| Sunday, 14 January 2007 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday, East Registration
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday, East Registration
Conference Registration |
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| Monday, 15 January 2007 |
| 7:30 AM-6:00 PM, Monday, East Registration
Registration continues through Thursday, 18 January |
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| 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) |
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| 10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday, Meeting Room Foyer
Coffee Break |
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| 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, 212B
Session 1 Towards an Integrated Earth System Analysis-Part I |
Chair: Randall M. Dole, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall C
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, 212B
Poster Session 1 Data impact tests and OSSEs |
| | P1.1 | The Operational Hurricane Surveillance Mission for Hurricane Frances on 01 September 2004
Nelsie A. Ramos, NOAA/Center for Atmospheric Sciences and Howard University, Washington, DC; and S. D. Aberson |
| | P1.2 | 2004 Hurricane Danielle Tropical Cyclogenesis Forecasting Study Using the NCAR Advanced Research WRF Model 
Nelsie A. Ramos, Howard University, Washington, DC; and G. S. Jenkins |
| | P1.3 | The Impact of Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) Profiles on Short-term Weather Forecasts
Shih-Hung Chou, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and B. T. Zavodsky, G. J. Jedlovec, and W. M. Lapenta |
| | P1.4 | Recent Modis Data Assimilation Experiments in the NCEP GFS
Tom H. Zapotocny, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. A. Jung, R. Treadon, and J. F. Le Marshall |
| | P1.5 | NOAA Polar Orbiting Satellite Observing System Experiments using the NCEP GDAS
James A. Jung, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and T. H. Zapotocny, J. F. Le Marshall, and R. Treadon |
| | P1.6 | Investigation of WRFVAR performance on hurricane simulation
Duanjun Lu, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and R. S. Reddy and L. White |
| | P1.7 | Impact study of AMSR-E radiances in the NCEP global data assimilation system
Masahiro Kazumori, EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Q. Liu, R. Treadon, J. C. Derber, F. Weng, and S. J. Lord |
| | P1.8 | Assessing The Forecast Impact Of WindSat/Coriolis Data In The NCEP GDAS/GFS
Li Bi, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. F. Le Marshall, T. H. Zapotocny, J. Jung, and M. C. Morgan |
| | P1.9 | Characterizing and understanding the differences between GOES WF_ABBA and MODIS fire products and implications for data assimilation
Jay P. Hoffman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. M. Prins, C. C. Schmidt, S. A. Ackerman, and J. S. Reid |
| | P1.10 | Assimilation of real-time tsunami event data into forecasting models
Angie J. Venturato, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and E. Gica, D. W. Denbo, and V. V. Titov |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, 212B
Session 2 Towards an Integrated Earth System Analysis-Part II |
Chair: Anjuli Bamzai, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC
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| 4:00 PM | 2.1 | Initiating an operational Canadian global assimilation and prediction capability for the coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice system 
C. Harold Ritchie, EC, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and D. Bancroft, A. Cameron, G. M. Flato, J. Loder, K. Thompson, and D. Wright |
| 4:15 PM | 2.2 | Atmospheric analysis and reanalysis: current capabilities and future directions
Phillip A. Arkin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
| 4:30 PM | 2.3 | A Tropospheric Assessment of Contemporary Global Reanalyses in the Polar Regions
David H. Bromwich, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and R. L. Fogt, K. I. Hodges, and J. E. Walsh |
| 4:45 PM | 2.4 | Status of current capabilities and future directions for carbon cycle data assimilation
Scott A. Denning, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. Doney, D. Zupanski, S. R. Kawa, G. J. Collatz, and S. Pawson |
| 5:15 PM | 2.5 | Method and results of retrieval of HDO/H2O in atmosphere from satellite IMG/ADEOS and ground-based FTIR data
A. Yu Toptygin, Ural State Univ., Yekaterinburg, Russia; and K. G. Gribanov, V. I. Zakharov, Y. Kasai, A. Kagawa, Y. Murayama, R. Imasu, G. A. Schmidt, G. Hoffmann, and J. Jouzel |
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| 5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions end for the day |
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| Tuesday, 16 January 2007 |
| 8:30 AM-4:00 PM, Tuesday, 212B
Session 3 Assimilation of Observations (Ocean, Atmosphere, and Land Surface) into Models |
Chair: Lars Peter Riishojgaard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| 8:30 AM | 3.1 | Building the next generation global atmospheric data assimilation system at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction
Stephen Lord, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. C. Derber and Z. Toth |
| 8:45 AM | 3.2 | NCEP's gridpoint statistical interpolation analysis system
John C. Derber, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Treadon, W. S. Wu, D. F. Parrish, and D. T. Kleist |
| 9:00 AM | 3.3 | The Global Ocean Data Assimilation System (GODAS) at NCEP
David Behringer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD |
| 9:15 AM | 3.4 | Assimilating specific humidity observations with Local Ensemble Transform Kalman filter
Junjie Liu, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay |
| 9:30 AM | 3.5 | Testing of techniques for error analysis in assimilation of cloudy radiances
Rosanne Polkinghorne, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and T. Vukicevic and K. F. Evans |
| 9:45 AM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM | 3.6 | An Investigation of the characterization of cloud contamination in hyperspectral radiances
Will McCarty, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and G. J. Jedlovec, A. L. Molthan, and J. F. LeMarshall |
| 11:15 AM | 3.7 | A HWRF numerical study of the wind field expansion with Hurricane Katrina during a period of rapid intensification
Christopher M. Hill, GeoResources Institute, Stennis Space Center, MS; and P. J. Fitzpatrick, Q. Xiao, J. Sun, Y. Li, and N. Tran |
| 11:30 AM | 3.8 | An Improved Data Reduction Tool in Support of the Real-Time Assimilation of NASA Satellite Data Streams
Michael Splitt, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and S. Lazarus, M. Lueken, R. Ramachandran, X. Li, S. Movva, S. Graves, B. Zavodsky, and W. M. Lapenta |
| 11:45 AM | 3.9 | Investigation of WRF performance on Southwestern U.S during the Summer of 2006
Jitin Arora, University of Texas, El Paso, TX; and R. M. Fitzgerald, D. Lu, and C. A. Brock |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 3.10 | Variational quality control at NCEP
Xiujuan Su, SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Derber, D. Parrish, and R. Treadon |
| 1:45 PM | 3.11 | Assimilation of simulated CASA radar data of varied storm types using EnSRF for convective storm analyses and forecasts
Elaine S. Godfrey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. Droegemeier, M. Xue, and M. Tong |
| 2:00 PM | 3.12 | A wildland fire Dynamic Data-Driven Application System
Janice L. Coen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. D. Beezley, L. S. Bennethum, C. C. Douglas, M. Kim, R. Kremens, J. Mandel, G. Qin, and A. Vodacek |
| 2:15 PM | 3.13 | On Using Data Assimilation in Dispersion Modeling
Anke Beyer, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and G. Young and S. E. Haupt |
| 2:30 PM | 3.14 | Variational Doppler Radar Data Assimilation for the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
Qingnong Xiao, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Sun, W. C. Lee, E. Lim, J. Gu, S. Sugimoto, X. Zhang, Y. R. Guo, D. M. Barker, X. Y. Huang, and Y. H. Kuo |
|  | 3.15 | On the utility of the UND MAAP cycling system for short-term numerical weather prediction
Jeffrey S. Tilley, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and L. F. Osborne, J. J. Mewes, J. Kuntz, B. Legatt, and J. Ahsenmacher |
| 2:45 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:15 PM | 3.16 | Observation sensitivity analysis using the adjoint of the Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) analysis scheme
Yanqiu Zhu, SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Gelaro |
| 3:30 PM | 3.17 | An objective nowcasting tool that optimizes the impact of satellite derive sounder products in very-short-range forecasts
Ralph A. Petersen, CIMSS/University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. M. Aune |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall D
Exhibits Open |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break |
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| 12:00 PM-1:45 PM, Tuesday
Arakawa Symposium Luncheon |
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| 1:30 PM-5:15 PM, Tuesday, 208
Session 4 Advanced Methods for Data Assimilation |
Chair: Michele M. Rienecker, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| 1:30 PM | 4.1 | Ensemble data assimilation with the NCEP Global Forecast System
Jeffrey S. Whitaker, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO |
| 1:45 PM | 4.2 | Using an ensemble data assimilation system for climate model development
Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Raeder, T. Hoar, and N. Collins |
| 2:00 PM | 4.3 | Recent development of global and regional local ensemble transform Kalman filters (LETKF) at JMA
Takemasa Miyoshi, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan; and S. Yamane, Y. Sato, K. Aranami, and T. Enomoto |
| 2:15 PM | 4.4 | The Canadian Meso4dvar continental analysis system: Pre-operational evaluations
Luc Fillion, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and M. Tanguay, Z. Liu, E. Lapalme, N. Ek, C. Page, and S. Pellerin |
| 2:30 PM | 4.5 | Assessing observation impact using the adjoint of the GEOS-5 data assimilation system
Ronald Gelaro, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. Zhu |
| 2:45 PM | 4.6 | Issues in Assimilation of Lagrangian Data
Kayo Ide, University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:30 PM | 4.7 | An alternative to bias correction in retrievals and direct radiances assimilation
Steven J. Fletcher, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and M. Zupanski |
| 3:45 PM | 4.8 | Ensemble Kalman filter in the presence of model errors
Hong Li, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay, T. Miyoshi, and C. M. Danforth |
| 4:00 PM | 4.9 | Comparing Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter with 4D-Var in a quasi-geostrophic model
Shu-Chih Yang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay |
| 4:15 PM | 4.10 | A hybrid ensemble transform Kalman filter(ETKF)-3DVAR data assimilation scheme for WRF
Xuguang Wang, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and D. Barker, C. Snyder, and T. Hamill |
| 4:30 PM | 4.11 | Four-dimensional variational assimilation without using the adjoint model
Hyo-Jong Song, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and G. H. Lim and H. S. Lee |
| 4:45 PM | 4.12 | Predictor-corrector and morphing ensemble filters for the assimilation of sparse data into high-dimensional nonlinear systems
Jan Mandel, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, and National Center for Atmospheric Research, Denver, CO; and J. D. Beezley |
| 5:00 PM | 4.13 | Evaluating the ability of the Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter to predict the influence of observations on 3-6 day forecasts
Kathryn J. Sellwood, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and S. J. Majumdar and D. Hodyss |
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| 5:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday
Sessions end for the day |
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| Wednesday, 17 January 2007 |
| 8:30 AM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, 212B
Session 5 Data Impact Tests and Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSE) |
Cochairs: G. David Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Inc., Charlottesville, VA; Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/OAR, Silver Spring, MD
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | The use of global AIRS hyperspectral observations in numerical weather prediction
John F. Le Marshall, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Jung, T. H. Zapotocny, W. L. Smith, D. K. Zhou, J. Derber, R. Treadon, S. Lord, M. Goldberg, and W. Wolf |
| 8:45 AM | 5.2 | Use of the ensemble Kalman filter in a global coupled seasonal prediction system: impact on prediction skill and other issues
Christian L. Keppenne, SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. M. Rienecker, R. M. Kovach, J. Marshak, and J. P. Jacob |
| 9:00 AM | 5.3 | Ensemble data assimilation of satellite radiances
Jeffrey Whitaker, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and T. M. Hamill |
| 9:15 AM | 5.4 | Improved analyses and forecasts with AIRS retrievals using the local ensemble transform Kalman filter
Hong Li, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and J. Liu, E. Fertig, E. Kalnay, J. Aravequia, I. Szunyogh, E. J. Kostelich, and R. Todling |
| 9:30 AM | 5.5 | Impact of ground-based GPS observations on the Canadian Regional Analysis and Forecast System
Stephen R. Macpherson, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and G. Deblonde, J. Aparicio, and B. Casati |
| 9:45 AM | 5.6 | The impact of data interaction on targeted observations with a 4D-Var data assimilation and forecast system
Dacian N. Daescu, Portland State University, Portland, OR; and I. M. Navon, S. Akella, and G. Erlebacher |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
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| 10:30 AM | 5.7 | The influence of observations on 1-10 day forecasts
Daniel Hodyss, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. J. Majumdar |
| 10:45 AM | 5.8 | Evaluation of WINDSAT surface wind data and its impact on ocean surface wind analyses and numerical weather prediction
Robert Atlas, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and O. Reale, J. Ardizzone, J. Terry, J. -. C. Jusem, E. Brin, D. Bungato, and J. F. Le Marshall |
| 11:00 AM | 5.9 | Analysis of Hurricanes Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and COSMIC Satellite Data
Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, GeoResources Institute, Stennis Space Center, MS; and Q. Xiao, G. J. Holland, Y. H. Kuo, J. J. Cione, and C. M. Hill |
| 11:15 AM | 5.10 | Applications in exploiting Synthetic Aperture Radar for hurricane initialization and simulation
Weizhong Zheng, QSS Group, Inc., Lanham, MD; and X. Li, C. Z. Zou, and W. G. Pichel |
| 11:30 AM | 5.11 | The Impact of Low-Cost Lagrangian Drifters on Tropical Cyclone Analyses and Forecasts
Joe Dreher, ENSCO Inc., Melbourne, FL; and J. Manobianco |
| 11:45 AM | 5.12 | The challenges of transferring observation research to operations
Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/OAR, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Uhart |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall)
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| 1:30 PM | 5.13 | The impact of assimilating radar and SCAN data on a WRF simulation of a Mississippi Delta squall line
Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, GeoResources Institute, Stennis Space Center, MS; and Q. Xiao, J. Sun, E. Lim, C. M. Hill, Y. Li, N. Tran, and J. L. Dyer |
| 1:45 PM | 5.14 | Sensitivity of Surface Analyses to RAWS observations
John D. Horel, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and D. Myrick |
| 2:00 PM | 5.15 | The Sensitivity of PBL Parameterizations Modeled by MM5 to Various Surface and Boundary Layer Parameters and their Impact on a Unique Satellite Data Assimilation Technique
Scott M. Mackaro, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL |
| 2:15 PM | 5.16 | Initialization of Hurricane Jeanne (2004) Using Airborne Doppler Radar Data
Qingnong Xiao, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Davis, X. Zhang, J. Tuttle, G. Holland, and Y. H. Kuo |
| 2:30 PM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 4:00 PM | 5.17 | Impacts of assimilating Aura OMI and HIRDLS ozone on the NCEP Global Forecast System
Shuntai Zhou, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and C. S. Long, A. J. Miller, L. E. Flynn, and T. Beck |
| | 5.18 | An experimental framework for the evaluation of adaptive algorithms for observation thinning in data assimilation
Vladimir Bondarenko, University of Constance, Constance, Germany; and T. Ochotta, D. Saupe, and W. Wergen |
| 4:15 PM | 5.19 | The interaction between model resolution, observation resolution and observation density in data assimilation: a two-dimensional study
Vladimir Bondarenko, University of Constance, Constance, Germany; and T. Ochotta, D. Saupe, and W. Wergen |
| 4:30 PM | 5.20 | An OSSE study of TAMDAR data impact on mesoscale data assimilation and prediction
Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. A. Jacobs, W. Yu, T. T. Warner, S. P. Swerdlin, and M. Anderson |
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| 8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Wednesday, 210B
Session 6 Atmospheric Observations |
Chair: Frank Marks, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL
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| 8:30 AM | 6.1 | Development and Evolution of a Tropical Storm System: Year 2005 Hurricane Katrina Case History
Ayorinde O. Idowu, University of Houston, Houston, TX |
| 8:45 AM | 6.2 | GFDL model output comparisons with surface wind observations for hurricane Ivan 2004
Isha M. Renta-López, Howard University, Washington, DC; and M. D. Powell and V. R. Morris |
| 9:00 AM | 6.3 | Observed integrated moisture fields within tropical storm systems
John J. Braun, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Van Hove and T. Mayo |
| 9:15 AM | 6.3 | Simulating MODIS solar channels under cloudy condition using newly developed fast radiative transfer model
Jianguo Niu, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Yang |
| 9:30 AM | 6.4 | AIRS observations of tropospheric humidity: how well do the models compare?
David W. Pierce, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and T. P. Barnett, E. J. Fetzer, P. J. Gleckler, and A. J. Braverman |
| 9:45 AM | 6.5 | Extending satellite microwave humidity retrievals from ocean to land
John M. Forsythe, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. Q. Kidder, K. M. Donofrio, A. S. Jones, and T. H. Vonder Haar |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
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| 10:30 AM | 6.6 | Improved AIRS/AMSU soundings and error estimates
Joel Susskind, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. M. Atlas |
| 10:45 AM | 6.7 | Atmosphere heat fluxes estimated from Terra and Aqua satellites
Alice Fan, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and B. Lin |
| 11:00 AM | 6.8 | CH4 in the atmosphere over the peatland ecosystem of West Siberia retrieved from AIRS/AQUA spectra
K. G. Gribanov, Ural State Univ., Yekaterinburg, Russia; and R. Imasu, A. Y. Toptygin, W. Bleuten, A. V. Naumov, A. V. Yevtyushkin, E. A. Dyukarev, and V. I. Zakharov |
| 11:15 AM | 6.9 | Early Results from the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 Mission
Ying-Hwa Kuo, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Rocken, W. Schreiner, and R. A. Anthes |
| 11:30 AM | 6.10 | Determining the accuracy and representativeness of wind profiler data
Ralph A. Petersen, CIMSS/University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and K. M. Bedka |
| 11:45 AM | 6.11 | Potential impacts of a space-based Doppler Wind Lidar
G. D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and J. Terry and R. Atlas |
| | 6.12 | Hyperspectral Applications of Geostationary Satellite Remotely Sensed Data
Jessica L. Scollins, The Boeing Company, Springfield, VA |
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| 11:00 AM-6:45 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall D
Exhibits Open |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) |
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| 1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, 216AB
Joint Session 4 Global Earth Observations (Joint between 11 IOAS-AOLS and 23 IIPS) |
Cochairs: Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD; John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant, Berryville, VA
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| 1:30 PM | J4.1 | The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and its Users: Fifteen Years On
John Zillman, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia |
| 2:00 PM | J4.2 | The Global Climate Observing System: Defining the requirements, addressing the needs
David M. Goodrich, Global Climate Observing System Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2:15 PM | J4.3 | Systematic Observation Requirements for Satellite-based Products for Climate
Paul Mason, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and S. Bojinski |
| 2:30 PM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 4:00 PM | J4.4 | Improving the Operation of the GCOS Surface and Upper Air Networks
Richard K. Thigpen, GCOS Secretariat, Silver Spring, MD |
| 4:15 PM | J4.5 | Lead centers for global climate observing system data
M. Lawrence Nicodemus, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and P. Alford |
| 4:30 PM | J4.6 | NOAA's Scientific Data Stewardship program: connecting essential climate variables to science questions and societal impacts for long-term information access
Bruce R. Barkstrom, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. J. Bates and J. Privette |
| 4:45 PM | J4.7 | Pacific Island Global Climate Observing System (PI-GCOS): Addressing Pacific island weather and climate issues through international cooperation
Dean Solofa, SPREP, Apia, Samoa; and S. Postawko and M. Morrissey |
| 5:00 PM | J4.8 | The PACRAIN/PI-GCOS automated rain gauge initiative
Michael D. Klatt, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. L. Morrissey and J. S. Greene |
| 5:15 PM | J4.9 | The U.S. Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) program: plans for high elevation and high latitude GCOS surface network sites based on the benchmark U.S. Climate Reference Network (CRN) system
Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD; and M. R. Helfert |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, 210B
Session 7 Advanced methods for data assimilation (Part II) |
Chair: Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL
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| 1:30 PM | 7.1 | Assimilation of images in geophysical models
François-Xavier Le Dimet, Université Joseph-Fourier and INRIA, Grenoble, France |
| 1:45 PM | 7.2A | Adaptive estimation of background and observation errors within local ensemble transform kalman filter (Formerly Paper 7.4)
Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and H. Li and T. Miyoshi |
| 2:00 PM | 7.3 | Adaptive sampling with the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Fitler (LETKF): implementation on a global model
Junjie Liu, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay |
| 2:15 PM | 7.4A | Adaptive stochastic modeling using data assimilation (Formerly Paper 7.2)
James A. Hansen, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and C. Penland |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall C
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, 212B
Poster Session 2 Observations |
| | P2.1 | An ocean surface wind vector model for WindSat microwave radiometer using dual-polarization
Seubson Soisuvarn, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Jelenak and P. Chang |
| | P2.2 | The effect of ice crystal surface roughness on cloud effective particle size and optical thickness retrievals over ocean
Yu Xie, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and P. Yang |
| | P2.3 | Use of SCAN observations for validation of soil moisture spatial distribution simulated by the land-surface model over the Lower Mississippi Delta region
Georgy Mostovoy, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and V. Anantharaj, P. Houser, and C. D. Peters-Lidard |
| | P2.4 | The Morphology of Eyewall Lightning Outbreaks in two Category Five Hurricanes
Kirt A. Squires, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. Businger |
| | P2.5 | Radiative effects of tropical thin cirrus clouds
Joonsuk Lee, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and A. E. Dessler, P. Yang, B. C. Gao, and S. Platnick |
| | P2.6 | Improving the assimilation of land-surface sensitive satellite channels in NCEP's Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS) by improving land-surface emission in the Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM)
Jesse Meng, University of Maryland Baltimore County, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, and NASA/GSFC, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell, H. Wei, J. C. Derber, G. Gayno, and Q. Liu |
| | P2.7 | A global infrared land surface emissivity database and its validation
Eva Borbas, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and L. Moy, S. W. Seemann, R. Knuteson, P. Antonelli, J. Li, H. L. Huang, I. Trigo, and L. Zhou |
| | P2.8 | High Latitude Surface Temperature for Clear Fields of View from the AIRS Advanced Sounder
Robert Knuteson, SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. Evansen, S. C. Moeller, H. Revercomb, and D. C. Tobin |
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| 4:00 PM-5:15 PM, Wednesday, 210B
Session 8 Results From Recent Field Experiments and Their Potential Relevance to Operational Prediction |
Chair: John Manobianco, ENSCO Inc., Melbourne, FL
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| 4:00 PM | 8.1 | Recent results from NOAA's Hurricane Intensity Forecast Experiment (IFEX)
Frank D. Marks Jr., NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL |
| 4:30 PM | 8.2 | Recent observations of tropical cyclones with a microwave sounder
Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and S. Brown, A. Tanner, J. Oswald, D. Dawson, and R. Denning |
| 4:45 PM | 8.3 | Ensemble Forecasting and Adaptive Sampling during Monterey Bay '06
Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and Y. Chao, Z. Li, J. Farrara, and P. F. J. Lermusiaux |
| | 8.4 | The impact of GOES data assimilation on air quality simulations during TexAQS2000
Arastoo Pour Biazar, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. T. McNider and K. Doty |
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| 5:30 PM-6:45 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall D
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 5:30 PM, Wednesday
Sessions end for the day |
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| 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Wednesday, Ballroom C123
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 18 January 2007 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, 212B
Session 9 Data impacts: TAMDAR |
Chair: Stan Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO
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| 8:30 AM | 9.1 | TAMDAR/AMDAR data assessments using the RUC at NOAA's Global Systems Division
William R. Moninger, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin, R. S. Collander, B. D. Jamison, T. W. Schlatter, T. L. Smith, and E. J. Szoke |
| 8:45 AM | 9.2 | 2006 TAMDAR impact experiment results for RUC humidity, temperature, and wind forecasts
Stan Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and W. R. Moninger, T. L. Smith, B. D. Jamison, E. J. Szoke, and T. W. Schlatter |
| 9:00 AM | 9.3 | The effects of vertical resolution on the optimization of TAMDAR data in short-range mesoscale forecasts
Neil A. Jacobs, AirDat LLC, Morrisville, NC; and Y. Liu and C. M. Druse |
| 9:15 AM | 9.4 | Impact of TAMDAR on the RUC model: A look into some of the statistics
Ed Szoke, NOAA/GSD and CIRA, Boulder, CO; and S. Benjamin, R. S. Collander, B. D. Jamison, W. R. Moninger, T. W. Schlatter, and T. L. Smith |
| 9:30 AM | 9.5 | Evaluating the benefits of TAMDAR data in aviation forecasting
Cyrena-Marie Druse, AirDat LLC, Evergreen, CO; and N. A. Jacobs |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Exhibit Hall C
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday, Exhibit Hall D
Exhibits Open |
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| 11:00 AM-2:30 PM, Thursday, 212B
Session 10 Land and Ocean Observations |
Chair: Christopher N. K. Mooers, RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, FL
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| 11:00 AM | 10.1 | Assessing the land albedo model of the new MODIS Aerosol retrieval over land Algorithm for urban scenes
Eduardo Hernandez, City College of New York, New York, NY; and M. M. Oo, L. Charles, B. Gross, M. Mihailidi, and F. Moshary |
| 11:15 AM | 10.2 | Improved Land Products from Multiple Satellite Data through Data Assimilation
Shunlin Liang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and H. Fang, J. Townshend, and R. E. Dickinson |
| 11:30 AM | 10.3 | Marine wind analysis with the benefit of Radarsat-1 synthetic aperture radar data
Richard E. Danielson, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; and M. Dowd and C. H. Ritchie |
| 11:45 AM | 10.4 | The HF radar national server and architecture project
Don T. Conlee, NOAA/NWS/National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS; and J. Harlan, E. J. Terrill, L. Hazard, M. Otero, P. L. Spence, and A. R. Diercks |
| 12:00 PM | 10.5 | Operational evaluation of QuikSCAT ocean surface vector winds in tropical cyclones at the Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center
Michael J. Brennan, UCAR/TPC/NHC, Miami, FL; and R. D. Knabb |
| 12:15 PM | | Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall)
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| 1:30 PM | 10.6 | The Effect of Reabsorption of Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Elastic Scattering in Coastal Waters on the Efficacy of Retrieval Algorithms
Samir Ahmed, City College of the City University of New York, New York, NY; and A. Gilerson, J. Zhou, I. Ioannou, S. Hlaing, B. Gross, and F. Moshary |
| 1:45 PM | 10.7 | Long Baroclinic Rossby Waves Identified in the Tropical North Atlantic from ARGO Profiling Floats Using the Optimal Decomposition Method
Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and L. M. Ivanov, O. Melnickenko, and N. Wells |
| 2:00 PM | 10.8 | NOAA's role in the expansion of the global ocean observing system for climate
Diane M. Stanitski, Shippensburg Univ., Shippensburg, PA; and M. Johnson |
| 2:15 PM | 10.9 | Some OSSE issues for the coastal ocean observing system (COOS)
Christopher N. K. Mooers, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and D. S. Ko |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday, Exhibit Hall D
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall and Raffle |
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| 3:00 PM, Thursday
Registration Desk Closes |
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| 4:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Close |
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| 5:30 PM, Thursday
Conference Ends |
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| 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Thursday
Rasmusson Symposium Banquet |
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