The 88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008) (New Orleans, LA)

Tuesday Thursday
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
8:30 AM-8:45 AM
Registration and Coffee (11ASLI)
8:30 AM-9:45 AM -- R08-R09
Joint Panel Discussion 2 Enhancing the Connectivity between Research and Applications for the Benefit of Society Part II ( 20CLIMATE, 10ATCHEM, 15AIRPOL, 3POLICY

8:30 AM-12:00 PM -- 228-229
Joint Panel Discussion 8 The Science of Communications: What We Know We Didn't Know but Convinced Ourselves Otherwise ( 7COMWKSHP, 3POLICY

8:30 AM-10:00 AM -- 219
Joint Session 3 Bridging the Gap between Artificial Intelligence and Statistics in Applications to Environmental Science-I ( 19PROBSTAT, 6AI

8:30 AM-10:00 AM -- 224
Joint Session 4 Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part IV ( 22HYDRO, 20CLIMATE

8:30 AM-10:00 AM -- 226-227
Joint Session 5 Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) Part I ( 13ARAM, 24IIPS

8:30 AM-10:00 AM -- R02-R03
Session 1 Welcome and Keynote ( 5GOESR

8:30 AM-10:00 AM -- 214
Session 1 Progress on Linking Prediction and Societal Benefit ( THORPEXSYMP

8:30 AM-10:00 AM -- 210
Session 4 Radar-Lidar observations and applications ( LIDARSYMP

8:30 AM-10:00 AM -- 222
Session 5 Lightning Safety ( 3LIGHTNING

8:30 AM-10:00 AM -- 206
Session 6A Interactive Processing Systems ( 24IIPS

8:30 AM-10:00 AM -- 207
Session 6B Radar IIPS and Applications, Part I ( 24IIPS

8:30 AM-10:00 AM -- 204
Session 9 Data Impacts: Cosmic Observations and Applications-I ( 12IOAS

8:30 AM-10:00 AM -- 215-216
Session 9A General Climate Studies: Climate Dynamics ( 20CLIMATE

8:30 AM-10:00 AM -- 217-218
Session 9B Climate of the 20th Century (C20C) Part II ( 20CLIMATE

8:40 AM-9:45 AM -- R04
Session 1 Education of Future Industrial Meteorologists ( CCMFORUM08

8:45 AM-9:00 AM
1A Welcome Address: Jean Phillips, ASLI Chairperson, SSEC Library, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (11ASLI)
9:00 AM-9:15 AM
ASLI Introductions (11ASLI)
9:00 AM-10:00 AM -- 223
Session 7 Validation of Hydrometeorological Observations ( 22HYDRO

9:15 AM-9:45 AM -- 211
Session 1 Session 1 ( 11ASLI

9:45 AM-10:00 AM
Break (11ASLI)
9:45 AM-10:15 AM -- R04
Panel Discussion 1 Forensic Meteorlogists ( CCMFORUM08

10:00 AM-10:30 AM
Coffee Break (Wed a.m.) (15AIRPOL, 3POLICY, 3LIGHTNING, 22HYDRO, 20CLIMATE, 19PROBSTAT, 12IOAS, 10ATCHEM, 5GOESR, THORPEXSYMP, 6AI, LIDARSYMP, 13ARAM, 4NPOESS, 7COMWKSHP)
10:00 AM-11:00 AM -- 211
Session 2 Keynote Address ( 11ASLI

10:15 AM-10:30 AM
Coffee Break (CCMFORUM08)
10:30 AM-12:00 PM -- 230
Joint Session 10 Climate Policy, Vulnerability, and Adaptation ( 3POLICY, 20CLIMATE

10:30 AM-12:00 PM -- 214
Joint Session 2 Operational Perspectives on the Societal--Prediction Link ( THORPEXSYMP, 12IOAS

10:30 AM-12:00 PM -- 220
Joint Session 3 Atmospheric Chemistry, Turbulent Mixing, And Boundary Layer Dynamics ( 15AIRPOL, 10ATCHEM

10:30 AM-12:00 PM -- 219
Joint Session 4 Bridging the Gap between Artificial Intelligence and Statistics in Applications to Environmental Science-II ( 19PROBSTAT, 6AI

10:30 AM-11:45 AM -- 224
Joint Session 5 Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part V ( 22HYDRO, 20CLIMATE

10:30 AM-12:00 PM -- 226-227
Joint Session 6 Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) Part II ( 13ARAM, 24IIPS

10:30 AM-12:00 PM -- 204
Session 10 Data Impacts: Cosmic Observations and Applications-II ( 12IOAS

10:30 AM-12:00 PM -- 215-216
Session 10A General Climate Studies: Regional Analysis ( 20CLIMATE

10:30 AM-12:00 PM -- 217-218
Session 10B Climate of the 20th Century (C20C) Part III ( 20CLIMATE

10:30 AM-12:00 PM -- R02-R03
Session 2 Information Briefings: Baseline Instruments-I ( 5GOESR

10:30 AM-11:00 AM -- R04
Session 2 Session II - Industrial Meteorologists in Forensic Meteorology ( CCMFORUM08

10:30 AM-12:00 PM -- 210
Session 5 Radar/Lidar networks and integration with other instruments ( LIDARSYMP

10:30 AM-12:00 PM -- 222
Session 6 Lightning Prediction Using Observations and Models ( 3LIGHTNING

10:30 AM-12:00 PM -- 206
Session 6A Interactive Processing Systems (Continued) ( 24IIPS

10:30 AM-12:00 PM -- 207
Session 6B Radar IIPS and Applications, Part I (Continued) ( 24IIPS

10:30 AM-12:00 PM -- 223
Session 8 Validation of Hydrometeorological Observations, Part II ( 22HYDRO

11:00 AM-6:30 PM
Exhibits Open (wednesday) (15AIRPOL, 3POLICY, 3LIGHTNING, 24IIPS, 22HYDRO, 20CLIMATE, 19PROBSTAT, 12IOAS, 10ATCHEM, 5GOESR, 6AI, THORPEXSYMP, LIDARSYMP, 13ARAM, 7COMWKSHP, 4NPOESS, CCMFORUM08)
11:00 AM-11:45 AM -- 211
Session 3 Session 3 ( 11ASLI

11:00 AM-12:00 PM -- R04
Session 3 The Role of the CCM in Severe Weather ( CCMFORUM08

11:45 AM-1:00 PM
Lunch Break (11ASLI)
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Lunch Break (Cash & Carry in Exhibit Hall) (Wednesday) (15AIRPOL, 3POLICY, 3LIGHTNING, 24IIPS, 22HYDRO, 20CLIMATE, 19PROBSTAT, 12IOAS, 10ATCHEM, 5GOESR, THORPEXSYMP, 6AI, LIDARSYMP, 13ARAM, 7COMWKSHP, 4NPOESS)
12:00 PM
Forum Ends (CCMFORUM08)
12:00 PM-1:30 PM -- 209
Session Town Hall Meeting: Joining Researchers, Forecasters, and Users to Tackle Challenges in Tropical Cyclone Prediction (Joint session between BOGM, BPSM, and WAF) ( 5GOESR

1:00 PM-1:45 PM -- 211
Session 4 Session 4 ( 11ASLI

1:15 PM-2:30 PM -- 205
Joint Session 1 The use of Artificial Intelligence in the field of Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology ( 6AI, 13ARAM

1:30 PM-2:30 PM -- 220
Joint Session 4 Photochemical Modeling and Monitoring-I ( 15AIRPOL, 10ATCHEM

1:30 PM-2:30 PM -- 228-229
Panel Discussion 3 Coping with drought ( 3POLICY

1:30 PM-2:45 PM -- 204
Session 11 Data Impacts: Cosmic Observations and Applications-III ( 12IOAS

1:30 PM-2:30 PM -- 215-216
Session 11A NOAA's Climate Test Bed (CTB) ( 20CLIMATE

1:30 PM-2:30 PM -- 217-218
Session 11B Walter Orr Roberts Lecture ( 20CLIMATE

1:30 PM-2:30 PM -- 214
Session 2 High-Impact Weather Events ( THORPEXSYMP

1:30 PM-2:15 PM -- R02-R03
Session 3 Information Briefings: Baseline Instruments-II ( 5GOESR

1:30 PM-2:30 PM -- 222
Session 7 Assimilation of Lightning Data into Numerical Models ( 3LIGHTNING

1:30 PM-2:30 PM -- 206
Session 7A Applications in Meteorology, Oceanography, Hydrology and Climatology - Part II ( 24IIPS

1:30 PM-2:30 PM -- 207
Session 7B Satellite IIPS and Applications ( 24IIPS

1:30 PM-2:30 PM -- 219
Session 8 Forecast Evaluation I ( 19PROBSTAT

1:45 PM-2:30 PM -- 211
Session 5 Session 5 ( 11ASLI

2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (wednesday p.m.) (15AIRPOL, 3POLICY, 3LIGHTNING, 22HYDRO, 20CLIMATE, 19PROBSTAT, 12IOAS, 10ATCHEM, 5GOESR, THORPEXSYMP, 6AI, LIDARSYMP, 13ARAM, 7COMWKSHP, 4NPOESS, CCMFORUM08)
2:30 PM-3:00 PM
Break (11ASLI)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Exhibit Hall B
Joint Poster Session 2 Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part II ( 22HYDRO, 20CLIMATE

2:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 1 Posters: Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences ( 19PROBSTAT

2:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 1 Fifth GOES Users' Confererence Poster Session ( 5GOESR

2:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 1 Policy and Socio-Economic Research Posters ( 3POLICY

2:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 1 General Poster Session for the Symposium on Linkages among Societal Benefits, Prediction Systems, and Process Studies for 1-14 day Weather Forecasts ( THORPEXSYMP

2:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 2 IIPS Poster Session II ( 24IIPS

2:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 2 IOAS Poster Session II: Observing Systems ( 12IOAS

2:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 2 Atmospheric Chemistry Poster Session 2 ( 10ATCHEM

2:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 2 Lightning Safety, Protection, Prediction and Operational Applications ( 3LIGHTNING

2:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 2 Recent Developments in Atmospheric Applications of Radar and lidar ( LIDARSYMP

2:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 3 Validation of Hydrometeorological Observations ( 22HYDRO

2:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 3 Climate Model and Prediction Poster Session ( 20CLIMATE

2:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 3 Turbulence, Volcanic Ash, and Instrumentation Posters ( 13ARAM

2:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 4 Climate of the 20th Century (C20C) Poster Session ( 20CLIMATE

2:30 PM-4:00 PM -- Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session P2 Poster Session P2 ( 15AIRPOL

3:00 PM-3:30 PM -- 211
Session 6 Session 6 ( 11ASLI

3:30 PM-4:00 PM -- 211
Session 7 Session 7 ( 11ASLI

4:00 PM-5:30 PM -- 220
Joint Session 5 Photochemical Modeling and Monitoring-II ( 15AIRPOL, 10ATCHEM

4:00 PM-5:30 PM -- 224
Joint Session 6 Advances in Atmospheric Reanalysis ( 20CLIMATE, 22HYDRO

4:00 PM-5:15 PM -- 223
Joint Session 7 Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part VI ( 22HYDRO, 20CLIMATE

4:00 PM-5:30 PM -- 215-216
Session 12 Detection and attribution of climate change: Part I ( 20CLIMATE

4:00 PM-5:30 PM -- 204
Session 12 Land and Ocean Observations ( 12IOAS

4:00 PM-5:30 PM -- 228-229
Session 2 Societal Dimensions of Hazards II ( 3POLICY

4:00 PM-5:30 PM -- 214
Session 3 Providing forecasts to support user decisions ( THORPEXSYMP

4:00 PM-5:30 PM -- R02-R03
Session 4 Geostationary Satellites as a part of GEOSS ( 5GOESR

4:00 PM-4:15 PM -- 206
Session 7A Applications in Meteorology, Oceanography, Hydrology and Climatology - Part II (Continued) ( 24IIPS

4:00 PM-5:30 PM -- 222
Session 8 Use of Lightning Data in the Operational Warning and Decision Making Process ( 3LIGHTNING

4:00 PM-5:00 PM -- 219
Session 9 Forecast Evaluation II ( 19PROBSTAT

4:00 PM-5:30 PM -- 226-227
Session 9 Turbulence and Wind Shear Part I ( 13ARAM

4:15 PM-5:30 PM -- 207
Session 7C Challenges in Data Access, Distribution, and Use - Part II ( 24IIPS

4:30 PM-4:45 PM
ASLI's CHOICE BOOK AWARD PRESENTATION AT ASLI BOOTH IN PUBLISHERS' ROW (11ASLI)
5:15 PM
17th Symposium on Education Adjourns (17EDUCATION)
5:30 PM-6:30 PM
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) (Wednesday) (15AIRPOL, 3POLICY, 3LIGHTNING, 24IIPS, 22HYDRO, 20CLIMATE, 19PROBSTAT, 12IOAS, 10ATCHEM, 5GOESR, THORPEXSYMP, 6AI, LIDARSYMP, HALLGREN, 13ARAM, 7COMWKSHP, 4NPOESS, CCMFORUM08)
5:30 PM
Third Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data Adjourns (3LIGHTNING)
5:30 PM
Symposium on Linkages among Societal Benefits, Prediction Systems and Process Studies for 1-14 day Weather Forecasts Adjourns (THORPEXSYMP)
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Annual ASLI Dinner (11ASLI)
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
AMS Annual Awards Banquet at the Hilton Riverside Hotel (15AIRPOL, 17EDUCATION, 3POLICY, 3LIGHTNING, 6HISTORY, 24IIPS, 22HYDRO, 20CLIMATE, 19PROBSTAT, 12IOAS, 10ATCHEM, 5GOESR, THORPEXSYMP, 6AI, LIDARSYMP, HALLGREN, 13ARAM, 7COMWKSHP, 4NPOESS, 4IMPACTS)
Tuesday Thursday