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Sunday, 14 January 2007
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday, East Registration Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday, East Registration Conference Registration
Monday, 15 January 2007
	7:30 AM-6:00 PM, Monday, East Registration Registration continues through Thursday, 18 January
	9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Monday Plenary Session for the Presidential Forum (Presidential Forum will then run parallel to other sessions throughout the day)
	10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday, Meeting Room Foyer Coffee Break
	10:45 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, 206A Session 1 Data Accessibility (includes Weather Station Histories)
Chair: Andrea Bair, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT
10:45 AM 1.1 Criteria for a good weather observation site from 1826–2006   Glen Conner, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY 11:00 AM 1.2 The first weather service modernization program, 1899–1909   Stephen R. Doty, Doty Data Services, Arden, NC 11:15 AM 1.3 The forms tell a tale-unique weather observing practices of the 19th century   Raymond T. Truesdell, Information Manufacturing Corporation, Asheville, NC; and J. Cooper, J. E. Freeman, and D. L. O'Connell 11:30 AM 1.4 The development of GeoProfiles for United States Historical Climatology Network stations in Kentucky   Stuart A. Foster, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY; and R. Mahmood and A. Littell 11:45 AM 1.5 Impacts of Data Format Variability on Environmental Visual Analysis Systems   Rich Domikis, The Boeing Company, Springfield, VA; and J. E. Douglas and L. Bisson
	12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Monday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, 206A Session 2 Biometeorology and Aerobiology
Chair: Karen E. Tomic, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Canada
1:30 PM 2.1 Modeling the development and population density of West Nile vectors using climate data   Arthur T. DeGaetano, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Ithaca, NY; and H. F. Gong, C. J. M. Koenraadt, and L. C. Harrington 1:45 PM 2.2 Does Climate Control Valley Fever Incidence in California?   Charles S. Zender, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and J. Talamantes and S. Behseta 2:00 PM 2.3 Exploratory analysis of the potential health impacts of climatic variability and air pollution   Adel F. Hanna, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and A. Xiu, K. Yeatts, P. Robinson, Z. Zhu, and J. Pinto 2:15 PM 2.4 A mortality-based heat wave climatology for U.S. cities   Robert E. Davis, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and P. C. Knappenberger, P. J. Michaels, and W. M. Novicoff
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall C Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall C Joint Poster Session 1 Observation and Datasets-Part I (Joint between the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology and the 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation)
JP1.1 Will the real Los Angeles stand up: Impacts of a weather station's relocation on climatic records (and record weather)   William C. Patzert, NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and S. LaDochy, J. K. Willis, and T. Mardirosian   JP1.2 Using sensitive variables to validate and complete global historical radiosonde metadata-Toward computing atmospheric climate trends adjusted for instrument changes   Steven R. Schroeder, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX   JP1.3 The determination and description of surface weather types in central sudan using the principal components analysis and non- hierarchical clustering methods   Khadiga Abdelmola, Atrstotle Univ., Thessaloniki, Greece   JP1.4 Three-dimensional airflow analysis inside snow gauge shielding to determine snow gauge collection efficiencies   Scott D. Landolt, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Rasmussen   JP1.5 Potential climate applications from a global geostationary satellite data set   Kenneth R. Knapp, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC   JP1.6 The Mississippi Mesonet: Phase 2   Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and E. Matlack   JP1.7 The cause of the positive cloud to ground lightning anomaly over the Midwest Unites States: An exploratory survey from 2000 to 2005   Mariana Oliveira Felix, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO; and G. R. Huffines and R. E. Orville   JP1.8 Identification of intra-month daily mean temperature modes using principal components analysis   Charles J. Fisk, Naval Base, Point Mugu, CA   JP1.9 Assessment of discontinuities due to joining precipitation observations in Canada   Lucie A. Vincent, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and E. Mekis   JP1.10 Improved Accuracy in Measuring Precipitation with the NERON Network in New England   Cynthia R. Morgan, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and G. R. Essenberg, K. C. Crawford, and C. A. Fiebrich   JP1.11 Winter Test of All-Weather Precipitation Accumulation Gauge for ASOS 2005-2006   Christopher M. Greeney, SAIC, Sterling, VA; and J. V. Fiore, J. M. Dover, and M. L. Salyards   JP1.12 Storing and organizing ARM Program measurements documentation for data quality purposes   Kenneth E. Kehoe, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. A. Peppler, K. L. Sonntag, and S. T. Moore   JP1.13 ROVER: RENCI Outreach Vehicles for Education and Research   Jessica L. Proud, Renaissance Computing Institue, Chapel Hill, NC; and K. Galluppi JP1.14 Performing quality control on wave measurements in extreme events   Richard Bouchard, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall C Poster Session 1 Applied Climate Poster Session #1
P1.1 Fog climatology along the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia   Teresa Canavan, MSC, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and W. Sanford   P1.2 A pilot study of clear-islands in fog and near surface stratus clouds in central California   S. Jeffrey Underwood, University of Nevada, Reno, NV; and P. S. Cleary   P1.3 Visualization of seasonal-diurnal climatology of visibility in fog and precipitation at Canadian airports   Bjarne Hansen, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and I. Gultepe, P. King, G. Toth, and C. Mooney   P1.4 Regional atmospheric circulation and surface temperatures predicting cotton yields in the southeastern USA   Guillermo A. Baigorria, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and J. W. Hansen, N. Ward, J. W. Jones, and J. J. O'Brien   P1.5 Investigating the climatology of high ozone occurrences in southeast Texas   James Tobin, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon   P1.6 Effects of climate change on energy demand in Orlando, Florida   William L. Crosson, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and J. A. Klumpp, M. G. Estes, and T. Bell   P1.7 Status report on NWS climate services and plans for the future   Diana Perfect, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Timofeyeva, M. J. Brewer, and R. Livezey   P1.8 Integrating assessments of user needs with weather research: developing user-centric tools for reservoir management   Andrea J. Ray, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Barsugli and T. Hamill
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, 205 Joint Session 2 Communicating Climate Information to and through the Broadcast Community (Joint between the 35th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology and the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology)
Chair: Henry Reges, CoCoRaHS/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
4:00 PM J2.1 State climatologists serving the public through interactions with the media   David A. Robinson, Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ 4:15 PM J2.2 Drought and the media: a perspective from the Illinois state climatologist   James R. Angel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. E. Kunkel 4:30 PM J2.3 Misinterpretation of probabilistic seasonal climate outlooks by resource management professionals   Holly C. Hartmann, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and N. Haas 4:45 PM J2.4 The Effect of Sensor Placement on Climatological Records   Sean Sublette, WSET Television, Lynchburg, VA 5:00 PM J2.5 Climate Information for the broadcast community   Jay Lawrimore, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and K. Gleason, D. H. Levinson, T. W. Owen, and D. M. Anderson 5:15 PM J2.6 NWS New Climate Products and Services: Tools for Communicating Climate Information   Fiona Horsfall, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Perfect and G. Romano
	5:30 PM, Monday Sessions end for the day
Tuesday, 16 January 2007
	8:30 AM, Tuesday Arakawa Symposium scheduled for the day
	8:30 AM-4:30 PM, Tuesday, 206A Session 3 *Weather and Society * Integrated Studies (WAS*IS)*
Cochairs: David A. Robinson, Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ; David Changnon, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
8:30 AM 3.1 Culture Change is Underway: WAS*IS (Weather and Society - Integrated Studies) Progress Report   Eve Gruntfest, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO; and J. Demuth and J. K. Lazo 8:45 AM 3.2 Decision Support in NOAA's National Weather Service   Fiona Horsfall, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Laver and P. Schultz 9:00 AM 3.3 Assessing how the U.S. public understands and uses weather forecast uncertainty information   Julie Demuth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. E. Morss, J. K. Lazo, and A. E. Stewart 9:15 AM 3.4 An assessment of hazard warning verification from a social perspective   Steven Stewart, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and K. Barjenbruch, K. Pennesi, J. Deo, S. A. Erickson, P. L. Heinselman, A. J. Ray, R. Low, R. A. Wolf, and A. Coles 9:30 AM 3.5 Weather Salience in a Random Sample of United States Residents   Alan E. Stewart, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. Demuth, J. K. Lazo, and R. E. Morss 9:45 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   11:15 AM 3.6 The development of an insect migration forecast product for pest management: An example of interaction among atmospheric scientists and the product user   Michael Sandstrom, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois; and D. Changnon 11:30 AM 3.7 Societal Aspects of Tornado Warnings   Somer A. Erickson, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. Brooks 11:45 AM 3.8 Skill of the Aviation Weather Center's Collaborative Convective Forecast Product (CCFP)   Jonathan W. Slemmer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO 12:00 PM Lunch Break   3.9 Patterns of Wind Damage from Hurricane Charley: A Case Study of Charlotte County   Burrell E. Montz, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 1:45 PM 3.10 Increasing Societal Resilience to Winter Weather   Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS, Glasgow, MT; and O. Wilhelmi 2:00 PM 3.11 Exploring spatial patterns of societal vulnerability to extreme heat   Olga Wilhelmi, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. K. Uejio and J. P. Samenow 2:15 PM 3.12 An Ecological Assessment of Coupled Climate Change and Human Activities on Wetlands in Zhalong Natural Reserve, China   Yankun Sun, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI; and J. Qi, G. Lei, and H. Zhang 2:30 PM 3.13 Driving under the influence of weather: Perceptions of flash floods and vehicle safety   Sheldon D. Drobot, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and E. Gruntfest, L. R. Barnes, C. Benight, D. M. Schultz, and J. Demuth 2:45 PM 3.14 Integrating end user needs into system design and operation: the Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA)   B. Philips, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and D. Pepyne, D. Westbrook, E. Bass, J. Brotzge, W. Diaz, K. A. Kloesel, J. Kurose, D. J. McLaughlin, H. Rodriguez, and M. Zink 3:00 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall   3:30 PM 3.15 Vulnerability to disasters in Puerto Rico: Incorporating the social, physical and built environment to radar scanning srategies   Jenniffer M. Santos, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and J. Miller, A. González, M. G. Beaton, and X. Ortiz 3:45 PM 3.16 Towards an Understanding of Hazardous Weather-A WAS*IS Perspective on First Responders   Joshua J. Jans, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN; and C. S. Keen 4:00 PM 3.17 The Underestimation of Hurricane Damage Potential   Alan E. Stewart, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA 4:15 PM 3.18 The social justice of weather: hurricane risk management in Latin America and the Caribbean   Eric M. Holthaus, Columbia University, New York, NY
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall C Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall D Exhibits Open
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall D Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
	5:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday Sessions end for the day
Wednesday, 17 January 2007
	8:30 AM-11:30 AM, Wednesday, 214C Joint Session 1 Analyses and applications spanning broad time and space scales (Joint Session between the 19th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology)
Chair: Mathew Barlow, Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA
8:30 AM J1.1 The impact of the MJO-bridging the gap between weather and climate   Alexis Donald, Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Toowoomba, Qld, Australia; and S. M. Lennox, H. Meinke, and N. C. White 8:45 AM J1.2 Linking weather and climate across time scales-A case study in Altay   Zhuoting Wu, China Agricultural Univ., Beijing, China; and H. Zhang and B. Li 9:00 AM J1.3 Reliable statistical inference for weather and climate   Alexander Gluhovsky, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and E. Agee 9:15 AM J1.4 Mutual Information, Non-Gaussianity and Asymmetry of the joint distribution NAO-Winter Precipitation over the Euro-Atlantic Region   Carlos Alberto Pires, Univ. of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; and R. P. Perdigăo J1.5 Intercomparison of the Stratospheric Performance of NCEP-NCAR and ERA-40 Reanalyses   Fred Snively, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and E. C. Cordero 9:30 AM J1.6 Global sea surface temperatures and North American fire danger variability   Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada; and B. L. Hall 9:45 AM Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer   10:15 AM J1.7 Evaluating IPCC rainfall and food aid tendencies for food insecure Africa   Chris C. Funk, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and J. Verdin and M. Brown 10:30 AM J1.8 Desert dust storms in Northern China: a trajectory analysis for the last 25 years   Francesca Guarnieri, NRC/IBIMET-CNR, Florence, Italy; and M. Pasqui 10:45 AM J1.9 An Observational and Modeling Study of the Winter-to-Spring Transition in East Asia-Onset of the South China Spring Rain   LinHo, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and X. Huang and N. C. Lau 11:00 AM J1.10 A preliminary back-trajectory and air mass climatology for the Shenandoah Valley (Formerly J3.16 for Applied Climatology)   Robert E. Davis, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and L. Sitka, D. M. Hondula, S. Gawtry, D. Knight, T. Lee, and J. Stenger
	8:30 AM-11:45 AM, Wednesday, 206A Session 4 Prediction (Use of Climate Statistics in Forecasting)
Chair: Chris C. Funk, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
8:30 AM 4.1 The Madden-Julian Oscillation and subseasonal prediction   Mathew A. Barlow, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA; and D. Salstein 8:45 AM 4.2 The Application of Climate Data Sets in Calibrating Ensemble Guidance for the Prediction of Hazardous Weather   David R. Bright, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and M. S. Wandishin, S. J. Weiss, R. S. Schneider, and J. T. Schaefer 9:00 AM 4.3 Systematic errors effect on seasonal predictive skill   Mei Zhao, COLA, Calverton, MD; and T. M. DelSole, P. Dirmeyer, and B. Kirtman 9:15 AM 4.4 Statistical Climate Prediction for the southwestern U.S.: A 7-Year Assessment   Klaus E. Wolter, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO 9:30 AM 4.5 Relationships between Precipitation in Korea and Northwestern Pacific High during Spring   Sang-Un Han, Pukyong National Univ., Busan, South Korea; and H. R. Byun, D. W. Kim, and S. J. Lee 9:45 AM 4.6 Integrating observation and statistical forecasts over sub-Saharan Africa to support Famine Early Warning   Chris C. Funk, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and J. Verdin and G. Husak 10:00 AM Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer   10:30 AM 4.7 Extreme Value Analysis of global reanalysis data   Eric Gilleland, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Pocernich, B. G. Brown, and H. E. Brooks 10:45 AM 4.8 Extension of the CPC MJO Index to Forecast Mode   Qin Zhang, RS Information Systems, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Gottschalck and Y. Xue 11:00 AM 4.9 Evaluation of WRF's ability to predict the coverage of air-mass thunderstorms and applications to short-term forecasting   Cody L. Phillips, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Pinto and R. M. Rasmussen 11:15 AM 4.10 Consolidation of Multi Method Forecasts of Pacific SST   Malaquias Pena, SAIC and EMC/NCEP/NOAA, Camp Springs, MD; and H. M. Van den Dool, D. Unger, and P. Peng 11:30 AM 4.11 A climatological study of nighttime rapidly developing low cloud ceilings in a stable environment   William H. Bauman III, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and J. H. Barrett, III, J. L. Case, M. M. Wheeler, and G. W. Baggett
	11:00 AM-6:45 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall D Exhibits Open
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall)
	1:30 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, 206A Session 5 Precipitation and Drought
Cochairs: Mathew A. Barlow, University of Massachusetts - Lowell, Lowell, MA; Oliver Frauenfeld, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM 5.1 Precipitation in the southeast United States during the twentieth century   Peter J. Robinson, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and R. Redding 1:45 PM 5.2 Eastern U.S. snowstorm characteristics   David Changnon, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL; and S. Changnon 2:00 PM 5.3 The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS): Volunteers Monitoring Precipitation across the Nation-the Next Step   Henry Reges, CoCoRaHS/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken and J. Turner 5.4 Citizen-based Drought Impacts Reporting in Arizona   Michael A. Crimmins, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and G. M. Garfin and A. McCord 2:15 PM 5.5 Issues of drought within a state climate office   David A. Robinson, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 2:30 PM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   4:00 PM 5.6 Relationships between tropical cyclones and heavy precipitation in the Carolinas   Charles E. Konrad, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and L. B. Perry 4:15 PM 5.7 An analysis of the Northern Gulf of Mexico sea breeze and associated thunderstorms   Christopher M. Hill, GeoResources Institute, Stennis Space Center, MS; and P. J. Fitzpatrick, Y. Lau, J. Corbin, S. Bhate, and P. G. Dixon 5.8 Arizona's innovations in drought monitoring and knowledge exchange   Gregg M. Garfin, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and M. Crimmins 4:30 PM 5.9 The relationship between drought and wildfire in the US   Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown 4:45 PM 5.10 MesoWest: One Approach to Integrate Surface Mesonets (Formerly Paper J3.23)   John D. Horel, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall C Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall C Joint Poster Session 2 Observation and Datasets-Part II (Joint between the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology and the 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation)
JP2.1 Operational Radiosondes: Summary of Temperature Errors   F. J. Schmidlin, NASA/GSFC, Wallops Island, VA; and E. T. Northam   JP2.2 Observations of three-body scattering signatures with a polarimetric and conventional WSR-88D radar   Darren R. Clabo, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NOAA, Norman, OK; and D. Zrnic   JP2.3 Noise dependencies for Geonor vibrating wire precipitation gauge   Alisa Holley, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and S. Gros and M. E. Hall   JP2.4 Mixing Height in Unstable Conditions: Measurements and Parameterizations   S. A. Hsu, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and B. W. Blanchard   JP2.5 MADIS support for UrbaNet   Patricia A. Miller, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and M. F. Barth, L. Benjamin, R. S. Artz, and W. R. Pendergrass   JP2.6 Light rain retrievals using CloudSat 94-GHz radar data-Preliminary results   Cristian Mitrescu, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. M. Haynes, T. S. L'Ecuyer, S. D. Miller, and F. J. Turk   JP2.7 Numerical simulations of the electrification and microphysics of the 22nd February 1993 TOGA COARE tropical squall line case   Alexandre Fierro, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie, E. R. Mansell, and J. Straka   JP2.8 Improved accuracy in inferring the fine scale properties of rain rate from rain gauge time series   Paul D. Baxter, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and K. S. Paulson   JP2.9 Evaluation of wind algorithms for reporting wind direction for use in air traffic control towers   Thomas A. Seliga, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and D. A. Hazen   JP2.10 Development of new wind profiler radar   Katsuyuki Imai, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, Japan   JP2.11 Cloud photogrammetric studies in T-REX   Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV; and B. Grubisic   JP2.12 Characterizing Middle to High Latitude Precipitation Over Land and Ocean: A Multisensor Approach   Benjamin T. Johnson, Univ. of Maryland/JCET and Univ. of Wisconsin, Greenbelt, MD; and G. W. Petty, G. Skofronick-Jackson, and J. Wang JP2.13 Characterization of Anomalies Affecting Electric Field Mill Performance in Local Atmospheric Inversions—A Joint Study   Michael R. Heer, ARINC Engineering Services, LLC, Colorado Springs, CO; and L. A. Brukardt, A. F. Heineman, J. L. Justice, and R. Wacker   JP2.14 Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) signature of an inland flooding case in the Dominican Republic from Hurricane Georges (1998)   Courtney Denise Radley, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL   JP2.15 A 23-year record of satellite-derived polar winds and its importance for climate reanalysis (Formerly J3.11)   Richard Dworak, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Key, D. Santek, and C. Velden
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall C Joint Poster Session 3 Diurnal (Joint between the 21st Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology, and the 19th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
JP3.1 Detection of Migrating Tides in the Tropical Middle Atmosphere using the CHAMP Radio Occultation Data   Zhen Zeng, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. J. Randel, S. Sokolovskiy, C. Deser, Y. H. Kuo, M. E. Hagan, and J. Du   Poster JP3.2 has been moved. New Paper number is 5A.6A     JP3.3 Early morning rainfall over the Strait of Malacca   Mikiko Fujita, Institute of Observational Research for Global Change/ Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan; and F. Kimura, P. Wu, and M. Yoshizaki   JP3.4 Diurnal variation of optically thin water cloud   Toshiro Inoue, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and K. Kawamoto   JP3.5 Interannual variability of diurnal warming of the sea surface temperature   Carol Anne Clayson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall C Poster Session 2 Applied Climate Poster Session #2
P2.1 Using flow regime lightning and sounding climatologies to initialize gridded lightning threat forecasts for east central Florida   Winifred C. Lambert, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and D. A. Short, M. Volkmer, D. Sharp, and S. M. Spratt   P2.2 High-resolution simulation of the east-Asian summer monsoon using the regional spectral model   Jung-Eun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and S. Hong   P2.3 Forecast Performance of the New Local Three Month Temperature Outlook   Marina Timofeyeva, UCAR, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Bair, A. Hollingshead, R. E. Livezey, D. Unger, and H. C. Hartmann   P2.4 Developing the Local 3 Month Precipitation Outlook   Jenna C. Meyers, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. M. Timofeyeva, D. Unger, and A. C. Comrie   P2.5 Identification of cedar pollen source forests to impact on Tokyo urban area   Motoo Suzuki, Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Tonouchi and K. Murayama   P2.6 Analysis of historical ARM measurements to detect trends and assess typical behavior   Sean T. Moore, Mission Research & Technical Services, Santa Barbara, CA; and R. A. Peppler, K. E. Kehoe, and K. L. Sonntag   P2.7 A large-scale qualitative investigation of emergency managers' strategies for communicating weather information and warnings to the public   H. Dan O'Hair, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
	5:30 PM-6:45 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall D Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
	5:30 PM, Wednesday Sessions end for the day
	7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Wednesday, Ballroom C123 AMS Annual Awards Banquet
Thursday, 18 January 2007
	8:30 AM-5:30 PM, Thursday, 206A Joint Session 3 Observations and Data Sets (Joint between 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation and the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology)
Cochairs: Christopher Daly, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
8:30 AM J3.1 An analysis of the Oklahoma City urban heat island   Jeffrey B. Basara, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and P. K. Hall, D. R. Cheresnick, and A. J. Schroeder 8:45 AM J3.2 Multi-Decadal Scale Temperature Cycles-Trends, Causes and Modifiers   Joseph S. D'Aleo, Hudson Seven Ltd., Hudson, NH 9:00 AM J3.3 Impact of Automated Surface Observing Systems (ASOS) on the long-term temperature record: climatological significance   Patrick Taylor, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and C. Kauffman 9:15 AM J3.4 Design temperatures for heating and cooling applications in northern Colorado-an update   Wendy A. Ryan, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and N. Doesken and D. Swartz 9:30 AM J3.5 Shifts in the U. S. seasonal daily temperature range (DTR) peaks and dips in the 20th century   Rezaul Mahmood, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY; and N. Lawalin and S. A. Foster 9:45 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   11:00 AM J3.6 Exploring spatial and temporal variability of DTR among USHCN stations in the Ohio River Valley   Stuart A. Foster, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY; and R. Mahmood 11:15 AM J3.7 Observer Bias in Daily Precipitation Measurements at United States Cooperative Network Stations   Christopher Daly, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and W. Gibson, G. H. Taylor, M. Doggett, and J. Smith 11:30 AM J3.8 A brief evaluation of precipitation from the North American Regional Reanalysis   Melissa S. Bukovsky, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Karoly 11:45 AM J3.9 Orographic Enhancements in Precipitation: Construction of a Global Monthly Precipitation Climatology from Gauge Observations and Satellite Estimates   Mingyue Chen, RS Information Systems, Inc., Camp Springs, MD; and P. Xie, J. Janowiak, and V. Kousky 11:59 AM J3.10 Status and outlook for global combined precipitation estimates   George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, D. T. Bolvin, and E. J. Nelkin 12:14 PM J3.11 moved. New paper number JP2.15   12:15 PM Lunch Break (Cash &Carry available in the Exhibit Hall)   1:30 PM J3.12 A synoptic climatology of blowing dust events in El Paso, Texas from 1932-2005   David J. Novlan, NOAA/NWSFO, Santa Teresa, NM; and M. P. Hardiman and T. E. Gill 1:45 PM J3.13 An updated warm-season convective wind climatology for the Florida space coast   Kristin A. Cummings, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and E. J. Dupont, A. J. Loconto, J. P. Koermer, and W. P. Roeder 2:00 PM J3.14 Maximum Wind Gust Return Periods for Oklahoma Using the Oklahoma Mesonet   Andrew J. Reader, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK 2:15 PM J3.15 Climatology of westerly wind events in the lee of the Sierra Nevada   Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV; and M. Xiao 2:30 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall and Raffle   3:14 PM J3.16 moved. New paper number J1.10   3:15 PM J3.17 A climatology of North American fire danger from the North American Regional Reanalysis dataset   Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada; and W. M. Jolly and B. L. Hall 3:30 PM J3.18 Assessing Reference Evapotranspiration Observations in North Carolina   Fan Chen, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and P. J. Robinson 3:45 PM J3.19 Progress in NOAA Data and Observation Services   Robert J. Leffler, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. J. Brewer, R. Livezey, and T. W. Owen 4:00 PM J3.20 A new paradigm in near real-time cooperative data ingest at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center   Karsten Shein, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and T. W. Owen 4:15 PM J3.21 Statewide Monitoring of the Mesoscale Environment: A Technical Update   Kenneth C. Crawford, Oklahoma Climatological Survey and University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. A. McPherson, C. A. Fiebrich, and R. L. Elliott 4:30 PM J3.22 Kentucky Mesonet: Instrumentation and an update   Rezaul Mahmood, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY; and S. A. Foster, C. B. Baker, and K. C. Crawford 4:45 PM J3.23 moved. New paper number 5.10 in 16 Applied Climatology   4:46 PM J3.24 Satellite sounder-based atmospheric parameter climatologies: tools for monitoring/assessing short and long-term climate variabilities and trends   Gyula I. Molnar, JCET/Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Susskind
	8:30 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, 214C Joint Session 5 intersection between climate change policy and economics (Joint between the 2nd Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research, 16th Conference on Applied Climatology, and the 19th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
Cochairs: Mathew Barlow, Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA; Anthony Socci, AMS Policy Program, Washington, DC
8:30 AM J5.1 Using Weather Variability to Assess Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate:   Roberta Balstad, Columbia University, Bethesda, MD 8:45 AM J5.2 The Role of Boundary Organizations in the Dissemination of Climate Information to Support Agricultural Production in Argentina   Alejandra Celis, CENTRO Estudios Sociales y Ambientales, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and M. G. Caputo and G. Podesta 9:00 AM J5.3 A Climate Services Division-A Second Look   Mark A. Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK 9:15 AM J5.4 Integration of climate change/variability science into transportation policy and decision making   Eric Lindquist, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 9:30 AM J5.5 Individual Decision-Making: Where Climate and Policy Meet   Guillermo Podesta, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and E. U. Weber, F. Bert, D. Letson, C. A. Laciana, M. Re, and A. N. Menendez 9:45 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   11:00 AM J5.6 Critical challenges in incorporating climate into management of the Colorado River   Andrea J. Ray, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and D. Kenney 11:15 AM J5.7 Atmospheric science policy on Capitol Hill; perspectives from the AMS-UCAR Congressional Science Fellow   James Bradbury, AMS/UCAR, Washington, DC 11:30 AM J5.8 Next steps for the AMS symposia on policy and socio-economic research   William Hooke, AMS Policy Program, Washington, DC 12:00 PM J5.9 Normalized U.S. Hurricane Damages: Why Are We Seeing Catastrophic Losses in Recent Years?   Christopher Landsea, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/TPC, Miami, FL
	11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday, Exhibit Hall D Exhibits Open
	3:00 PM, Thursday Registration Desk Closes
	4:00 PM, Thursday Exhibits Close
	5:30 PM, Thursday Conference Ends
	6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Thursday Rasmusson Symposium Banquet

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