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Sunday, 20 January 2008
	7:30 AM-9:30 AM, Sunday 2008 Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday 2008 Conference Registration
	12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday 2008, Exhibit Hall B 7th Annual WeatherFest
Monday, 21 January 2008
	7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday 2008 Registration continues through Thursday, 24 January
	9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Monday 2008, 204 Session 1 Atmospheric Observations for Weather and Climate-I
Chair: Joel Susskind, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
9:00 AM 1.1A AIRS data sets for atmospheric and climate research (Formerly 1.2)   Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and E. Fetzer and T. Pagano 9:15 AM 1.2A Atmospheric Remote-sensing Imaging Emission Spectrometer (ARIES) measurement concept for improving weather and climate prediction (Formerly 1.1)   Thomas S. Pagano, NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. Chahine, H. H. Aumann, and R. Kakar 9:30 AM 1.3 GPS radio occultation as part of the global observing system for atmosphere   A. J. Mannucci, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and C. O. Ao, B. A. Iijima, B. D. Wilson, and T. P. Yunck 9:45 AM 1.4 A new network to monitor the radiative forcing of global warming   W.F.J. Evans, North West Research Associates, Bellevue, WA 10:00 AM 1.5 U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN): A unique national long-term climate monitoring network   C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. Helfert
	10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday 2008 Coffee Break (Mon a.m.)
	10:45 AM-11:45 AM, Monday 2008, 204 Session 2 Atmospheric Observations for Weather and Climate-II
Chair: Thomas S. Pagano, NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA
10:45 AM 2.1 An Improved Data Reduction Tool in Support of the Real-Time Assimilation of NASA Satellite Data Streams   Michael Splitt, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and S. M. Lazarus, M. Lueken, R. Ramachandran, X. Li, S. Movva, B. T. Zavodsky, S. Graves, and W. Lapenta 11:00 AM 2.2 An empirical emissivity model for complex surfaces   Janice Bytheway, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. Kummerow 11:15 AM 2.3 Global Environmental Micro Sensors Test Operations in the Natural Environment   John Manobianco, ENSCO Inc., Melbourne, FL; and M. Adams and M. Buza 11:30 AM 2.4 Effect of atmospheric hydrometeors on millimeter wave transmissions   Donna F. Tucker, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and D. Smith, D. DePardo, T. Euler, P. Youngberg, and H. W. Johnson
	11:45 AM-1:30 PM, Monday 2008 Opening Plenary Session Featuring Mayor Nagin of New Orleans (Cash & Carry Lunch)
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday 2008, 204 Session 3 Atmospheric Observations for Weather and Climate-III
Chair: John Manobianco, ENSCO Inc., Melbourne, FL
1:30 PM 3.1 Retrieval of 3-D Water Vapor Field Using a Remote Sensor Network of Scanning Compact Microwave Radiometers   Sharmila Padmanabhan, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and J. Vivekanandan, S. C. Reising, and F. Iturbide-Sanchez 1:45 PM 3.2 A multi-sensor strategy to investigate precipitation at higher latitudes   Mark S. Kulie, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Bennartz 2:00 PM 3.3 Quality Control of Daily Precipitation Reports at NOAA/CPC   Mingyue Chen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and P. Xie, W. Shi, V. Silva, V. Kousky, W. Higgins, and J. E. Janowiak 2:15 PM 3.4 Synergisms and comparisons between airborne Doppler Wind Lidar observations and other remote and in-situ wind measurements and model forecasts   Steven Greco, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and G. D. Emmitt, S. A. Wood, C. O'Handley, and H. Jonsson
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday 2008, Exhibit Hall B Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (mon p.m.)
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday 2008, Exhibit Hall B Poster Session 1 IOAS Poster Session I: Data Assimilation and Impact Studies
Chair: Shirley T. Murillo, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL
P1.1 Assimilation of HIRS/3 Brightness Temperature in Cloud Condition and Its Impact to CHANCHU Typhoon   Weiyu Ding, Guangzhou Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, Guangzhou, China   P1.2 Adjoint sensitivity study of transcritical flow along the California coast   Clark M. Amerault, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Doyle   P1.3 Assimilation of GOES radiances to improve forecasting of mid-level, mixed phase clouds   Curtis J. Seaman, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. A. Kankiewicz, S. Longmore, M. Sengupta, and T. H. Vonder Haar   P1.4 Assimilation of Indian Observation through WRF-Var Modeling System and its Impact   Ashish Routray, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India; and U. C. Mohanty and S. R. H. Rizvi   P1.5 Simulations of space-based CO2 measurements: measurement impacts on mesoscale transport modeling   Tom Connor, AER, Lexington, MA; and H. E. Snell, T. S. Zaccheo, and L. McGuire   P1.6 Simulation of the impact of new aircraft and space-based ocean surface wind measurements on H*Wind analyses   Timothy L. Miller, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and R. M. Atlas, P. G. Black, J. L. Case, S. S. Chen, R. E. Hood, J. W. Johnson, L. Jones, C. S. Ruf, and E. W. Uhlhorn   P1.7 Sensitivity of the Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis to background field characteristics   Daniel Tyndall, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. S. F. V. De Pondeca and J. Horel   P1.8 The impact of data assimilation on Arctic atmospheric circulation in the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model   Justin E. Bagley, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. DeWeaver   P1.9 A one-season assimilation and impact study of NESDIS and Navy's WindSat retrieved data in the NCEP global data assimilation system   Li Bi, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. A. Jung, M. C. Morgan, and J. F. Le Marshall   P1.10 A General-Purpose Ensemble Assimilation Facility: DART   Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Hoar, N. Collins, K. Raeder, and H. Liu   P1.11 Combining QuikSCAT and MISR Wind Observations to Characterize Tropospheric Winds   Michael Garay, Caltech/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and C. Moroney, W. T. Liu, and R. Davies   P1.12A (Formerly 15A.5) Estimating the impact of AIRS data in WRF forecasts with the ensemble transform Kalman filter   Shelley O. Holmberg, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and B. J. Etherton
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday 2008, 204 Session 4 Atmospheric Observations for Weather and Climate-IV
Chair: Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
4:00 PM 4.1 Antarctic surface temperature comparison study on satellite approximations and land-based measurements   Jesse R. Docken, Augsburg College, St. Paul, MN; and N. Petit 4:15 PM 4.2 The Helsinki Testbed Program: An integrated atmospheric observing and modeling system   David M. Schultz, University of Helsinki and Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and W. F. Dabberdt, J. Damski, E. Gregow, J. Koskinen, J. Poutiainen, R. Pyle, and H. Turtiainen 4:30 PM 4.3A Update on the Consensus Reference Concept for Testing Radiosondes (Formerly 4.4)   Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Fitzgibbon and C. Bower 4:45 PM 4.4A The Consensus Reference Methodology as it Applies to a Radiosonde under Test (Formerly 4.3)   James Fitzgibbon, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Hawse and R. Brown 5:00 PM 4.5 New Cooperative Observer Networks and Instrumentation Data Quality - An Update   Jason A. Karvelot, Davis Instruments, Corp., Hayward, CA 4.6 Integrated hi-resolution weather and transportation visualization for the next generation air picture   Douglas Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. F. Kimpel, W. Benner, G. E. Crain, B. Blasewitz, T. McNellis, D. S. Zrnic, J. Heimmer, J. Pica, A. Ostrow, G. Torok, R. Vogt, M. Batista-Carver, D. Thomasson, K. ". Kirsch, J. Zuna, and J. Roby 5:15 PM 4.6A Analysis sensitivity to the observations within an ensemble Kalman filter (Formerly 6.3)   Junjie Liu, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and E. Kalnay
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday 2008, Exhibit Hall A Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday 2008, 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
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday 2008, 204 Session 5 Advanced Methods for Data Assimilation-I
Chair: Kayo Ide, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
8:30 AM 5.1 Tests of a Prototype Ensemble Data Assimilation System at NCEP   Jeffrey Whitaker, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and T. Hamill 8:45 AM 5.2 The Relation between Ensemble Size and Expected Error in Ensemble Filter Data Assimilation   Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO 9:00 AM 5.3 Local ensemble transform Kalman filtering with JMA global model   Takemasa Miyoshi, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan; and Y. Sato, T. Kadowaki, and M. Kazumori 9:15 AM 5.4 Recent developments for an operational Canadian global assimilation and prediction capability for the coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice system   Harold Ritchie, Environment Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and F. Davidson, J. Loder, Y. Lu, P. Pellerin, W. Renaud, M. Taillefer, K. Thompson, and D. Wright 9:30 AM 5.5 Current status and recent developments in the NCEP global data assimilation system   Daryl T. Kleist, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and J. C. Derber, R. Treadon, D. Parrish, W. S. Wu, and M. Rancic
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday 2008, Exhibit Hall B Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Tue a.m.)
	11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday 2008, Exhibit Hall A Exhibits Open (Tuesday)
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday 2008, 204 Session 6 ADVANCED METHODS FOR DATA ASSIMILATION-II
CoChair: Tom Hamill, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO Chair: Jeffrey Whitaker, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO
11:00 AM 6.1 The development of the First-Order Time extrapolation to the Observation (FOTO) method and its application in the NCEP global data assimilation system   Miodrag Rancic, SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. C. Derber, D. Parrish, R. Treadon, and D. T. Kleist 11:15 AM 6.2 Accounting for and correcting model errors in the EnKF   Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and H. Li, T. Miyoshi, and C. M. Danforth 11:30 AM 6.3 will present as paper 4.6A   11:45 AM 6.3A Estimation of observation impact without adjoint model in an ensemble Kalman filter   Junjie Liu, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and E. Kalnay 12:00 PM 6.4 Reduced-order observation sensitivity in 4D-Var data assimilation   Dacian N. Daescu, Portland State University, Portland, OR; and I. M. Navon
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday 2008, 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 2008, 204 Session 7 ADVANCED METHODS FOR DATA ASSIMILATION-III
Chair: S. Mark Leidner, AER, Norman, OK
1:30 PM 7.1 Towards A Unified Variational/Ensemble Data Assimilation System for WRF   Dale M. Barker, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Z. Liu, H. Shao, M. Demirtas, H. Huang, and S. Rugg 1:45 PM 7.2 Ensemble-based Kalman Filters in Strongly Nonlinear Dynamics   Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. P. Hacker 2:00 PM 7.3 The back and forth nudging algorithm for data assimilation   Jacques Blum, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France; and D. Auroux 2:15 PM 7.4 Observing system and strategy for Lagrangian data assimilation (LaDA) in the ocean   Kayo Ide, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and C. K. R. T. Jones and G. Vernieres 2:30 PM 7.5 Data assimilation in chaotic systems, using Floquet vectors   Adel Ahanin, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. McLaughlin and D. Entekhabi 2:45 PM 7.6 Simultaneous estimation of inflation factor and observation errors within the EnKF   Hong Li, Shanghai Typhoon Institute, Shanghai, China, Shanghai, China; and E. Kalnay and T. Miyoshi
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday 2008, Exhibit Hall A Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (tues p.m.)
	3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday 2008, 204 Session 8 Mesoscale Data Assimilation
Chair: Timothy L. Miller, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL
3:30 PM 8.1 The current status and future of the WRF Developmental Testbed Center   Robert L. Gall, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Koch, L. Nance, and L. R. Bernardet 3:45 PM 8.2 Impact of airborne Doppler radar data on the numerical simulation of Hurricane Dennis (2005)   Xuanli Li, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Z. Pu and J. Sun 4:00 PM 8.3 Multi-Doppler Radar Analysis of a Tornadic Thunderstorm using a 3D Variational Data Assimilation Technique and ARPS model   Edward J. Natenberg, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Gao 4:15 PM 8.4 Assimilation of radar reflectivity data using a diabatic digital filter within the Rapid Update Cycle   Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin, T. G. Smirnova, and J. M. Brown 4:30 PM 8.5 Impacts of Airborne Doppler Radar Data Assimilation on the forecasts of Hurricane Karina (2005)   Qingnong Xiao, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and X. Zhang, C. A. Davis, J. D. Tuttle, G. J. Holland, and P. J. Fitzpatrick 4:45 PM 8.6 PBL state estimates with surface observations, a column model and an ensemble filter: probabilistic evaluation under various mesoscale regimes   Joshua P. Hacker, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Rostkier-Edelstein 5:00 PM 8.7 Mesoscale assimilation of rain-affected observations   Clark M. Amerault, NRL, Monterey, CA; and X. Zou and J. Doyle 5:15 PM 8.8 Towards improved forecasts of atmospheric and oceanic circulations over the complex terrain of the Eastern Mediterranean   Themis Chronis, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL; and J. L. Case, A. Papadopoulos, E. N. Anagnostou, J. R. Mecikalski, and S. L. Haines
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday 2008, 204 Session 9 Data Impacts: Cosmic Observations and Applications-I
Chair: Qian Wu, NCAR, Boulder, CO
8:30 AM 9.1 Overview of the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 Mission   Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Rocken, R. A. Anthes, and N. Yen 8:45 AM 9.2 A Remarkable Radio Occultation Constellation Program –The Most Accurate and Stable Space-Borne Thermometers   Nick Yen, National Space Organization, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan; and C. H. V. Chu, C. J. Fong, T. Y. Liu, S. S. Chen, Y. A. Liou, and B. Kuo 9:00 AM 9.3 Intercomparison of integrated water vapor retrievals from SSM/I and COSMIC   Gary A. Wick, NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and Y. H. Kuo, F. M. Ralph, T. K. Wee, and P. J. Neiman 9:15 AM 9.4 A Composite Analysis of Tropical Cyclone Structure Using GPS RO Observations   Henry R. Winterbottom, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and X. Zou and Q. Xiao 9:30 AM 9.5 A method for automatic detection of the tropical atmospheric boundary layer height using COSMIC radio ocultation data   Peng Guo, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. H. Kuo and S. Sokolovskiy 9:45 AM 9.6 Comparison of atmospheric boundary layer structure as detected by COSMIC GPS radio occultation soundings and simulated by the WRF model   Yan Liu, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. H. Kuo, S. Sokolovskiy, and P. Guo
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday 2008 Coffee Break (Wed a.m.)
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday 2008, 214 Joint Session 2 Operational Perspectives on the Societal--Prediction Link (Joint between the Symposium on Linkages among Societal Benefits, Prediction Systems and Process Studies for 1-14 day Weather Forecasts and the 12th Conference on IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
10:30 AM J2.1 The role of user-relevant verification in linking societal benefits to prediction systems   Laurence J. Wilson, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and B. Brown 10:45 AM J2.2 TIGGE and NAEFS: Research and operational developments in multi-center ensemble forecasting   Zoltan Toth, NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and P. Bougeault, A. Methot, M. Rosengaus, P. Shi, S. Worley, and Y. Zhu 11:00 AM J2.3 Using TIGGE data to understand systematic errors of atmospheric river forecasts   Tom Hamill, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and G. Wick, J. Whitaker, J. W. Bao, F. M. Ralph, and P. J. Neiman 11:15 AM J2.4 Extending ensemble-based adaptive sampling into the medium range   Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and K. J. Sellwood 11:30 AM J2.5 Recent results from Winter Storm Reconnaissance (WSR) program 2007   Yucheng Song, IMSG and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Toth 11:45 AM J2.6 Extreme rainfall, hurricanes, and the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts and predictability   Mathew Barlow, Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA; and J. Rhoads
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday 2008, 204 Session 10 Data Impacts: Cosmic Observations and Applications-II
Chair: Ying-Hwa Kuo, NCAR, Boulder, CO
10:30 AM 10.1 Profiling the Atmosphere with an Airborne GPS Receiver System   Feiqin Xie, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and J. S. Haase, T. Lulich, P. Muradyan, J. L. Garrison, S. Syndergaard, and E. Calais 10:45 AM 10.2 The structure of the moist troposphere from COSMIC radio occultation signals   Sergey Sokolovskiy, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Rocken, D. Lenschow, Y. H. Kuo, R. Anthes, W. Schreiner, D. Hunt, and P. Guo 11:00 AM 10.3 Analysis of the tropical cyclone environment using COSMIC data   Pat J. Fitzpatrick, Mississippi State Univ., Stennis Space Center, MS; and C. Hill, Y. Lau, and D. Stettner 11:15 AM 10.4 The detection of an intense atmospheric river impacting the Pacific Northwest using satellite-based COSMIC soundings   Paul J. Neiman, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Wick, F. M. Ralph, Y. H. Kuo, T. K. Wee, Z. Ma, G. H. Taylor, and M. D. Dettinger 11:30 AM 10.5 Longitudinal Structure in Ionosphere observed by COSMIC and Possible Influence from the Mesosphere   Qian Wu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. C. Solomon, S. Syndergaard, and B. Kuo 11:45 AM 10.6 Operational implementation of COSMIC data into the NCEP's global data assimilation system   Lidia Cucurull, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and J. C. Derber
	11:00 AM-6:30 PM, Wednesday 2008, Exhibit Hall A Exhibits Open (wednesday)
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday 2008 Lunch Break (Cash & Carry in Exhibit Hall) (Wednesday)
	1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Wednesday 2008, 204 Session 11 Data Impacts: Cosmic Observations and Applications-III
Chair: Lidia Cucurull, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD
1:30 PM 11.1 Assimilation of COSMIC GPS RO soundings with WRF3DVAR and its impact on the prediction of Typhoon Shan Shan (2006)   Shu-Ya Chen, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan; and C. Y. Huang and Y. H. Kuo 1:45 PM 11.2 Improving Analyses and Forecasts of the Asian Monsoon with GPS Radio Occultation Refractivity Observations   Hui Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Anderson, Y. H. Kuo, Y. Chen, and C. Snyder 2:00 PM 11.3 An impact study of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC GPS radio occultation and dropsonde data on WRF simulations   Fang-Ching Chien, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan; and B. Kuo 2:15 PM 11.4 Impact of COSMIC Refractivity Observations in Multi-domain Applications at the NCAR DATC   Hui Shao, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Barker, Y. R. Guo, S. Rizvi, Y. H. Kuo, and J. Powers 2:30 PM 11.5 Impact of driftsonde and COSMIC soundings on typhoon prediction: An OSSE study   Ying-Hwa Kuo, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Iwabuchi, Y. R. Guo, T. K. Wee, H. Wang, H. Liu, Y. Chen, H. Huang, and D. Parsons
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday 2008, Exhibit Hall B Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (wednesday p.m.)
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday 2008, Exhibit Hall B Poster Session 2 IOAS Poster Session II: Observing Systems
Chair: Howard A. Friedman, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL
P2.1 The effect of radiosonde dry bias on measurements of convective instability in the southern Great Plains   Timothy J. Wagner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. D. Turner and S. A. Ackerman   P2.2 Comparisons of measurements of atmospheric stability from ground-based remote sensing instruments   Timothy J. Wagner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. F. Feltz and S. A. Ackerman   P2.3 Utilizing COSMIC radio occultation soundings to estimate convective potentials over oceans   Michael Kevin Hernandez, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and Y. H. Kuo, D. C. Hunt, and R. Hauser   P2.4 Regional variability of soil moisture from SCAN measurements: implication for land surface modeling and assimilation   Georgy Mostovoy, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and V. Anantharaj and L. Wasson   P2.5 Impacts of increased density of automated surface weather observations in the Florida Keys on nowcasts   Paul Ruscher, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and A. Devanas, H. Anderson, and J. Turner   P2.6 Seasonal characteristics of land surface-atmosphere interactions over a heterogeneous landscape   Miliaritiana Robjhon, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph and J. D. Fuentes   P2.7 Retrievals of atmospheric thermodynamic structure from University of Wisconsin Scanning-High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (S-HIS) upwelling radiance observations using a Bayesian Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) inverse method   Sarah Bedka, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and P. Antonelli, D. DeSlover, S. Dutcher, R. Knuteson, H. Revercomb, W. Smith, J. Taylor, D. Tobin, H. Woolf, and D. Zhou   P2.8 Analysis of Aerosol Properties Derived from MODIS, AERONET, and Shipborne Measurements During AEROSE Field Campaigns   Tamil Maldonado-Vega, NOAA/NCAS, Washington, DC; and D. A. Chu and V. Morris   P2.9 Comparison of sea surface heights derived from the navy coastal ocean model with satellite altimetry in the Gulf of Mexico   Eurico D'Sa, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and D. S. Ko and M. Korobkin   P2.10 Atmospheric and interdisciplinary applications of the Mississippi Mesonet   Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and E. Matlack, V. S. Challah, D. Mullins, and D. Lipscomb   P2.11 Potential for monitoring of fog and dew events using mesonet data   Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS   P2.12 Sampling Errors of Climate Monitoring Constellations   Renu Joseph, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. B. Kirk-Davidoff and J. G. Anderson   P2.13 Rooftop weather stations as viable mesonet contributors - validation experiments   Paul Ruscher, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and A. Hicks   P2.14 Further evaluation of the WVSS-II moisture sensor using co-located in-situ and remotely sensed observations   Ralph A. Petersen, CIMSS/University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Bedka, W. F. Feltz, E. R. Olson, and D. Helms
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday 2008, 204 Session 12 Land and Ocean Observations
Chair: Michael Garay, JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, CA
4:00 PM 12.1 Evaluation of the Campbell SR-50® sensor in triplicate for automation of U.S. snowfall and snow depth measurements and work towards operational status   Wendy A. Ryan, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken 12.2 Persistent imprints of mid-latitude ocean fronts high into the atmosphere   W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie 4:15 PM 12.3 Significant wave height in the Gulf of Mexico: validation of Jason-1 measurement against buoy data   Mitsuko Korobkin, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and E. D'Sa 4:30 PM 12.4 Operational field test and evaluation of NDBC's compact ocean observing system configured for ocean wave, meteorological, and ocean current profiling measurements   Richard L. Crout, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS; and R. V. Hervey and R. H. Bouchard 4:45 PM 12.5 Integrated Observing Systems at NOAA's National Ocean Service: Using Diversity as Strength   Marie C. Colton, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Gill, M. Erickson, and S. White
	5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday 2008, Exhibit Hall A Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) (Wednesday)
	7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday 2008 AMS Annual Awards Banquet at the Hilton Riverside Hotel
Thursday, 24 January 2008
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday 2008, 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 2008, 204 Session 13 Assimilation of Ocean and Land Surface Observations into Models-I
Chair: Marie C. Colton, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD
8:30 AM 13.1 Evaluating ocean ensembles and adaptive sampling of ocean glider observations in Monterey Bay   Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and C. H. Bishop, Y. Chao, Z. Li, J. Farrara, and P. F. J. Lermusiaux 8:45 AM 13.2 A Physically Consistent Method for the Assimilation of Land Surface Temperature Tendencies   Scott M. Mackaro, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO; and R. T. McNider and A. P. Biazar 9:00 AM 13.3 Impact of assimilating modified synthetic profiles on global ocean sound speed prediction   Charlie N. Barron, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and R. H. Helber, L. F. Smedstad, and M. R. Carnes 9:15 AM 13.4 A numerical model for tsunami caused by the earthquake displacements on the ocean bottom   Cheng Ting, Southeast College, Houston, TX 9:30 AM 13.5 High-resolution specification of the land and ocean surface for improving regional mesoscale model predictions   Jonathan L. Case, ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville, AL; and G. T. Stano, M. Splitt, S. M. Lazarus, W. L. Crosson, W. M. Lapenta, G. J. Jedlovec, and C. D. Peters-Lidard
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday 2008, Exhibit Hall B Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Thurs a.m.)
	11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday 2008, Exhibit Hall A Exhibits Open (thurs)
	11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday 2008, 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 2008, 204 Session 14 Assimilation of Ocean and Land Surface Observations into Models-II
Chair: George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA
11:00 AM 14.1 A multi-season study of the effects of MODIS sea-surface temperatures on operational WRF forecasts at NWS Miami, FL   Jonathan L. Case, ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville, AL; and P. Santos, M. Splitt, S. M. Lazarus, K. K. Fuell, S. L. Haines, S. R. Dembek, and W. M. Lapenta 11:15 AM 14.2 Stochastic generation of precipitation ensembles using remotely sensed information   R. Wojcik, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and A. Konings, S. Friedman, D. McLaughlin, and D. Enthekabi 11:30 AM 14.3 Impact of MODIS-derived land surface and vegetation data within the RAMS atmospheric model   Jonathan G. Fairman Jr., University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. U. Nair and S. A. Christopher 11:45 AM 14.4 The influence of lidar based water vapor assimilation on a regional forecast over the Mid-Atlantic   Segayle Walford, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph 12:00 PM 14.5 The impact of satellite altimeters on upper ocean parameter simulations   Robert W. Helber, NRL, Stennis, MS; and J. F. Shriver, C. Barron, and G. A. Jacobs
	12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday 2008 Lunch Break (Cash & Carry in Exhibit Hall) (Thurs)
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday 2008, 204 Session 15A Data Impact Tests: Real and Simulated Observations-I
Chair: Robert Atlas, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL
1:30 PM 15A.1 Potential impacts of a space-based Doppler Wind Lidar   George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. A. Wood, R. Atlas, and J. Terry 1:45 PM 15A.2 Progress in Joint OSSEs,Three Joint OSSE nature runs and simulation of observation   Michiko Masutani, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, JCSDA, and Wyle, Camp Springs, MD; and J. S. Woollen, R. Errico, Y. Xie, T. Zhu, H. Sun, J. Terry, R. Yang, S. Greco, N. Prive, E. Andersson, T. W. Schlatter, A. Stoffelen, F. Weng, O. Reale, L. P. Riishojgaard, G. D. Emmitt, S. J. Lord, Z. Toth, G. J. Marseille, V. Anantharaj, K. Fielding, G. McConaughy, S. J. Worley, C. F. Shih, M. Yanaguchi, J. C. Jusem, C. M. Hill, P. J. Fitzpatrick, D. Devenyi, S. S. Weygandt, S. A. Wood, Y. Song, E. Liu, D. N. Groff, M. Hart, G. Gayno, A. Da Silva, M. J. McGill, D. Kleist, Y. Sato, and S. A. Boukabara 2:00 PM 15A.3 CO2 Data Assimilation with the Coupled Atmosphere-Vegetation Model Using Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter   Ji-Sun Kang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay, N. Zeng, J. Liu, and I. Fung 2:15 PM 15A.4 Data assimilation experiments using quality controlled AIRS Version 5 temperature soundings   Joel Susskind, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD   Paper 15A.5 moved. New Paper Number P1.12A   2:30 PM 15A.6 Impact of satellite-derived ocean winds on hurricane forecasting at global and regional scales   S. Mark Leidner, AER, Norman, OK; and J. Ardizzone, J. Terry, E. Brin, and R. Atlas
	1:30 PM-3:15 PM, Thursday 2008, 205 Session 15B Results from Recent Field Experiments and Their Potential Relevance to Operational Prediction
Chair: Bill Proenza, NOAA/NWS, Fort Worth, TX
1:30 PM 15B.1 TAMDAR-related impacts on the AirDat operational WRF-ARW   Peter Childs, AirDat, Morrisville, NC; and N. Jacobs, M. Croke, and Y. Liu 1:45 PM 15B.2 Ensemble-based data assimilation for cloud-resolving hurricane prediction: experiments with radar, satellite and dropsonde observations from RAINEX   Yonghui Weng, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and F. Zhang 2:00 PM 15B.3 NOAA's 2005 & 2006 Saharan Air Layer Experiment (SALEX) aircraft missions: Tropical Storm Irene, Tropical Storm Debby & Hurricane Helene   Jason P. Dunion, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL 2:15 PM 15B.4 The first successful unmanned aerial system (UAS) mission into a tropical cyclone (Ophelia 2005)   Joseph J. Cione, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and E. W. Uhlhorn, G. Cascella, S. J. Majumdar, C. Sisko, N. Carrasco, M. D. Powell, P. Bale, G. Holland, P. Turlington, D. Fowler, C. W. Landsea, and C. L. Yuhas 2:30 PM 15B.5 The West African pilot balloon network during the NAMMA-2006 and implications for the future of the African pilot balloon sounding network   Michael W. Douglas, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Murillo, J. F. Mejia, J. M. Galvez, and R. Orozco 2:45 PM 15B.6 The effects of horizontal grid spacing and vertical resolution on TAMDAR data assimilation in short-range mesoscale forecasts   Neil Jacobs, AirDat, Morrisville, NC; and P. Childs, M. Croke, and Y. Liu 3:00 PM 15B.7 High resolution assimilation of CASA and NEXRAD radar data in near-real time: Results from Spring 2007 and plans for Spring of 2008   Keith A. Brewster, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Brotzge, K. W. Thomas, Y. Wang, M. Xue, J. Gao, D. Weber, and K. Howe
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday 2008, Exhibit Hall A Coffee Break and Exhibit Hall Raffle (Thurs)
	3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday 2008, 204 Session 16 Data Impact Tests: Real and Simulated Observations-II
Chair: Jason P. Dunion, University of Miami/RSMAS/CIMAS & NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL
3:30 PM 16.4 Analysis and Prediction of an Intense African Easterly Wave and its associated High Impact Weather   Chris D. Thorncroft, SUNY, Albany, NY; and S. J. Majumdar 3:45 PM 16.2 Relative forecast impact from aircraft, profiler, rawinsonde, VAD, GPS-PW, METAR and mesonet observations for hourly assimilation in the RUC   S. G. Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and B. D. Jamison, W. R. Moninger, B. E. Schwartz, and T. W. Schlatter 4:00 PM 16.3 Sensitivity of the Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis to Mesonet Observations   John Horel, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and B. Olsen, D. Tyndall, and M. Pondeca 4:15 PM 16.1 Large Forecast Degradations Due to Synoptic Surveillance during the 2004 and 2005 Hurricane Seasons   S. D. Aberson, Hurricane Research Division, AOML, Miami, FL 4:30 PM 16.5 High-resolution Three-dimensional Wind Analysis of CASA IP-1 and WSR-88D Radar Data using the ARPS 3DVAR   Jidong Gao, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. Brewster, Y. Wang, K. W. Thomas, J. Brotzge, and M. Xue 4:45 PM 16.6 PenAir-based TAMDAR-related impacts on short-range mesoscale forecasts over Alaska   Meredith Croke, AirDat, Morrisville, NC; and N. Jacobs, P. Childs, and Y. Liu
	5:00 PM, Thursday 2008 12th Conference on IOAS-AOLS Adjourns

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