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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
	7:30 AM, Sunday Conference Registration
Monday, 12 January 2004
	7:30 AM, Monday Registration continues through Thursday, 15 January
Tuesday, 13 January 2004
	8:30 AM, Tuesday Keynote Session Introductory Remarks (Room 602/603/604)
Moderator: Gerard D. Wittman, Raytheon Company, Aurora, CO
	8:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604 Keynote Session Welcoming Remarks
Speaker: Elbert W. (Joe) Friday, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC
	9:00 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604 Session 1 NPOESS Program Overview and System Architecture (Room 602/603/604)
Lecturer: John D. Cunningham, NOAA/NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD
9:00 AM 1.1 National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)Program Overview and System Architecture   John D. Cunningham, NOAA/NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break.
	9:45 AM, Tuesday, Hall 4AB Poster Session 1 NPOESS USERPORT: A Path to Operational Use of NPOESS Data (Electronic Poster; Hall 4AB)
Lecturers: Timothy C. Spangler, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; Tom F. Lee, NRL, Monterey, CA; Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA; Robert Arnone, NRL; Patrick N. Dills, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; Sherwood Wang, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO
P1.1 NPOESS UserPort: A Path to Operational Use of NPOESS Data   Thomas F. Lee, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Wang and R. Arnone
	11:00 AM-11:30 AM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604 Session 2 NPOESS Performance (Room 602/603/604)
Lecturers: Fred Ricker, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA; Michael Mader, Raytheon Company, Aurora, CO
11:00 AM 2.1 National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) System Performance   Fred Ricker, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA; and M. Mader
	11:30 AM, Tuesday Exhibits Open
	11:30 AM-12:15 PM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604 Session 3 Improved Imagery Capability (Room 602/603/604)
Organizer: Carl Hoffman, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD Lecturer: Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA
11:30 AM 3.1 NPOESS IMPROVED IMAGERY CAPABILITIES   Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. D. Miller, J. Turk, T. F. Lee, K. A. Richardson, R. Arnone, P. Gaiser, and R. Wade
	12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday NOAA Satellite Systems Forum (Box Lunches Courtesy of ITT)
	1:30 PM-2:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604 Session 4 Improved Sounding Capability (Room 602/603/604)
Organizer: Leo Andreoli, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lecturer: Bill Smith, NASA/LARC, Langley, VA
1:30 PM 4.1 Improved Sounding Capability   William L. Smith Jr., NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and S. A. Mango
	2:00 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604 Session 5 Satellite Data Assimilation and Numerical Weather Prediction Benefits (Room 602/603/604)
Organizer: Robert S. "Scott" Turek, Raytheon Company, Aurora, CO Lecturers: Robert M. Atlas, Data Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; Stephen J. Lord, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD
2:00 PM paper 5.1 moved, new paper number 5.2   2:01 PM 5.1a Assimilation of Polar Orbiting Space-Based Data and Its Impact on Weather Prediction   Robert Atlas, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 2:30 PM 5.2 Data Assimilation and Numerical Weather Prediction Benefits (formerly paper 5.1, New paper Number 5.2)   Stephen Lord, NCEP/EMC, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Derber, P. VanDelst, Y. Tahara, L. M. McMillin, Y. Han, T. J. Kleespies, M. Goldberg, and R. Treadon
	3:30 PM-4:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604 Session 6 Severe Weather Prediction Benefits (Room 602/603/604)
Organizer: Stephen A. Mango, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD Lecturer: David H. Staelin, MIT, Cambridge, MA
3:30 PM 6.1 Contributions of Passive Microwave Sounders to Severe Weather Understanding and Predictive Capabilities   David H. Staelin, MIT, Cambridge, MA
	4:00 PM-4:30 PM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604 Session 7 Climate Change and Prediction Benefits (Room 602/603/604)
Organizer: Stan Schneider, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD Lecturer: Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC
4:00 PM 7.1 Climate Requirements and NPOESS   Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. J. Bates and M. Goldberg
	4:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, Room 602/603/604 Panel Discussion 1 NPOESS Users Panel (Room 602/603/604)
Panelists: Gregory Withee (Invited), NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; RADM Steven Tomaszeski, United States Navy; Brig Gen Thomas E. Stickford (Invited), United States Air Force; John J. (Jack) Kelly (Invited), NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; Jack A. Kaye, NASA, Office of Earth Systems, Washington, DC; Tillman Mohr, EUMETSAT Organizer: Michael L. Jamilkowski, Raytheon Company, Silver Spring, MD Moderator: Elbert W. (Joe) Friday, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC
4:30 PM PD1.1 THE NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE SYSTEM (NPOESS) USERS’ PANEL   Michael L. Jamilkowski, Raytheon Company, Silver Spring, MD

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