Third Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data (Expanded View)

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Program Chairpersons:
Lawrence D. Carey, Univ. of Alabama

Compact View of Conference

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
 
10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday 2008
Coffee Break (Mon a.m.)
 
11:45 AM-1:30 PM, Monday 2008
Opening Plenary Session Featuring Mayor Nagin of New Orleans (Cash & Carry Lunch)
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (mon p.m.)
 
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, 222
Session 1 Hurricane Studies and Forecasting using Lightning Data
Chair: Daniel J. Cecil, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
8:30 AM1.1Lightning as a precursor of Atlantic hurricane activity   wrf recording
Colin G. Price, Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv, Israel; and Y. Yair and M. Asfur
9:00 AM1.2Analysis of inner core lightning rates in 2005-2006 Atlantic and East Pacific tropical cyclones using Vaisala's Long Range Lightning Detection Network (LLDN)  extended abstract wrf recording
Nicholas W. S. Demetriades, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and R. L. Holle
9:15 AM1.3Operational applications of long-range lightning data at the National Hurricane Center   wrf recording
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 AM1.4Global studies of tropical cyclones using the World Wide Lightning Location Network  extended abstract wrf recording
Natalia N. Solorzano, Bard High School Early College II, Elmhurst, NY; and J. N. Thomas and R. H. Holzworth
 
9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Tue a.m.)
 
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
 P1.1Cell 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
 P1.2Examining a possible relationship between positive dominated storms and cloud-top ice crystal size  extended abstract
Daniel T. Lindsey, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO
 P1.3Spatial distribution of lightning data relative to kinematics in a HP tornadic supercell storm during TELEX  extended abstract
K. M. Kuhlman, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. R. MacGorman and M. I. Biggerstaff
P1.4Narrow 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
 P1.5Relationship between lightning location and polarimetric radar signatures in an MCS  extended abstract
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
 P1.6Spatial and time distribution of thunderstorms in SOWMEX-2007  extended abstract
Po-Hsiung Lin, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan; and P. K. Wang and S. A. Liao
 P1.7Hurricane lightning: a new campaign to investigate hurricane intensification by using lightning observations  extended abstract
Xuan-Min Shao, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. D. Harlin, T. Hamlin, D. M. Suszcynsky, and C. A. Jeffery
 P1.8Seasonality of thunderstorms seen by TRMM  extended abstract
Daniel J. Cecil, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
 P1.9Using TRMM to resolve the ensemble of global tropical thunderstorms  
Anita LeRoy, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen and D. J. Cecil
 P1.10Tennessee 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
 P1.11Characteristics of positive cloud-to-ground lightning  
Scott David Rudlosky, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg
 P1.12Characteristics of cloud-to-ground lightning in warm season thunderstorms  extended abstract
Stacy A. Fleenor, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and C. Biagi, E. P. Krider, K. L. Cummins, and K. E. Kehoe
 P1.13Houston LDAR II network: An evaluation of LDAR derived parameters with traditional NLDN metrics in southeast Texas thunderstorms  extended abstract
Joseph W. Jurecka, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. E. Orville
 P1.14The 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
 P1.15Determination of a Limited Scope Network's Lightning Detection Efficiency  extended abstract
John T. Rompala, Univ. of Wisconsin, Stout, WI; and R. Blakeslee
 
11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday 2008, Exhibit Hall A
Exhibits Open (Tuesday)
 
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
11:00 AM2.1Global 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 AM2.2Meteorological conditions contributing to the development of thunderstorms in the city of São Paulo, Brazil   wrf recording
Carlos A. R. Morales, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and R. Porfirio da Rocha and R. J. Bombardi
11:45 AM2.3Using lightning and high resolution spaceborne precipitation products to monitor and understand North American Monsoon processes   wrf recording
Stephen W. Nesbitt, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and N. J. Schiffer
 
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, 222
Session 3 Recent Advances in Lightning Technology and Transfer to Operations
Chair: Walter A. Petersen, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL AL
1:30 PM3.1Visualization of Naturally produced lightning strikes using high speed imaging  
Timothy M. Samaras, Applied Research Associates, Inc., Littleton, CO; and W. A. Lyons
2:00 PM3.2The DC Lightning Mapping Array  
Paul Krehbiel, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM
2:30 PM3.3Pre-launch Algorithms and Risk Reduction in Support of the Geostationary Lightning Mapper for GOES-R and Beyond   wrf recording
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 PM3.4The Geostationary Lightning Mapper Instrument for GOES-R   wrf recording
H.J. Christian Jr., Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday 2008, Exhibit Hall A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (tues p.m.)
 
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
3:30 PM4.1The evolution of total lightning and radar characteristics of two mesoscale convective systems over Houston  extended abstract wrf recording
Charles L. Hodapp, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and L. D. Carey, R. E. Orville, and B. Ely
3:45 PM4.2A review of enhanced monitoring and analysis techniques to characterize lightning and transient luminous events   wrf recording
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 PM4.3Meteorological Origin of Q-bursts and Sprites over West Africa  extended abstract wrf recording
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 PM4.4The 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 PM4.5Flash rate, electrical, microphysical, and dynamical relationships across a simulated storm spectrum  extended abstract wrf recording
Ariel E. Cohen, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and E. R. Mansell
5:00 PM4.6Electrical and polarimetric radar observations of a HP supercell on 29 May 2004 during TELEX  extended abstract wrf recording
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 PM4.7Small, continual lightning activity in the overshooting turret of supercell storms   wrf recording
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 PM4.8A statistical framework for the analysis of large lightning and radar datasets   wrf recording
Timothy J. Lang, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Rutledge
 
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
8:30 AM5.1How lightning kills and injures  extended abstract wrf recording
Mary Ann Cooper, MD, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
9:00 AM5.2Lightning kills – play it safe -- NOAA's efforts to educate the public on the dangers of lightning  extended abstract wrf recording
John S. Jensenius Jr., NOAA/NWS, Gray, ME; and D. Franklin and S. J. Hodanish
9:30 AM5.3An analysis of short notice outdoor lightning risk reduction and comments on why it should not be taught  extended abstract wrf recording
William P. Roeder, Struck by Lightning.org, Yarmouth, MA
9:45 AM5.4Lightning-caused deaths and injuries in the vicinity of vehicles  extended abstract
Ronald L. Holle, Holle Meteorology & Photography, Oro Valley, AZ
 
10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday 2008
Coffee Break (Wed a.m.)
 
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
10:30 AM6.1Predicting the Location and Intensity of Lightning Using an Experimental Automated Statistical Method  extended abstract wrf recording
Phillip D. Bothwell, NOAA/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK
10:45 AM6.2Producing gridded probabilistic guidance for warm season lightning over Florida  extended abstract wrf recording
P. E. Shafer; and H. E. Fuelberg
11:00 AM6.3Use of high-resolution WRF simulations to forecast lightning threat   wrf recording
Eugene W. McCaul Jr., USRA, Huntsville, AL; and K. M. LaCasse, S. J. Goodman, and D. J. Cecil
11:15 AM6.4The warning time for cloud-to-ground lightning in isolated, ordinary thunderstorms over Houston, Texas  extended abstract wrf recording
Nathan C. Clements, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and R. E. Orville
11:30 AM6.5Cloud-to-ground lightning warnings using total lightning mapping and electric field mill observations  extended abstract
Martin J. Murphy, Vaisala Inc., Tucson, AZ; and R. L. Holle and N. W. S. Demetriades
11:45 AM6.6Empirical forecasting of lightning cessation at the Kennedy Space Center  extended abstract wrf recording
Geoffrey T. Stano, ENSCO/SPoRT, Huntsville, AL; and H. E. Fuelberg and W. P. Roeder
 
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-2:30 PM, Wednesday 2008, 222
Session 7 Assimilation of Lightning Data into Numerical Models
Chair: Lawrence D. Carey, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL
1:30 PM7.1The Promise of Long-Range Lightning Networks in Storm Analysis and Forecasting  extended abstract wrf recording
Steven Businger, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
7.2Lightning 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 PM7.2ADynamical - Statistical Models for Lightning Prediction to 48-hr  extended abstract wrf recording
William R. Burrows, MSC, Edmonton, AB, Canada
2:15 PM7.3Use of lightning data to enhance radar assimilation within the Rapid Update Cycle model  extended abstract wrf recording
Thomas W. Schlatter, NOAA/GSD/CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, S. Benjamin, and J. M. Brown
 
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 Lightning Safety, Protection, Prediction and Operational Applications
Chair: William P. Roeder, Struck by Lightning.org, Yarmouth, MA
 P2.2Behavior of lightning and updrafts for severe and non-severe storms in northern Alabama  extended abstract
Elise V. Johnson, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen
 P2.3The utility of lightning jumps in severe thunderstorms in the Tennessee Valley  extended abstract
Christopher J. Schultz, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen
 P2.4Applications of Lightning Data at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison  extended abstract
Scott S. Lindstrom, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. S. Bachmeier
 P2.5Integration of lightning and precipitation data for land management agencies  extended abstract
Dean Hazen, NOAA/NWS, Pocatello, ID; and M. Williamson
 P2.6The relation between lightning and wildfires in Florida  
Scott David Rudlosky, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg
 P2.8Flow regime based climatologies of lightning probabilities for spaceports and airports  extended abstract
William H. Bauman III, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and M. Volkmer, D. Sharp, S. M. Spratt, and R. Lafosse
 P2.9Developing GFS-based MOS thunderstorm guidance for Alaska  extended abstract
Phillip E. Shafer, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. K. Gilbert
 P2.10Analysis of Surface Electric-Field Contours Before First and After Last Observed Lightning Flashes in Air-Mass Thunderstorms over Kennedy Space Center  extended abstract
Dustin E. Williams, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and W. H. Beasley and P. T. Hyland
 P2.11Operational evaluation of lightning precursors from a network of field meters at Dugway Proving Ground  extended abstract
Margaret B. Kimball, U.S Army, Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, UT; and F. W. Gallagher
 P2.12Emission Current from Static Dissipator Devices under Rain and Wind Conditions  extended abstract
Stanislaw Grzybowski, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS; and C. D. Taylor
 P2.13Florida lightning deaths and injuries 2004-2007  extended abstract
Charles H. Paxton, NOAA/NWSFO, Ruskin, FL; and J. Colson and N. Carlisle
 P2.14Recent changes in lightning safety  extended abstract
William P. Roeder, Struck by Lightning.org, Yarmouth, MA
 P2.15Leon the Lightning Safety Lion says: “WHEN THUNDER ROARS – GO INDOORS!” - NOAA's efforts regarding children's lightning safety  extended abstract
Stephen J. Hodanish, NOAA/NWS, Pueblo, CO; and K. Torgerson, J. S. Jensenius, M. A. Cooper MD, M. Utley, and W. P. Roeder
 
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
4:00 PM8.1ALightning mapping data as a tool for assessing storm structure and evolution   wrf recording
E. C. Bruning, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and W. D. Rust, D. R. MacGorman, M. I. Biggerstaff, and P. R. Krehbiel
8.1Lightning 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 PM8.2Total lightning observations of supercells in the warning decision process over North Central Texas  extended abstract wrf recording
Christopher M. McKinney, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and L. D. Carey and G. R. Patrick
4:30 PM8.3Severe Weather Precursors in the Lightning Activity of Tennessee Valley Thunderstorms   wrf recording
P. N. Gatlin, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. J. Goodman
4:45 PM8.4The Utility of Total Lightning Tools and Technologies - Four Years of Operational Case Studies   wrf recording
Christopher B. Darden, NOAA/NWS, Huntsville, AL; and J. Burks, D. E. Buechler, J. M. Hall, and S. J. Goodman
5:00 PM8.5VHF total lightning mapping data use for thunderstorm nowcasting at weather forecast offices  extended abstract wrf recording
Nicholas W. S. Demetriades, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and D. E. Buechler, C. B. Darden, G. R. Patrick, and A. Makela
5:15 PM8.6A comparison of lightning flashes as observed by the lightning imaging sensor and the North Alabama lightning mapping array   wrf recording
Monte Bateman, Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville, AL; and D. Mach, E. W. McCaul, J. Bailey, and H. J. Christian
 
5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday 2008, Exhibit Hall A
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) (Wednesday)
 
5:30 PM, Wednesday 2008
Third Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data Adjourns
 
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, 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
 Pam L. Heinselman   wrf recording
 Steven J. Weiss   wrf recording
 Stephen Goodman   wrf recording
 Bob Alder   wrf recording
 Paul R. Houser   wrf recording
 Edgar L. Andreas   wrf recording
 David L. Spittlehouse   wrf recording
 Howie (Cb) Bluestein   wrf recording
 Panel Discussion   wrf recording
 

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