| Sunday, 20 April 2008 |
| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Windsor
Registration Opens |
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| 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Sunday, Legacy
Session WMA Board Meeting |
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| Monday, 21 April 2008 |
| 7:30 AM-5:00 PM, Monday, Windsor
Session Registration Continues through 25 April, 2008 |
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| 9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Monday, Standley I
Session 1 New Mitigation Strategies to Combat Global Warming |
Chair: Thomas P. DeFelice, Hydrospheric Serivces, Sykesville, MD
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday, Standley Foyer
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-12:10 PM, Monday, Standley I
Session 2 New Unconventional Concepts and Legal Ramifications |
Chair: Joe Golden, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES/NOAA/GSD, Boulder, CO
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| 10:30 AM | 2.1 | Atmospheric heating as a research tool  
Lyle M. Jenkins, Eastlund Scientific Enterprises Corporation, Houston, TX; and B. J. Eastlund |
| 10:55 AM | 2.2 | Reducing hurricane intensity by cooling the upper mixed layer using arrays of Atmocean, Inc.'s wave-driven upwelling pumps
Philip W. Kithil, Atmocean, Inc., Santa Fe, NM; and I. Ginis |
| 11:20 AM | 2.3 | On Engineering Hurricanes
William R. Cotton, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. M. Saleeby |
|  | 2.4 | A machine to get rid of hurricanes
Brian Sandler, none, West Bloomfield, MI |
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| 12:10 PM-1:30 PM, Monday, Standley II
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Monday, Standley I
Session 3 Updates on Research and Operational Programs: Winter Precipitation Systems Part I |
Chair: William R. Cotton, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
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| 1:30 PM | 3.1 | Recent results from a randomized wintertime cloud seeding experiment in the Snowy Mountains of Australia
Arlen W. Huggins, DRI, Reno, NV; and S. L. Kenyon, L. Warren, A. Peace, S. Bilish, J. Denholm, and S. K. Chai |
| 2:00 PM | 3.2 | Ammonia and NOx in Seeded and Unseeded Snowfall – An Australian Perspective
James Hunt, ENVIRON Australia Pty Ltd, North Sydney, Australia; and J. Denholm and A. W. Huggins |
| 2:30 PM | 3.3 | Observations and science questions pertaining to cloud seeding over Tasmania
Anthony E. Morrison, Monash Univ., Melbourne, Vic, Australia; and S. T. Siems, M. J. Manton, and A. Nazarov |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Monday, Standley Foyer
Session Coffee Break |
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, Standley I
Session 4 Updates on Research and Operation Programs: Winter Precipitation Systems Part II |
Chair: Arlen W. Huggins, DRI, Reno, NV
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| 3:30 PM | 4.1 | The role of weather modification in the Colorado River Basin States process
Thomas J. Ryan, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA |
| 4:00 PM | 4.2 | 30+ Winter Seasons of Operational Cloud Seeding in Utah
Don A. Griffith, North American Weather Consultants, Sandy, UT; and M. E. Solak and D. Yorty |
| 4:30 PM | 4.3 | Results of Cloud Seeding Operations for Precipitation Enhancement in Iran during 1999-2007
Morteza Khalili Sr., National Cloud Seeding Research Center, Yazd, Iran; and M. Seidhassani, F. Golkar, and V. Khatibi |
| 5:00 PM | 4.4 | Precipitation Processes within Wintertime Clouds Over Central Saudi Arabia
Terry W. Krauss, Weather Modification Inc., Fargo, ND; and R. Bruintjes |
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| 5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions End for the Day |
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| 5:35 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Standley II
Icebreaker Reception |
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| Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday, Standley I
Session 5 Updates on Research and Operational Programs: Winter Precipitation Systems Part III |
Chair: Daniel Breed, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | A Data Display System for Weather Modification Research and Operations
Sher Schranz, NOAA/ERL/FSL and CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO |
| 9:00 AM | 5.2 | Operational aspects of the Wyoming Weather Modification Pilot Project: an update
Bruce A. Boe, Weather Modification, Inc., Fargo, ND |
| 9:30 AM | 5.3 | Design of the randomized seeding experiment of the WWMPP
Daniel Breed, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO; and M. Pocernich, R. Rasmussen, and R. Bruintjes |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday, Standley Foyer
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-12:30 PM, Tuesday, Standley I
Session 6 Updates on Research and Operational Programs: Winter Precipitation Systems Part IV |
Chair: Don A. Griffith, North American Weather Consultants, Sandy, UT
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| 10:30 AM | 6.1 | Statistical Issues in designing a weather modification experiment: A case study
Matthew Pocernich, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO; and B. Brown |
| 11:00 AM | 6.2 | Use of an acoustic ice nucleus counter to map surface-based seeding plumes in Wyoming
Bruce A. Boe, Weather Modification, Inc., Fargo, ND |
| 11:30 AM | 6.3 | Use of a dual channel microwave radiometer to detect liquid cloud water upwind of the Medicine Bow target area in Wyoming
Bruce A. Boe, Weather Modification, Inc., Fargo, ND |
| 12:00 PM | 6.4 | Does orographic snow result from glaciogenic seeding or surface interaction? A downlooking airborne cloud radar view
Bart Geerts, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY |
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| 12:30 PM-2:00 PM, Tuesday, Standley II
Lunch Break |
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| 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Standley I
Session 7 Updates on Research and Operational Programs: Summer Precipitation Systems |
Chair: Terry W. Krauss, Weather Modification Inc., Fargo, ND
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Standley Foyer
Coffee Break |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, Standley I
Session 8 Updates on Research and Operational Programs: Summer Precipitation Systems PART II |
Chair: Bruce A. Boe, Weather Modification, Inc., Fargo, ND
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| 3:30 PM | 8.1 | Legal consequences of weather modification
Marsha L. Baum, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM |
| 4:00 PM | 8.2 | Japanese Cloud Seeding Experiments for Precipitation Augmentation (JCSEPA)
Masataka Murakami, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan |
| 4:30 PM | 8.3 | Polarimetric Radar Analysis of Hygroscopic Seeding
Paul A. Kucera, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Theisen and D. Langerud |
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| 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Tuesday, Standley I
Panel Discussion 1 Special Evening Panel/Audience Interaction on 'Stormfury Redux: Are There Viable New Approaches to Hurricane Modification? |
Panelists: William M. Gray, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; William R. Cotton, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; John Latham, NCAR, Boulder, CO; William L. Woodley, Woodley Weather Consultants, Littleton, CO
Officials: Wil Laska, Department of Homeland Security, Arlington, VA; Joe Golden, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES/NOAA/GSD, Boulder, CO
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| Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
| 8:30 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday, Standley I
Session 9 Updates on Research and Operational Programs: Summer Precipitation Systems Part III |
Chair: William L. Woodley, Woodley Weather Consultants, Littleton, CO
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| | 9.1 | Multivaried Index DCPIM (Deep Convection Process Identification Model) to forecasting and hailstorm clouds seeding operative decision
RaúL. C.ésar Pérez Sr., Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Mendoza, Argentina |
| 8:30 AM | 9.1A | Hygroscopic Cloud Seeding Operations In Andhra Pradesh, India during 2005-07
I.V. Murali Krishna, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Univ., Hyderabad, AP, India |
| 9:00 AM | 9.2 | Evaluation of Mali, West Africa airborne measurements to access the potential of enhancing precipitation using cloud seeding techniques
David Delene, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND |
| 9:30 AM | 9.3 | Precipitation Evaluation of Cloud Seeding Programs in Saudi Arabia and West Africa
Paul A. Kucera, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Bruintjes and P. H. Herzegh |
| 10:00 AM | 9.4 | Preliminary observations of cloud and precipitation characteristics in the Brisbane, Australia region
Sarah Tessendorf, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Bruintjes, J. Wilson, R. Roberts, E. Brandes, P. May, J. Peter, I. Craig, R. Stone, S. Seims, M. Manton, and D. Axisa |
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| 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Wednesday, Standley Foyer
Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Standley I
Session 10 Application of Numerical Models to Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification Topics |
Chair: Roelof Bruintjes, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 11:00 AM | 10.1 | Potential Application of WRF/Chem to Weather Modification Problems
Steven E. Peckham, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado & NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Grell, S. A. McKeen, J. D. Fast, and W. I. Gustafson |
| 11:30 AM | 10.2 | Interactive impacts of CCN, GCCN and IFN on snowfall over the Park Range
Stephen M. Saleeby, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday, Standley II
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, Standley I
Session 11 Application of Numerical Models to Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification Topics Part II |
Chair: Edward E. Hindman, The City Univ. of New York, New York, NY
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| 1:30 PM | 11.1 | Observed and simulated California climate trends due to concurrent long-term inland-warming and coastal-cooling
B. Lebassi, Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara, CA; and J. E. Gonzalez, R. Bornstein, and D. Fabris |
| 2:00 PM | 11.2 | A Cloud Microphysics Scheme to Resolve the Origins of the Caribbean Mid-Summer Drought
Daniel E. Comarazamy, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; and J. E. Gonzalez, N. D. Ramirez, and M. E. Angeles |
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| 2:30 PM-3:00 PM, Wednesday, Standley Foyer
Coffee Break |
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| 3:00 PM-4:30 PM, Wednesday, Standley I
Session 12 Aerosol Impacts on Clouds and Precipitation |
Chair: Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem Israel
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| 3:00 PM | 12.1 | Aerosol-cloud interactions over Istanbul, Turkey and central Saudi Arabia
Duncan Axisa, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Teller, D. Breed, and D. R. Collins |
| 3:30 PM | 12.2 | The effects of giant CCN and Ice Nuclei on clouds and precipitation: A case study from the Saudi Arabia program for the assessment of rainfall augmentation
Amit Teller, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Axisa, D. Breed, and R. Bruintjes |
| 4:00 PM | 12.3 | An ‘aerosol effect' detected but precipitation not affected
Edward E. Hindman, The City Univ. of New York, New York, NY |
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| 4:30 PM, Wednesday
Sessions End for the Day |
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| 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday, Lakeview Pavilion
Wednesday Evening Banquet |
| | | Don Griffith, Chairman, Awards Committee
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| | | Keynote Speaker: Starnes Walker, Department of Homeland Security
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| Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
| 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday
NCAR/NOAA Field Trip - Information to Follow |
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| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Thursday, Standley II
Session WMA Annual Business Meeting |
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| 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Thursday, Standley I
Panel Discussion 2 Can Aerosols Be Used to Mitigate Potential Adverse Global-Warming Impacts on Precipitation? |
Panelists: Roelof Bruintjes, NCAR, Boulder, CO; William L. Woodley, Woodley Weather Consultants, Littleton, CO; Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem Israel; William R. Cotton, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; Roland List, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada
Officials: Joe Busto, Colorado Water Conservation Board, Denver, CO; Thomas P. DeFelice, Hydrospheric Serivces, Sykesville, MD
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| Friday, 25 April 2008 |
| 9:30 AM-10:30 AM, Friday, Standley I
Session 13 Aerosol Impacts on Clouds and Precipitation Part II |
Chair: Duncan Axisa, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| | 13.1 | History and Future Directions in Monitoring Natural Ice Nuclei Populations
Andrew G. Detwiler, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD |
| 9:30 AM | 13.2 | Anthropogenic aerosols invigorating hail storms
Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and A. Khain |
| 10:00 AM | 13.3 | The possible impact of sand-dust particles to cloud and recipitation in the Northwest China----a simulation study
Kang Fengqin Sr., Institute of Arid Meteorology, Lanzhou, Gansu, China |
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| 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Friday, Standley Foyer
Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Friday, Standley I
Session 14 Aerosol Impacts on Clouds and Precipitation Part III |
Chair: Andrew G. Detwiler, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD
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| 12:00 PM, Friday
Conference Ends |
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