Program: 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation (87th AMS Annual Meeting)

14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

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Sunday, 14 January 2007

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Sunday, 14 January 2007

Sun 14 Jan

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 14 January 2007

Short Course Registration

Location: East Registration (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 14 January 2007

Conference Registration

Location: East Registration (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Monday, 15 January 2007

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Mon 15 Jan

7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Registration continues through Thursday, 18 January

Location: East Registration (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

9:00 AM-10:15 AM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Plenary Session for the Presidential Forum (Presidential Forum will then run parallel to other sessions throughout the day)

Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Coffee Break

Location: Meeting Room Foyer (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

12:15 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Lunch Break

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 15 January 2007

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)

Location: Exhibit Hall C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology; and the 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation )

Papers:

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

Poster PDF (171.7 kB)

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

Poster PDF (173.9 kB)

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

Poster PDF (870.7 kB)

JP1.5

Potential climate applications from a global geostationary satellite data set

Kenneth R. Knapp, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC

Poster PDF (371.0 kB)

JP1.6

The Mississippi Mesonet: Phase 2

Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and E. Matlack

http://jsumesonet.jsums.edu/index.htm

Poster PDF (291.6 kB)

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

Poster PDF (329.6 kB)

JP1.9

Assessment of discontinuities due to joining precipitation observations in Canada

Lucie A. Vincent, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and E. Mekis

Poster PDF (38.6 kB)

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

Poster PDF (219.2 kB)

JP1.11

Winter Test of All-Weather Precipitation Accumulation Gauge for ASOS 2005-2006

Christopher M. Greeney, SAIC, Sterling, VA; and J. V. Fiore Jr., J. M. Dover, and M. L. Salyards

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

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

Poster PDF (425.1 kB)

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

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Hydrological Measurements

Location: 207A (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsor: 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

4:15 PM

1.2

The use of a wetness sensor in precipitation measurements for the U.S. Climate Reference Network

William G. Collins, Riverside Technology, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and C. B. Baker

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (497.7 kB)

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (65.8 kB)

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 Jr.

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (277.9 kB)

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (416.6 kB)

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (450.3 kB)

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Sessions end for the day

Tuesday, 16 January 2007

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Tue 16 Jan

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Integrated Instrumentation and Networks for Climate Studies

Location: 207A (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsor: 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Michael R. Helfert, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

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

Recorded presentation

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

Recorded presentation

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 Jr., S. Cabrera, and G. Rosiles

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (393.4 kB)

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (406.2 kB)

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

11:00 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Exhibits Open

Location: Exhibit Hall D (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Lunch Break

12:00 PM-1:45 PM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Arakawa Symposium Luncheon

Location: Marriott Rivercenter

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Improving Climate Data Records Using reference-Quality In Situ Upper-Air Observations I Session Chair: Junhong Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Location: 207A (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsor: 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Junhong Wang, NCAR

Papers:

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

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

3.2

Towards a GCOS reference upper air network

David M. Goodrich, Global Climate Observing System Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

3.3

Historical monitoring of upper-air temperature changes

Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Thorne

Recorded presentation

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (995.0 kB)

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

2:45 PM

3.6

Application of Microwave Radiometry to Improving Climate Data Records

James C. Liljegren, ANL, Argonne, IL; and M. P. Cadeddu

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (297.3 kB)

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

Location: Exhibit Hall D (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Improving Climate Data Records Using Reference-Quality In Situ Upper-Air Observations II

Location: 207A (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsor: 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Peter Thorne, Cooperative Insitute for Climate and Satellites

Papers:

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

Recorded presentation

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

Poster PDF (152.1 kB)

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

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

4.4

Examination of potential biases in radiosonde temperature and humidity records in Canada

Lucie A. Vincent, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and E. Milewska

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (36.5 kB)

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (241.3 kB)

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (793.3 kB)

5:30 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Sessions end for the day

Wednesday, 17 January 2007

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Wed 17 Jan

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Accuracy and Calibration of Instrumentation

Location: 207A (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsor: 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Paul M. Fransioli, J3AQM, LLC

Papers:

8:30 AM

5.1

Use of the Consensus Reference Concept for Testing Radiosondes

Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Fitzgibbon

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

8:45 AM

5.2

Sources of unexpected inaccuracies in temperature measurements

Richard N. Berler, KGNS TV, Laredo, TX

Recorded presentation

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

Recorded presentation

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

Poster PDF (286.5 kB)

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (345.1 kB)

9:45 AM

5.6

An analysis of peak wind speed data from collocated mechanical and ultrasonic anemometers

David A. Short, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and L. A. Wells, F. J. Merceret, and W. P. Roeder

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/amu/

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (179.3 kB)

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Coffee Break

Location: Meeting Room Foyer (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

11:00 AM-6:45 PM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Exhibits Open

Location: Exhibit Hall D (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall)

Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

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)

Location: Exhibit Hall C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; and the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology )

Papers:

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

Poster PDF (175.8 kB)

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

http://madis.noaa.gov

Poster PDF (370.2 kB)

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

Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

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

http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~pdbaxt

Poster PDF (397.3 kB)

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

Poster PDF (530.5 kB)

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

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

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

New Observations

Location: 207A (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsor: 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Frank W. Gallagher III, Dugway Proving Ground

Papers:

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (404.9 kB)

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, NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and R. D. Knabb

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

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

Recorded presentation

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

Recorded presentation

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (250.2 kB)

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Sessions end for the day

5:30 PM-6:45 PM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)

Location: Exhibit Hall D (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

7:00 PM-9:30 PM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

AMS Annual Awards Banquet

Location: Ballroom C123 (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Thursday, 18 January 2007

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Thur 18 Jan

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Data Quality Control / Metadata

Location: 207A (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsor: 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

8:30 AM

7.1

Validation of radiosondes using statistical reconstructions: data prior to 1958

Andrea N. Grant, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and S. Br�nnimann and T. Ewen

Recorded presentation

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

Poster PDF (276.8 kB)

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

http://tao.noaa.gov/

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (158.7 kB)

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

Recorded presentation

8:30 AM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Joint Session 3

Observations and Data Sets (Joint between 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation and the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology)

Location: 206A (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology; and the 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation )

Cochairs: Christopher Daly, Oregon State Univ.; C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (639.2 kB)

8:45 AM

J3.2

Multi-Decadal Scale Temperature Cycles-Trends, Causes and Modifiers

Joseph S. D'Aleo, Hudson Seven Ltd., Hudson, NH

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

J3.3

Impact of Automated Surface Observing Systems (ASOS) on the long-term temperature record: climatological significance

Patrick Taylor, LRC, Hampton, VA; and C. Kauffman

Recorded presentation

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (143.6 kB)

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

Recorded presentation

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

Recorded presentation

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

http://mistral.oce.orst.edu/bias/

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

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

Recorded presentation

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

Poster PDF (287.9 kB)

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

Recorded presentation

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.3 MB)

1:45 PM

J3.13

An updated warm-season convective wind climatology for the Florida space coast

Kristin A. Cummings, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. J. Dupont, A. J. Loconto, J. P. Koermer, and W. P. Roeder

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

2:00 PM

J3.14

Maximum Wind Gust Return Periods for Oklahoma Using the Oklahoma Mesonet

Andrew J. Reader, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (330.7 kB)

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (35.6 kB)

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

Poster PDF (94.7 kB)

4:15 PM

J3.21

Statewide Monitoring of the Mesoscale Environment: A Technical Update

Kenneth C. Crawford, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and R. A. McPherson, C. A. Fiebrich, and R. L. Elliott

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

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

Recorded presentation

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

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Remote Sensing

Location: 207A (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsor: 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Kenneth R. Knapp, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

11:00 AM

8.1

WSR-88D observations of volcanic ash

Jefferson Wood, NOAA/NWSFO, Anchorage, AK; and C. Scott and D. Schneider

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (590.2 kB)

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, Dell Perot System, 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, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Wolf, C. D. Barnet, L. Zhou, and M. Goldberg

Poster PDF (642.6 kB)

12:00 PM

8.5

MODIS Infrared Channel Spectral Response Function Calibration with Co-located AIRS Observations

Haibing Sun, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, 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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (523.0 kB)

11:00 AM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Exhibits Open

Location: Exhibit Hall D (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

3:00 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Registration Desk Closes

4:00 PM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Exhibits Close

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Conference Ends

6:00 PM-9:00 PM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Rasmusson Symposium Banquet

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