Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Program Chairs: James R. Campbell , NRL ; Sara C. Tucker , Ball Aerospace ; John E. Yorks , NASA
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Sunday, 6 January 2019

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8:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Meet President Roger M. Wakimoto and Presidential Forum Speakers
Location: North Ballroom Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

12:00 PM-8:30 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Poster Hall (Sunday)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Plenary Session
Presidential Forum: Building Resilience to Extreme Political Weather: Advice for Unpredictable Times
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Forum and Annual Meeting Welcome; the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 16th Conference on Space Weather; the 17th History Symposium; the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference; the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Symposium on Education; the 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the Fifth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Phased Array Radar Symposium; the Special Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation; the Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; the 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Hydrology; the Richard Anthes Symposium; the Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection; the Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats; the Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Fourth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; and the Events )
Moderator: Michael Henry, American Institute of Physics
Presider: Roger Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Speakers: Dan Kahan, American Institute of Physics; David Goldston, MIT
4:00 PM
Presidential Forum: Building Resilience to Extreme Political Weather: Advice for Unpredictable Times

4:00 PM-6:30 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Presidential Forum and Annual Meeting Welcome
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Plenary Session
Annual Meeting Welcome
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Forum and Annual Meeting Welcome; the Fourth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the 16th Conference on Space Weather; the 17th History Symposium; the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference; the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Symposium on Education; the Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats; the Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection; and the Events )
Moderator: Roger Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

6:30 PM-7:30 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Welcome Reception Honoring Newly Elected Fellows and Featured Award Winners
Location: North Ballroom (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


CoRioLis Reception
Location: Sheraton Hotel

8:30 PM-10:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Colour of Weather Networking Reception
Location: Sheraton Hotel

Monday, 7 January 2019

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7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Quiet Room (Monday)
Location: West 206 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Registration (Monday)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Speaker Ready Room (Monday)
Location: North 121A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 7 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 1
Lidar Applications in Focused Field Campaigns such as PECAN, PERDIGAO, CPEX, NAAMES, OWLETS, etc.
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: John E. Yorks, NASA; Catharine E. Bunn, Montana State Univ.
8:30 AM
1.1
Planning for LOTOS: A New Lower Tropospheric Observing System
Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. P. Oncley, B. B. Stephens, W. O. J. Brown, A. Rockwell, W. C. Lee, T. Hock, and V. Grubišić
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
1.2
Observing PBL Structures around Storms with Airborne Raman Lidar
Zhien Wang, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and L. Guo and B. Geerts
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
1.3
An Analysis of the Vertical Velocity at the Leading Edge of a Density Current during PECAN
Dylan W. Reif, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. B. Bluestein
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
1.4
Spatial Heterogeneity in the Convective Boundary Layer Depth Observed during HI-SCALE
Rob Newsom, PNNL, Richland, WA; and K. Sakaguchi, L. K. Berg, and J. D. Fast
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
1.5
Lidar and Aircraft Profiling of Ozone above the Central San Joaquin Valley during the California Baseline Ozone Transport Study (CABOTS)
A.O. Langford, NOAA/ESRL/Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO; and R. J. Alvarez II, G. Kirgis, C. J. Senff, D. Caputi, S. A. Conley, I. Faloona, L. T. Iraci, J. E. Marrero, M. E. McNamara, J. M. Ryoo, E. L. Yates, and S. Baidar

9:45 AM
1.6
SAVANT: A Field Campaign for the Stable Boundary Layer
April L. Hiscox, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; and J. Wang, D. A. R. Kristovich, E. G. Patton, J. Sun, W. O. Brown, N. J. Sokol, A. R. Desai, G. W. Petty, and C. J. Nappo
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Guest Coffee (Monday)
Location: Camelback A (Sheraton Hotel )

9:00 AM-7:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Poster Hall (Monday)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 7 January 2019


AM Coffee Break (Monday)
Location: Meeting room foyers (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 2
Lidar Observations for Studies of Air Quality and Climate
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Sara C. Tucker, Ball Aerospace; Brian J. Carroll, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County
2.1
Robust Calibration Method for Pure Rotational Raman Lidar Temperature Profiling in the Troposphere

10:30 AM
2.1A
High-Resolution Photon Time Tagging for Multifunctional Atmospheric Lidar Studies
Rory Barton-Grimley, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. A. Stillwell and J. P. Thayer
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
2.2
Removing the a Priori Effect from a Lidar Optimal Estimation Method Water Vapor and Temperature Retrieval
Ali Jalali, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and S. Hicks-Jalali, R. J. Sica, A. Haefele, and T. von Clarmann
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
2.3
Effect of Urban Areas on Mixing-Layer Height
Sunil Baidar, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and T. A. Bonin, A. Choukulkar, R. M. Hardesty, and A. Brewer
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
2.4
Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Upgrade and Automation at JPL Table Mountain Facility
Fernando Chouza Keil, JPL, Wrightwood, CA; and T. Leblanc, M. Brewer, and P. Wang
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
2.5
An Innovative Approach for Deriving CALIOP-Based Particulate Matter Concentrations Through a Bulk-Mass-Modeling-Based Method
Travis D. Toth, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and J. Zhang, J. S. Reid, and M. A. Vaughan

11:45 AM
2.6
Visualizing Healthy Clouds and Aerosol Plumes in Southeast Texas Using a Micropulse Lidar
Timothy Logan, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and S. Brooks, R. Li, and J. A. Mirrielees
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Lunch Break (Monday)

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Daily Weather Briefings (Monday)
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

2:00 PM-3:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


How to Become a Better Presenter
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

2:00 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 3
Historical Perspectives on Lidar
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: James R. Campbell, NRL; Natalie Midzak, Millersville Univ.
2:00 PM
3.1
Lidar: A 50-Year Personal Retrospective
John A. Reagan, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM
3.2
The Nature of Cirrus as Revealed by Lidar (Invited Presentation)
Kenneth Sassen, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Recorded Presentation

3.3
From LITE to CALIPSO and Beyond: A Brief History of NASA Langley Research Center Spaceborne Lidar Missions and Measurements

3:30 PM
3.4
Five Decades of Doppler Wind Lidar Measurements from Turbulence to Global Scales (Invited Presentation)
R. Michael Hardesty, CIRES, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


2019 NWA/AMS Research Operations Nexus (RON) Meetup-Honoring the Legacy of Ronald W. Przybylinski
Location: North Ballroom 120AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Formal Poster Viewing Reception
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Poster Session
Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications Poster Session
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
164A
Meteorological Conditions Impacting Observations of Ship Emissions during OWLETS
Joe Robinson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and A. Kotsakis, A. Reynolds, T. Knepp, G. Gronoff, T. Berkoff, and R. Swap

256
Transported Smoke from Africa over the Southeast Atlantic Ocean from CALIOP Version 4 Data: Signature of an Increase in Size of Smoke Particles
Jay Kar, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and M. A. Vaughan, J. L. Tackett, Z. Liu, A. Omar, S. Rodier, C. Trepte, and P. Lucker

257
Implementation of CALIOP 1064-nm Channel in the CALIPSO Layer Detection Algorithm
Brian Getzewich, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and M. Vaughan, K. P. Lee, R. Ryan, T. D. Murray, C. Trepte, and D. M. Winker

258
Comparing CALIPSO-Derived Estimates of Sea Surface Winds to Measurements and Models
Sharon Rodier, SSAI/NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and M. A. Vaughan, A. Murray, and Y. Hu

259
Thin Cirrus Properties and Statistics from Airborne, Ground-Based, and Space-Based Lidars
John E. Yorks, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. McGill, S. Ozog, M. A. Vaughan, M. A. Avery, J. R. Campbell, and J. Lewis Jr.

260
Methodology for PBL Retrieval Based on NASA MPLNET Datasets
Doug Keller Jr., Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and G. J. Fochesatto, E. J. Welton, J. Lewis Jr., J. R. Campbell, and S. Stewart

261
Constrained Cirrus Cloud Properties from MPLNET Retrievals
Jasper Lewis Jr., JCET, Greenbelt, MD; and J. R. Campbell, S. Lolli, and E. J. Welton

262
The Doppler Aerosol Wind (DAWN) Lidar during CPEX 2017: Performance Assessment, Data Processing, and Data Products
G. D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. Greco, M. Garstang, and M. J. Kavaya

Poster 263 has been moved to paper 5.4A.

264
Investigation of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer during the Land Atmosphere Feedback Experiment (LAFE) during August 2017
Aditya Choukulkar, Univ. of Colorado Boulder and NOAA/ESRL/Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO; and T. A. Bonin, R. M. Banta, A. Behrendt, L. K. Berg, A. Brewer, R. M. Hardesty, R. K. Newsom, Y. Pichugina, F. Späth, C. J. Senff, D. D. Turner, T. J. Wagner, and V. Wulfmeyer

265
Lidar Observations of Water Vapor Transport via Low-level Jets in PECAN
Brian J. Carroll, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and B. Demoz and R. Delgado

Poster 266 has been moved to paper 2.1, but will also, be presented as a poster.

267
Recent Developments of Supercooled Liquid Water and Mixed-Phase Cloud Detection from an Airborne Mini Micro Pulse Lidar
Justin fisher, Hexagon Corporation, Lanham, MD; and R. H. Stone

268
Development of a Combined Polarimeter and Lidar Optimal Estimation Algorithm

6:00 PM-8:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Exhibits Opening and Reception
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Ribbon Cutting, Opening Reception, and Corporate Patron Recognition
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Tuesday, 8 January 2019

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7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


AMS Information Desk (Tuesday)
Location: North 100 Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Member Services Desk (Tuesday)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Quiet Room (Tuesday)
Location: West 206 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Registration (Tuesday)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Speaker Ready Room (Tuesday)
Location: North 121A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 4
Space-Based Lidar Including ESA's Aeolus, CALIPSO, CATS, and Multifunction Lidars to Address Observables in the Earth Science Decadal Survey. Part I
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Sharon Rodier, SSAI; Travis Toth, NASA Langley Research Center
4.1
Synopsizing 20 years of lidar research in 30 minutes or less

9:00 AM
4.2
CATS Cloud and Aerosol Data Products: New Features, Improvements, and Implications for the Future
John E. Yorks, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. McGill, E. P. Nowottnick, P. Selmer, S. Rodier, M. A. Vaughan, R. M. Pauly, and S. Ozog
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
4.3
Quantitative Assessment of Contrail and Anthropogenic Aerosol Radiative Effects and Their Implication to Meteorological Phenomena in the Mediterranean Basin
Simone Lolli, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Istituto di Metodologie per l’Analisi Ambientale, Potenza, Italy; and D. Dionisi, J. Campbell, E. J. Welton, M. Sicard, F. Madonna, T. C. Landi, J. Lewis Jr., and G. Pappalardo
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
4.4
Validation of New Methods in Inferring Extinction and Lidar Ratio from Photon-Limited Lidar Observations
Willem J. Marais, CIMSS, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and R. E. Holz, E. W. Eloranta, and R. M. Willett
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
4.5
ICESat-2 Lidar Measurements of the Polar Atmosphere
Stephen P. Palm, SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. Yang
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Guest Coffee (Tuesday)
Location: Hospitality Suite 428 (Sheraton Hotel )

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Exhibit Hall (Tuesday)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Poster Hall (Tuesday)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


AM Coffee Break (Tuesday)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Meet President Roger M. Wakimoto (Tuesday)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 5
Space-Based Lidar Including ESA's Aeolus, CALIPSO, CATS, and Multifunction Lidars to Address Observables in the Earth Science Decadal Survey. Part II
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: John E. Yorks, NASA; Mayra I. Oyola, NRL
5.1
Limits to Characterizing the Global 3D Aerosol Distribution Using Satellite Lidar

11:00 AM
5.2A
A New Method to Retrieve the Diurnal Variability of PBLH from Backscatter Lidar under Different Thermodynamic Stabilites
Tianning Su, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and Z. Li and R. Kahn

5.2
CALIPSO: In Search of the AWOL Aerosol

11:15 AM
5.3
Evaluation of the New CALIOP Stratospheric Aerosol Subtypes
Jason L. Tackett, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and J. Kar, M. H. Kim, A. Omar, C. Trepte, M. A. Vaughan, and D. M. Winker
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
5.4
CALIOP-Based Biomass Burning Smoke Plume Height
Amber Soja, National Institute of Aerospace/NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and H. D. Choi, E. Gargulinski, C. Fite, M. M. Bela, T. D. Fairlie, G. Pouliot, K. Baker, and J. Wilkins
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
5.5
OAWL: A Multifunction Doppler Lidar for Earth Science Atmospheric Wind and Aerosol Observations
Sara Tucker, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation, Boulder, CO; and M. Hardesty and S. Baidar
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Lunch Break (Tuesday)

Women in Atmospheric Sciences Luncheon
Location: North Ballroom 120AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Daily Weather Briefings (Tuesday)
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 6
Cloud and Aerosol Lidar Observations for Model Parameterization and Process Study. Part I
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Robert Stillwell, University of Colorado; Rory Barton-Grimley, NASA Langley Research Center
1:30 PM
6.1
Dust Aerosol Optical Properties for Applications to Lidar and Polarimetric Retrievals
Ping Yang, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and M. Saito, J. Ding, P. Stegmann, C. A. Hostetler, X. Liu, and C. Trepte
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
6.2
Do Thin Cirrus Clouds Matter?
James R. Campbell, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Lolli, G. Liu, J. W. Marquis, J. Lewis Jr., A. Bucholtz, D. A. Peterson, E. K. Dolinar, M. I. Oyola, J. E. Yorks, S. Ozog, M. A. Vaughan, and E. J. Welton
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
6.3
Comparing Modeled Cirrus Radiative Forcing Estimates from Constrained Lidar Extinction Retrievals to Direct Coincident Radiometer Measurements
Scott Ozog, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and M. J. McGill, J. E. Yorks, J. R. Campbell, A. Bucholtz, and S. Woods

2:15 PM
6.4
HSRL measurements of Lidar ratios in the presence of oriented ice crystals
Edwin Eloranta, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI; and I. Razenkov and J. P. Garcia
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


PM Coffee Break (Tuesday)
Location: Meeting room foyers (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 7
Cloud and Aerosol Lidar Observations for Model Parameterization and Process Study Part II
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Tammy Weckwerth, NCAR; Scott Ozog, University of Maryland, College Park
3:00 PM
7.1
Design of a Combined High Spectral Resolution and Oxygen Differential Absorption Lidar for Measuring Atmospheric Temperature
Robert A. Stillwell, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Spuler, M. Hayman, C. E. Bunn, and K. Repasky
Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM
7.2
IACS and MACS: High-Resolution Atmospheric Lidars for Model Verification
Christopher Valenta, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA; and J. M. Stewart, R. James, and L. Sox

3:30 PM
7.3
A Compact Ceilometer for Boundary Layer Height and Ceiling Retrievals for the Ameriflux Network
David M. Sonnenfroh, Physical Sciences Inc., Andover, MA; and A. Sealey, R. Minelli, and J. Goodwin
Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM
7.4
Raman–Lidar-Based Retrievals of the Profiles of Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) and Aerosol Swelling Factor and the Effects of Aerosol Chemical Composition
Zhanqing Li, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Book Talks @ Authors Corner (Tues)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Formal Poster Viewing Reception (Tues)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

6:00 PM-7:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Sessions End / Recep & Exhibits Opening (Tuesday)

6:00 PM-10:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


University Night Receptions

6:30 PM-8:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Inez Fung Dinner
Location: West 213AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Wednesday, 9 January 2019

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7:25 AM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Quiet Room (Wednesday)
Location: West 206 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


AMS Information Desk (Wed)
Location: North 100 Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Member Services Desk (Wed)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Registration (Wed)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Speaker Ready Room (Wed)
Location: North 121A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 8
Wildfire, Smoke Plumes, Pollution, and Ozone: Causes, Impacts, and Predictability
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Javier Fochesatto, Geophysical Institute, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks; Lin Ma, The Univ. of Arizona
8:30 AM
8.1
Local Recirculations and Implications on Planetary Boundary Layer Dynamics and Air Quality
Vanessa Caicedo, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and R. Delgado, B. Demoz, R. Sakai, and J. Sullivan
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
8.2
TOLNet Lidar Measurements for Air Quality Applications
Michael Newchurch, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and R. Alvarez, T. Berkoff, G. Chen, G. Gronoff, M. S. Johnson, G. Kirgis, S. Kuang, A. O. Langford, T. Leblanc, T. J. McGee, C. J. Senff, M. Shook, K. B. Strawbridge, J. T. Sullivan, and B. Wang
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
8.3
Upper-Air Visibility Observations during a Severe Haze Pollution Period Based on Raman–Mie Lidar in Urban Beijing
Su Chen, School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China; and S. Chen, Y. Zhang, H. Chen, and P. Guo
Recorded Presentation

8.4
Developing an Online Tool for Identifying Areas and Populations Vulnerable to Surface Smoke from wildfires

9:30 AM
8.5
How Could Prescribed Fire Have Altered the Health Impacts of the 2016 Appalachian Wildfires?
Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and F. Zhao, B. Hornsby, and S. Goodrick

9:45 AM
8.6
Mitigating Satellite-Based Fire Sampling Limitations in Deriving Biomass Burning Emission Rates and Its Implication for Air Quality Forecasting
Jun Wang, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and J. Zeng, C. Ichoku, and L. Ellison

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Guest Coffee (Wed)
Location: Hospitality Suite 428 (Sheraton Hotel )

9:00 AM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Exhibit Hall (Wed)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Poster Hall (Wednesday)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

9:30 AM-12:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Tree Planting Guest Volunteer Project

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


AM Coffee Break (Wed)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Meet President Roger M. Wakimoto (Wed)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 19
Extreme Wildfire and Smoke Plumes: Causes, Impacts, and Predictability (Themed Joint Session)
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; and the 10th Conference on Environment and Health )
Cochairs: David A. Peterson, NRL; Michael Fromm, NRL; Shubhayu Saha, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
10:30 AM
TJ19.1
Airborne Doppler Radar Observations of PyroCu/Cb Plume Kinematics and Thermodynamics during the 2016 Pioneer Fire in Idaho
Bruno Rodriguez, San Jose State University, San José, CA; and D. E. Kingsmill, N. P. Lareau, and C. B. Clements
Recorded Presentation

TJ19.2
From a Pyrocumulus to a Severe Thunderstorm: An Environmental Analysis of an Anomalous Southern Plains Wildfire

10:45 AM
TJ19.2A
Determining the Scanning Strategies to Provide Tropospheric Profiles of Wind, Aerosol/Cloud Layers, and Backscatter with Doppler Lidars for Their Integration as Multifunction Sensors in Operational Weather Observing Networks
Ludovic Thobois, Leosphere, Orsay, France; and E. Maksimovitch and R. Parmentier

11:00 AM
TJ19.3
Wildfire-Driven Thunderstorms Cause a Volcano-Like Stratospheric Injection of Smoke
David A. Peterson, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. R. Campbell, E. J. Hyer, M. D. Fromm, G. P. Kablick III, J. H. Cossuth, and M. T. DeLand
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
TJ19.4
Long-Range Smoke Transport: Monitoring with the New European Automatic Lidar Network—E-PROFILE
Maxime Hervo, MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland; and A. Haefele, R. Ruefenacht, M. Turp, J. L. Lampin, M. Haeffelin, I. Mattis, E. Hopkin, S. Kotthaus, W. Thomas, A. Mortier, Q. Laffineur, M. J. de Haij, S. Itsvan, D. Martin, and P. Skrivankova
Recorded Presentation

TJ19.5
The Association between Wildfire Smoke Exposure and Respiratory Morbidity and Mortality in North America

11:30 AM
TJ19.5A
Stratospheric Smoke Rivaling Volcanic Sulfate: The pyroCb Plume of 2017…and Beyond (Invited Presentation)
Michael D. Fromm, NRL, Washington, DC; and G. P. Kablick III and D. A. Peterson
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
TJ19.6
The October 2017 North Bay Fires: Applying New Observational and Prediction Tools to Smoke and Air Quality Forecasting
Daniel M Alrick, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, San Francisco, CA
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Anthes Luncheon
Location: West 213AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Lunch Break (Wed)

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Daily Weather Briefings (Wed)
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Robert E. Horton Lecture
Recording files available
Joint Session 2
Investigations of Air Quality within Coastal Environments. Part I
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; and the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Lance Nino, Cornell Univ.; John T. Sullivan, NASA GSFC
1:30 PM
J2.1
Direct Observations of Pollution Gradients within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: Overview of the Ozone Water–Land Environmental Transition Study-2 (OWLETS-2)
John T. Sullivan, NASA GSFC, Wallops Island, VA; and T. Berkoff, J. Dreessen, R. Delgado, G. Gronoff, L. Nino, B. J. Carroll, V. Caicedo, L. Judd, J. Al-Saadi, M. Tzortziou, V. R. Morris, S. F. J. De Wekker, C. Hennigan, R. K. Sakai, A. Flores, X. Ren, R. R. Dickerson, P. Stratton, W. Luke, P. Kelley, S. Flynn, R. A. Hannun, G. Sumnicht, L. Twigg, N. Dacic, J. Anderson, R. Swap, and T. J. McGee
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
J2.2
Air Quality of Baltimore and New York City: A Conspiracy of Meteorology and Chemistry
Russell R. Dickerson, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and S. Benish, T. P. Canty, J. Dreessen, P. Miller, X. Ren, R. J. Salawitch, and P. Stratton

2:00 PM
J2.3
Air Quality during Heatwave Periods over Land and Water during the OWLETS-2 Campaign
Ricardo K. Sakai, Howard Univ., Beltsville, MD; and V. R. Morris, A. Flores, B. J. Carroll, V. Caicedo, R. Delgado, B. B. Demoz, O. Parker, M. Tzortziou, J. T. Sullivan, and J. Dreessen
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
J2.4
Ozone Lidar Observations during the Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study
Timothy Berkoff, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and J. Sullivan, G. Gronoff, L. Nino, W. Carrion, L. Twigg, J. Sparrow, T. Knepp, D. Tully, M. Chaffee, P. Babich, L. Valin, and J. Szykman
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM-3:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


PM Coffee Break (Wed)
Location: Meeting room foyers (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

3:30 PM-4:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Recording files available
Joint Session 3
Investigations of Air Quality within Coastal Environments. Part II
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; and the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Timothy Berkoff, NASA Langley Research Center; Sunil Baidar, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder
3:30 PM
J3.1
Characterization of the Synoptic and Mesoscale Meteorological Conditions during the OWLETS and OWLETS-2 Field Campaigns
Alexander Kotsakis, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and F. dos Santos, J. Robinson, J. T. Sullivan, V. Caicedo, T. Berkoff, N. Dacic, L. A. Rodio, and R. Swap
Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM
J3.2
Understanding Coastal Ozone Pollution through Sondes and Mobile Measurements
Lance Nino, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and J. T. Sullivan, R. K. Sakai, A. Flores, J. Dreessen, S. Flynn, T. Berkoff, R. Delgado, and R. M. Stauffer
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM
J3.3
Observation of a Ship Plume Using Coordinated Lidar/Pandora Observations
Guillaume Gronoff, NASA, Hampton, VA; and J. Robinson, T. Berkoff, R. Swap, B. Farris, J. Schroeder, H. S. Halliday, T. Knepp, E. Spinei, W. Carrion, E. Adcock, Z. Johns, D. Allen, and M. Pippin
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
J3.4
Investigation of a Pollution Plume Observed by the NASA C-23 Sherpa Aircraft during the 2017 OWLETS Campaign
Megan Elizabeth Buzanowicz, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and L. A. Rodio, T. Berkoff, and G. Gronoff
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Book Talks @ Authors Corner (Wed)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Formal Poster Viewing Reception (Wed)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Poster Session
Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications Poster Session
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
1055
Using Cluster-Derived Diurnal Ozone Groups to Validate Model Surface Ozone Predictions
Claudia Marie Bernier, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and Y. Wang, J. McQueen, and M. Estes

1056
Investigating Plume Origins Detected by Lidar and Aircraft during a High-Ozone Event in the Chesapeake Bay Using HYSPLIT Backward Trajectories during the 2017 OWLETS Campaign
Lindsey A. Rodio, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and M. E. Buzanowicz, T. Berkoff, G. Gronoff, and T. P. Canty

1057
A New Cloud Ice Microphysical Parameterization Developed from CALIOP/CloudSat for Numerical Weather Prediction
Erica K Dolinar, NRL, Monterey, CA; and B. M. Karpowicz, J. R. Campbell, K. C. Viner, and X. Dong

1058
Automated Early Detection of Wildfires Using GOES-16 Satellite Imagery
Jane Wilson Baldwin, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and C. Beneke, R. Keisler, H. Zhou, C. Kontgis, and K. A. McKinnon

1059
Verifying Transport and Dispersion Model Output of Fires Using Radar Data
Jonathan M. Vogel, Applied Research Associates, Alexandria, VA

1060
Understanding Tropospheric Ozone from U.S. Wildfires: Observations and Modeling
Bo Wang, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and M. Newchurch, S. Kuang, A. P. Biazar, A. O. Langford, P. Tucker, and K. Pozsonyi

1061
Benchmarking the Performance of Air Force Weather Cloud Analyses and Forecasts Using Surface-Based Lidar and Radar Data
Edward P. Hildebrand, UCAR, Offutt AFB, NE

1062
Doppler Lidar Wind Measurements around Hurricane Maria during the 2017 NOAA Hurricane Reconnaissance Program
S. A. Wood, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and G. D. Emmitt and C. O'Handley

Poster 1063 is now TJS9.2A.

1064
Ad Hoc Ceilometer Evaluation Study: Mixing Layer Heights Network
Ruben Delgado, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and V. Caicedo, J. Posey, I. Kironji, B. B. Demoz, J. Szykman, R. K. Sakai, D. Atkinson, M. Hicks, M. Woodman, and D. Krask

1065
Application of the Optimal Estimation Method (OEM) to Retrieve Temperature and Relative Humidity from Rotational Raman Lidar Backscatter Measurements
Shayamila Mahagammulla Gamage, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and A. Haefele and R. J. Sica

1066
Evaluation of a Compact DIAL for Atmospheric Water Vapor Profiling at the ARM SGP Site
Raisa Lehtinen, Vaisala Oyj, Helsinki, Finland; and C. Münkel, R. K. Newsom, R. Roininen, D. D. Turner, and T. Linna

1067
Size-resolved Characteristics of Particulate Elements in a Coastal Area: Source Identification, Influence of Wildfires, and Diurnal Variability
Lin Ma, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. Dadashazar, R. Braun, A. MacDonald, M. A. Aghdam, L. C. Maudlin, and A. Sorooshian

Handout (986.3 kB)

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Awards Banquet Reception
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


99th AMS Awards Banquet
Location: North Ballroom (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Thursday, 10 January 2019

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7:30 AM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


AMS Information Desk (Thurs)
Location: North 100 Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Member Services Desk (Thurs)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Quiet Room (Thursday)
Location: West 206 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Registration (Thurs)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

7:30 AM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Speaker Ready Room (Thurs)
Location: North 121A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 10 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 9
Sustained Atmospheric Lidar Observations for Weather and Air Quality Forecasting and Prediction
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Sunil Baidar, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Lance Nino, Cornell Univ.
8:30 AM
9.1
Ground-Based Eye-Safe Networkable Micropulse Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) for Thermodynamic Profiling in the Lower Troposphere
Catharine E. Bunn, Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT; and K. Repasky, S. M. Spuler, M. Hayman, and R. A. Stillwell
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
9.2
Doppler Wind Lidar Estimations of Mixing Layer Dispersion in New York City during Heat Wave Conditions
Mark Joseph Campmier, City College, New York, NY; and Y. Wu, F. Moshary, D. James, D. A. Ligon, and M. Arend
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
9.3
Using Scanning Doppler Wind Lidars to Understand and Forecast Extreme Wind Flows and Wind Shears over Airports
Ludovic Thobois, Leosphere, Orsay, France

9:15 AM
9.4
A Land-Based Mobile Wind Lidar for Boundary Layer Wind Measurements: Overview and Recent Analysis and Results
G. D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. F. J. De Wekker, N. Babic, and S. Greco
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Meeting with Sustainable Cities Network of Arizona
Location: Estrella (Sheraton Hotel )

9:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Exhibit Hall (Thurs)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

9:30 AM-10:30 AM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Exhibit Hall Breakfast
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Meet President Roger M. Wakimoto (Thurs)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 10
Lidar Observations for Data Assimilation and Model Verification
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: James R. Campbell, NRL; Erica K. Dolinar, Millersville Univ.
10:30 AM
10.1
Assimilation of Wind Data from the Doppler Aerosol Wind (DAWN) to Improve the Numerical Simulations and Understanding of Convective Systems over the Gulf of Mexico and Its Vicinity
Zhaoxia Pu, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Z. Cui, G. D. Emmitt, and S. Greco
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
10.2
New Retrieval Techniques Using the NASA CATS Lidar and GEOS AGCM: Applications for Extinction and PM2.5
Edward P. Nowottnick, USRA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. M. da Silva Jr., J. E. Yorks, M. J. McGill, P. Selmer, S. P. Palm, R. M. Pauly, and S. Ozog
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
10.3
Mobile Water Vapor Raman Lidar for Localized Heavy Rainfall Forecasting in Japan
Tetsu Sakai, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan; and T. Nagai, S. Yoshida, T. Izumi, H. Seko, S. Yokota, and Y. Shoji
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
10.4
Assimilation of Water Vapor Mixing Ratio Profiles into the WRFDA System with a New Forward Operator
Rohith Thundathil, Univ. of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany; and T. Schwitalla, A. Behrendt, V. Wulfmeyer, D. Leuenberger, A. Haefele, M. Arpagaus, and G. Martucci
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
10.5
Assimilation of Temperature and Humidity Profiles from a Raman Lidar into Convective-Scale NWP Models and the Impact on the Forecast
Alexander Haefele, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, Payerne, Switzerland; and D. Leuenberger, G. Martucci, M. Arpagaus, R. Thundathil, T. Schwitalla, A. Behrendt, and V. Wulfmeyer
Recorded Presentation

10.6
Lidar as an Evaluation Tool for a Newly Developed Aerosol Satellite Radiance Assimilation System

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Lunch Break (Thurs)

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Daily Weather Briefings (Thurs)
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:00 PM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Excursion

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Walter Orr Robert Lecture

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


PM Coffee Break (Thurs)
Location: Meeting room foyers (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

5:00 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


99th AMS Annual Meeting Adjourns
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