| Sunday, 20 January 2008 |
| 7:30 AM-9:30 AM, Sunday 2008
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday 2008
Conference Registration |
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| 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
7th Annual WeatherFest |
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| Monday, 21 January 2008 |
| 7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday 2008
Registration continues through Thursday, 24 January |
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| 10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday 2008
Coffee Break (Mon a.m.) |
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| 11:45 AM-1:30 PM, Monday 2008
Opening Plenary Session Featuring Mayor Nagin of New Orleans (Cash & Carry Lunch) |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (mon p.m.) |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday 2008, Exhibit Hall A
Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| Tuesday, 22 January 2008 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday 2008, 222
Session 1 Hurricane Studies and Forecasting using Lightning Data |
Chair: Daniel J. Cecil, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
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| 8:30 AM | 1.1 | Lightning as a precursor of Atlantic hurricane activity 
Colin G. Price, Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv, Israel; and Y. Yair and M. Asfur |
| 9:00 AM | 1.2 | Analysis of inner core lightning rates in 2005-2006 Atlantic and East Pacific tropical cyclones using Vaisala's Long Range Lightning Detection Network (LLDN) 
Nicholas W. S. Demetriades, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and R. L. Holle |
| 9:15 AM | 1.3 | Operational applications of long-range lightning data at the National Hurricane Center
Richard D. Knabb, NOAA/TPC/NHC, Miami, FL; and J. P. Cangialosi, C. Lauer, B. Maher, M. Willis, N. W. S. Demetriades, and R. L. Holle |
| 9:30 AM | 1.4 | Global studies of tropical cyclones using the World Wide Lightning Location Network
Natalia N. Solorzano, Bard High School Early College II, Elmhurst, NY; and J. N. Thomas and R. H. Holzworth |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Tue a.m.) |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 1 Lightning Applications, Studies and Technology in the Atmospheric Sciences |
Chair: Kristin M. Kuhlman, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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| | P1.1 | Cell mergers and their impact on cloud-to-ground lightning over the Houston area
Michael L. Gauthier, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick Air Force Base, FL; and W. A. Petersen and L. D. Carey |
| | P1.2 | Examining a possible relationship between positive dominated storms and cloud-top ice crystal size
Daniel T. Lindsey, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO |
| | P1.3 | Spatial distribution of lightning data relative to kinematics in a HP tornadic supercell storm during TELEX
K. M. Kuhlman, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. R. MacGorman and M. I. Biggerstaff |
|  | P1.4 | Narrow bipolar events, strong VHF pulses and the detection of severe weather from GPS orbit
David Michael Suszcynsky, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and K. C. Wiens |
| | P1.5 | Relationship between lightning location and polarimetric radar signatures in an MCS
N. R. Lund, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. R. MacGorman, W. D. Rust, T. J. Schuur, P. R. Krehbiel, W. Rison, T. Hamlin, J. M. Straka, and M. I. Biggerstaff |
| | P1.6 | Spatial and time distribution of thunderstorms in SOWMEX-2007
Po-Hsiung Lin, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan; and P. K. Wang and S. A. Liao |
| | P1.7 | Hurricane lightning: a new campaign to investigate hurricane intensification by using lightning observations
Xuan-Min Shao, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. D. Harlin, T. Hamlin, D. M. Suszcynsky, and C. A. Jeffery |
| | P1.8 | Seasonality of thunderstorms seen by TRMM
Daniel J. Cecil, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL |
| | P1.9 | Using TRMM to resolve the ensemble of global tropical thunderstorms
Anita LeRoy, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen and D. J. Cecil |
| | P1.10 | Tennessee Valley Total and Cloud-to-ground Lightning Climatology Comparison
Dennis Buechler, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. J. Blakeslee, J. M. Hall, and E. W. McCaul |
| | P1.11 | Characteristics of positive cloud-to-ground lightning
Scott David Rudlosky, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg |
| | P1.12 | Characteristics of cloud-to-ground lightning in warm season thunderstorms
Stacy A. Fleenor, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and C. Biagi, E. P. Krider, K. L. Cummins, and K. E. Kehoe |
| | P1.13 | Houston LDAR II network: An evaluation of LDAR derived parameters with traditional NLDN metrics in southeast Texas thunderstorms
Joseph W. Jurecka, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. E. Orville |
| | P1.14 | The ZEUS lightning network in Brazil
Carlos A. R. Morales, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and F. Sales, F. G. Pinheiro, K. S. Câmara, and E. N. Anagnostou |
| | P1.15 | Determination of a Limited Scope Network's Lightning Detection Efficiency
John T. Rompala, Univ. of Wisconsin, Stout, WI; and R. Blakeslee |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday 2008, Exhibit Hall A
Exhibits Open (Tuesday) |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday 2008, 222
Session 2 Applications of Lightning Data in Tropical Meteorology |
Chair: Timothy J. Lang, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
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| 11:00 AM | 2.1 | Global tropical lightning trends: Has tropical lightning frequency responded to global climate change?
Walter A. Petersen, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL AL; and D. Buechler |
| 11:30 AM | 2.2 | Meteorological conditions contributing to the development of thunderstorms in the city of São Paulo, Brazil
Carlos A. R. Morales, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and R. Porfirio da Rocha and R. J. Bombardi |
| 11:45 AM | 2.3 | Using lightning and high resolution spaceborne precipitation products to monitor and understand North American Monsoon processes
Stephen W. Nesbitt, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and N. J. Schiffer |
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| 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) |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday 2008, 222
Session 3 Recent Advances in Lightning Technology and Transfer to Operations |
Chair: Walter A. Petersen, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL AL
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| 1:30 PM | 3.1 | Visualization of Naturally produced lightning strikes using high speed imaging
Timothy M. Samaras, Applied Research Associates, Inc., Littleton, CO; and W. A. Lyons |
| 2:00 PM | 3.2 | The DC Lightning Mapping Array
Paul Krehbiel, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM |
| 2:30 PM | 3.3 | Pre-launch Algorithms and Risk Reduction in Support of the Geostationary Lightning Mapper for GOES-R and Beyond
Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and R. J. Blakeslee, W. Koshak, W. Petersen, D. E. Buechler, P. R. Krehbiel, P. Gatlin, and S. Zubrick |
| 2:50 PM | 3.4 | The Geostationary Lightning Mapper Instrument for GOES-R
H.J. Christian Jr., Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday 2008, Exhibit Hall A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (tues p.m.) |
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| 3:30 PM-5:45 PM, Tuesday 2008, 222
Session 4 Lightning and Electrical Processes in Convective to Mesoscale Storms |
Chair: Martin J. Murphy, Vaisala, Tucson, AZ
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| 3:30 PM | 4.1 | The evolution of total lightning and radar characteristics of two mesoscale convective systems over Houston
Charles L. Hodapp, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and L. D. Carey, R. E. Orville, and B. Ely |
| 3:45 PM | 4.2 | A review of enhanced monitoring and analysis techniques to characterize lightning and transient luminous events
Walter A. Lyons, FMA Research, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Cummer, S. A. Rutledge, T. Lang, E. Williams, T. M. Samaras, C. S. Keen, R. H. Holzworth, T. E. Nelson, J. Meyer, and R. Marshall |
| 4:00 PM | 4.3 | Meteorological Origin of Q-bursts and Sprites over West Africa
Earle Williams, MIT, Lexington, MA; and Y. Hobara, R. A. Boldi, W. A. Lyons, B. Russell, V. Mushtak, G. Satori, J. Bor, C. G. Price, E. Greenberg, E. Williams, and R. H. Holzworth |
| 4:30 PM | 4.4 | The relationship between total lightning, ice mass, liquid water mass and convective rainfall
Wiebke Deierling, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. A. Petersen and S. Ellis |
| 4:45 PM | 4.5 | Flash rate, electrical, microphysical, and dynamical relationships across a simulated storm spectrum
Ariel E. Cohen, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and E. R. Mansell |
| 5:00 PM | 4.6 | Electrical and polarimetric radar observations of a HP supercell on 29 May 2004 during TELEX
Clark D. Payne, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. J. Schuur, W. D. Rust, D. R. MacGorman, M. I. Biggerstaff, K. M. Kuhlman, E. C. Bruning, and N. R. Lund |
| 5:15 PM | 4.7 | Small, continual lightning activity in the overshooting turret of supercell storms
D. R. MacGorman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. M. Kuhlman, E. C. Bruning, D. Rust, P. R. Krehbiel, and M. I. Biggerstaff |
| 5:30 PM | 4.8 | A statistical framework for the analysis of large lightning and radar datasets
Timothy J. Lang, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Rutledge |
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| Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday 2008, 222
Session 5 Lightning Safety |
Chair: Stephen J. Hodanish, NOAA/NWS, Pueblo, CO
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | How lightning kills and injures
Mary Ann Cooper, MD, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL |
| 9:00 AM | 5.2 | Lightning kills – play it safe -- NOAA's efforts to educate the public on the dangers of lightning
John S. Jensenius Jr., NOAA/NWS, Gray, ME; and D. Franklin and S. J. Hodanish |
| 9:30 AM | 5.3 | An analysis of short notice outdoor lightning risk reduction and comments on why it should not be taught
William P. Roeder, Struck by Lightning.org, Yarmouth, MA |
| 9:45 AM | 5.4 | Lightning-caused deaths and injuries in the vicinity of vehicles
Ronald L. Holle, Holle Meteorology & Photography, Oro Valley, AZ |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday 2008
Coffee Break (Wed a.m.) |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday 2008, 222
Session 6 Lightning Prediction Using Observations and Models |
Chair: Christopher B. Darden, NOAA/NWS, Huntsville, AL
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| 10:30 AM | 6.1 | Predicting the Location and Intensity of Lightning Using an Experimental Automated Statistical Method
Phillip D. Bothwell, NOAA/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK |
| 10:45 AM | 6.2 | Producing gridded probabilistic guidance for warm season lightning over Florida
P. E. Shafer; and H. E. Fuelberg |
| 11:00 AM | 6.3 | Use of high-resolution WRF simulations to forecast lightning threat
Eugene W. McCaul Jr., USRA, Huntsville, AL; and K. M. LaCasse, S. J. Goodman, and D. J. Cecil |
| 11:15 AM | 6.4 | The warning time for cloud-to-ground lightning in isolated, ordinary thunderstorms over Houston, Texas
Nathan C. Clements, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and R. E. Orville |
| 11:30 AM | 6.5 | Cloud-to-ground lightning warnings using total lightning mapping and electric field mill observations
Martin J. Murphy, Vaisala Inc., Tucson, AZ; and R. L. Holle and N. W. S. Demetriades |
| 11:45 AM | 6.6 | Empirical forecasting of lightning cessation at the Kennedy Space Center
Geoffrey T. Stano, ENSCO/SPoRT, Huntsville, AL; and H. E. Fuelberg and W. P. Roeder |
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| 11:00 AM-6:30 PM, Wednesday 2008, Exhibit Hall A
Exhibits Open (wednesday) |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday 2008
Lunch Break (Cash & Carry in Exhibit Hall) (Wednesday) |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday 2008, 222
Session 7 Assimilation of Lightning Data into Numerical Models |
Chair: Lawrence D. Carey, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL
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| 1:30 PM | 7.1 | The Promise of Long-Range Lightning Networks in Storm Analysis and Forecasting
Steven Businger, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI |
| | 7.2 | Lightning Data Assimilation using an Ensemble Kalman Filter
Clifford Mass, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and G. J. Hakim, P. Regulski, and R. Torn |
| 2:00 PM | 7.2A | Dynamical - Statistical Models for Lightning Prediction to 48-hr
William R. Burrows, MSC, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
| 2:15 PM | 7.3 | Use of lightning data to enhance radar assimilation within the Rapid Update Cycle model
Thomas W. Schlatter, NOAA/GSD/CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, S. Benjamin, and J. M. Brown |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (wednesday p.m.) |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 2 Lightning Safety, Protection, Prediction and Operational Applications |
Chair: William P. Roeder, Struck by Lightning.org, Yarmouth, MA
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| | P2.2 | Behavior of lightning and updrafts for severe and non-severe storms in northern Alabama
Elise V. Johnson, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen |
| | P2.3 | The utility of lightning jumps in severe thunderstorms in the Tennessee Valley
Christopher J. Schultz, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen |
| | P2.4 | Applications of Lightning Data at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Scott S. Lindstrom, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. S. Bachmeier |
| | P2.5 | Integration of lightning and precipitation data for land management agencies
Dean Hazen, NOAA/NWS, Pocatello, ID; and M. Williamson |
| | P2.6 | The relation between lightning and wildfires in Florida
Scott David Rudlosky, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg |
| | P2.8 | Flow regime based climatologies of lightning probabilities for spaceports and airports
William H. Bauman III, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and M. Volkmer, D. Sharp, S. M. Spratt, and R. Lafosse |
| | P2.9 | Developing GFS-based MOS thunderstorm guidance for Alaska
Phillip E. Shafer, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. K. Gilbert |
| | P2.10 | Analysis of Surface Electric-Field Contours Before First and After Last Observed Lightning Flashes in Air-Mass Thunderstorms over Kennedy Space Center
Dustin E. Williams, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and W. H. Beasley and P. T. Hyland |
| | P2.11 | Operational evaluation of lightning precursors from a network of field meters at Dugway Proving Ground
Margaret B. Kimball, U.S Army, Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, UT; and F. W. Gallagher |
| | P2.12 | Emission Current from Static Dissipator Devices under Rain and Wind Conditions
Stanislaw Grzybowski, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS; and C. D. Taylor |
| | P2.13 | Florida lightning deaths and injuries 2004-2007
Charles H. Paxton, NOAA/NWSFO, Ruskin, FL; and J. Colson and N. Carlisle |
| | P2.14 | Recent changes in lightning safety
William P. Roeder, Struck by Lightning.org, Yarmouth, MA |
| | P2.15 | Leon the Lightning Safety Lion says: “WHEN THUNDER ROARS – GO INDOORS!” - NOAA's efforts regarding children's lightning safety
Stephen J. Hodanish, NOAA/NWS, Pueblo, CO; and K. Torgerson, J. S. Jensenius, M. A. Cooper MD, M. Utley, and W. P. Roeder |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday 2008, 222
Session 8 Use of Lightning Data in the Operational Warning and Decision Making Process |
Chair: Stephen W. Nesbitt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
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| 4:00 PM | 8.1A | Lightning mapping data as a tool for assessing storm structure and evolution
E. C. Bruning, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and W. D. Rust, D. R. MacGorman, M. I. Biggerstaff, and P. R. Krehbiel |
| | 8.1 | Lightning Observations during an Intense Winter Storm in Northeast Minnesota and Northwest Wisconsin on 1 March 2007
Daniel J. Miller, NOAA/NWS, Duluth, MN |
| 4:15 PM | 8.2 | Total lightning observations of supercells in the warning decision process over North Central Texas
Christopher M. McKinney, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and L. D. Carey and G. R. Patrick |
| 4:30 PM | 8.3 | Severe Weather Precursors in the Lightning Activity of Tennessee Valley Thunderstorms
P. N. Gatlin, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. J. Goodman |
| 4:45 PM | 8.4 | The Utility of Total Lightning Tools and Technologies - Four Years of Operational Case Studies
Christopher B. Darden, NOAA/NWS, Huntsville, AL; and J. Burks, D. E. Buechler, J. M. Hall, and S. J. Goodman |
| 5:00 PM | 8.5 | VHF total lightning mapping data use for thunderstorm nowcasting at weather forecast offices
Nicholas W. S. Demetriades, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and D. E. Buechler, C. B. Darden, G. R. Patrick, and A. Makela |
| 5:15 PM | 8.6 | A comparison of lightning flashes as observed by the lightning imaging sensor and the North Alabama lightning mapping array
Monte Bateman, Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville, AL; and D. Mach, E. W. McCaul, J. Bailey, and H. J. Christian |
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| 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday 2008, Exhibit Hall A
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) (Wednesday) |
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| 5:30 PM, Wednesday 2008
Third Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data Adjourns |
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| 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday 2008
AMS Annual Awards Banquet at the Hilton Riverside Hotel |
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| Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday 2008, R08-R09
Joint Panel Discussion 3 Enhancing the Connectivity between Research and Applications for the Benefit of Society Part III (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Hydrology, the Symposium on Recent Developments in Atmospheric Applications of Radar and Lidar, the The Severe Local Storms Committee, the The Air-sea Interaction Committee, the The Agricultural and Forecast Meteorology Committee, the Third Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data, and the Third Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research) |
Panelists: Steven J. Weiss, NOAA/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; Steve Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, MD; Bob Alder, Senior Scientist in the Laboratory for Atmospheres; Paul R. Houser, George Mason Univ./Center for Research on Environment and Water, Calverton, MD; Edgar L. Andreas, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., Lebanon, NH; David L. Spittlehouse, British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range, Victoria, BC Canada
Moderator: Pam L. Heinselman, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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