| Tuesday, 13 January 2004 |
| 8:30 AM
Introductory Remarks (Room 602/603/604) ( NPOESS)
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| 8:30 AM-8:40 AM
Conference Introduction: Ronald McPherson, AMS, Boston, MA; and George Frederick, Program Chairperson and Vaisala, Inc., Louisville, CO) (2USERS) |
| 8:30 AM-5:30 PM -- Room 6C
Joint Session 12 Subseasonal forecasting (Joint with 15th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations and the Symp on Forecasting the Weathe and Climate of the Atmosphere and Ocean; Room 6C) ( FWCAO, 15GLOBAL)
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| 8:30 AM-4:45 PM -- Room 612
Joint Session 2 Air Quality in Megacities (Joint with the Symp on Planning, Nowcasting and Forecasting in the Urban Zone and Sixth Conf on Atmospheric Chemistry; Room 612) ( 6ATCHEM, PNFUZ)
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| 8:30 AM-12:15 PM -- Room 609/610
Joint Session 3 Land-Atmosphere Interactions (Joint with the 15th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations and 18th Conf on Hydrology; Room 609/610) ( 18HYDRO, 15GLOBAL)
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| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM -- Room 6A
Joint Session 4 Model Parameterization: Part I (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)
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| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM -- Room 605/606
Joint Session 5 Data Assimilation and observational network design: Part IV (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 605/606) ( FWCAO, 20WAF16NW)
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| 8:30 AM-12:00 PM -- Room 617
Session 1 Space Weather Agencies—Research to Operations (Room 617) ( SPACEWX)
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| 8:30 AM-2:30 PM -- Room 3A
Session 2 Forecast Evaluation (Room 3A) ( 17PROBSTA)
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| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM -- Room 619/620
Session 2 Climate Studies, and Applications in Agriculture and Air Quality (Room 619/620) ( 14APPCLIM)
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| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM -- Room 611
Session 3 Air Quality Modeling and Forecasting: Part 2 (Room 611) ( PNFUZ)
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| 8:30 AM-12:30 PM -- Room 615/616
Session 3 Education and Training for Government and Military Meteorologists (Room 615/616) ( 13EDU)
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| 8:30 AM-3:15 PM -- Room 608
Session 4 Climate Models: Evaluation and Projections, Part I (Room 608) ( 15GLOBAL)
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| 8:30 AM-2:45 PM -- Room 618
Session 4 Atmospheric Observations: Part Two (Room 618) ( 8IOS)
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| 8:30 AM-9:30 AM -- Room 613/614
Session 5 Radar IIPS and Applications (ROOM 613/614) ( 20IIPS)
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| 8:30 AM-1:30 PM -- Room 6B
Session 6 Internet Applications, Web Portals and Cyberinfrastructure (ROOM 6B) ( 20IIPS)
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| 8:40 AM-10:45 AM -- Room 401
Session 1 Water Resource Management/Hydropower ( 2USERS)
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| 8:45 AM -- Room 602/603/604
Welcoming Remarks ( NPOESS)
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| 9:00 AM-9:45 AM -- Room 602/603/604
Session 1 NPOESS Program Overview and System Architecture (Room 602/603/604) ( NPOESS)
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| 9:00 AM-9:45 AM
Session 1 Session 1 ( AWR)
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break. (84ANNUALEVENTS, 18HYDRO, 14APPCLIM, 13EDU, PNFUZ, 2HISTORY, NPOESS, FWCAO, 20WAF16NW) |
| 9:45 AM
Formal Viewing with Coffee Break (AWR) |
| 9:45 AM -- Hall 4AB
Joint Poster Session 4 Land-Atmosphere Interactions Posters (Joint with the 15th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations and 18th Conf. on Hydrology; Hall 4AB) ( 18HYDRO, 15GLOBAL)
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| 9:45 AM -- Hall 4AB
Poster Session 1 NPOESS USERPORT: A Path to Operational Use of NPOESS Data (Electronic Poster; Hall 4AB) ( NPOESS)
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| 9:45 AM -- Hall 4AB
Poster Session 1 Subseasonal forecasting (Hall 4AB) ( FWCAO)
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM -- Hall 4AB
Poster Session 1 Climate Modeling and Observed Climate Change (Hall 4AB) ( 15GLOBAL)
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM -- Room 4AB
Poster Session 2 Tuesday Posters ( 20WAF16NW)
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| 10:30 AM-11:30 AM -- Room 401
Session 2 Agriculture ( 2USERS)
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| 11:00 AM-12:15 PM -- Room 6A
Joint Session 6 Probabilistic Forecasting/Ensembles. Part I (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)
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM -- Room 2A
Session 1 Early Atmospheric Science to Numerical Weather Prediction ( 2HISTORY)
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| 11:00 AM-11:30 AM -- Room 602/603/604
Session 2 NPOESS Performance (Room 602/603/604) ( NPOESS)
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| 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Session 2 Session 2 ( AWR)
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| 11:00 AM-5:30 PM -- Room 619/620
Session 3 The Lifelong work of Stan Changnon (Invited Presentations) (Room 619/620) ( 14APPCLIM)
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| 11:00 AM-12:15 PM -- Room 611
Session 4 Modeling Urban Land Surfaces and Buildings: Part 1 (Room 611) ( PNFUZ)
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM -- Room 613/614
Session 7 European and Other International Applications (RO0M 613/614) ( 20IIPS)
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| 11:00 AM-12:15 PM -- Room 605/606
Session 9 Maximizing the Value of Model Output (ROOM 605/606) ( 20WAF16NW)
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| 11:30 AM
Exhibits Open (NPOESS) |
| 11:30 AM-12:15 PM -- Room 602/603/604
Session 3 Improved Imagery Capability (Room 602/603/604) ( NPOESS)
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| 12:00 PM-12:15 PM
Poster Preview (SPACEWX) |
| 12:15 PM-1:30 PM
NOAA Satellite Systems Forum (Box Lunches Courtesy of ITT) (20IIPS, NPOESS) |
| 12:15 PM-1:30 PM
Lunch Break (18HYDRO) |
| 12:15 PM-1:30 PM
Users Conference Brown Bag Lunch (Speaker: Craig McDaniel, Chief Engineer, Tacoma Narrows Bridge Project, Tacoma, WA) (84ANNUALEVENTS, 2USERS) |
| 12:15 PM-1:45 PM
NOAA Satellite Systems Forum (Box Lunches Courtesy of ITT) (SPACEWX) |
| 12:30 PM-6:30 PM
Exhibits Open (20WAF16NW, 84ANNUALEVENTS, 2HISTORY) |
| 12:30 PM
Lunch Break (AWR) |
| 1:30 PM-4:30 PM -- Room 6A
Joint Session 7 Data assimilation and observational network design: Part V (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) ( FWCAO, 20WAF16NW)
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM -- Room 607
Session 10 Public Forecast and Warning Issues (ROOM 607) ( 20WAF16NW)
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM -- Room 605/606
Session 11 WRF Model Overview and Agency Programs (ROOM 605/606) ( 20WAF16NW)
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| 1:30 PM-2:45 PM -- Room 2A
Session 2 Historical Climate and Weather Issues ( 2HISTORY)
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| 1:30 PM-5:30 PM -- Room 6E
Session 2 Modeling and Analysis of Large-Scale Hydrological Processes (Room 6E) ( 18HYDRO)
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| 1:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Room 401
Session 3 Surface Transportation ( 2USERS)
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Session 3 Session 3 ( AWR)
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| 1:30 PM-2:00 PM -- Room 602/603/604
Session 4 Improved Sounding Capability (Room 602/603/604) ( NPOESS)
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| 1:30 PM-5:15 PM -- Room 615/616
Session 4 University Educational Initiatives (Room 615/616) ( 13EDU)
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM -- Room 611
Session 5 Urban Dispersion Modeling (Room 611) ( PNFUZ)
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| 1:30 PM-5:30 PM -- Room 613/614
Session 8 IIPS and NWP Applications (ROOM 613/614) ( 20IIPS)
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| 1:30 PM-5:30 PM -- Room 6B
Session 9 Internet Applications, Web Portals and Cyberinfrastructure Part II (ROOM 6B) ( 20IIPS)
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| 1:45 PM-5:30 PM -- Room 617
Session 2 Connections with Meteorology, Data Assimilation and User Needs (Room 617) ( SPACEWX)
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| 2:00 PM-3:00 PM -- Room 602/603/604
Session 5 Satellite Data Assimilation and Numerical Weather Prediction Benefits (Room 602/603/604) ( NPOESS)
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (17PROBSTA, 18HYDRO, 2HISTORY) |
| 3:00 PM
Conference Ends/Coffee Break (AWR) |
| 3:30 PM -- Room 401
Panel Discussion 1 Weather Information Delivery (Surface Systems, Inc., Meteorologix, Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc., WxWorx) ( 2USERS)
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| 3:30 PM-5:45 PM -- Room 605/606
Session 12 WRF Model Development and Applications (ROOM 605/606) ( 20WAF16NW)
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM -- Room 607
Session 13 Tropical and Extratropical Transition Studies (ROOM 607) ( 20WAF16NW)
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| 3:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Room 2A
Session 3 Innovations in the Commerical Sector ( 2HISTORY)
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| 3:30 PM-4:15 PM -- Room 3A
Session 3 Extreme Weather and Climate (Room 3A) ( 17PROBSTA)
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| 3:30 PM-5:15 PM -- Room 608
Session 5 Observed Climate Change: Part I (Room 608) ( 15GLOBAL)
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM -- Room 618
Session 5 Surface Meteorological Networks to Monitor Climate Variability and Change (Room 618) ( 8IOS)
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| 3:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Room 602/603/604
Session 6 Severe Weather Prediction Benefits (Room 602/603/604) ( NPOESS)
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM -- Room 611
Session 6 Emergency Response (Room 611) ( PNFUZ)
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM -- Room 609/610
Session 6 Radiative Forcing of the Climate: Modeling (Room 609/610) ( 15GLOBAL)
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| 4:00 PM
Symposium Ends (2HISTORY) |
| 4:00 PM-4:30 PM -- Room 602/603/604
Session 7 Climate Change and Prediction Benefits (Room 602/603/604) ( NPOESS)
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| 4:15 PM
Sessions end for the day (17PROBSTA) |
| 4:30 PM-5:00 PM
Session 3 Discussion (2USERS) |
| 4:30 PM-5:30 PM -- Room 602/603/604
Panel Discussion 1 NPOESS Users Panel (Room 602/603/604) ( NPOESS)
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| 4:30 PM-5:30 PM -- Room 2A
Session 1 New Forecast Systems ( FWCAO)
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| 4:45 PM
Sessions end for the day (6ATCHEM) |
| 5:00 PM
Sessions end for the day (8IOS, 2USERS) |
| 5:15 PM
Sessions end for the day (14APPCLIM) |
| 5:30 PM
Sessions end for the day (84ANNUALEVENTS, 15GLOBAL, PNFUZ, 20WAF16NW, FWCAO, 18HYDRO, 13EDU, SPACEWX) |
| 7:00 PM -- Room 607
Panel Discussion 1 The Future Role of the Human in the Forecast Process—An Interactive Forum ( 20WAF16NW)
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| 7:30 PM
IMAX Movie "Solar Max" at the Pacific Science Center’s Boeing IMAX Theater (SPACEWX) |