| 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. Bösenberg, H. Linnè, 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. Müller, 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 Träumner, 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 Träumner, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; and J. Handwerker, A. Wieser, J. Grenzhäuser, 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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