Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification/Weather Modification Association (Expanded View)

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Program Chairpersons:
Joe Golden, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES/NOAA/GSD

Compact View of Conference

Sunday, 20 April 2008
5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Windsor
Registration Opens
 
7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Sunday, Legacy
Session WMA Board Meeting
 
Monday, 21 April 2008
7:30 AM-5:00 PM, Monday, Windsor
Session Registration Continues through 25 April, 2008
 
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
 Welcoming Remarks   wrf recording
9:00 AM1.1Weather and Climate Engineering  extended abstract wrf recording
William R. Cotton, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
9:30 AM1.2Geo-Engineering: tuning Earth's thermostats to cooler temperatures   wrf recording
Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
 
10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday, Standley Foyer
Coffee Break
 
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
10:30 AM2.1Atmospheric heating as a research tool  extended abstract wrf recording
Lyle M. Jenkins, Eastlund Scientific Enterprises Corporation, Houston, TX; and B. J. Eastlund
10:55 AM2.2Reducing hurricane intensity by cooling the upper mixed layer using arrays of Atmocean, Inc.'s wave-driven upwelling pumps   wrf recording
Philip W. Kithil, Atmocean, Inc., Santa Fe, NM; and I. Ginis
11:20 AM2.3On Engineering Hurricanes  extended abstract wrf recording
William R. Cotton, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. M. Saleeby
2.4A machine to get rid of hurricanes  extended abstract
Brian Sandler, none, West Bloomfield, MI
 
12:10 PM-1:30 PM, Monday, Standley II
Lunch Break
 
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
1:30 PM3.1Recent results from a randomized wintertime cloud seeding experiment in the Snowy Mountains of Australia  extended abstract wrf recording
Arlen W. Huggins, DRI, Reno, NV; and S. L. Kenyon, L. Warren, A. Peace, S. Bilish, J. Denholm, and S. K. Chai
2:00 PM3.2Ammonia and NOx in Seeded and Unseeded Snowfall – An Australian Perspective  extended abstract wrf recording
James Hunt, ENVIRON Australia Pty Ltd, North Sydney, Australia; and J. Denholm and A. W. Huggins
2:30 PM3.3Observations and science questions pertaining to cloud seeding over Tasmania   wrf recording
Anthony E. Morrison, Monash Univ., Melbourne, Vic, Australia; and S. T. Siems, M. J. Manton, and A. Nazarov
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Monday, Standley Foyer
Session Coffee Break
 
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
3:30 PM4.1The role of weather modification in the Colorado River Basin States process  extended abstract wrf recording
Thomas J. Ryan, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
4:00 PM4.230+ Winter Seasons of Operational Cloud Seeding in Utah  extended abstract wrf recording
Don A. Griffith, North American Weather Consultants, Sandy, UT; and M. E. Solak and D. Yorty
4:30 PM4.3Results 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 PM4.4Precipitation Processes within Wintertime Clouds Over Central Saudi Arabia   wrf recording
Terry W. Krauss, Weather Modification Inc., Fargo, ND; and R. Bruintjes
 
5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions End for the Day
 
5:35 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Standley II
Icebreaker Reception
 
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
8:30 AM5.1A Data Display System for Weather Modification Research and Operations  extended abstract wrf recording
Sher Schranz, NOAA/ERL/FSL and CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
9:00 AM5.2Operational aspects of the Wyoming Weather Modification Pilot Project: an update  extended abstract wrf recording
Bruce A. Boe, Weather Modification, Inc., Fargo, ND
9:30 AM5.3Design of the randomized seeding experiment of the WWMPP   wrf recording
Daniel Breed, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO; and M. Pocernich, R. Rasmussen, and R. Bruintjes
 
10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday, Standley Foyer
Coffee Break
 
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
10:30 AM6.1Statistical Issues in designing a weather modification experiment: A case study   wrf recording
Matthew Pocernich, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO; and B. Brown
11:00 AM6.2Use of an acoustic ice nucleus counter to map surface-based seeding plumes in Wyoming  extended abstract wrf recording
Bruce A. Boe, Weather Modification, Inc., Fargo, ND
11:30 AM6.3Use of a dual channel microwave radiometer to detect liquid cloud water upwind of the Medicine Bow target area in Wyoming  extended abstract wrf recording
Bruce A. Boe, Weather Modification, Inc., Fargo, ND
12:00 PM6.4Does orographic snow result from glaciogenic seeding or surface interaction? A downlooking airborne cloud radar view   wrf recording
Bart Geerts, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
 
12:30 PM-2:00 PM, Tuesday, Standley II
Lunch Break
 
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
2:00 PM7.1A review of the Texas weather modification programs in 2007   wrf recording
Todd R. Flanagan, South Texas Weather Modification Association, Pleasanton, TX; and S. D. Beall, R. E. Rhodes, J. Wright, and A. Ruiz-Columbié
2:30 PM7.2Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Cloud Seeding in Texas from 2002 through 2006  extended abstract wrf recording
William L. Woodley, Woodley Weather Consultants, Littleton, CO; and D. Rosenfeld
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Standley Foyer
Coffee Break
 
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
3:30 PM8.1Legal consequences of weather modification   wrf recording
Marsha L. Baum, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
4:00 PM8.2Japanese Cloud Seeding Experiments for Precipitation Augmentation (JCSEPA)   wrf recording
Masataka Murakami, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
4:30 PM8.3Polarimetric Radar Analysis of Hygroscopic Seeding  extended abstract wrf recording
Paul A. Kucera, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Theisen and D. Langerud
 
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
 Wil Laska   wrf recording
 Joe Golden  
 William M. Gray   wrf recording
 William R. Cotton  
 John Latham  
 William L. Woodley  
 Panel/Audience Interaction   wrf recording
 
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
9.1Multivaried 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 AM9.1AHygroscopic Cloud Seeding Operations In Andhra Pradesh, India during 2005-07  
I.V. Murali Krishna, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Univ., Hyderabad, AP, India
9:00 AM9.2Evaluation of Mali, West Africa airborne measurements to access the potential of enhancing precipitation using cloud seeding techniques   wrf recording
David Delene, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
9:30 AM9.3Precipitation Evaluation of Cloud Seeding Programs in Saudi Arabia and West Africa   wrf recording
Paul A. Kucera, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Bruintjes and P. H. Herzegh
10:00 AM9.4Preliminary observations of cloud and precipitation characteristics in the Brisbane, Australia region   wrf recording
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
 
10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Wednesday, Standley Foyer
Coffee Break
 
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
11:00 AM10.1Potential 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 AM10.2Interactive impacts of CCN, GCCN and IFN on snowfall over the Park Range  extended abstract wrf recording
Stephen M. Saleeby, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday, Standley II
Lunch Break
 
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
1:30 PM11.1Observed and simulated California climate trends due to concurrent long-term inland-warming and coastal-cooling   wrf recording
B. Lebassi, Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara, CA; and J. E. Gonzalez, R. Bornstein, and D. Fabris
2:00 PM11.2A 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
 
2:30 PM-3:00 PM, Wednesday, Standley Foyer
Coffee Break
 
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
3:00 PM12.1Aerosol-cloud interactions over Istanbul, Turkey and central Saudi Arabia  extended abstract wrf recording
Duncan Axisa, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Teller, D. Breed, and D. R. Collins
3:30 PM12.2The 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  extended abstract wrf recording
Amit Teller, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Axisa, D. Breed, and R. Bruintjes
4:00 PM12.3An ‘aerosol effect' detected but precipitation not affected  extended abstract wrf recording
Edward E. Hindman, The City Univ. of New York, New York, NY
 
4:30 PM, Wednesday
Sessions End for the Day
 
5:00 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday, Lakeview Pavilion
Wednesday Evening Banquet
 Don Griffith, Chairman, Awards Committee  
 Keynote Speaker: Starnes Walker, Department of Homeland Security  
 
Thursday, 24 April 2008
9:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday
NCAR/NOAA Field Trip - Information to Follow
 
5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Thursday, Standley II
Session WMA Annual Business Meeting
 
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
 Joe Busto  
 Thomas P. DeFelice   wrf recording
 Roelof Bruintjes   wrf recording
 William L. Woodley  
 Daniel Rosenfeld   wrf recording
 William R. Cotton   wrf recording
 Roland List   wrf recording
 Panel Discussion  
 
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
13.1History and Future Directions in Monitoring Natural Ice Nuclei Populations  
Andrew G. Detwiler, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD
9:30 AM13.2Anthropogenic aerosols invigorating hail storms   wrf recording
Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and A. Khain
10:00 AM13.3The 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
 
10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Friday, Standley Foyer
Coffee Break
 
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
11:00 AM14.2Modelling study using RegCM3 on aerosol precipitation interactions over Sahel in support to Senegalese rain enhancement Program (SENREP): Bawaan  
Abdoulaye Sarr, National Meteorological Service of Senegal, Dakar-Fann, Senegal; and M. NDiaye and C. Diop
11:30 AM14.1Aerosol – Cloud-Precipitation Interactions and the impacts on rainfall enhancement experiments via cloud seeding   wrf recording
Roelof Bruintjes, NCAR, Boulder, CO
 
12:00 PM, Friday
Conference Ends
 

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