyssen, G. Mabille, and S. Litt |
| | JP1.5 | Precipitation and Temperature dynamic maps of Mexico
Patricia Huerta, INEGI/National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Information, Aguascalientes, Mexico; and J. L. Ornelas |
| | JP1.6 | Building a Gridded Climatological Dataset for Use in the Statistical Interpretation of Numerical Weather Prediction Models
Rachel A. Trimarco, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. L. Sheets and K. K. Hughes |
| | JP1.7 | A model-based high resolution temperature cllimatology for New York
Brian N. Belcher, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Ithaca, NY; and A. T. DeGaetano |
| | JP1.8 | A climatology of the sea breeze circulation over the southern Arabian Gulf
Rebecca E. Eager, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman |
| | JP1.9 | Towards a wind energy climatology at advanced turbine hub heights
Marc Schwartz, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and D. Elliott |
| | JP1.10 | Evaluation of new snow depth and mass data sets for North America
Thomas L. Mote, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. L. Dyer, A. J. Grundstein, D. A. Robinson, and D. J. Leathers |
| | JP1.11 | Trends in Precipitable Water Over Southern Greece
Pavlos Kassomenos, Univ. of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece; and G. R. McGregor |
| | JP1.12 | Trends in fog frequency and duration in the Southeast United States
Gloria Forthun, Southeast Regional Climate Center, Columbia, SC; and M. B. Johnson, W. G. Schmitz, and J. Blume |
| | JP1.13 | Spatiotemporal Climate Variability Over Senegal And Its Relationships With Global Climate
Souleymane Fall, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and D. Niyogi and F. H. M. Semazzi |
| | JP1.14 | Spatial and temporal variability of precipitation runs in the Southeast U.S. and their potential impact on agriculture
Robert F. Banks, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and J. J. O'Brien and S. R. Smith |
| | JP1.15 | Interannual to interdecadal surface temperature variability of Florida
April E. Raulerson, COAPS/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and A. Arguez, J. J. O'Brien, and S. R. Smith |
| | JP1.16 | The Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network: Experiences with the development of a state-wide automated weather station network for Georgia
Gerrit Hoogenboom, Univ. of Georgia, Griffin, GA |
| | JP1.17 | Initial implementation of a Mississippi Mesonet within the context of COOP Modernization
Loren D. White, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and E. Matlack |
| | JP1.18 | Challenges in the development of the North Carolina Environment and Climate Observing Network (NC ECONet)
Ameenulla Syed, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and R. Boyles, S. Raman, and A. Sims |
| | JP1.19 | - Real-Time Collection and Distribution of MSC T&P Climate Data
John MacPhee, MSC, Downsview, ON, ON, Canada |
| | JP1.20 | Comparison of Co-Located Automated (NCECONet) and Manual (COOP) Climate Observations in North Carolina
Christopher Thomas Holder, State Climate Office of North Carolina and North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and R. P. Boyles, A. Syed, D. Niyogi, K. Wireman, and S. Raman |
| | JP1.21 | Precipitation patterns associated with El Niño / Southern Oscillation in Panama
Gloria Arrocha, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and J. J. O'Brien |
| | JP1.22 | Eight-hour ozone exceedances in eastern Texas
John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and J. Tobin and A. McNeel |
| | JP1.23 | Climate variability and extreme events due to intensification of the urbanization process–a study case at Oporto
Ana Monteiro, Oporto Univ., Porto, Portugal |
| | JP1.24 | Air Quality Impacts of Wildfires in Southeastern Arizona
Erika K. Wise, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| | JP1.25 | AN EVALUATION OF TWO ULTRASONIC SNOW DEPTH SENSORS FOR POTENTIAL USE AT AUTOMATED SURFACE WEATHER OBSERVING SITES
Wendy Ann Brazenec, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken |
| | JP1.26 | The National Weather Service MMTS (Maximum-Minimum Temperature System) -- 20 years after
Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO |
| | JP1.27 | The harmonization of climate data quality control monitoring with stations network in uganda
Fortunata Lubega, AER, 7025, Kampala, Uganda |
| | JP1.28 | The enhancement of QA/QC tests for West Texas Mesonet Wind Parameters
Ibrahim Sonmez, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and J. L. Schroeder, W. S. Burgett, and K. B. Haynie |
| | JP1.29 | Regime in which the daylight visual range exceeds Allard's RVR
J. P. Pichamuthu, Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| | JP1.30 | Quality control of pilot balloon data for climate monitoring
Javier Murillo, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. W. Douglas, J. M. Galvez, J. F. Mejia, R. Orozco, and C. Brown |
| | JP1.31 | Intensive “porpoising” with a research aircraft to determine atmospheric structure during the SALLJEX and NAME programs
Michael W. Douglas, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. F. Mejia |
| | JP1.32 | Conducting short duration field programs to evaluate sounding site representativness and potential climate monitoring biases—Examining the Low-Level Jet Over the Venezuelan Ilanos During the 2005 Dry Season
Michael W. Douglas, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Murillo and J. F. Mejia |
| | JP1.33 | Applications of the Hotplate Snow Gauge
Matthew L. Tryhane, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. D. Landolt and R. M. Rasmussen |
| | JP1.34 | Application of spread spectrum radio for real-time data transmission from mesonet and other observing systems
Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and E. Matlack and J. Finney |
| | JP1.35 | Air quality data collected by small, unmanned aircraft over industries in South Africa
Lucian Banitz, South African Weather Service, Irene, South Africa; and S. J. Piketh and M. W. Douglas |
| | JP1.36 | ECMWF 45-YEAR REANALYSIS DATA FROM NCAR
Joseph L. Comeaux II, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. J. Worley |
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| Tuesday, 21 June 2005 |
| 8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Tuesday, North & Center Ballroom
Keynote Session 1 Joint National and International Session on Climate Networks (Joint with Applied Climatology, SMOI, and AASC) |
Organizer: C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 8:00 AM | KS1.1 | Surface Observations for Climate
Sharon K. LeDuc, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 8:30 AM | KS1.2 | COOP Modernization: Building NOAA's Environmental Real-time Observation Network
Ken Crawford, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Pritchett, T. Ross, and G. Essenberg |
| 9:00 AM | KS1.3 | Observing the Marine Environment
Paul F. Moersdorf, NOAA/NWS, Stennis Space Center, MS |
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| 9:30 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday, North & Center Ballroom
Joint Session 1 National and International Observing Networks (Joint with Applied Climatology, SMOI, and AASC) |
Organizer: Pamela N. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA
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| 9:30 AM | J1.1 | U.S. Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Program Overview 
Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD |
| 9:45 AM | J1.2 | North of the border—The Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) Reference Climate Network
John MacPhee, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada |
| 10:00 AM | J1.3 | Reference station networks for monitoring climatic change in the conterminous United States
Russell S. Vose, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 10:15 AM | J1.4 | A GIS approach to site selection for the NWS Modernized Cooperative Network
William G. McPherson Jr., Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Yuan |
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| 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday
Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, Tuesday, North & Center Ballroom
Panel Discussion 1 Locating Observing Stations Where It Counts: What do We Have? What are We Misssing? (Joint with Applied Climatology, SMOI, and AASC) |
Moderator: Kelly Redmond, Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV
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| 11:00 AM | PD1.0a | Session Overview
Kelly Redmond, Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV |
| 11:15 AM | PD1.1 | NWS Observing Services Division Panelist
Mike Campbell, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 11:30 AM | PD1.2 | National Ecological Observatory Network Panelist
Bruce P. Hayden, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA |
| 11:45 AM | PD1.3 | Climate Reference Network Panelist
Michael R. Helfert, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 12:00 PM | PD1.4 | State Climatologist, AASC Panelist
David A. Robinson, Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist/Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ |
| 12:15 PM | PD1.5 | Panel Discussion I: Locating Observing Stations Where It Counts: What do We Have? What are We Misssing?
Kelly Redmond, Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Cash and Carry Lunch—Continuation of Panel Discussion 1 |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, North & Center Ballroom
Joint Session 2 Climate Observing Networks (Joint with Applied Climatology, SMOI, and AASC) |
Organizer: David A. Robinson, Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist/Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ
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| 1:30 PM | J2.1 | The New Jersey Weather and Climate Network: providing environmental information for a myriad of applications
David A. Robinson, Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist/Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ |
| 1:45 PM | J2.2 | The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS)—A Great Way to Learn and Teach about Our Climate
Henry Reges, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. C. Cifelli and N. J. Doesken |
| 2:00 PM | J2.3 | Building the Georgia Mesonet: A Step Toward the National Cooperative Mesonet
Pamela N. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and D. E. Stooksbury |
| 2:15 PM | J2.4 | 25 Years of Antarctic Automatic Weather Stations
Charles R. Stearns, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. A. Weidner, J. E. Thom, M. A. Lazzara, and S. L. Knuth |
| 2:30 PM | J2.5 | A dense surface network for atmospheric observations in a mountain valley: Deployment and observations in the Sierra Rotors project
Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV; and K. T. Redmond, G. D. McCurdy, D. Simeral, and M. Xiao |
| 2:45 PM | J2.6 | Use of MIRS to Conduct System Density Studies
Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday
Coffee Break |
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| 3:30 PM-4:45 PM, Tuesday, North & Center Ballroom
Session 4 U. S. Climate Reference network |
Organizer: Timothy W. Owen, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 3:30 PM | 4.1 | Evaluation of the U.S. climate reference network as an operational example of climate monitoring principles
Michael R. Helfert, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. B. Baker, D. S. Braun, R. Buckner, M. Changery, F. Evans, G. M. Goodge, M. Phillips, N. Rowan, and B. Sun |
| 3:45 PM | 4.2 | Overview of the USCRN research program
C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and T. P. Meyers, M. D. Gifford, and R. P. Hosker |
| 4:00 PM | 4.3 | The new precipitation algorithm for the three-wire Geonor gauge of the U.S. Climate Reference Network – objectives, description and performance
William G. Collins, Short and Associates, Queenstown, MD; and C. B. Baker, T. B. Wilson, R. Buckner, and M. Phillips |
| 4:15 PM | 4.4 | Operational Testing of Various Precipitation Sensors in Support of the United States Climate Reference Network (USCRN)
Lee W. Larson, Short and Associates, Prairie Village, KS; and C. B. Baker, E. L. May, and H. Bogin |
| 4:30 PM | 4.5 | Evaluation of a double-Alter wind shield using sonic anemometers
Tilden Meyers, NOAA/ARL, Oak Ridge, TN; and E. J. Dumas, M. E. Heuer, C. B. Baker, M. Hall, and W. Tim |
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| 5:00 PM, Tuesday
Sessions end for the day |
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| 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Tuesday
Trolley Shuttle to Riverboat |
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| 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Tuesday
Riverboat Boarding |
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| 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, Tuesday
Riverboat Cruise Departs (Dinner on Board–Cash Bar) |
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| 8:30 PM, Tuesday
Riverboat Returns |
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| 8:30 PM-9:00 PM, Tuesday
Trolley Back to Hotel |
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| Wednesday, 22 June 2005 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Wednesday, South Ballroom
Session 5 Remote Sensing II |
Organizer: John Nash, Met Office, Exeter United Kingdom
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | A new climate resource from geostationary satellite observations
Kenneth Knapp, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 8:45 AM | 5.2 | Using GOES total column ozone to diagnose stratospheric intrusions and nowcast non-convective cyclone windstorms: Methodology and initial results
John A. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and C. C. Schmidt |
| 9:00 AM | 5.3 | The Importance of Cross Validation In Climate Studies: Selected Case Studies of Radar/Disdrometer Reflectivity Comparisons
Wallace L. Clark, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and K. S. Gage, C. R. Williams, and A. Tokay |
| 9:15 AM | 5.4 | Toward the estimation of the refractive index gradient from clear air wind profiler echoes
Catherine Gaffard, Met Office, Reading, United Kingdom; and L. Bianco, M. Matabuena, and V. Klaus |
| 9:30 AM | 5.5 | THE USE OF BOUNDARY LAYER WIND PROFILERS IN MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENTS: EXPERIENCE FROM RECENT FIELD EXPERIMENTS
Stephen A. Cohn, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. O. J. Brown |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, South Ballroom
Session 6 Integrated Observations from Field Experiments |
Organizer: Junhong Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 10:30 AM | 6.1 | The Helsinki Testbed: A four-season mesoscale research and development facility
Elena Saltikoff, Vaisala Inc., Helsinki, Finland; and J. Poutiainen, J. Koistinen, W. F. Dabberdt, and H. Turtiainen |
| 10:45 AM | 6.2 | Measuring and monitoring the mesoclimate of tropical locations. Field observations from the South American altiplano during the SALLJEX
Jose M. Galvez, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. Orozco and M. W. Douglas |
| 11:00 AM | 6.3 | Validation Study of the Use of Wind Shear Exponents in Extrapolating Wind Speeds for Wind Resource Estimations
L. Frank Feuquay, FPL Energy, Juno Beach, FL; and G. H. Crescenti and D. J. Celta |
| 11:15 AM | 6.4 | The Sierra Rotors Project, Observations of Mountain Waves
William O. J. Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Cohn, V. Grubisic, and B. Billings |
| 11:30 AM | 6.5 | Observations of surface convergence and fluxes on 17–18 June 2002 during the International H2O Project
Aneela L. Qureshi, State Climate Office of North Carolina/North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman and D. Niyogi |
| 11:45 AM | 6.6 | Modeling of evapotranspiration with observations from two types of atmometers in North Carolina
Margaret W. P. Puryear, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman, A. Sims, and A. Syed |
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| 12:00 PM-2:00 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break |
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| 2:30 PM-3:45 PM, Wednesday, South Ballroom
Session 7 New Instrumentation |
Organizer: Claude E. Duchon, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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| 2:30 PM | 7.1 | A new tropospheric radar wind profiler
Scott A. McLaughlin, Applied Technologies, Inc., Longmont, CO; and D. A. Merritt |
| 2:45 PM | 7.2 | The Mobile Integrated Sounding System (MISS): Description and Lessons from the Sierra Rotors Project
Stephen A. Cohn, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. O. J. Brown and V. Grubisic |
| 3:00 PM | 7.3 | The Hotplate Snow Gauge
Roy M. Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Hallett, M. L. Tryhane, S. D. Landolt, R. Purcell, M. C. Beaubien, W. Q. Jeffries, F. Hage, and J. Cole |
| 3:15 PM | 7.4 | Improved wind and turbulence measurements using a low-cost 3-d sonic anemometer at a low-wind site
Brent M. Bowen, LLNL, Livermore, CA |
| 3:30 PM | 7.5 | Field Studies of Warmed Dewpoint Temperature Sensors
K. G. Hubbard, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and X. Lin and C. B. Baker |
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| 3:00 PM-6:00 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open (Exhibit Poster Combined Reception 4:00-6:00pm) |
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| 4:00 PM, Wednesday
Oral Sessions end for the day |
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| 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Wednesday
Joint Poster Session 2 General Poster Session II (with Exhibits Reception (Cash Bar)) (Joint with Applied Climatology, SMOI, and AASC) |
| | JP2.1 | The Southwest Climate Outlook: Insights on Communicating Climate Information to Stakeholders
Gregg M. Garfin, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| | JP2.2 | The integrated near-real time climate monitoring data base of NCDC's climate monitoring branch
Richard Heim Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| | JP2.3 | Customer satisfaction with NOAA's National Weather Service products and services
Barbara E. Mayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. E. Livezey |
| | JP2.4 | National Weather Service Climate Record Stewardship Activities
Robert J. Leffler, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Berger and R. E. Livezey |
| | JP2.5 | Development of a public interface for multi-sensor precipitation estimates
Katherine L. Horgan, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and M. Gentry, R. P. Boyles, and S. Raman |
| | JP2.6 | Characteristics of Jet Contrail Increases and Implications on Aviation Policy Decision-Making
David J. Travis, Univ. of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI; and A. M. Carleton |
| | JP2.7 | The Development of the Arizona Drought Impacts Database
Casey C. Thornbrugh, CLIMAS, Tucson, AZ; and G. Garfin and A. C. Comrie |
| | JP2.8 | Spatial distribution of tropical cyclone induced precipitation and operational applications in South Carolina
R. Jason Caldwell, South Carolina State Climatology Office, Columbia, SC; and H. P. Mizzell and M. Brown |
| | JP2.9 | Spatial and Temporal patterns of intra-seasonal oscillations over tropical Africa, their evolution and propagation
Lukiya Tazalika, Kampala, Uganda |
| | JP2.10 | Overview and update of the North America drought monitor and North America climate extremes monitoring system
Richard Heim Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| | JP2.11 | Evaluation of wet and dry periods in north west of Iran
Behrooz Sari Sarraf II, Tabriz Univ., Tabriz, Iran |
| | JP2.12 | Drought monitoring in Oklahoma: a collaborative endeavor
Derek S. Arndt, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and M. A. Shafer |
| | JP2.13 | Climatic controls on high and low streamflow in New England
Daniel G. Kingston, Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; and G. R. McGregor, D. M. Lawler, and D. M. Hannah |
| | JP2.14 | An Early Warning System for Riverine Drought Impacts: a National Weather Service Pilot Program
Cody L. Knutson, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE; and M. Svoboda and D. R. Kluck |
| | JP2.15 | A tale of two droughts: the effects of temperature on recent southwestern droughts
Gregg M. Garfin, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and J. Morrill, A. Comrie, J. McPhee, and S. Ponnaluru |
| | JP2.16 | Factoring climate variability into New York City's water management practices
Mary Elizabeth Riley, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and A. T. DeGaetano |
| | JP2.17 | Assessment of the utility of climate information for large Front Range water providers in Colorado
Jessica Lowrey, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and A. J. Ray |
| | JP2.18 | Artificial change point detection in temperature series in the USHCN version 2
Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. N. Williams |
| | JP2.19 | How Consistent are Surface Data for Climate Change Studies?: A Localized Analysis with Surface Air Temperature Observations from Cooperative Observer Station Data
Christopher Thomas Holder, State Climate Office of North Carolina/North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and D. Niyogi, R. P. Boyles, and S. Raman |
| | JP2.20 | Calculating a Daily Normal Temperature Range That Reflects Daily Temperature Variability
Christopher Thomas Holder, State Climate Office of North Carolina/North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and R. P. Boyles, S. Raman, and G. Fishel |
| | JP2.21 | Homogenization and Quality Control of long time series of Daily Temperature in Uruguay
Matilde Rusticucci, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and M. Renom |
| | JP2.22 | Estimating the Benefit of TRMM Tropical Cyclone Data in Saving Lives
Robert F. Adler, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |
| | JP2.23 | A Comprehensive Single-Station Quality Control Process for Historical Weather Data
Karen Andsager, Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Champaign, IL; and M. C. Kruk and M. L. Spinar |
| | JP2.24 | Managing Surface Station Metadata for Real-Time and Climate Applications
John Horel, NOAA/CIRP/Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. Splitt, J. Pechmann, and B. Olsen |
| | JP2.25 | An overview of the West Texas Mesonet
K. B. Haynie, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and J. Schroeder, I. Sonmez, and W. Burgett |
| | JP2.26 | A new synthetic current UV Index is developed to provide UV Index values at locations without UV measurements
Jeral G. Estupiñán, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and J. Koval and M. Bergin |
| | JP2.27 | Ship-board multi-sensor wind profiles from NEAQS 2004: Radar Wind Profiler, High Resolution Doppler Lidar, GPS Rawinsonde
D.E. Wolfe, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and C. W. Fairall, M. Ratterree, A. W. Brewer, S. Tucker, J. Intrieri, D. E. White, D. C. Law, B. J. McCarty, and A. B. White |
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| Thursday, 23 June 2005 |
| 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, South Ballroom
Joint Session 3 Data Quality Control and Metadata (Joint with Applied Climatology, SMOI, and AASC) |
Organizers: Christopher Daly, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; Glen Conner, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY
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| 8:00 AM | J3.1 | The Value of Weather Station Metadata
Janet E. Martinez, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and C. A. Fiebrich and R. A. McPherson |
| 8:15 AM | J3.2 | The Evolution of Station Histories
Glen Conner, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY |
| 8:30 AM | J3.3 | An End-to-End Quality Assurance System for the Modernized Coop Network
Christopher A. Fiebrich, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and R. A. McPherson, C. C. Fain, J. R. Henslee, and P. D. Hurlbut |
| 8:45 AM | J3.4 | Surface Temperature Analysis from Historical Data Sets for the ASOS and COOP Networks
X. Lin, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and K. G. Hubbard |
| 9:00 AM | J3.5 | Standardizing the quality assessment of data: partnership activities between NCDC and RCCs
Nathaniel Guttman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 9:15 AM | J3.6 | Simulating Change—Testing COOP Network Precip Homogeneity Methods
Tressa L. Fowler, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown and E. I. Tollerud |
| 9:30 AM | J3.7 | Adjustments for trace measurements in Canada
Éva Mekis, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada |
| 9:45 AM | J3.8 | The effect of modernization of climate reference networks on continuity of daily maximum and minimum temperature observations
Ewa J. Milewska, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and L. A. Vincent |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | J3.9 | Opportunities for improvements in the quality control of climate observations
Christopher Daly, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and K. T. Redmond, W. Gibson, M. Doggett, J. Smith, G. H. Taylor, P. A. Pasteris, and G. Johnson |
| | J3.10 | Assessing the impact of systematic observation errors on climate and operational precipitation analyses
Edward I. Tollerud, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and T. L. Fowler, B. G. Brown, and R. S. Collander |
| 10:45 AM | J3.11 | An update and future plans of NOAA's climate database modernization program (CDMP)
Thomas F. Ross, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 11:00 AM | J3.12 | Semiautomated quality control of historical sub-daily surface synoptic meteorological data: Application of attributes control methodology
Daniel Y. Graybeal, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY |
| 11:15 AM | J3.13 | Improvements to and Status of ARM's Data Quality Health and Status System
Randy A. Peppler, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. E. Kehoe, K. L. Sonntag, S. T. Moore, and K. J. Doty |
| 11:30 AM | J3.14 | Monitoring the quality of global radiosonde humidity data using ground-based GPS measurements
Junhong Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Zhang |
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| 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open |
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| 12:00 PM, Thursday
Meeting Adjourns |
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