* - Indicates paper has been withdrawn from meeting

Program Chairpersons:
Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/OAR

Compact View of Conference

Sunday, 20 January 2008
	7:30 AM-9:30 AM, Sunday Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday Conference Registration
	12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Exhibit Hall B 7th Annual WeatherFest
Monday, 21 January 2008
	7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday Registration continues through Thursday, 24 January
	9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Monday, 206 Session 1 IIPS Keynote Talks
Cochairs: Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/OAR, Silver Spring, MD; Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD; Michael D. Eilts, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK
9:00 AM 1.1 The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer   Dr. Edward Linsenmeyer, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer and Senior Scientist Naval Surface Warfare, Panama City, FL 9:30 AM 1.2 Transferring Meteorological Technologies from Research to Operations: Challenges and Successes in the Private Sector   J. T. Johnson, Weather Decision Technologies, Norman, OK 10:00 AM Q&A, Ward Seguin Moderator
	10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday Coffee Break (Mon a.m.)
	10:45 AM-11:45 AM, Monday, 206 Session 2A International Applications - Part I
Cochairs: John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant, Berryville, VA; Alfred Hofstadler, ECMWF, Reading United Kingdom
10:45 AM 2A.1 Fog and thunderstorm forecasting in Melbourne, Australia   Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia 11:00 AM 2A.2 The concept of triggers – staying ahead of (severe) weather developments   Marcel Molendijk, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands; and N. Maat 11:15 AM 2A.3 Recent developments of a new meteorological workstation at the UK Met Office:   Alan M. Radford, The U.K. Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and P. Trevelyan 11:30 AM 2A.4 The EU funded BRIDGE project   Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom
	10:45 AM-11:45 AM, Monday, 207 Session 2B Global Meteorological and Hydrological Service Updates - Part I
Cochairs: Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/OAR, Silver Spring, MD; Michael D. Eilts, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK
10:45 AM 2B.1 World Meteorological Organization Service Update   Donald E. Hinsman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland 11:15 AM 2B.2 ECMWF Meteorological and Hydrological Services Update   Dominique Marbouty, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and D. W. Zwieflhofer
	11:45 AM-1:30 PM, Monday Opening Plenary Session Featuring Mayor Nagin of New Orleans (Cash & Carry Lunch)
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, 206 Session 3A Global Meteorological and Hydrological Service Updates - Part II
Cochairs: Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/OAR, Silver Spring, MD; Michael D. Eilts, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK
1:30 PM 3A.1 National Weather Service (NWS) Services Update;   Jack Hayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD 2:00 PM 3A.2 USN Meteorological and Hydrological Services Update   David W. Titley, Commander, Navy Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Stennis Space Center, MS
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, 207 Session 3B International Applications - PART II [the Last Six Papers in This session are 'overflow' papers from the Joint Session on Global Earth Observations with IOAS-AOLS]
Cochairs: John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant, Berryville, VA; Alfred Hofstadler, ECMWF, Reading United Kingdom
1:30 PM 3B.1 The UCAR Africa Initiative – Overview and Update   Tom Yoksas, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Bruintjes, B. Foote, S. Heck, S. Herrmann, L. Hoswell, P. A. Kucera, A. Laing, B. L. Lamptey, M. W. Moncrieff, R. Pandya, M. Ramamurthy, R. Roberts, T. Spangler, T. T. Warner, and M. Weingroff 2:00 PM 3B.2 GEONETCast Americas – A GEOSS Environmental Data Dissemination System   Richard A. Fulton, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Seymour and L. Moodie 2:15 PM 3B.3 Spatial Variability in Differences between Multi-sensor and Raingage Precipitation Estimates within the Central United States   Nancy Westcott, Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Illinois State Water Survey, INRS, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall B Poster Session 1 IIPS Poster Session I
Cochairs: Stephen M. Holt, Noblis, Inc., Falls Church, VA; Marjorie McGuirk, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; Scott T. Shipley, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, Virginia
P1.1 Recent results of a new requirements process on technology infusion in the National Weather Service   LeRoy Spayd Jr., NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD   P1.2 The WestMap Stakeholder-Driven Interactive Data Access and Analysis Resource Interface for Fine-Scale Climate Data   Mary F. Glueck, Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and A. C. Comrie, K. Redmond, H. J. Reinbold, J. T. Abatzoglou, and C. Daly   P1.3 Experimental gridded warning guidance for severe convective weather threats   Gregory J. Stumpf, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, and NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith, D. L. Andra, D. W. Burgess, J. G. LaDue, L. R. Lemon, M. A. Magsig, K. Manross, D. J. Miller, S. Nelson, K. L. Ortega, K. Scharfenberg, and D. W. Sharp   P1.4 Integrating a Geographic Information System into Storm Assessment: The Southeast Alabama Tornado Outbreak of 1 March 2007   J. Parks Camp, NOAA/NWS, Tallahassee, FL   P1.5 Automatic mesurements of Japanese cedar / cypress pollen concentration and the numerical forecasting at Tokyo metropolitan area   Motoo Suzuki, Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Tonouchi, H. Kumagai, S. Komatsu, and K. Murayama   P1.6 Finding the sources of inaccurate WRF forecasts of tornadic and nontornadic outbreaks when initialized with synoptic scale input   Chad M. Shafer, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. E. Mercer, L. M. Leslie, M. B. Richman, and C. A. Doswell   P1.7 Plans for the NOAA Research Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System   Patricia A. Miller, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and M. F. Barth and L. A. Benjamin   P1.8 Detecting synoptic scale precursors of tornado outbreaks   Lance M. Leslie, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. B. Richman, C. A. Doswell, A. E. Mercer, and C. M. Shafer   P1.9 An Advanced Next Generation Processing, Archival, and Distribution System for Global Atmospheric Science Research and Applications   John M. Kusterer, NASA, Hampton, VA; and D. E. Cordner, J. W. Closs, P. Piatko, and N. A. Ritchie   P1.10 Accurate and Rapid Positioning with the Online Positioning User Service - OPUS   Gerald L. Mader, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and N. D. Weston P1.11 PAPER WITHDRAWN     P1.12 Weather Based Internet Map Services: Bringing NOAA's Weather Data to your Desktop   Bernd Haupt, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and M. C. Kelly, R. Baxter, and J. Spayd
	4:00 PM-5:00 PM, Monday, 206 Session 3A Global Meteorological and Hydrological Service Updates-Part II (continued)
4:00 PM 3A.3 Air Force Weather (AFW) Meteorological and Hydrological Services Update   Fred Lewis, Director of Weather, Air Force Pentagon, Washington, DC 4:30 PM 3A.4 The future of aviation weather in a NextGen environment   Kenneth M. Leonard, FAA, Washington, DC
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, 207 Session 3B International Applications Part II (Continued)
4:00 PM 3B.4 Terrestrial observation of vegetation health as a tool to monitor global socioeconomic activities   Felix Kogan, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Guo 4:15 PM 3B.5 The integrated surface database: partnerships and progress   J. Neal Lott, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. S. Vose, S. A. Del Greco, T. F. Ross, S. Worley, and J. L. Comeaux 4:30 PM 3B.6 Underutilized observations for studying tropical climate variations: the historical pilot balloon data base   Michael W. Douglas, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and R. Orozco, J. F. Mejia, and J. Murillo 4:45 PM 3B.7 Inter-comparison of Water Vapor Mixing Ratio measured by Radiosonde and Howard University Raman Lidar   Micheal Hicks, NOAA Center for Atmospheric Science, Washington, DC; and M. Adam, E. Joseph, D. Venable, J. Facundo, J. Fitzgibbon, R. Connel, and D. Whitemen 5:00 PM 3B.8 French contribution to the Global Climate Observing System   Régis Juvanon du Vachat, Météo-France, PARIS, France 5:15 PM 3B.9 The U.S. Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) program: plans for progressing reference surface and upper air climate observations   Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall A Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
	8:15 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, 206 Joint Session 2 Applications of artificial intelligence methods in the context of interactive information processing systems (Joint between the Sixth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science and the 24th Conference on IIPS)
Cochairs: Christina Lief, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; Julian Wang, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD Chair: S. Lakshmivarahan, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
8:15 AM J2.1 Support vector regression in data assimilation   Hicham Mansouri, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie, M. B. Richman, and T. B. Trafalis 8:30 AM J2.2 Use of the LEAD Portal for On-Demand Severe Weather Prediction   Keith A. Brewster, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Weber, K. W. Thomas, K. K. Droegemeier, Y. Wang, M. Xue, S. Marru, D. Gannon, J. Alameda, B. F. Jewett, J. S. Kain, S. J. Weiss, and M. Christie 8:45 AM J2.3 Using Spatiotemporal Relational Data Mining to Identify the Key Parameters for Anticipating Rotation Initiation in Simulated Supercell Thunderstorms   Nathan C. Hiers, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. McGovern, D. H. Rosendahl, R. A. Brown, and K. K. Droegemeier 9:00 AM J2.4 An automated method for detecting precipitation and cell type from radar products   George L. Limpert, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and S. A. Lack, N. I. Fox, and E. J. Sadler 9:15 AM J2.5 Developing a Severe Weather Alert System   Ron Holmes, NOAA/NWSFO, State College, PA; and R. H. Grumm 9:30 AM J2.6 Imputation of missing data with nonlinear relationships   Michael B. Richman, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and I. Adrianto and T. B. Trafalis
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, 207 Joint Panel Discussion 1 Enhancing the Connectivity between Research and Applications for the Benefit of Society Part I (Joint between the 24th Conference on IIPS, the Symposium on Linkages among Societal Benefits, Prediction Systems and Process Studies for 1-14 day Weather Forecasts, the 5th GOES Users' Conference, the 12th Conference on IOAS-AOLS, the 13th Conference on Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology, and the Third Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research)
Panelists: Steve Tracton, ONR, Arlington, VA; Mark DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS, Ft. Collins, CO; James J. Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD; Rebecca Morss, NCAR, Boulder, CO; Thomas Whittaker, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Stewart Cober, Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON Canada Moderator: Mary H. Hayden, Univ. of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
Mary H. Hayden     Steve Tracton     Mark DeMaria     James J. Gurka     Rebecca Morss     Thomas Whittaker     Stewart Cober     Panel Discussion
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Tue a.m.)
	11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall A Exhibits Open (Tuesday)
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, 206 Session 4A Applications in Meteorology, Oceanography, Hydrology and Climatology - Part I
Cochairs: Carl D. Thormeyer, KSBW-8, Salinas, CA; Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center, Norman, OK
11:00 AM 4A.1 StickNet – A new portable, rapidly-deployable, surface observation system   Christopher C. Weiss, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and J. L. Schroeder 11:15 AM 4A.2 Convective Hazards Assessment Process: Revised Ricks Index   Robert J. Ricks Jr., NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA; and T. Erickson 11:30 AM 4A.3 Tornado and Severe Thunderstorm Warning Forecast Skill and its Relationship to Storm Type   Eric M. Guillot, National Weather Center REU, Lyndonville, VT; and T. M. Smith, V. Lakshmanan, K. L. Elmore, D. W. Burgess, and G. J. Stumpf 11:45 AM 4A.4 Evaluation of WRF forecasts of tornadic and nontornadic outbreaks when initialized with synoptic scale input   Chad M. Shafer, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. E. Mercer, L. M. Leslie, M. B. Richman, and C. A. Doswell
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, 207 Session 4B Challenges in Data Access, Distribution, and Use - Part I
Cochairs: Tom Whittaker, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
11:00 AM 4B.1 An Examination of the Life Cycle of Actionable Weather Information   Phil Zuzolo, The Boeing Company, Springfield, VA; and B. Zuzolo 11:15 AM 4B.2 The Arctic Observing Network and its Data Management Challenges   Florence Fetterer, NSIDC/CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Moore 11:30 AM 4B.3 Accessing the IPCC AR4 data: A day in the life of the GFDL data portal   Kevin M. O'Brien, JISAO/University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Nikonov, R. Schweitzer, S. Hankin, V. Balaji, A. Manke, J. Li, and J. Callahan 11:45 AM 4B.4 Adventures in web services for large geophysical datasets   Joe Sirott, Sirott and Associates, Seattle, WA
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday, La Louisiane Presidental Forum: Hurricane Katrina: Looking Back to Look Ahead (Cash & Carry) (Presidental Forum will run parallel to the other sessions throughout the afternoon)
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, 209 Joint Session 3 Using technology to enhance learning: innovations and evidence (Part 1) (Joint between the 17th Symposium on Education and the 24th Conference on IIPS)
Cochairs: Rajul Pandya, UCAR, Boulder, CO; Tom Whittaker, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Marjorie McGuirk, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
1:30 PM J3.1 Connecting students to science through the interactive use of NASA Earth science climate data   Erica J. Alston, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and L. H. Chambers, P. C. Oots, S. W. Moore, C. S. Phelps, and D. Diones J3.2 The sky's the limit – developing and implementing a technology-based, interdisciplinary course in atmospheric science for high school students   Eric A. Walters, Marymount School of New York, New York, NY 1:45 PM J3.3 On-line education activities and opportunities   Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Ackerman, T. Whittaker, and L. Avila 2:00 PM J3.4 Applications of automated weather stations in an extension service setting   Paul Ruscher, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL 2:15 PM J3.5 Educational mismatches between traditional dynamic meteorology lessons and applied forecaster training with high-resolution gridded diagnostics   Paul Nutter, Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 2:30 PM J3.6 The National Severe Weather Workshop Scenario: Interactive adult learning for integrated warning team members   Dale A. Morris, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Arndt, J. Burchett, S. J. Corfidi, J. T. Ferree, D. Freeman, G. Kitch, D. S. LaDue, D. McCarthy, J. McLaughlin, E. M. Quoetone, P. T. Schlatter, R. Smith, and J. L. Winslow 2:45 PM J3.7A New Tools, Old Dogs   Steven A. Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, 206 Session 5A GIS Applications
Cochairs: Ken R. Waters, NOAA/NWS, Phoenix, AZ; Nazila Merati, NOAA/PMEL and JISAO, Seattle, WA
1:30 PM 5A.1 Use of a Geographic Information System to assess gridded weather forecasts   John B. Settelmaier, NOAA/NWS, Fort Worth, TX 1:45 PM 5A.2 GIS applications at NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard   Jayme L. Laber, NOAA/NWS, Oxnard, CA 2:00 PM 5A.3 The New GIS Services from the NWS   Keith Stellman, NOAA/NWS, Shreveport, LA; and P. Kirkwood and I. Graffman 2:15 PM 5A.4 SevereClear – a situational awareness necessity   Darone Jones, NOAA/NWS, Calera, AL; and G. Machala, J. Burks, J. Morris, A. Sutula, J. Pelton, M. Foster, P. Kirkwood, and B. Carcione 2:30 PM 5A.5 Using GIS and Ensemble NWP Output for Infrastructure Impacts Forecasts   Jennifer Boehnert, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Hacker and B. Bush 2:45 PM 5A.6 NWS Inter-Regional Integrated Services (IRIS) Database   Craig Schmidt, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and P. Flatt, E. Lenning, M. Seaman, M. Solum, and M. Sutton
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, 207 Session 5B Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD)
Cochairs: Christina Lief, NOAA/National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC; Michael D. Eilts, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK
1:30 PM 5B.1 Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD): Web services for meteorological research and education   Kelvin Droegemeier, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Alameda, K. Brewster, M. Christie, R. D. Clark, B. Domenico, D. Gannon, S. Graves, E. Joseph, S. Marru, B. Plale, R. Ramachandran, M. K. Ramamurthy, D. Reed, J. Rushing, A. Rossi, S. Tanner, K. W. Thomas, D. Weber, R. B. Wilhelmson, A. Wilson, M. Xue, and S. Yalda 1:45 PM 5B.2 The LEAD testbed system at the Unidata program center: a medium term online repository of meteorological data   Tom Baltzer, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Kelly, A. Wilson, and M. Ramamurthy 2:00 PM 5B.3 Create an archive with the THREDDS Data Repository   Anne Wilson, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Baltzer and J. Caron 2:15 PM 5B.4 Storm Clustering for Data-driven Weather Forecasting   Xiang Li, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. Ramachandran, S. Movva, S. Graves, B. Plale, and N. Vijayakumar 2:30 PM 5B.5 LEAD: Automatic triggering of high resolution forecasts in response to severe weather indications from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center   R. B. Wilhelmson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and B. F. Jewett, J. Alameda, A. Rossi, S. Hampton, D. Weber, K. Thomas, Y. Wang, and K. Droegemeier 2:45 PM 5B.6 The LEAD-WxChallenge pilot project: enabling the community   Richard D. Clark, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and S. Marru, M. Christie, D. Gannon, B. G. Illston, K. Droegemeier, and T. Baltzer
	3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, 209 Joint Session 4 Using technology to enhance learning: innovations and evidence (Part 2) (Joint between the 17th Symposium on Education and the 24th Conference on IIPS)
Cochairs: Tom Whittaker, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Marjorie McGuirk, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; Rajul Pandya, UCAR, Boulder, CO
3:30 PM J4.1 Are we graduating too many atmospheric scientists? An update   John A. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA 3:45 PM J4.2 Undergraduate experience with technology in an education and research program to measure and understand the climatology of storms in Southeast Texas   Larry J. Hopper Jr., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and C. Schumacher, K. Brugman, C. Hernandez, U. Karadkar, M. Nordt, and R. Furuta 4:00 PM J4.3 Preparing a blended learning course in atmospheric sciences: curriculum, assessment and the online experience   Eric R. Snodgrass, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. J. Charlevoix and J. V. Clark 4:15 PM J4.4 Classroom Response Systems in Statistics Courses   Michael B. Richman, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. J. Murphy, C. C. McKnight, and R. Terry 4:30 PM J4.5 Satellite observations in science education   Tommy Jasmin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Whittaker and S. Ackerman 4:45 PM J4.6 Building a framework to facilitate interactive and dynamic educational case study modules   Jeff Weber, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and B. Etherton and S. O. Holmberg 5:00 PM J4.7 Utilizing UNIDATA's Integrated Data Viewer as an undergraduate meteorology classroom tool   Mark S. Kulie, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman and R. Bennartz
	3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, 206 Session 5A GIS Applications (Continued)
3:30 PM 5A.7 The IRIS StormLog Application   Eric Lenning, NOAA/NWS Chicago WFO, Romeoville, IL; and D. Borsum, M. Solum, M. Sutton, and M. Seaman 3:45 PM 5A.8 National Weather Service warnings using GIS   Ken R. Waters, NOAA/NWS, Phoenix, AZ 4:00 PM 5A.9 Development of an Operational Inland Flooding Forecast Tool: A Geodatabase of Tropical Cyclone Induced Precipitation   R. Jason Caldwell, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. M. Forthun 4:15 PM 5A.10 A geospatial database and climatology of severe weather data   Steve Ansari, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and S. A. Del Greco and M. Phillips 4:30 PM 5A.11 Server GIS: Lessons Learned from an ESRI ArcServer© Demonstration Project at the NWS Central Region Headquarters   Wendy L. Pearson, NOAA/NWS, Kansas City, MO; and K. S. Lander 4:45 PM 5A.12 Integrating GIS, WRF and NJWXNET to study NJ mesoscale weather phenomena   Ryan M. Kelly, Kean University, Union, NJ; and S. Yoh 5:00 PM 5A.13 Incorporation of AIRS, AMSR-E and TRMM observations into a GIS: A case study involving transport of water vapor over the Pacific Ocean   Stephanie L. Granger, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. J. Fetzer, B. H. Kahn, R. Raskin, S. Kopp, and A. Turner 5:15 PM 5A.14 Employing geographic information systems for gridded model output statistics   Kari L. Sheets, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
	3:30 PM-3:45 PM, Tuesday, 207 Session 5B Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD) (Continued)
5B.7 PAPER WITHDRAWN
	3:45 PM-5:15 PM, Tuesday, 208 Session 5C Internet Applications & Cyberinfrastucture
Cochairs: Michael D. Eilts, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK; Christina Lief, NOAA/National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC
3:45 PM 5C.1 NSSL's prototype enhanced severe thunderstorm database   Kevin Scharfenberg, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith, C. Legett, K. L. Manross, K. L. Ortega, and A. G. Kolodziej 4:00 PM 5C.2 A public release of WRF Portal: a graphical user interface for WRF   Mark W. Govett, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Smith 4:15 PM 5C.3 The WRF Domain Wizard: The WPS GUI   Jeff S. Smith, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft Collins, CO; and P. T. McCaslin and M. W. Govett 4:30 PM 5C.4 Adding Modern AJAX Web-services to Existing Data Distribution Systems   Roland Schweitzer, Weathertop Consulting, LLC, College Station, TX; and S. Hankin, A. Manke, J. Callahan, K. M. O'Brien, J. Malczyk, and J. Li 4:45 PM 5C.5 The PDA Animated Weather (PAW) Service   Russell Dengel, Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI; and B. Bellon and J. Robaidek 5:00 PM 5C.6 Use of NOAA's nowCOAST GIS Web Mapping Services for Emergency Management and Homeland Security   Shelley Schindler, NOAA/NOS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. G. W. Kelley, M. Wengren, and J. Greenlaw
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, 226-227 Joint Session 5 Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) Part I (Joint between the 13th Conference on Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology and the 24th Conference on IIPS)
Chairs: David J. Pace, FAA, Washington, DC; Mary M. Cairns, NOAA/Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD
8:30 AM J5.1 General overview (JPDO and Wx IPT reorganization and Joint Weather Program)   Mark Andrews, Weather IPT, Washington, DC 9:00 AM J5.2 Research and Development priorities for NextGen weather   John McCarthy, JPDO Weather Working Group Chief Scientist (retired) and Aviation Weather Associates, Inc., Palm Desert, CA; and B. Carmichael 9:15 AM J5.3 Public and private sector roles in weather   Richard Heuwinkel, FAA, Washington, DC; and K. Johnston 9:30 AM J5.4 Multi-agency Network Enabled Weather on the FAA's SWIM DOC Test Bed   Richard C. Deininger, Tectura Corporation, Bellevue, WA; and O. Newell and G. Thompson 9:45 AM J5.5 US Government Environmental Datacube (4DCube) Harmonization   Kim Curry, United States Navy (USN), Washington DC, DC; and D. J. Pace, T. Hopkins, and R. Hardwick
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, 206 Session 6A Interactive Processing Systems
Cochairs: William F. Roberts, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/OAR, Silver Spring, MD
8:30 AM 6A.1 The evolution of AWIPS – progress and future plans   Jason P. Tuell, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. K. Henry, J. D. Lawson, and F. P. Griffith 8:45 AM 6A.2 Application migration within the new AWIPS architecture   Jason P. Tuell, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. K. Henry, J. Olsen, J. D. Lawson, and F. P. Griffith 9:00 AM 6A.3 Integrating NAWIPS into the new NWS service oriented architecture   Steve Schotz, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and J. P. Tuell, S. Jacobs, D. Plummer, S. Gilbert, and R. K. Henry 9:15 AM 6A.4 Testing strategies for the next generation AWIPS   Kenneth L. Stricklett, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. P. Tuell, R. K. Henry, P. K. Pickard, J. D. Lawson, and F. P. Griffith 9:30 AM 6A.5 Findings of the four-dimensional storm cell investigator alpha test at WFO Omaha-Valley during the 2007 convective season   Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA/NWSFO, Valley, NE 9:45 AM 6A.6 Can OGC Web Services Work in an Operational Setting?   Mark W. Govett, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, 207 Session 6B Radar IIPS and Applications, Part I
Cochairs: Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center, Norman, OK; Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; Julian Wang, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc., Falls Church, VA
8:30 AM 6B.1 NEXRAD product improvement -- update 2008   Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc., Falls Church, VA; and M. Istok and G. S. Cate 8:45 AM 6B.2 Important considerations toward developing site-specific scanning strategies for WSR-88Ds   Randy M. Steadham, NOAA/Radar Operations Center, Norman, OK; and R. A. Brown 9:00 AM 6B.3 Impacts of wind farms on WSR-88D radars   Donald W. Burgess, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. Crum and R. J. Vogt 9:15 AM 6B.4 An update on policy considerations of wind farm impacts on WSR-88D systems   Richard J. Vogt, Tri-Agencies' (Dept. of Commerce, Defense & Transportation) Radar Operations Center, Norman, OK; and T. Crum, J. T. Snow, R. D. Palmer, B. Isom, D. W. Burgess, and M. S. Paese 9:30 AM 6B.5 Real time mitigation of ground clutter   S. M. Ellis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. C. Hubbert and M. Dixon 9:45 AM 6B.6 NEXRAD differential reflectivity calibration   J. C. Hubbert, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Pratte, M. Dixon, and R. A. Rilling
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, 226-227 Joint Session 6 Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) Part II (Joint between the 13th Conference on Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology and the 24th Conference on IIPS)
Cochairs: David J. Pace, FAA, Washington, DC; Mary M. Cairns, NOAA/Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD
10:30 AM J6.1 Evolution of FAA's Weather and Radar Processor (WARP) into the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen)   James Stobie, SAIC, Washington, DC; and A. Moosakhanian, P. Jackson, and W. N. Brown 10:45 AM J6.2 FLYSAFE - An Approach to Flight Safety - using GML/XML objects to define hazardous volumes of space for aviation   Andrew K. Mirza, Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom; and S. Geindre and C. Pagé 11:00 AM J6.3 Scale of automation and the human role in generating weather information for the Next Generation Air Transportation Four Dimension (4D) Weather Cube   Kevin L. Johnston, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD 11:15 AM J6.4 The single authoritative source for weather information   Bruce Carmichael, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. J. Pace 11:30 AM J6.5 Consolidated Storm Prediction for Aviation (CoSPA)   Marilyn M. Wolfson, MIT, Lexington, MA; and W. J. Dupree, R. M. Rasmussen, M. Steiner, S. G. Benjamin, and S. S. Weygandt 11:45 AM J6.6 Integration of terminal area probabilistic meteorological forecasts in NAS-wide traffic flow management decision making   George Hunter, Sensis Corporation, Campbell, CA; and K. Ramamoorthy
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, 206 Session 6A Interactive Processing Systems (Continued)
10:30 AM 6A.7 Developing data analysis and visualization capabilities for interactive processing of multi- and hyper-spectral environmental satellite data: an update on McIDAS-V   Thomas H. Achtor, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. D. Rink and T. M. Whittaker 10:45 AM 6A.8 Tools for integrating distributed computing with interactive visualization in McIDAS-V   Ray Garcia, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and B. M. Flynn, R. O. Knuteson, T. M. Whittaker, T. D. Rink, T. H. Achtor, S. Mindock, S. T. Dutcher, M. Smuga-Otto, and G. D. Martin 11:00 AM 6A.9 Interactive quality assurance practices   Karsten Shein, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC 11:15 AM 6A.10 An integrated forecast production system   Claude Landry, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and R. Verret, R. Jones, D. Vigneux, J. McLean, R. Parent, J. -. F. Deschenes, J. -. P. Talbot, M. Holly, and M. Nadeau 11:30 AM 6A.11 Synergie, French Forecaters Workstation - specific tools for Tropical Cyclone   Antoine Lasserre-Bigorry, Météo-France, Toulouse Cedex, France; and J. N. Degrace, M. F. Voidrot Martinez, and E. Arbogast 11:45 AM 6A.12 Plans for the NOAA/DHS Geo-Targeted Alerting System   Richard Jesuroga, NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and U. H. Grote and X. Jing
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, 207 Session 6B Radar IIPS and Applications, Part I (Continued)
10:30 AM 6B.7 Assessment of the impact of radar refractivity retrievals by forecasters   Pamela L. Heinselman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and B. L. Cheong, R. D. Palmer, K. D. Hondl, and D. Bodine 10:45 AM 6B.8 Prediction and Mitigation of Anomalous Propagation with the Total Atmospheric Effects Mitigation (TAEM) System   James J. Stagliano Jr., Propagation Research Associates, Inc., Marietta, GA; and J. C. Kerce, G. M. Hall, R. D. Bock, E. J. Holder, S. F. Dugas, and F. Vandenberghe 11:00 AM 6B.9 A new way to investigate dynamics in a storm using Doppler spectra from weather radar   T.-Y. Yu, University of Oklahoma, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Norman, Ok 73019-1023, OK; and R. Reinoso-Rondinel and R. D. Palmer 11:15 AM 6B.10 Terminal Doppler Weather Radar for NWS Operations: Phase 3 Update   Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. D. Stern, R. E. Saffle, B. R. Klein, N. Shen, Y. Song, Z. Wang, W. M. Blanchard, and B. Bumgarner 6B.11 Estimating weather radar coverage for the 2010 Winter Olympics   Edwin F. Campos, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and N. Donaldson and P. Joe 11:30 AM 6B.12 The National Severe Storms Laboratory's QPE verification system   Steven V. Vasiloff, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and B. Kaney
	11:00 AM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall A Exhibits Open (wednesday)
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break (Cash & Carry in Exhibit Hall) (Wednesday)
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, 206 Session 7A Applications in Meteorology, Oceanography, Hydrology and Climatology - Part II
Cochairs: Carl D. Thormeyer, KSBW-8, Salinas, CA; Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center, Norman, OK
1:30 PM 7A.1 The NOAA Transition of Research Applications to Climate Services (TRACS) Program   Josh Foster, Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP), Washington, DC 1:45 PM 7A.2 Implementation of a new Marine Weather Warning Bulletin by the National Weather Service   Mark A. Tew, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and G. E. Mann, E. Jillson, S. Nelaimischkies, and R. May 2:00 PM 7A.3 Development of operational regional snowfall indices   Michael F. Squires, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. H. Lawrimore, R. Heim, D. A. Robinson, M. R. Gerbush, and T. Estilow 2:15 PM 7A.4 An assessment of Arctic sea ice forecasts on seasonal time scales   Ignatius G. Rigor, APL, Seattle, WA; and T. Arbetter, M. Ortmeyer, P. Clemente-Colón, and J. Woods
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, 207 Session 7B Satellite IIPS and Applications
Cochairs: Gerald J. Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS, Springfield, VA; Tom Whittaker, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Dongsoo Kim, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
1:30 PM 7B.1 MADIS-T Satellite Radiance and Sounding Data Processing Subsystem   Abhishek Agarwal, Nortel Government Solutions, Lanham, MD; and S. Tehranian, J. R. McNitt, J. Facundo, and A. Swaroop 1:45 PM 7B.2 Economic benefits of polar winds from MODIS and GOES-R winds   Robert Reining, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. V. Sterling 7B.3 Tropopause characteristics in Atmospheric Infrared Sounder and Global Positioning System occultation observations   Eric J. Fetzer, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. Fishbein, C. O. Ao, B. Tian, A. Mannucci, B. Wilson, and T. P. Yunck 2:00 PM 7B.4 Adaptive Sky: distributed cloud monitoring using multi-instrument, multi-platform sensor webs   Michael Garay, Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and J. Ng, Y. Wang, and M. C. Burl
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall B Poster Session 2 IIPS Poster Session II
Cochairs: Stephen M. Holt, Noblis, Inc., Falls Church, VA; Marjorie McGuirk, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; Scott T. Shipley, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, Virginia
P2.1 Accessing HDF5 data via OPeNDAP   MuQun Yang, The HDF Group, Champaign, IL; and H. K. Lee and J. Gallagher   P2.2 The importance of ACARS data in evaluating the near-storm environment of a nocturnal QLCS event   Angela Lese, NOAA/NWS, Louisville, KY; and J. Ammerman   P2.3 Online visualization and analysis of NASA QuikSCAT and TRMM daily products   Zhong Liu, George Mason University/CEOSR, Fairfax, VA and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Ostrenga, G. G. Leptoukh, and S. J. Kempler P2.4 Using Land Surface Modeling in a Decision Support System for Agriculture   William Myers, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Block   P2.5 The Tornado Outbreak of 1-2 March 2007 in the National Weather Service Tallahassee Forecast Area   Andrew I. Watson, NOAA/NWS, Tallahassee, FL; and B. A. Mroczka, J. A. Fournier, J. P. Camp, and R. C. Goree   P2.6 A bayesian approach to retrieve raindrop size distribution from polarimetric radar data   Qing Cao, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. Zhang   P2.7 The Development of Web-Based Forecaster's Analysis System (WebFAS) at KMA   YongSang Kim, Korea Meteorological Administration, Seoul, South Korea; and D. I. Lee and S. H. Son P2.8 PAPER WITHDRAWN     P2.9 Combined WSR-88D technique to reduce range aliasing using phase coding and multiple Doppler scans   W. David Zittel, NEXRAD Radar Operations Center, Norman OK, Norman, OK; and D. S. Saxion, R. D. Rhoton, and D. C. Crauder   P2.10 Evaluation of a faster scanning strategy for the WSR-88D combined range aliasing mitigation techniques   Douglas. C. Crauder, National Weather Center, Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Stillwater, OK; and W. D. Zittel P2.11 PAPER WITHDRAWN     P2.13 An on-demand user interface for requesting multi-radar, multi-sensor time accumulated products to support severe weather verification   Kevin L. Manross, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith, J. T. Ferree, and G. J. Stumpf   P2.12 Compensation for Composite System Noise on Base Moments within the WSR-88D   David A. Warde, SI International, Norman Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Sirmans, A. D. Free, R. L. Ice, and J. N. Chrisman
	4:00 PM-4:15 PM, Wednesday, 206 Session 7A Applications in Meteorology, Oceanography, Hydrology and Climatology - Part II (Continued)
4:00 PM 7A.5 Estimation of upstream discharge in data-deprived riverine environments   John E. M. Brown, Naval Oceanographic Office, Stennis Space Center, MS; and C. A. Blain
	4:15 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, 207 Session 7C Challenges in Data Access, Distribution, and Use - Part II
Cochairs: Tom Whittaker, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
4:15 PM 7C.1 Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System Transition Project Risk Reduction Activity   James A. McNitt, NOAA NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Facundo and J. O'Sullivan 4:30 PM 7C.2 Experience with an enhanced netCDF data model and interface for scientific data access   Edward Hartnett, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. K. Rew 4:45 PM 7C.3 Weather Coder III: Web-Based Climate Data Ingest for NOAA's Cooperative Volunteer Observation Network   Kelly T. Redmond, DRI, Reno, NV; and G. McCurdy, G. Kelly, M. J. Brewer, T. W. Owen, and B. Bonack 5:00 PM 7C.4 Army RDT&E Meteorological Architecture for Data Archival (ARMADA)   Scott F. Halvorson, U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, UT; and S. Krippner, C. L. Klemmer, E. Argenta, M. M. Kimball, and E. Laufenberg 5:15 PM 7C.5 Grids and beyond: netCDF-CF and ISO/OGC Features and Coverages   Ethan R. Davis, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and J. Caron and B. Domenico
	5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall A Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) (Wednesday)
	7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday AMS Annual Awards Banquet at the Hilton Riverside Hotel
Thursday, 24 January 2008
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, 206 Joint Session 1 Global Earth Observations Session (GCOS) (Joint between the 24th Conference on IIPS and the 12th Conference on IOAS-AOLS)
Cochairs: Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD; John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant, Berryville, VA
8:30 AM J1.1 The Future Development of the Global Climate Observing System   John W. Zillman, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia 9:00 AM J1.2 The Global Climate Observing System: Responding to the International Climate Community   David M. Goodrich, WMO/GCOS, Geneva, Switzerland 9:30 AM J1.3 Progress towards the WMO Integrated Global Observation Systems (WIGOS) and WMO Information System (WIS)   Donald E. Hinsman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland; and J. Hayes, D. Schiessl, and J. Rasmussen
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, 207 Session 8 Advances and Applications in Surface Transportation Weather
Cochairs: Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; S. Edward Boselly, Weather Solutions Group, Olympia, WA
8:30 AM 8.1 U.S. highway crashes in adverse road weather conditions   Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and L. C. Goodwin and M. A. Rossetti 9:00 AM 8.2 Economic Sensitivity of Transportation to Weather and Value for Weather Forecasts   Emily Laidlaw, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Lazo and J. Demuth 9:15 AM 8.3 Verification and practical application of the RWIS data for the New Hampshire Department of Transportation   Julie Anne Soper, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH 9:30 AM 8.4 Regional Demonstrations of the FHWA Clarus System   Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and P. J. Kennedy, B. C. Boyce, and A. D. Stern
	11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday, Exhibit Hall A Exhibits Open (thurs)
	11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, 206 Joint Session 1 Global Earth Observations Session (GCOS) (Continued) (Joint between the 24th Conference on IIPS and the 12th Conference on IOAS-AOLS)
11:00 AM J1.4 The 20th century reanalysis project   Gilbert P. Compo, Climate Diagnostics Center/CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker and P. D. Sardeshmukh 11:15 AM J1.5 The AMMA radiosonde programme and its implications for the future of atmospheric monitoring over Africa   Andreas H. Fink, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany; and C. Thorncroft, S. Janicot, M. W. Douglas, A. Beljaars, D. J. Parker, E. Afiesimama, J. B. Ngamini, A. Augusti-Panareda, F. Dide, A. Diedhiou, T. Lebel, J. Polcher, J. L. Redelsperger, and G. Wilson 11:30 AM J1.6 Monitoring and analyzing the Global Ocean Observing System with the Observing System Monitoring Center   Kevin M. O'Brien, JISAO/University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. Auerbach, J. Cartwright, T. Habermann, S. Hankin, K. Kern, M. Little, and R. Schweitzer 11:45 AM J1.7 Enhancing the spatial and temporal rainfall network in the Pacific Islands for Pacific Island GCOS   Dean Solofa, SPREP, Apia, Samoa; and M. L. Morrissey and S. Postawko 12:00 PM J1.8 Assimilating tipping bucket rain gauge data into the PACRAIN database   Michael D. Klatt, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. L. Morrissey and J. S. Greene
	11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, 207 Session 8 Advances and Applications in Surface Transportation Weather (Continued)
11:00 AM 8.5 A Next Generation of Observations based on Passenger Vehicles   Andrew D. Stern, Noblis, Inc., Falls Church, VA; and P. A. Pisano, P. J. Kennedy, K. R. Petty, and W. P. Mahoney 11:15 AM 8.6 Web-based weather and a road-state briefing system for highway maintenance decision makers   Peter J. Trevelyan, The U.K. Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and A. M. Radford 11:30 AM 8.7 Use of a Maintenance Decision Support System to define winter severity indices   Jeffrey J. Kuntz, University of North Dakota, Surface Transportation Weather Research Center, Grand Forks, ND; and J. J. Mewes and L. F. Osborne, Jr. 11:45 AM 8.8 The Use of METRo (Model of the Environment and Temperature of the Roads) in Roadway Operation Decision Support Systems   Seth Linden, NCAR, Boulder, CO 12:00 PM 8.9 Maintenance Decision Support Systems: Research progress and continuing needs   John J. Mewes, Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc., Grand Forks, ND; and R. D. Hart, L. F. Osborne, B. Hershey, and D. L. Huft
	12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday Lunch Break (Cash & Carry in Exhibit Hall) (Thurs)
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, 206 Session 9A Radar IIPS and Applications, Part II
Cochairs: Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center, Norman, OK; Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; Julian Wang, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc., Falls Church, VA
1:30 PM 9A.1 Another update on the National Weather Radar Testbed (Phased-Array)   Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. F. Kimpel, D. S. Zrnic, R. Ferek, J. F. Heimmer, T. J. McNellis, J. E. Crain, A. M. Shapiro, R. J. Vogt, and W. Benner 1:45 PM 9A.2 Signal processing upgrades for the National Weather Radar Testbed   Sebastian M. Torres, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. Curtis, I. Ivic, and S. Bachmann 2:00 PM 9A.3 Introduction to multi-channel receiver development for the realization of multi-mission capabilities at the National Weather Radar Testbed   Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. D. Palmer, M. Xue, T. -. Y. Yu, G. Zhang, A. Zahrai, J. E. Crain, Y. Zhang, R. J. Doviak, Q. Xu, and P. B. Chilson 2:15 PM 9A.4 Spectral identification and suppression of ground clutter contributions for phased array radar   Svetlana Bachmann, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. S. Zrnic and C. D. Curtis 2:30 PM 9A.5 Novel Adaptive Beamforming Techniques for Atmospheric Imaging Radars   Khoi D. Le, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. D. Palmer, B. L. Cheong, T. -. Y. Yu, G. Zhang, and S. M. Torres 2:45 PM 9A.6 Rapid sampling of low-altitude circulations by phased array radar   Pamela L. Heinselman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. Manross, T. Smith, R. A. Brown, D. Priegnitz, and R. Hluchan
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, 207 Session 9B Virtual Globe
Cochairs: Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; Scott T. Shipley, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, Virginia
1:30 PM 9B.1 Google Earth: Connecting awareness to action and the road ahead   Michael Jones, Google Earth, Mountain View, CA 2:00 PM 9B.2 Modeling a 3D world - challenges, progress and opportunities   Tamrat Belayneh, ESRI, Redlands, CA; and S. Kopp 2:30 PM 9B.3 Dynamically Updated Environmental Satellite Data in Google Earth: An Application to Tropical Meteorology   F. Joseph Turk, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Miller, J. Hawkins, and K. Richardson 2:45 PM 9B.4 NASA precipitation data in virtual globes: moving beyond 2D representations   Owen A. Kelley, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and E. Stocker
	3:30 PM-5:15 PM, Thursday, 206 Session 9A Radar IIPS and Applications, Part II (Continued)
3:30 PM 9A.7 Application of a monopulse phased array system to weather observations for detecting wind shear at sub-beamwidth resolution   Michihiro S. Teshiba, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. -. Y. Yu, G. E. Crain, G. Zhang, and M. Xue 3:45 PM 9A.9 Evaluation of the CASA System in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Test Bed   B. Philips, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and D. Westbrook, D. Pepyne, E. Bass, and D. J. Rude 4:00 PM 9A.10 Interaction of gravity waves and horizontal convective rolls: Observations from CASA collected 24 April 2007   J. Brotzge, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. Brewster, J. Gao, and M. Xue 4:15 PM 9A.11 The impact of radar data assimilation on a squall line in Mississippi   Pat J. Fitzpatrick, Mississippi State Univ., Stennis Space Center, MS; and Y. Li, C. Hill, H. Karan, E. Lim, and Q. Xiao 4:30 PM 9A.12 Using the WSR-88D Storm Structure Product to Develop a Climatology of Northern New England Convective Storms as a Function of Large-Scale Flow   Evan M. Lowery, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and E. G. Hoffman 4:45 PM 9A.13 Mobile Micro Rain Radar deployments in North Carolina   Jessica L. Proud, Renaissance Computing Institute, Chapel Hill, NC 5:00 PM 9A.14 Shipboard Weather Radar Sensing: Current and Planned Capabilities   Timothy Maese, BCI, Moorestown, NJ; and T. J. McNellis, L. Wagner, S. A. Sandgathe, K. Koehler, and R. Case
	3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Thursday, 207 Session 9B Virtual Globe (Continued)
3:30 PM 9B.5 Archived severe weather warnings for virtual globe applications   Chad Hutchins, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and S. Ansari 3:45 PM 9B.6 Real-time and recent historical weather data in Google Earth   Travis M. Smith, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and V. Lakshmanan and K. L. Ortega 4:00 PM 9B.7 Visualization of meteorological satellite data in Google Earth   Thomas J. Kleespies, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD 4:15 PM 9B.8 GeoFish - linking particle tracking models with GIS   Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, WA; and C. W. Moore and S. Mesick 4:30 PM 9B.9 Challenges of Displaying Dynamic Weather Content in Interactive Mapping Solutions   Scott Ganson, Weather Decision Techologies, Norman, OK; and J. T. Johnson 4:45 PM 9B.10 Currently available and supported graphics metafile formats and the challenges they present for use in forecasting applications   James E. Ramer, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO 9B.11 PAPER WITHDRAWN   5:00 PM 9B.12 Comparison of Virtual Globe technologies for depiction of radar beam propagation effects and impacts   Scott T. Shipley, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, Virginia; and R. M. Steadham and D. S. Berkowitz
	5:30 PM, Thursday Conference Ends

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