| 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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| 11:45 AM-1:30 PM, Monday 2008
Opening Plenary Session Featuring Mayor Nagin of New Orleans (Cash & Carry Lunch) |
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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, 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
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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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| Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday 2008, 214
Session 1 Progress on Linking Prediction and Societal Benefit |
CoChair: Jim Hansen, NRL, Monterey, CA
Chair: Rebecca Morss, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 8:30 AM | 1.1 | Making Predictions Useful: Harder Than We Think, More Rewarding Than We Imagine (Keynote Speaker)
William Hooke, AMS Policy Program, Washington, DC |
| 9:00 AM | 1.2 | Keynote: To be Determined II
Paul Kovacs, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, Toronto, ON, Canada |
| 9:30 AM | 1.3 | Panel Discussion: Progress on Linking Prediction and Societal Benefit
Jim Hansen, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. Morss, W. Hooke, D. P. Jorgensen, P. Kovacs, and D. Parsons |
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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, 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
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| 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 |
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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, 214
Session 2 High-Impact Weather Events |
Chair: Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Systems and Technology Group, Yorktown Heights, NY
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|  | 2.1 | NWS Alaska Region: Science and Data Needs in an Era of Changing Climate
James L. Partain Jr., NOAA/NWS, Anchorage, AK |
| 1:30 PM | 2.2 | Is the Data Damaged? Assessing the Quality and Reliability of Societal and Economics Damage Data on Extreme Weather Events
Jeffrey K. Lazo, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Bushek and E. Laidlaw |
| | 2.3 | Looking at High-Impact Weather and Product and Service Needs from a Local Perspective
Paul A. Hirschberg, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Hilderbrand, I. Leveson, C. Woods, and A. Bleistein |
| 1:45 PM | 2.4 | Towards the development of a revised Thorpex Africa science plan 
Andre F. Kamga, African Center for Meteorological Application to Development, Niamey, Niger; and A. Diongue Niang, E. Afiesimama, A. Diedhiou, B. L. Lamptey, O. Ndiaye, M. Kamara, and R. Roehrig |
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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 1 General Poster Session for the Symposium on Linkages among Societal Benefits, Prediction Systems, and Process Studies for 1-14 day Weather Forecasts |
Chair: Jim Hansen, NRL, Monterey, CA
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday 2008, 214
Session 3 Providing forecasts to support user decisions |
Chair: Jim Hansen, NRL, Monterey, CA
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| 4:00 PM | 3.1 | Does society benefit from very long range day-to-day weather forecasts?
Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia |
| 4:15 PM | 3.2 | Developing daily insect migration risk forecasts for Midwest agricultural decision makers
David Changnon, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL; and M. Sandstrom |
| 4:30 PM | 3.3 | The feasibility of an extreme cold warning system for livestock in northeastern Montana
Katrina L. Frank, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and T. E. Fransen, C. A. Bogel, D. E. Simonsen, T. L. Salem, and L. Kalkstein |
| 4:45 PM | 3.4 | Coupled air-ocean prediction supporting operational planning during a major fleet exercise
Steven W. Payne, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Stennis Space Center, MS; and D. W. Titley and E. Gough |
| 5:00 PM | 3.5 | Evaluation and utilization of a meso-γ-scale numerical weather prediction system for emergency management operations
Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Systems and Technology Group, Yorktown Heights, NY; and A. P. Praino and K. D. Neafcy |
| 5:15 PM | 3.6 | Designing an end-to-end decision model for CASA networks
B. Philips, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and R. Krzysztofowicz, W. Donner, E. Bass, D. Pepyne, H. Rodriguez, W. Diaz, and K. A. Kloesel |
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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
Symposium on Linkages among Societal Benefits, Prediction Systems and Process Studies for 1-14 day Weather Forecasts 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 |
| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Thurs a.m.) |
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