| 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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| 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, 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 |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, 207A
Session 1 Hydrological Measurements |
Chair: C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 4:00 PM | 1.1 | Using liquid-equivalent snow gauge measurements to determine snow depth-Preliminary Results 
Kevin Van Galloway, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. D. Landolt and R. M. Rasmussen |
| 4:15 PM | 1.2 | The use of a wetness sensor in precipitation measurements for the U.S. Climate Reference Network
William G. Collins, Short and Associates, Queenstown, MD; and C. B. Baker |
| 4:30 PM | 1.3 | The effects of condensation on the outside wall of a Geonor precipitation gauge
Alisa Holley, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. E. Hall |
| 4:45 PM | 1.4 | Development of the All-Weather Precipitation Accumulation Gauge transfer function for ASOS
Jennifer M. Dover, NOAA/NWS, Sterling, VA; and J. V. Fiore |
| 5:00 PM | 1.5 | Correcting the wind bias in snowfall measurements made with a Geonor T-200B precipitation gauge and Alter wind shield
Craig D. Smith, EC, Saskatoon, SK, Canada |
| 5:15 PM | 1.6 | Continued Operational Testing of Various Precipitation Sensors and Protective Shields in Support of the United States Climate Reference Network (USCRN)
Lee W. Larson, Short and Associates, Prairie Village, KS; and C. B. Baker, E. L. May, H. Bogin, and W. G. Collins |
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| 5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions end for the day |
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| Tuesday, 16 January 2007 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, 207A
Session 2 Integrated Instrumentation and Networks for Climate Studies |
Chair: Michael R. Helfert, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 8:30 AM | 2.1 | Using the Foothills Climate Array (FCA) to examine chinooks of Southwestern Alberta
Amanda S. Adams, Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; and S. Marshall |
| 8:45 AM | 2.2 | Temperature deviation study of three co-located platinum resistance thermometers
Alisa Holley, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and S. Gros and M. E. Hall |
| 9:00 AM | 2.3 | Rain Gauge Measurements in Mid-Atlantic Region
Ali Tokay, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and P. G. Bashor and V. L. McDowell |
| 9:15 AM | 2.4 | A SensorSpaces system for data acquisition and real-time management of field measurements
Young Yee, Mkey Technologies, LLC, Las Cruces, NM; and E. Vidal, S. Cabrera, and G. Rosiles |
| 9:30 AM | 2.5 | A QPE analysis using portable automated research micrometeorological stations (PARMS) deployed at the Tar Creek Superfund Site
Heather R. Campbell, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and D. R. Cheresnick and J. B. Basara |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall C
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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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-3:00 PM, Tuesday, 207A
Session 3 Improving Climate Data Records Using reference-Quality In Situ Upper-Air Observations I Session Chair: Junhong Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
Chair: Junhong Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 1:30 PM | 3.1 | Vertical atmospheric profiling in Lindenberg since 1905
Franz H. Berger, German Meteorological Service, Lindenberg, Germany; and D. Engelbart, W. Adam, and U. Leiterer |
| 1:45 PM | 3.2 | Towards a GCOS reference upper air network
David M. Goodrich, Global Climate Observing System Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2:00 PM | 3.3 | Historical monitoring of upper-air temperature changes
Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Thorne |
| 2:15 PM | 3.4 | Comparison of 10-year (1996-2005) Operational radiosonde data with ARM radiosonde and remote sensing data
Kathryn Young, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Wang |
| 2:30 PM | 3.5 | A Candidate GCOS Atmospheric Reference Observations Network (GARON) Consisting of ARM, BSRN and WMO Reporting Sites and Satellite / In-situ Data Collection Strategies
Anthony L. Reale, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC; and E. G. Dutton |
| 2:45 PM | 3.6 | Application of Microwave Radiometry to Improving Climate Data Records
James C. Liljegren, ANL, Argonne, IL; and M. P. Cadeddu |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall D
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, 207A
Session 4 Improving Climate Data Records Using Reference-Quality In Situ Upper-Air Observations II |
Chair: Peter Thorne, UK Met Office, Exeter United Kingdom
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| 3:30 PM | 4.1 | Validation of Microwave Sounders' Lower Stratosphere Temperature Trend using GPS RO Data
Shu-peng Ho, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Kuo and Z. Zeng |
| 3:45 PM | 4.2 | Use of Radiosondes and Satellites for Mutual Inhomogeneity Detection
John R. Christy, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. B. Norris and R. W. Spencer |
| 4:00 PM | 4.3 | Monitoring the quality of global radiosonde humidity record using ground-based GPS measurements
Junhong Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Zhang |
| 4:15 PM | 4.4 | Examination of potential biases in radiosonde temperature and humidity records in Canada
Lucie A. Vincent, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and E. Milewska |
| 4:30 PM | 4.5 | Comparison of weather data from the Remote Automated Weather Station network and the North American Regional Reanalysis
Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
| 4:45 PM | 4.6 | Accurate Referencing of Satellite Data to Radiosonde Profiles; Theory and Case Study
Nikita S. Pougatchev, Space Dynamics Laboratory, Logan, UT; and D. J. Seidel, G. A. Bingham, S. V. Kireev, and D. C. Tobin |
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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-10:00 AM, Wednesday, 207A
Session 5 Accuracy and Calibration of Instrumentation |
Chair: Paul M. Fransioli, J3AQM, LLC, Las Vegas, NV
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | Use of the Consensus Reference Concept for Testing Radiosondes
Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Fitzgibbon |
| 8:45 AM | 5.2 | Sources of unexpected inaccuracies in temperature measurements
Richard N. Berler, KGNS TV, Laredo, TX |
| 9:00 AM | 5.3 | Recalibration of MSU satellites for improving accuracy of atmospheric climate trend detection
Cheng-Zhi Zou, NOAA/ORA, Camp Springs, MD |
| 9:15 AM | 5.4 | Calibration and Use of Site-Specific Urban Weather Observations Data using Microscale Modeling
William J. Coirier, CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL; and S. Kim, S. C. Ericson, and S. Marella |
| 9:30 AM | 5.5 | An Overview of the Oklahoma City Urban Micronet Test Facility
Thomas E. Winning Jr., Oklahoma Climatololgical Survey, Norman, OK; and B. G. Illston, M. M. Ferris, and J. B. Basara |
| 9:45 AM | 5.6 | An analysis of peak wind speed data from collocated mechanical and ultrasonic anemometers
David A. Short, ENSCO Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and L. A. Wells, F. J. Merceret, and W. P. Roeder |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday, Meeting Room Foyer
Coffee Break |
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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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| 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, 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 |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, 207A
Session 6 New Observations |
Chair: Frank W. Gallagher, III, Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, UT
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| 4:00 PM | 6.1 | Ultrasonic snow depth sensors for National Weather Service (NWS) snow measurements in the U.S.: Evaluation of operational readiness
Wendy A. Ryan, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken |
| 4:15 PM | 6.2 | Terrain-induced Rotor Experiment
Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV; and J. D. Doyle |
| 4:30 PM | 6.3 | Preliminary operational evaluation of WindSat ocean surface vector winds at the Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center
Michael J. Brennan, UCAR/TPC/NHC, Miami, FL; and R. D. Knabb |
| 4:45 PM | 6.4 | On the use of observations from a dense mesonet to improve short-term, high-resolution meteorological model forecasts
Tanya L. Otte, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC; and L. J. Reynolds, R. Draxler, and T. Pierce |
| 5:00 PM | 6.5 | Cloud seeding as a technique for studying aerosol-cloud Interactions in marine stratocumulus
Bruce Albrecht, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and V. P. Ghate, P. Kollias, H. Jonsson, and D. Breed |
| 5:15 PM | 6.6 | An Algorithm Deriving Snowfall from an Ensemble of Sonic Ranging Snow Depth Sensors
Alexandre Fischer, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and Y. Durocher |
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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-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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 12:15 PM | | Lunch Break (Cash &Carry available in the Exhibit Hall)
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| 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
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| 3:14 PM | | J3.16 moved. New paper number J1.10
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| 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
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| 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 |
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| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, 207A
Session 7 Data Quality Control / Metadata |
Chair: Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 8:30 AM | 7.1 | Validation of radiosondes using statistical reconstructions: data prior to 1958
Andrea N. Grant, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and S. Brönnimann and T. Ewen |
| 8:45 AM | 7.2 | Strategies for evaluating quality control procedures
Imke Durre, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. J. Menne and R. S. Vose |
| 9:00 AM | 7.3 | Operational transition of the data processing, quality control, and web services of the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Array (TAO)
Richard Bouchard, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS; and K. Kern, L. Bernard, C. C. Teng, R. Crout, D. T. Conlee, S. Birch, J. Zhou, R. Gagne, J. Boyd, T. Mettlach, R. Weir, J. Rauch, D. C. Petraitis, P. Spence, M. Follette, D. McCaffrey, M. Little, and B. Comstock |
| 9:15 AM | 7.4 | Data rescue and quality control of Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) data
Hilawe Semunegus, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. J. Bates, R. R. Ferraro, F. Weng, and W. Berg |
| 9:30 AM | 7.5 | A Quality Assurance System for Canadian Pressure Data
Hui Wan, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and X. Wang and V. R. Swail |
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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-12:30 PM, Thursday, 207A
Session 8 Remote Sensing |
Chair: Kenneth R. Knapp, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 11:00 AM | 8.1 | WSR-88D observations of volcanic ash
Jefferson Wood, NOAA/NWSFO, Anchorage, AK; and C. Scott and D. Schneider |
| 11:15 AM | 8.2 | Passive Microwave Rain Retrievals Using a New, Observations-Based, Parameterization of Sub-satellite Rain Variability
S. M. Hristova-Veleva, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and P. S. Callahan, R. S. Dunbar, B. W. Stiles, S. H. Yueh, J. N. Huddleston, S. V. Hsiao, G. Neumann, M. H. Freilich, B. A. Vanhoff, W. -. Y. Tsai, R. W. Gaston, E. Rodriguez, and D. E. Weissman |
| 11:30 AM | 8.3 | On-orbit Verification of Infrared Sounders on MetOP-A
Likun Wang, QSS Group Inc, Camp Spring, MD; and C. Cao |
| 11:45 AM | 8.4 | MODIS infrared channel spectral response function calibration with co-located AIRS observation
Haibing Sun, QSS Group, Inc., Lanham, MD; and W. Wolf, C. D. Barnet, L. Zhou, and M. Goldberg |
| 12:00 PM | 8.5 | MODIS Infrared Channel Spectral Response Function Calibration with Co-located AIRS Observations
Haibing Sun, QSS Group, Inc., Lanham, MD; and W. Wolf, C. D. Barnet, L. Zhou, and M. Goldberg |
| 12:15 PM | 8.6 | Calibrating geostationary satellite infrared sensors for climate applications
Kenneth R. Knapp, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
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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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