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Saturday, 10 January 2004
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Saturday Short Course/Student Conference Registration
Sunday, 11 January 2004
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday Conference Registration
Monday, 12 January 2004
	7:30 AM, Monday Registration continues through Thursday, 15 January
	9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Monday, Room 617 Session 1 Cyclones (Room 617)
Chair: Lance Bosart, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY
9:00 AM 1.1 Fred Sanders’ Contribution to Improving the Forecast of Rapid Cyclogenesis   Louis W. Uccellini, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Kistler, P. J. Kocin, and J. E. Sienkiewicz 9:15 AM 1.2 Quasi-Geostrophic Analysis of Explosive Marine Cyclogenesis: The Blizzard of ’78   Frank P. Colby Jr., Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA; and B. R. Colman 9:30 AM 1.3 Twenty-five years of progress: A look back at forecasting the “Blizzard of ‘78” and a comparison with current operational capabilities.   Bradley R. Colman, NOAA/NWS, Seattle, WA; and F. P. Colby 9:45 AM 1.4 The role of frontogenesis in the production of heavy cold-season precipitation events in the Saint Lawrence River valley   John R. Gyakum, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and D. Durnford, P. J. Roebber, P. A. Sisson, and R. McTaggart-Cowan 10:00 AM 1.5 Back to Norway   Kerry Emanuel, MIT, Cambridge, MA
	10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday Coffee Break in the Poster Session Room
	10:45 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, Room 617 Session 2 Mesoscale Weather Systems (Room 617)
Chair: John R. Gyakum, McGill University, Montreal, QC Canada
10:45 AM 2.1 Reflections on meteorology then and now, and with Fred Sanders   Edwin Kessler, Norman, OK 11:00 AM 2.2 A Review of Observations of Cold Fronts, Including Prefrontal Troughs and Wind Shifts   David M. Schultz, NOAA/NSSL and CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 11:15 AM 2.3 Coastal fronts, cold air damming, and fronts adjacent to higher terrain   Lance F. Bosart, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY 11:30 AM 2.4 Surface boundaries of the Southern Plains: Their role in convective initiation   Howard B. Bluestein, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 11:45 AM 2.5 Surface potential temperature as an analysis and forecasting tool   Eric G Hoffman, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, Room 617 Session 3 Forecasting (Room 617)
Chair: Bradley R. Colman, NOAA/NWS, Seattle, WA
1:30 PM 3.1 The Sander's Barotropic Tropical Cyclone Track Model (SANBAR)   Robert W. Burpee, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, FL 1:45 PM 3.2 Mesoscale modeling and the scientific forecast process   Paul J. Roebber, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 2:00 PM 3.3 The challenge of forecasting severe downslope windstorms   John M. Brown, NOAA/Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder, CO 2:15 PM 3.4 So, why do we still have surprise snowstorms ??   Steve Tracton, ONR, Arlington, VA
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 4AB Poster Session 1 General Poster Session (Hall 4AB)
P1.1 Life stage of deep convection defined by the split window of GOES   Toshiro Inoue, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan P1.2 Mesoscale features in short-wave moist baroclinic cyclones   Maurizio Fantini, ISAC-CNR, Bologna, Italy   P1.3 Micro-Scale Simulation of a Lake Michigan Land Breeze Front Through the Downsizing of a Regional Scale Simulation   Gijs De Boer, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI; and G. J. Tripoli and E. W. Eloranta   P1.4 Real Time Nowcasting with the Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI)   Robin L. Tanamachi, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and W. Feltz   P1.5 Watch By County: How Does It Improve the NWS Convective Watch Process?   Richard J Okulski, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. McCarthy, H. J. Keeney, and W. Zaleski   P1.6 Role of diabatic potential vorticity during hurricane genesis   Leela Ramaswamy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and T. N. Krishnamurti   P1.7 The impact of tropical remnants on extratropical cyclogenesis: case study of hurricanes Danielle and Earl (1998)   Ron McTaggart-Cowan, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and J. Gyakum and M. K. Yau   P1.8 The Landfall of Typhoon Rusa in Southern Korea: Results of a Numerical Investigation   Eric Smith, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. J. Tripoli, B. J. Byung-Ju, C. W. Lee, A. Mehta, and A. Mugnai   P1.9 The Relationship between Fronts, Frontal Zones and Airstream Boundaries   Robert A. Cohen, East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA; and D. M. Schultz   P1.10 Subtropical cyclogenesis over the central Pacific Ocean   Steven Businger, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. Caruso   P1.11 High Resolution simulations of the extratropical transition of Floyd (1999) along the U.S. East coast   Brian A. Colle, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY   P1.12 Global to Local Forecasting using a Dynamically Adapting Grid System   David P. Bacon, SAIC, McLean, VA; and N. N. Ahmad, T. J. Dunn, M. S. Hall, A. Sarma, M. D. Turner, T. R. Wait, K. T. Waight, and J. W. Zack   P1.13 Paper moved to the 20IIPS Conference, Poster Session P1, New paper number P1.43     P1.14 An ODE Approach To Modelling Effect Of Coriolis Force On Hurricane Trajectories   Bharat Khushalani, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA   P1.15 Comparison of Potential Vorticity Diagnosis using Quasigeostrophic and Nonlinear Balance Systems   John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and D. A. Gold   P1.16 Paper moved to the 20IIPS Conference, Poster Session P1, New paper number P1.44     P1.17 Ensemble synoptic analysis   Gregory J. Hakim, University of Washington, Seattle, WA   P1.18 Fine-scale radar observations of a dryline during the International H2O Project   Christopher C. Weiss, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. B. Bluestein   P1.19 Formation of intense warm core vortices through tropopause – surface coupling   Gregory J. Tripoli, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI   P1.20 Global closed anticyclone climatology   Thomas J. Galarneau, Jr., University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and A. R. Aiyyer and L. Bosart
	4:00 PM-5:00 PM, Monday, Room 617 Session 4 Large-Scale Weather Systems (Room 617)
Chair: Howard B. Bluestein, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
4:00 PM 4.1 Hemispheric Flow Regimes during El Nino and La Nina: An application of Sanders' "Spaghetti Diagrams"   John M Wallace, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 4:15 PM 4.2 Linking Climate and Weather   Randall M. Dole, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO 4:30 PM 4.3 A societal/economic impact perspective of Rossby wave-train propagation for the extreme northern-hemispheric weather events of November 2002   Melvyn A. Shapiro, NOAA/Office of Weather and Air Quality, Boulder, CO 4:45 PM 4.4 Real Fronts and Frontogenesis   Frederick Sanders, MIT, Marblehead, MA
	5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Monday Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)
	7:15 PM, Monday Fred Sanders Banquet

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