| Saturday, 10 January 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-10:00 AM, Saturday
Student Conference Badge Pick-up Only |
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| Sunday, 11 January 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Annual Meeting Registration Begins |
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| 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130
First-Time Attendee Briefing |
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| 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130
Annual Meeting Review and Fellows Awards |
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| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Hall 5
Fellows Reception |
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| Monday, 12 January 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday
Registration Open |
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| 8:30 AM-10:15 AM, Monday, Ballroom ABC
Presidential Forum |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday, Room 132A
Tim Oke Symp Luncheon |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Hall 4
Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception |
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| Tuesday, 13 January 2009 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 122A
Session 1 Air pollution applications |
CoChair: George Georgoussis, Raymetrics S.A., Glyka Nera, Attika Greece
Chair: C. Russell Philbrick, Penn. State University, University Park, PA
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| 8:30 AM | 1.1 | Remote sensing of chemical species in the atmosphere  
C. Russell Philbrick, Penn. State University, University Park, PA; and D. M. Brown, A. H. Willitsford, P. S. Edwards, A. M. Wyant, Z. Z. Liu, C. T. Chadwick, and H. D. Hallen |
| 9:00 AM | 1.2 | Urban aerosol backscatter properties based on Raman lidar and parametric coefficient models
Viviana Vladutescu, City Tech, New York, NY; and Y. Wu, B. Gross, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed |
| 9:15 AM | 1.3 | Doppler lidar tracking of aerosol plumes
Charles Retallack, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and R. Calhoun and H. J. S. Fernando |
| 9:30 AM | 1.4 | Measurements of particulate matter over an industrial site in the island of Evia (Greece) using synergy of a scanning Lidar and in situ sensors during TAMEX
George Georgoussis, Raymetrics S.A., Glyka Nera, Attika, Greece; and A. Papayannis, E. Remoudaki, G. Tsaknakis, R. Mamouri, G. Avdikos, C. Chontidiadis, P. Kokkalis, G. Koyloyris, M. Veenstra, and M. Tsezos |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Monday's program) |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 11:00 AM-11:30 AM, Tuesday, Room 122A
Session 2 Air Pollution |
CoChair: George Georgoussis, Raymetrics S.A., Glyka Nera, Attika Greece
Chair: C. Russell Philbrick, Penn. State University, University Park, PA
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| 11:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 122A
Session 3 Automated Operational Lidars, Networks and Associated Studies |
CoChair: Christine David, Service d'Aeronomie-IPSL, Paris Cedex 05 France
Chair: Gelsomina Pappalardo, CNR/IMAA, Tito Scalo Italy
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| 11:30 AM | 3.1 | The EARLINET-CALIPSO experience for the calibration, validation and full exploitation of satellite data
Gelsomina Pappalardo, CNR/IMAA, Tito Scalo (Potenza), Italy; and L. Mona, U. Wandinger, I. Mattis, J. B�senberg, H. Linn�, A. Amodeo, A. Ansmann, A. Apituley, L. A. Arboledas, D. Balis, A. Chaikovsky, A. Comeron, G. D'Amico, V. Freudenthaler, A. Giunta, I. Grigorov, D. M�ller, A. Papayannis, M. R. Perrone, A. Pietruczuk, M. Pujadas, V. Rizi, N. Spinelli, and M. Wiegner |
| 11:45 AM | 3.2 | Intercomparison of Methods for the Determination of Mixing Layer Heights using a new Network of advanced Ceilometers in Germany
Dirk Engelbart, German Meteorological Service, Lindenberg, Germany; and J. Reichardt and G. Teschke |
| 12:00 PM | 3.3 | EZ Lidar� measurement results in the frame of Nasa/Aeronet campaign Tiger-Z
Simone Lolli, LEOSPHERE, Paris, France; and L. Sauvage and F. Faijan |
| 12:15 PM | 3.4 | Water vapor Raman lidar as an operational tool in MeteoSwiss
Bertrand Calpini, MeteoSwiss, 1530 Payerne, Switzerland; and T. Dinoev and V. Simeonov |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 122A
Session 4 Lidar Application Studies in The Boundary Layer and Lower Troposphere - I |
CoChair: Belay B. Demoz, Howard University, Washington, DC
Chair: Jennifer Comstock, PNNL, Richland, WA
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| 1:30 PM | 4.1 | Doppler lidar measurements of higher-order vertical velocity statistics in the convective boundary layer
Donald H. Lenschow, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Lothon and S. D. Mayor |
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| 2:00 PM | 4.3 | Planetary Boundary Layer dynamic measurements with new compact long range wind Lidar Windcube� WLS70
Jean Pierre Cariou, LEOSPHERE, Paris, France; and L. Sauvage, S. Lolli, R. Parmentier, M. Boquet, and S. Loaec |
| 2:15 PM | 4.4 | Short time fluctuations of the convective boundary layer height and entrainment observed with Doppler lidar
Katja Tr�umner, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; and A. Wieser, C. Kottmeier, and U. Corsmeier |
| 2:30 PM | 4.5 | Studies of marine boundary layer dynamics using a ship-based coherent Doppler lidar
Sara C. Tucker, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and W. A. Brewer and S. P. Sandberg |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Hall 4
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 122A
Session 5 Lidar Application Studies in The Boundary Layer and Lower Troposphere - II |
CoChair: Sara Tucker, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO
Chair: David W. Roberts, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA
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| 3:30 PM | 5.1 | Lidar-radar analyses of convection initiation by gravity currents, bores, and solitons
Steven Koch, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO |
| 3:45 PM | 5.2 | Lidar-radar measurements of snowfall
Edwin W. Eloranta, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| 4:00 PM | 5.3 | Advantages of a coordinated scanning Doppler lidar and cloud radar system for wind measurements
Katja Tr�umner, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; and J. Handwerker, A. Wieser, J. Grenzh�user, and C. Kottmeier |
| 4:15 PM | 5.4 | Buoyancy profiling with lidar
Andreas Behrendt, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany; and M. Radlach, S. Pal, and V. Wulfmeyer |
| 4:30 PM | 5.5 | Lidar measurements of extreme inflow events for wind-energy operations
Yelena L. Pichugina, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Banta, A. W. Brewer, and N. D. Kelley |
| 4:45 PM | 5.6 | Water vapor variability within the atmospheric boundary layer using Raman Lidar and sounding measurements
Mariana Adam, Howard University, Washington, DC; and M. Hicks, T. Dejene, M. Robjhon, B. B. Demoz, J. D. Fuentes, E. Joseph, D. Venable, and R. Connell |
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| Wednesday, 14 January 2009 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Room 122A
Session 6 Emerging lidar methods in addressing atmospheric issues |
CoChair: Valentin Simeonov, EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Lausanne Switzerland
Chair: Richard A. Ferrare, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA
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| 8:30 AM | 6.1 | First airborne laser remote measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide
Edward V. Browell, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and M. E. Dobbs, J. Dobler, S. Kooi, Y. Choi, F. W. Harrison, B. Moore, and T. S. Zaccheo |
| 9:00 AM | 6.2 | Combined Water Vapor, Temperature and Aerosol Raman Lidars Developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Valentin Simeonov, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; and T. Dinoev, I. Serikov, P. Ristori, B. Calpini, M. Froidevaux, H. Van den Bergh, and M. B. Parlange |
| 9:15 AM | 6.3 | Using Airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar Data to Evaluate Combined Active Plus Passive Retrievals of Aerosol Extinction Profiles
Richard A. Ferrare, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and S. Burton, C. Hostetler, J. Hair, A. Cook, D. Harper, M. Obland, R. Rogers, C. Kittaka, and L. Remer |
| 9:30 AM | 6.4 | End-to-end testbed for rapid analysis of laser remote sensing data and application to flight data in preparation for ASCENDS
T. Scott Zaccheo, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA; and H. E. Snell, J. Dobler, M. E. Dobbs, E. V. Browell, and B. Moore |
| 9:45 AM | 6.5 | CW Fiber Laser Absorption Spectrometer for O2 Column Meausurements in support of the ASCENDS Mission
Jeremy Dobler, ITT Industries Space Systems, LLC, Fort Wayne, IN; and M. E. Dobbs, T. S. Zaccheo, J. Nagel, F. W. Harrison, E. V. Browell, and B. Moore |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Room 122A
Session 7 The Use of Lidar Measurements in Model Evaluation and Assimilation |
Cochairs: Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; Andreas Behrendt, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart Germany
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| 10:30 AM | 7.1 | Using lidar and radar simulators to understand the number concentration of ice crystals in cirrus clouds
Jennifer M. Comstock, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. A. McFarlane |
| 11:00 AM | 7.2 | Diagnostic Wind Model Initialization Using Airborne Doppler Wind Lidar Data
Yansen Wang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and C. Williamson, D. Emmitt, and S. Greco |
| 11:15 AM | 7.3 | Water Vapor DIAL and DOW Observations and Comparisons with Mesoscale Models in COPS
Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and V. Wulfmeyer |
| 11:30 AM | 7.4 | CALIPSO Compared to the GEOS-5 Model
Nikisa S. Jordan, JCET/Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and R. M. Hoff and J. Bacmeister |
| 11:45 AM | 7.5 | A Modeling Study of Low-Level-Jets over the Mid-Atlantic Region during
Mengsteab Weldegaber, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and B. B. Demoz, L. C. Sparling, and R. Delgado |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall) |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5
Poster Session 1 Poster: Advances in Lidar Applications |
Chairs: Belay B. Demoz, Howard University, Washington, DC; Jennifer Comstock, PNNL, Richland, WA; Andreas Behrendt, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart Germany
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| | P1.1 | Potential for lidar measurements of scattering coefficient profiles in thick clouds
Tamas Varnai, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and R. F. Cahalan and A. Marshak |
| | P1.2 | Calculation of turbulence intensity based on spectrum width data of a Doppler LIDAR
C.C. Wong, University of Hong Kong, ; and P. W. Chan, K. Akaeda, and H. Mizuno |
| | P1.3 | The Astronomical Lidar for Extinction (ALE): High cadence precision measurements of nighttime scattering and absorption
Peter Zimmer, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; and J. T. McGraw, G. Gimmestad, D. W. Roberts, J. Smith, and J. Fitch |
| | P1.4 | Water vapor transport within the atmospheric boundary layer from Raman lidar, radiosondes, wind profiler, and tower observations
Mariana Adam, Howard University, Washington, DC; and T. Dejene, M. Hicks, M. Robjhon, B. B. Demoz, J. D. Fuentes, E. Joseph, D. Venable, and R. Connell |
| | P1.5 | Lidar algorithms for the EarthCARE satellite
Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands; and D. P. Donovan |
| | P1.6 | Lidar Polar Stratospheric Clouds studies in Antarctica using the �MATCH� method during the International Polar Year
Christine David, Service d'Aeronomie-IPSL, Paris, France; and A. Klekociuk, M. C. Pitts, M. Snels, L. Di Liberto, C. Stark, J. Jumelet, and P. Keckhut |
| | P1.7 | Remote retrieval of cumulus cloud entrainment rates
Timothy J. Wagner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. D. Turner and S. A. Ackerman |
| | P1.8 | Adapting the microspulse LIDAR for use as a reference for cloud measurement
Aaron J. Poyer, NOAA/NWS, Sterling, VA; and R. Lewis |
| | P1.9 | Evaluation of the CT25KT Vaisala Ceilometer and its uses in dynamics meteorological studies
Belay B. Demoz, Howard University, Washington, DC; and M. Adam and K. Vermeesch |
| | P1.10 | 4DVAR analysis of the wind field based on Doppler LIDAR data
Frank Yu, Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, Kensington WA, , Australia; and P. W. Chan |
| | P1.11 | An examination of AIRS data during overshooting events observed from MODIS, CloudSat and CALIPSO data
Alisa Holley Young, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA |
| | P1.12 | Assessment of space based DWL in Joint OSSE
Michiko Masutani, EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and G. D. Emmitt, G. J. Marseille, A. Stoffelen, S. Greco, S. A. Wood, E. Andersson, E. Brin, A. Da Silva, M. J. McGill, J. Woollen, and L. P. Riishojgaard |
| | P1.13 | High Performance Micropulse Lidar to Support Ground Based Astronomy
D.W. Roberts, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA; and J. M. Stewart, G. G. Gimmestad, P. Zimmer, J. T. McGraw, J. Smith, and J. Fitch |
| | P1.14 | Boundary layer turbulence measurements via Raman lidar water vapor detection
Erin P. Wagner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. D. Turner |
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| 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Hall 4
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Northballroom
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 15 January 2009 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, Room 122A
Session 8 Satelite Studies and Lidar Observations - I |
CoChair: Sebastien Berthier, SSEC ( Space Science and Engineering Center) / University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Chair: M. Patrick McCormick, Hampton University, Hampton, VA
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| 8:30 AM | 8.1 | Retrieving optical depths for optically thick clouds from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) on board ICESat
Alexander Marshak, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. Yang, J. Y. C. Chiu, and W. J. Wiscombe |
| 9:00 AM | 8.2 | Direct radiative effect of aerosols over clouds and clear skies determined using CALIPSO and the A-Train
Robert Wood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. Chand and T. Anderson |
| 9:15 AM | 8.3 | African Dust and Smoke Influences on Radiative Effects in the Tropical Atlantic Using CERES and CALIOP Data
John E. Yorks, SSAI/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. McGill, S. Rodier, M. Vaughan, Y. Hu, and D. L. Hlavka |
| 9:30 AM | 8.4 | Properties of thin clouds observed by ICESat and CALIPSO over ice sheets and their impact on ice altimetry measurements
Yuekui Yang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Marshak, T. Varnai, and W. Wiscombe |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Wednesday's program) |
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| 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, Room 122A
Session 9 Satelite Studies and Lidar Observations - II
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CoChair: Soon-Chang Yoon, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul South Korea
Chair: John A. Reagan, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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| 11:00 AM | 9.1 | Dual-wavelength lidar aerosol retrievals via CRAM
John A. Reagan, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and C. J. Mcpherson, C. A. Hostetler, J. W. Hair, R. A. Ferrare, M. D. Obland, and R. R. Rogers |
| 11:30 AM | 9.2 | The evaluation and application of CALIPSO products with focus on expedited data retrievals, temperature dataset comparisons, and trajectory modeling
Alexander Matus, DEVELOP National Program, Hampton, VA; and B. Scarino, D. Henderson, B. Lee, and C. Trepte |
| 11:45 AM | 9.3 | Intercomparisons of cloud top and bottom heights from CALIPSO, CloudSat, MODIS, and ground-based LIDAR
Soon-Chang Yoon, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and K. C. Moon, S. W. Kim, and E. S. Chung |
| 12:00 PM | 9.4 | Comparisons of Cirrus cloud statistics derived from CALIOP spaceborne lidar and MODIS measurements
Sebastien Berthier, SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI ; and A. Heidinger, P. Chazette, and B. Baum |
| 12:15 PM | 9.5 | Characterization of global cirrus and polar stratospheric clouds
M. Patrick McCormick, Hampton University, Hampton, VA; and H. Nazaryan and M. T. Hill |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday, Room 131AB
Hollingsworth Symp Luncheon |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday, Hall 4
Coffee Break and Exhibit Hall Raffle |
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| 5:15 PM-5:20 PM, Thursday
AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns |
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