The 84th AMS Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA)

Wednesday Friday
Thursday, 15 January 2004
8:30 AM-4:30 PM -- Room 6C
Joint Session 13 Seasonal to interannual climate prediction with emphasis on the 2002 El Nino (Joint with 15th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations and the Symp. on Forecasting Weather and Climate of the Atmosphere and Ocean (Room 6C) ( FWCAO, 15GLOBAL

8:30 AM-9:45 AM -- Room 6A
Joint Session 14 Model Parameterization: Part II (Joint between the Symposium on Forecasting the Weather and Climate of the Atmosphere and Ocean and the 20th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/16th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction) (ROOM 6A) ( 20WAF16NW, FWCAO

8:30 AM-9:45 AM -- Room 609/610
Joint Session 5 Climate Change and Urban Areas (Joint with the Symp. on Planning, Nowcasting and Forecasting in the Urban Zone and 15th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations; Room 609/610) ( 15GLOBAL, PNFUZ

8:30 AM-9:40 AM
Session 1 Session 1 ( WOMENARS

8:30 AM-5:30 PM -- Room 615/616
Session 1 A Review and Update of Norm Phillips Many Contributions (Room 615/616) ( PHILIPS

8:30 AM-11:15 AM -- Room 604
Session 1 Session 1 (Room 604) ( PSOOCOMH

8:30 AM-9:45 AM -- Room 608
Session 10 Climate Models: Evaluation and Projections, Part II (Room 608) ( 15GLOBAL

8:30 AM-12:00 PM -- Room 613/614
Session 15 Global Climate Observing System [GCOS] (ROOM 613/614) ( 20IIPS

8:30 AM-11:45 AM -- Room 6B
Session 16 Satellite IIPS and Applications Part II (ROOM 6B) ( 20IIPS

8:30 AM-9:45 AM -- Room 605/606
Session 19 Transition from Research to Operations (ROOM 605/606) ( 20WAF16NW

8:30 AM-11:30 AM -- Room 602/603
Session 6 Statistical Climatology (Room 602/603) ( 17PROBSTA

8:30 AM-12:00 PM -- Room 619/620
Session 6 Climate Services (Room 619/620) ( 14APPCLIM

8:30 AM-11:31 AM -- Room 618
Session 7 Field Experiments (Room 618) ( 8IOS

8:45 AM
Coffee (7ASLI)
9:00 AM-9:30 AM
Session 5 Publishing and Vendor Relations ( 7ASLI

9:00 AM-12:00 PM -- Room 6E
Session 5 Orographic hydrometeorology and the associated challenges in both observation and forecasting (Room 6E) ( 18HYDRO

9:45 AM
Brunch and Informal Networking (WOMENARS)
9:45 AM-11:00 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Hall 4AB) (84ANNUALEVENTS, 18HYDRO, FWCAO, PNFUZ, 15GLOBAL, 20WAF16NW)
9:45 AM-11:00 AM -- Hall 4AB
Poster Session 1 Poster Session (Hall 4AB) ( PSOOCOMH

9:45 AM -- Hall 4AB
Poster Session 2 Seasonal to interannual climate prediction with emphasis on the 2002 El Nino (Hall 4AB) ( FWCAO

9:45 AM-11:00 AM -- Hall 4AB
Poster Session 3 Hydrometeorology Posters (Including Orographic and Scale Issues) (Hall 4AB) ( 18HYDRO

9:45 AM-11:00 AM -- Hall 4AB
Poster Session 3 ENSO and Monsoons (Hall 4AB) ( 15GLOBAL

9:45 AM-11:00 AM -- Room 4AB
Poster Session 4 Thursday Posters ( 20WAF16NW

10:15 AM
Coffee Break (7ASLI)
10:30 AM-11:15 AM
Session 6 Product Updates from Information Providers ( 7ASLI

11:00 AM-11:30 AM
Session Session 2 ( WOMENARS

11:00 AM-3:00 PM -- Room 608
Session 11 Observed Seasonal/Interannual Variability (Room 608) ( 15GLOBAL

11:00 AM-12:15 PM -- Room 6A
Session 20 Forecast Automation (ROOM 6A) ( 20WAF16NW

11:00 AM-12:15 PM -- Room 605/606
Session 21 Ensemble Forecasting: Part I (ROOM 605/606) ( 20WAF16NW

11:00 AM-12:00 PM -- Room 607
Session 22 Land Surface Processes (ROOM 607) ( 20WAF16NW

11:15 AM-2:00 PM -- Room 604
Session 2 Session 2 (Room 604) ( PSOOCOMH

11:30 AM-12:15 PM
Panel Discussion (WOMENARS)
12:00 PM
Lunch Break (7ASLI)
12:15 PM-1:45 PM
Lunch Break (20WAF16NW, 14APPCLIM)
12:15 PM-1:30 PM
Lunch Break (84ANNUALEVENTS, 17PROBSTA, 8IOS)
12:30 PM-6:00 PM
Exhibit Hours (84ANNUALEVENTS, 17PROBSTA, 8IOS)
1:00 PM-1:45 PM
Session 7 Product Updates from Information Providers: Part II ( 7ASLI

1:30 PM-3:00 PM -- Room 6A
Joint Session 12 Forecast Verification (Joint between the 17th Conference on Probability and Statistics and the 20th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/16th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction) (Room 6A) ( 17PROBSTA, 20WAF16NW

1:30 PM-5:30 PM -- Room 613/614
Session 17 GIS Applications (ROOM 613/614) ( 20IIPS

1:30 PM-5:15 PM -- Room 6B
Session 18 Advances and Applications in Transportation Weather Part II (ROOM 6B) ( 20IIPS

1:30 PM-3:00 PM -- Room 605/606
Session 23 Ensemble Forecasting: Part II (ROOM 605/606) ( 20WAF16NW

1:30 PM-5:00 PM -- Room 6E
Session 6 Scale Issues in Weather and Climate Modeling, Including Downscaling and Validation (Room 6E) ( 18HYDRO

1:30 PM-5:30 PM -- Room 619/620
Session 7 Data Reliability, Quality Assessment and Usability (Room 619/620) ( 14APPCLIM

1:30 PM-3:00 PM -- Room 618
Session 8 Assimilation of Observations (Ocean, Atmosphere, and Land-surface) into Models (Room 618) ( 8IOS

2:00 PM-3:15 PM -- Room 604
Session 3 Session 3 (Room 604) ( PSOOCOMH

3:00 PM
Break Sponsored by Swets Blackwell (7ASLI)
3:00 PM-3:30 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (84ANNUALEVENTS, 8IOS, FWCAO, 15GLOBAL, 20WAF16NW)
3:00 PM-3:30 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30-6:00 P.M.) (17PROBSTA)
3:00 PM
Conference Ends (8IOS)
3:00 PM
Registration Desk Closes (84ANNUALEVENTS, 18HYDRO, PHILIPS, 17PROBSTA, 14APPCLIM, 8IOS, SPACEWX, 20IIPS, 20WAF16NW, 15GLOBAL, 6ATCHEM, FWCAO, PNFUZ, PSOOCOMH)
3:15 PM
ASLI Business Meeting (7ASLI)
3:15 PM -- Room 604
Panel Discussion 1 The Challenges of Building Meteorological Observing Equipment for the Coastal Environment (Room 604) ( PSOOCOMH

3:30 PM-5:00 PM -- Room 6A
Joint Session 13 Verification of Gridded Forecasts (Joint between the 20th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/16th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction and the17th Conference on Probablity and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences) (Room 6A) ( 20WAF16NW, 17PROBSTA

3:30 PM-5:30 PM -- Room 609/610
Joint Session 6 Observed Climate Variability (JOINT with THE 15TH SYMPOSIUM ON GLOBAL CHANGE AND CLIMATE VARIATIONS AND THE 14TH CONFERENCE ON APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY (Room 609/610) ( 14APPCLIM, 15GLOBAL

3:30 PM-5:00 PM -- Room 605/606
Session 24 Forecast Uncertainty (ROOM 605/606) ( 20WAF16NW

3:30 PM-5:00 PM -- Room 607
Session 25 Model Numerics ( 20WAF16NW

4:00 PM-5:00 PM -- Room 604
Session 4 Session 4 (Room 604) ( PSOOCOMH

4:30 PM
Exhibit Hall open until 6:00 p.m. (7ASLI)
5:00 PM-6:00 PM
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) (FWCAO, 18HYDRO)
5:00 PM
Conference Ends (20WAF16NW)
5:00 PM
Symposium Ends (PSOOCOMH)
5:30 PM
Conference Ends (84ANNUALEVENTS, 18HYDRO, PHILIPS, 17PROBSTA, 14APPCLIM, 20IIPS, 15GLOBAL, FWCAO)
6:00 PM
Norm Phillips Banquet (FWCAO, PNFUZ, 15GLOBAL, 84ANNUALEVENTS, PHILIPS, 17PROBSTA, 14APPCLIM, 8IOS, SPACEWX, 6ATCHEM, 18HYDRO, PSOOCOMH)
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