88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Poster Session 2: IOAS Poster Session II: Observing Systems

Wednesday, 23 January 2008: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Exhibit Hall B (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Chair:  Howard A. Friedman, NOAA/AOML/HRD
Papers:
 
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

 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (292.7 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (276.2 kB)
 
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

http://yankee.met.fsu.edu/~paul/COMET-KEY/comet-final.doc

 
Seasonal characteristics of land surface-atmosphere interactions over a heterogeneous landscape
Miliaritiana Robjhon, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Spring, MD; and E. Joseph and J. D. Fuentes

 
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 Sr., J. Taylor, D. Tobin, H. Woolf, and D. Zhou

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)
 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (631.7 kB)
 
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

 
Potential for monitoring of fog and dew events using mesonet data
Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

 
Sampling Errors of Climate Monitoring Constellations
Renu Joseph, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. B. Kirk-Davidoff and J. G. Anderson

Poster PDF (2.9 MB)
 
Rooftop weather stations as viable mesonet contributors - validation experiments
Paul Ruscher, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and A. Hicks

http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04032006-152254/

 
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