| 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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| 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Northballroom A
Weatherfest
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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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| 10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer |
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| 10:45 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, Room 224AB
Joint Session 2 Critical Aspects of Satellite Observations and Information in Emerging Systems of Systems (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology) |
Cochairs: Philip E. Ardanuy, Raytheon Information Solutions, Reston, VA; Rolf Stuhlmann, EUMETSAT
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| 10:45 AM | J2.1 | EUMETSAT's Contributions to a Meteorological and Environmental System of Systems 
Johannes Schmetz, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and R. Stuhlmann, L. Sarlo, P. Counet, and E. Koenemann |
| 11:00 AM | J2.2 | New Challenges for Satellite Observations, Data, and Climate Modeling
Michael Gunson, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and A. J. Braverman, D. Crichton, and J. Teixeira |
|  | J2.3 | Exploiting Satellite Observations and an "Ecosystem of Systems" for Environmental Decision-making
Steve Young, GEOSS / US EPA, Washington, DC |
| 11:15 AM | J2.3A | Evolution of NOAA's satellite archive: transition of CLASS development to operations at NOAA's data centers and future plans 
John J. Bates, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and K. S. Casey and E. Kihn |
| 11:30 AM | J2.4 | NOAA's Integrated Observations and Data Management and Strategic Portfolio Tools
Martin Yapur, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Miller, R. C. Reining, and R. Mairs |
| 11:45 AM | J2.5 | Strategies to Ensure That Satellite Observations Can Be Fully Exploited within Emerging Environmental Systems of Systems
Carroll A. Hood, Raytheon Company, Aurora, CO |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, Room 224AB
Joint Session 3 Retrievals and Clouds (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R) |
Cochairs: Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Madison, WI; Steven D. Miller, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
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| 1:30 PM | J3.1 | Retrieval Skill in Hyperspectral Sounders
Hartmut H. Aumann, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. Manning, E. Maddy, and C. D. Barnet |
| 1:45 PM | J3.2 | Cloud thermodynamic phase retrievals from AIRS
Shaima L. Nasiri, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and B. H. Kahn and H. M. Cho |
| 2:00 PM | J3.3 | The challenge of passive remote sensing of clouds from satellites over Polar Regions in winter
Steve Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Frey and R. Holz |
| 2:15 PM | J3.4 | Use of ozone channel measurements for deep convective cloud height retrievals over the tropics
Eun-Han Kwon, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Sohn, J. Schmetz, and P. Watts |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5
Joint Poster Session 1 Satellite Retrievals and Clouds (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R) |
Cochairs: Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Madison, WI; Steven D. Miller, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
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| | JP1.1 | Profiling temperature, water vapor and ozone via cm and mm wavelength satellite to satellite occultations
E. Robert Kursinski, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and D. Ward, C. Groppi, M. Schein, S. Albanna, and K. Sammler |
| | JP1.2 | Exploring the error characteristics of thin ice cloud property retrievals using a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm
Derek J. Posselt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and T. S. L'Ecuyer and G. L. Stephens |
| | JP1.3 | On the influence of ice particle microphysical model on the retrieval of cirrus cloud optical thickness using MODIS 1.38-μm band
Zhibo Zhang, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Yang, K. Meyer, S. Platnick, and B. Baum |
| | JP1.4 | Partitioning CloudSat Ice Water Content for Comparison with Upper-Tropospheric Cloud Ice in Global Atmospheric Models
Christopher P. Woods, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Waliser, J. L. F. Li, J. D. Chern, W. K. Tao, J. Jiang, and A. M. Tompkins |
| | JP1.5 | Cloud property variational retrieval for global real-time applications
Alan E. Lipton, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA; and J. L. Moncet, R. P. d'Entremont, G. B. Gustafson, R. Aschbrenner, J. B. Eylander, and S. Sarasamma |
| | JP1.6 | Real-Time Global Retrievals of Cloud Spatial, Radiative, and Microphysical Properties
Robert P. d'Entremont, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA; and G. B. Gustafson, J. L. Moncet, and A. Lipton |
| | JP1.7 | Evaluations of the CALIPSO Cloud Optical Depth Algorithm Through Comparisons with a GOES Derived Cloud Analysis
Katie Carbonari, Northrop Grumann TASC, Chantilly, VA; and H. Kiley and R. Alliss |
| | JP1.8 | Inter-comparison of cloud property retrievals from GOES, Aqua-MODIS, CloudSat, and CALIPSO over the mid-high latitudes of North America during 2008
Douglas A. Spangenberg, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and M. L. Nordeen, R. Palikonda, J. K. Ayers, F. L. Chang, and P. Minnis |
| | JP1.9 | Preliminary Results for the Retrieval of Convective Momentum Fluxes Using TRMM and CloudSat
Christopher P. Jewett, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski |
| | JP1.10 | Analysis and validation of the spatio-temporal distribution of latent heating in the Southeast Asian monsoon region
Manuel D. Zuluaga, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and C. D. Hoyos and P. J. Webster |
| | JP1.11 | Empirical normalization for the effect of volcanic stratospheric aerosols on AVHRR NDVI
Marco Vargas, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD; and F. Kogan and W. Guo |
| | JP1.12 | Cloud mask and Quality control for SST within the Advanced Clear Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO)
Boris Petrenko, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, IMSG Inc, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Ignatov, Y. Kihai, X. Liang, N. Shabanov, and A. K. Heidinger |
| | JP1.13 | Error Characterization in the AVHRR Clear-Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO) Sea Surface Temperatures
Feng Xu, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Ignatov and X. Liang |
| | JP1.14 | Operational cloud analysis in polar regions
Robert P. D'Entremont, AER, Lexington, MA; and G. B. Gustafson and J. B. Eylander |
| | JP1.15 | Cloud type classified by the split window and CALIOP
Toshiro Inoue, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan |
| | JP1.16 | Cloud climatology over the western ghats of southern india
Ronald M. Welch, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and V. S. Manoharn, U. S. Nair, R. O. Lawton, and D. K. Ray |
| | JP1.17 | Enhanced satellite cloud products for climate studies
Tom Greenwald, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Bennartz |
| | JP1.18 | Hyperspectral model validation in cloudy radiance space from AIRS
Ovidiu Pancrati, EC, Dorval, QC , Canada; and L. Garand and S. Heilliette |
| | JP1.19 | Improved determination of surface and atmospheric temperatures using only shortwave AIRS channels
Joel Susskind, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Blaisdell |
| | JP1.20 | Global hyperspectral resolution surface IR emissivity spectra derived from AIRS measurements
Jinlong Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li, E. Weisz, and E. Borbas |
| | JP1.21 | Clouds Synergy through NASA Goddard Giovanni Online System
Hualan Rui, ADNET and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Leptoukh, S. Shen, J. Pan, S. Berrick, and S. J. Kempler |
| | JP1.22 | A comparison of MISR cloud motion vectors and NOAA radar wind profiler data
Laura M. Hinkelman, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. T. Marchand and T. P. Ackerman |
| | JP1.23 | Soundings from Current and Future Geostationary Satellites
Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Madison, WI; and J. Li, J. Gurka, J. Daniels, M. Goldberg, and P. Menzel |
| | JP1.24 | High Temporal GOES Sounding Retrievals in Cloudy Regions and Applications
Zhenglong Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li, P. Menzel, T. J. Schmit, and J. Nelson |
| | JP1.25 | Retrievals of Upper Tropospheric Temperature and Water Vapor using UW/SSEC S-HIS data collected during the Joint Airborne IASI Validation Experiment (JAIVEx)
Sarah Bedka, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and P. Antonelli, R. Knuteson, H. E. Revercomb, W. Smith, D. Tobin, and H. Woolf |
| | JP1.26 | Preliminary validation of GPCI simulations with observational data from NASA's A-Train Aqua, CloudSat and Calipso satellites
Sambingo Cardoso, NCAR /CGUL Portugal, Boulder, CO; and J. Teixeira, P. Rasch, P. Miranda, A. Gettelman, Y. Zhang, S. Klein, G. Mace, C. Hannay, M. Koehler, M. Zhao, P. Siebesma, P. Marquet, A. Lock, C. Jakob, C. DeMott, H. Kitagawa, and D. Mironov |
| | JP1.27 | Sea surface air temperature and humidity retrievals based on AMSU measurements
Lei Shi, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and H. M. Zhang |
| | JP1.28 | Examination of viewing zenith angle dependence on cloud heights derived from thermal infrared satellite observations
Christopher Rogers Yost, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, K. Ayers, R. Palikonda, D. A. Spangenberg, S. sun-Mack, and Y. Chen |
| | JP1.29 | Comparison of cloud properties derived from MSG SEVIRI and ARM Mobile Facility observations
J. Kirk Ayers, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, R. Palikonda, C. R. Yost, D. A. Spangenberg, F. L. Chang, and L. Nguyen |
| | JP1.30 | Retrieving Cloud and Radiation Parameters in Near-Real-Time from Global Geostationary Satellite Data
Patrick Minnis, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and L. Nguyen, R. Palikonda, P. W. Heck, D. A. Spangenberg, M. Khaiyer, J. K. Ayers, W. L. Smith, Jr., F. L. Chang, Q. Z. Trepte, D. R. Doelling, C. R. Yost, L. A. Avey, and T. L. Chee |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, Room 224AB
Joint Session 8 Environmental Applications and Decision Support Systems (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R, and the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research) |
Chair: Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD
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| 4:00 PM | J8.1 | Environmental Information for the Next Generation Air Transportation System
John J. Murray, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and C. Miner and T. E. Ryan |
| 4:15 PM | J8.2 | An Open-Source SOA Solution Enabling Environmental System-of-Systems Integration and Decision Support
Philip E. Ardanuy, Raytheon Information Solutions, Reston, VA; and A. M. Tarro, A. Ritchie, and A. Nappi |
| 4:30 PM | J8.3 | The oceanic convection diagnosis and nowcasting system
Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and H. Cai, N. Rehak, D. Megenhardt, M. Steiner, R. Bankert, J. Hawkins, M. Donovan, and E. R. Williams |
| 4:45 PM | J8.4 | Nowcasting oceanic convection using random forest classification
Huaqing Cai, NCAR, Boulder, CO ; and C. Kessinger, D. Ahijevich, J. Williams, N. Rehak, D. Megenhardt, R. Bankert, J. Hawkins, M. Donovan, and E. R. Williams |
| 5:00 PM | J8.5 | Using NASA Satellite and Model Analysis for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Applications
Paul W. Stackhouse Jr., NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and W. S. Chandler, C. H. Whitlock, J. M. Hoell, D. Westberg, and T. Zhang |
| 5:15 PM | J8.6 | Monitoring Vegetation Properties through Satellite Passive Microwave Remote Sensing
Qilong Min, SUNY, Albany, NY; and B. Lin and R. Li |
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| 5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions Adjourn for the Day |
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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 124A
Joint Session 1 Measurements in the Urban Environment (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data) |
Cochairs: Henry Revercomb, SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL, Pasadena, CA
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| 8:30 AM | J1.1 | An Overview of the Oklahoma City Micronet
Jeffrey B. Basara, Oklahoma Climatological Survey and University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. G. Illston, C. Fiebrich, R. McPherson, J. P. Bostic, P. Browder, D. Demko, C. Morgan, and K. Kessler |
| 8:45 AM | J1.2 | Development of a NYC Meteorological Network with emphasis on vertical wind profiles in support of meteorological and dispersion models
Mark Arend, City College of New York, New York, NY; and D. Santoro, B. Gross, F. Moshary, S. Ahmed, and S. Abdelazim |
| 9:00 AM | J1.3 | Urban meteorological observations in Helsinki, Finland
David M. Schultz, Univ. of Helsinki/FMI, Helsinki, Finland; and W. F. Dabberdt, J. Damski, E. Gregow, L. Järvi, J. Koskinen, A. Meskanen, J. Poutiainen, H. Turtiainen, T. Vesala, and Y. Viisanen |
| 9:15 AM | J1.4 | The Environmental Prediction in Canadian Cities (EPiCC) network
James A. Voogt, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and T. R. Oke, O. Bergeron, N. R. Goodwin, S. Leroyer, B. R. Crawford, E. Christensen, B. E. Nanni, R. Tooke, D. van der Kamp, D. Aldred, S. Bélair, F. Chagnon, A. Christen, N. Coops, J. Mailhot, I. McKendry, I. B. Strachan, J. Wang, M. Benjamin, S. Grimmond, A. Lemonsu, and V. Masson |
| 9:30 AM | J1.5 | Phoenix Urban Flash Flood Study (PUFFS)
Kenneth Howard, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. V. Vasiloff, C. Langston, J. Zhang, D. P. Jorgensen, and C. Dempsey |
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| 9:00 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 224AB
Joint Session 6 NPOESS/MetOp Overview and Status (Joint between the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography) |
Cochairs: Mike Haas, NPOESS, Silver Spring, MD; Doug May, Naval Oceanographic Office, Stennis Space Center, MS
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| 9:00 AM | J6.1 | National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Architecture
Edward Phillips, NPOESS , Silver Spring, MD; and M. Haas and C. Nelson |
| 9:15 AM | J6.2 | National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Program Status
Dan Stockton, Program Executive Office, NPOESS Program, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Nelson and M. Haas |
| 9:30 AM | J6.3 | Metop-A status and recent achievements
Johannes Schmetz, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and K. D. Klaes, P. Schlüssel, and K. Holmlund |
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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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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5
Joint Poster Session 2 GOES-R (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R) |
Cochairs: James Gurka, NESDIS GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD; Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Madison, WI; Frank Hinnant, NPOESS/IPO, Silver Spring, MD; Jane Whitcomb, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD
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| | JP2.1 | Synthetic satellite datasets for GOES-R ABI bands
Renate Brummer, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. Sengupta, L. Grasso, D. W. Hillger, D. T. Lindsey, R. DeMaria, and M. DeMaria |
| | JP2.2 | GOES-R ABI product development
Donald W. Hillger, NOAA/NEDSIS, Fort Collins, CO CO; and M. DeMaria and R. Brummer |
| | JP2.3 | An overview of the future GOES-R series data and products to be archived at the NOAA data centers
Philip Jones, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and D. Saunders and K. Knapp |
| | JP2.4 | Development of Land Products for GOES-R Satellite Mission
Yunyue Yu, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and D. Tarpley and M. D. Goldberg |
| | JP2.5 | The UW/CIMSS global land surface infrared emissivity database for GOES-R ABI simulation studies
Eva Borbas, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. O. Knuteson, S. W. Seemann, L. Moy, T. Greenwald, D. Tobin, and H. L. Huang |
| | JP2.6 | GOES-R/ABI for vegetation health monitoring
Felix Kogan, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Guo and Y. Tian |
| | JP2.7 | Simulated GOES-R vegetation health product system
Wei Guo, IMSG, Camp Springs, MD; and F. Kogan, Y. Yu, Y. Tian, D. Tarpley, L. Jiang, and P. Romanov |
| | JP2.8 | Synthetic GOES-R imagery of fires at 3.9 µm
Louie Grasso, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. Sengupta, R. Brummer, R. DeMaria, and D. W. Hillger |
| | JP2.9 | Improving fire detection: Current GOES to GOES-R
Manajit Sengupta, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and L. Grasso, R. Brummer, and D. W. Hillger |
| | JP2.10 | Retrieving Upper and Lower Cloud Layer Properties Using the GOES-12 Imagery Data: Addressing Problems in Satellite Retrievals of Cloud Layers
Fu-Lung Chang, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, B. Lin, R. Palikonda, and D. A. Spangenberg |
| | JP2.11 | Comparison of the GOES-R cloud Algorithm Working Group's daytime cloud optical property products to those from MODIS, AVHRR and VIIRS
William Straka III, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. Walther and A. K. Heidinger |
| | JP2.12 | The introduction and evaluation of a prototype GOES-R fog/low stratus algorithm using SEVIRI, CALIPSO and surface observations
Corey G. Calvert, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. J. Pavolonis |
| | JP2.13 | An analysis of the seasonal and diurnal variation of total precipitable water (TPW) from satellite and ground-based instruments over the ARM-SGP site
Sarah Bedka, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Cychosz, M. Evansen, R. Knuteson, H. E. Revercomb, D. Tobin, and D. D. Turner |
| | JP2.14 | Status update from the GOES-R Hydrology Algorithm Team
Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA / NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD |
| | JP2.15 | Prototyping SST Retrievals from GOES-R ABI with MSG SEVIRI data
Nikolay Shabanov, NOAA/NESDIS, IMSG Inc, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Ignatov, B. Petrenko, Y. Kihai, X. Liang, W. Guo, F. Xu, P. Dash, M. Goldberg, and J. Sapper |
| | JP2.16 | Sea and lake ice characteristics from GOES-R ABI
Xuanji Wang, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and Y. Liu and J. Key |
| | JP2.17 | An automated approach for determining sea ice concentration for the future GOES-R ABI sensor
Marouane Temimi, NOAA-CREST, New York, NY; and H. Ghedira, R. Khanbilvardi, and P. Romanov |
| | JP2.18 | Snow cover mapping technique for GOES-R ABI
Peter Romanov, Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies, College Park, MD; and C. Kongoli |
| | JP2.19 | Implementation of the GOES-R AWG product processing system framework
Walter Wolf, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and L. Zhou, P. Keehn, Q. Guo, S. Sampson, S. Qiu, and M. Goldberg |
| | JP2.20 | Quality Assessment of the GOES-R AWG Level 2 Product Processing System
Lihang Zhou, Perot System, Fairfax, VA; and W. Wolf, Q. Shuang, W. Wang, P. Keehn, Q. Guo, S. Sampson, and M. D. Goldberg |
| | JP2.21 | GeoSTAR—A “Geostationary AMSU”
Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Gaier and L. Herrell |
| | JP2.22 | Mesoscale sounding capabilities with GOES-R and beyond
William Smith Sr., Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA; and H. Revercomb and J. Tian |
| | JP2.23 | Evaluation of GOES-R and NPOESS instrument in Joint OSSEs
Lars Peter Riishojgaard, JCSDA, Greenbelt, MD; and F. Weng, M. Masutani, T. Zhu, H. Sun, C. M. Hill, V. Anantharaj, P. J. Fitzpatrick, R. M. Errico, S. J. Lord, Y. Han, J. Woollen, D. Groff, and T. J. Kleespies |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5
Joint Poster Session 3 Npoess (Joint between the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography) |
Cochairs: Frank Hinnant, Eagle Consulting, LLC, Lansing, NC; Jane Whitcomb, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD
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| | JP3.1 | National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) design and architecture
Frank Hinnant, Eagle Consulting, LLC, Lansing, NC |
| | JP3.2 | NPOESS spacecraft and sensor performance
Derrick Day, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA |
| | JP3.3 | NPOESS Command, Control, and Communications Segment (C3S)
Paul B. Koster, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO |
| | JP3.4 | NPOESS' Key to Low Data Latency: SafetyNetTM
David G. Lubar, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO; and G. Cook and M. L. Jamilkowski |
| | JP3.5 | NPOESS Benefits McMurdo Station, Antarctica Science Community
Joseph Paciaroni, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO |
| | JP3.6 | NPOESS Field Terminal Segment
Joseph Bradley, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Omaha, NE |
| | JP3.7 | NPOESS Interface Data Processing Segment Architecture
Kerry D. Grant, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO |
| | JP3.8 | NPOESS Interface Data Processing Segment (IDPS) Hardware
William J. Sullivan, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO; and C. R. Bergeron and D. A. Hargrave |
| | JP3.9 | NPOESS Environmental Data Record (EDR) Production
Kerry D. Grant, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO; and R. Hughes |
| | JP3.10 | Accessing and Using NPOESS Data Products
Daniel Cornell, Raytheon Company, Omaha, NE |
| | JP3.11 | Status and activities of the NPOESS Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) in preparation for delivery to the NPP spacecraft
Gary Ross, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Ayers |
| | JP3.12 | VIIRS Sensor and EDR Performance Summary and Comparisons to Heritage
David Lewis, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA; and C. Snodgrass, J. McCarthy, D. Shannon, N. Andreas, M. Mussetto, K. D. Grant, P. Smit, and B. Guenther |
| | JP3.13 | VIIRS Gridding and Granulation Algorithms for NPOESS
Alain Sei, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA |
| | JP3.14 | VIIRS sensor radiometric performance overview
David Lewis, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA; and S. Mills, J. McCarthy, M. S. Chou, J. Diehl, G. Grimm, R. Patel, and J. Jaron |
| | JP3.15 | Early performance predictions of Cloud Environmental Data Records for the NPOESS Preparatory Project VIIRS sensor
Heather Kilcoyne, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Guenther, C. Hoffman, G. Mineart, K. St. Germain, and B. Reed |
| | JP3.16 | Early performance predictions of Imagery, Cloud Mask, and Fire Mask data products for the NPOESS Preparatory Project VIIRS sensor
Heather Kilcoyne, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Guenther, C. Hoffman, G. Mineart, K. St. Germain, and B. Reed |
| | JP3.17 | A geometry-based approach to identifying cloud shadows in the VIIRS cloud mask algorithm for NPOESS
Keith D. Hutchison, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA CA; and R. Mahoney, E. Vermote, T. J. Kopp, J. M. Jackson, B. Iisager, and A. Sei |
| | JP3.20 | Early performance predictions of Aerosol Environmental Data Records for the NPOESS Preparatory Project VIIRS sensor
Heather Kilcoyne, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Guenther, C. Hoffman, G. Mineart, K. St. Germain, and B. Reed |
| | JP3.18 | Assessment of the NPOESS/VIIRS Nighttime Infrared Cloud Optical Properties Algorithms
Eric Wong, Northrup Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach., CA; and S. C. Ou |
| | JP3.21 | Predicted performance of NPOESS aerosol products
John M. Jackson, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and E. Vermote and C. F. Quist |
| | JP3.22 | Early performance predictions of Ocean Environmental Data Records for the NPOESS Preparatory Project VIIRS sensor
Bonnie Reed, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Guenther, C. Hoffman, G. Mineart, K. St. Germain, and H. Kilcoyne |
| | JP3.19 | Solar channel calibration using deep convective clouds
B. J. Sohn, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. H. Ham |
| | JP3.23 | Pre-launch performance assessment of the VIIRS ocean color/chlorophyll algorithm
Justin Ip, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA; and B. Hauss and C. Mobley |
| | JP3.24 | Refinement of atmospheric correction of absorbing aerosols for highly productive coastal waters using the SWIR retrieval algorithm together with water leaving reflectance constraints at 412nm
Barry Gross, City College of New York, New York, NY; and M. Oo, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed |
| | JP3.25 | Pre-launch performance assessment of the VIIRS ice surface temperature algorithm
Justin Ip, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA; and B. Hauss |
| | JP3.26 | Early performance predictions of Land Environmental Data Records for the NPOESS Preparatory Project VIIRS sensor
Bonnie Reed, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Guenther, C. Hoffman, G. Mineart, K. St. Germain, and H. Kilcoyne |
| | JP3.27 | VIIRS Land Surface Reflectance Algorithm for NPOESS
Alain Sei, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA; and E. Vermote |
| | JP3.28 | Daily Albedo and Reflectance Anisotropy Products
Crystal B. Schaaf, Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, Boston, MA; and M. Román, Q. Zhang, Y. Shuai, A. Strahler, D. Roy, G. Anderson, and J. L. Privette |
| | JP3.29 | Status and activities of the NPOESS Cross-Track Infrared Sounder in preparation for delivery to the NPP spacecraft
Richard Slonaker, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD |
| | JP3.30 | Performance of the as-delivered NPP CrIS sensor
Richard Slonaker, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Sabet-Peyman, P. Moffa, D. Gu, T. Christensen, and R. Glumb |
| | JP3.31 | Early performance predictions of Cross-track Infrared Sounder/Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (CrIMSS) Environmental Data Records for the NPOESS Preparatory Project
Bonnie Reed, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and G. A. Bingham, B. Guenther, C. Hoffman, G. Mineart, K. St. Germain, and H. Kilcoyne |
| | JP3.32 | CrIMSS Retrieval Algorithm Testing with Proxy Data
Degui Gu, Northrop-Grumman, Redondo Beach, CA; and X. L. Ma |
| | JP3.33 | Status and activities of the NPOESS Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) in preparation for delivery to the NPOESS spacecraft
Christopher Brann, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD |
| | JP3.34 | OMPS—The next generation sensor suite for global Ozone monitoring
Scott C. Asbury, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO; and S. Cass, L. Farwell, K. Eastman, Q. Remund, and J. Rodriguez |
| | JP3.35 | Early performance predictions of Ozone Environmental Data Records for the NPOESS Preparatory Project OMPS sensor
Heather Kilcoyne, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Caponi, B. Guenther, C. Hoffman, G. Mineart, K. St. Germain, and B. Reed |
| | JP3.36 | OMPS SDR Algorithm Improvements and Verification
Degui Gu, Northrop-Grumman, Redondo Beach, CA; and K. Jordan and M. Novicki |
| | JP3.37 | OMPS sensor performance and algorithm description
Scott Farrow, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and D. Gu, T. Christensen, D. Fields, and Q. Remund |
| | JP3.38 | The OMPS Limb Profiler instrument: Data analysis and retrieval algorithm
Didier F. Rault, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and R. Loughman |
| | JP3.39 | Status of the CERES Instruments for NPP and NPOESS
Stan Schneider, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Webb |
| | JP3.40 | WindSat Polarimetric Microwave Radiometer: Advanced Sensor Products and Risk Reduction for NPOESS MIS
Michael H. Bettenhausen, NRL, Washington, DC; and I. S. Adams, L. Li, and P. W. Gaiser |
| | JP3.41 | Contributions of the NPOESS Microwave Imager/Sounder (MIS) Sensor to data continuity for operations
David Kunkee, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA; and C. Brann and R. Hamilton |
| | JP3.42 | Algorithm development program for NPOESS Space Weather products
William F. Denig, NOAA/NESDIS, Boulder, CO; and V. Grano and J. Manley |
| | JP3.43 | NPP Cal/Val program and data product mission integration
Heather Kilcoyne, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Guenther, C. Hoffman, G. Mineart, K. St. Germain, and B. Reed |
| | JP3.44 | GRAVITE—central technical support infrastructure for the IPO NPP Calibration and Validation program
Joseph Zajic, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD; and V. Gonzalez |
| | JP3.45 | The Noaa PROoducts (integrated) Validation System (NPROVS) and Environmental Data Graphical Evaluation (EDGE) Interface Part-2: Science
Anthony L. Reale, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and B. Sun and M. Pettey |
| | JP3.46 | EVEREST: An Integrated Weather Products Testbed for Environmental Remote Sensing Satellite Systems
Merit Shoucri, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA; and B. Hauss |
| | JP3.47 | McIDAS-V applications: multi- and hyper-spectral analysis and visualization
Thomas D. Rink, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| | JP3.48 | NexSat: Reaching out to the weather satellite community
Arunas P. Kuciauskas, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. F. Lee, S. D. Miller, F. J. Turk, K. Richardson, J. E. Kent, and J. Hawkins |
| | JP3.49 | Interactive 4D Visualization and Analysis
Michael C. Lampel, Raytheon Company, Pasadena, CA; and K. Yau, I. Strickland, and P. Li |
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Joint Poster Session 4 Satellite Education (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R) |
Cochairs: Thomas F. Lee, NRL, Monterey, CA; Volker Karl Gaertner, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany
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| | JP4.1 | Satellite Observations in Science Education
Tommy Jasmin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Ackerman |
| | JP4.2 | Satellite Meteorology Education Resources: New Modules, Initiatives, and the Environmental Satellite Resource Center (ESRC) Web Site
Patrick N. Dills, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and W. Schreiber-Abshire, M. Weingroff, P. Parrish, and B. Guarente |
| | JP4.3 | GOES-R Proving Ground Plans for a Weather Event Simulator
Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Madison, WI; and J. Sieglaff, K. Bah, J. Gerth, G. S. Wade, and J. Gurka |
| | JP4.4 | International satellite training activities
Bernadette H. Connell, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and M. Davison, A. Mostek, V. Castro, and T. Whittaker |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5
Poster Session 1 New and Future Sensor Applications and Systems |
| | P1.1 | An overview of the future GOES-R series data and products to be archived at the NCDC
Philip Jones, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and D. Saunders and K. Knapp |
| | P1.2 | Prospects for high-latitude precipitation estimation with A-Train satellites
Eric J. Nelkin, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and G. J. Huffman, R. F. Adler, and D. T. Bolvin |
| | P1.3 | The next decade of Earth radiation budget measurement
G. Louis Smith, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA; and K. J. Priestley and B. A. Wielicki |
| | P1.4 | Simulation of the monochromatic radiative signature of Asian dust over the infrared region
Hyo-Jin Han, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Sohn, A. Huang, and E. Weisz |
| | P1.5 | Rainfall measurement with space-borne X-band synthetic aperture radars: A new opportunity
James A. Weinman, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and F. S. Marzano, W. J. Plant, Z. S. Haddad, S. L. Durden, and A. Mugnai |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 224AB
Joint Session 7 GOES-R Overview and Status (Joint between the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography) |
Cochairs: Gary K. Davis, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; James J. Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 128AB
Joint Session 9 Satellite Observations of Air-Sea Interaction (Joint between the 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography) |
Cochairs: Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; Ralph C. Foster, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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| 11:00 AM | J9.1 | Representation of air-sea turbulent fluxes from varying satellite methodologies
Carol Anne Clayson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL |
| 11:15 AM | J9.2 | Using neural networks to improve surface temperature and humidity prediction with satellite measurements
J. Brent Roberts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson and F. R. Robertson |
| 11:30 AM | J9.3 | Evaluation and comparison of satellite-derived estimates of the gas transfer velocity with direct observations from research vessels
Darren L. Jackson, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Wick |
| 11:45 AM | J9.4 | On the development of the eastern Pacific double ITCZ
Hirohiko Masunaga, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan |
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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 224AB
Joint Session 10 Satellite Education and Public Outreach (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, the 18th Symposium on Education, and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R) |
Cochairs: Thomas F. Lee, NRL, Monterey, CA; Volker Karl Gaertner, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany
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| 1:30 PM | J10.1 | GOES-R Proving Ground Program
James Gurka, NESDIS GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Mostek, T. J. Schmit, S. D. Miller, A. S. Bachmeier, and M. DeMaria |
| 1:45 PM | J10.2 | Contributions from CIRA to the GOES-R Satellite Proving Ground
Steven D. Miller, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. DeMaria, D. Molenar, D. W. Hillger, E. J. Szoke, R. Brummer, A. P. Kuciauskas, F. J. Turk, and H. Gosden |
| 2:00 PM | J10.3 | Satellite Training Activities at CIMSS: Helping to Prepare Forecasters for the GOES-R and NPOESS Era
A. Scott Bachmeier, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and J. Gerth |
| 2:15 PM | J10.4 | After more than 10-years of e-Learning, what have we learned?
Steven A. Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| 2:30 PM | J10.5 | Satellite Proving Ground for the GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM)
Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and E. C. Bruning, J. J. Gurka, R. Blakeslee, and D. Buechler |
| 2:45 PM | J10.6 | International Training Events and Educational Seminars on Satellite Remote Sensing
Paul Menzel, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and P. Antonelli, T. D. Rink, K. I. Strabala, L. E. Gumley, A. Huang, S. Ackerman, H. Revercomb, and B. Smith |
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Session 1 New and Future Sensors Applications and Systems |
Cochairs: Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL, Pasadena, CA; Henry Rivercomb, SSEC and Univ. of Madison, Madison, WI
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| 1:30 PM | 1.1 | Initiating a New Highly Accurate Climate Record with CLARREO
David F. Young, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, Va |
| 1:45 PM | 1.2 | The Polar Communications and Weather (PCW) mission: a Canadian project to observe the Arctic region from a higly elliptical orbit
Louis Garand, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and G. Kroupnik |
| 2:00 PM | 1.3 | Applications of lightning observations to tropical cyclone intensity forecasting
Mark DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO; and R. T. DeMaria |
| 2:15 PM | 1.4 | Preliminary Demonstration of FY-3 Satellite Products and Applications
Jun Yang, Chinese National Meteorological Satellite Center, District Haidian, Beijing, China; and N. Lu, P. Zhang, and F. Weng |
| 2:30 PM | 1.5 | Progress in developing a geostationary microwave sounder
Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Gaier and L. Herrell |
| 2:45 PM | 1.6 | NPOESS Preparatory Project Cross-track Infrared Sounder Sensor Characterization and Performance Predictions
Gail A. Bingham, Utah State Univ./SDL, Logan, UT; and L. L. Strow, D. Tobin, C. D. Barnet, F. Sabet-Peyman, P. Moffa, D. Gu, D. Hagan, T. Christensen, and R. Glumb |
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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-5:30 PM, Tuesday, Room 224AB
Joint Session 11 Satellite Forecaster Training (Joint between the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R, the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, and the 18th Symposium on Education) |
Cochairs: Anthony Mostek, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; Steven A. Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
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| 3:30 PM | J11.1 | NOAA Satellite Training
Anthony Mostek, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and M. DeMaria, J. J. Gurka, and T. J. Schmit |
| 3:45 PM | J11.2 | Training optimisation with web based training methodologies for satellite meteorology and related application areas
Volker Karl Gaertner, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, , Germany |
| 4:00 PM | J11.3 | A new environmental satellite resource center on the web
Wendy Abshire, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and B. Guarente, P. Parrish, and P. Dills |
| 4:15 PM | J11.4 | Transitioning NPOESS data to weather offices: The SPoRT paradigm with EOS data
Gary J. Jedlovec, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL |
| 4:30 PM | J11.5 | Collaborative training efforts at the NESDIS Cooperative Institutes
Ingrid Guch, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Q. Kidder, P. Menzel, R. Ferraro, S. Ackerman, D. R. Khanbilvardi, T. Strub, B. Vant Hull, R. D. Hudson, and M. DeMaria |
| 4:45 PM | J11.6 | Navigating the hurricane highway: Understanding hurricanes with Google Earth
F. J. Turk, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Kluge, A. Evan, K. Hutson, L. Kropuenske, T. Ledley, and M. Mooney |
| 5:00 PM | J11.7 | Applications of the NPOESS Imagers
T. F. Lee, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Hawkins, F. J. Turk, P. Gaiser, M. Bettenhausen, and S. D. Miller |
| 5:15 PM | J11.8 | The NPOESS Data Exploitation Project
James G. Yoe, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and J. Silva, G. Goodrum, and T. Schott |
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Joint Session 12 Walter Orr Roberts Lecture (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, the 23rd Conference on Hydrology, and the 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)) |
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| 5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions Adjourn for the Day |
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| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Room 224AB
Joint Session 13 Climate Monitoring and Studies (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R) |
Cochairs: Mitchell D. Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA
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| 8:30 AM | J13.1 | GOES-R Improvements for Climate Monitoring
Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD |
| 8:45 AM | J13.2 | NOAA's approach to providing Climate Data Records (CDRs) within a new interagency initiative
Jeff L. Privette, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. J. Bates, T. R. Karl, B. R. Barkstrom, E. Kearns, and D. Markham |
| 9:00 AM | J13.3 | Spatial and temporal inter-relationships betweenanomalies and trends of temperature, moisture, cloud cover, and OLR as observed by AIRS/AMSU on Aqua
Joel Susskind, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD ; and G. Molnar |
| 9:15 AM | J13.4 | Assessing Uncertainties and Variability in Global and Regional Radiative Fluxes from the NASA/GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Release-3.0 Dataset
Paul W. Stackhouse Jr., NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and S. K. Gupta, S. J. Cox, J. C. Mikovitz, T. Zhang, and L. M. Hinkelman |
| 9:30 AM | J13.5 | Regional and Seasonal Variations in Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Properties from MODIS and GOES observations
Michael P. Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and A. M. Vogelmann and E. Luke |
| 9:45 AM | J13.6 | Application of an optically thin model to limb scatter data for retrievals of aerosol extinction profiles
D. E. Flittner, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and R. Loughman, D. F. Rault, R. McPeters, E. Hilsenrath, E. J. Llewellyn, A. E. Bourassa, and D. A. Degenstein |
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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 124A
Joint Session 4 Modeling and Forecasting Urban Areas (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data, and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography) |
Chair: Gregory R. Carmichael, University of Iowa, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Iowa City, IA
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| 10:30 AM | J4.1 | Regional and Global Perspectives of Megacity Air Pollution
Gregory R. Carmichael, University of Iowa, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Iowa City, IA |
| 10:45 AM | J4.2 | GURME—the WMO GAW Urban Research Meteorology and Environment Project
Liisa Jalkanen, WMO/AREP, Geneva, Switzerland; and G. R. Carmichael |
| 11:00 AM | J4.3 | Regional modeling and prediction of the extreme smoke episode in Buenos Aires, 15–20 April 2008
Ernesto Hugo Berbery, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay and H. Ciappesoni |
| 11:15 AM | J4.4 | How well can we model the Houston area for air pollution studies?
Wayne M. Angevine, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Zagar and J. Brioude |
| | J4.5 | Modeling of TexAQS–II Urban Air Quality Events
Daewon W. Byun, Institute for Multi-dimensional Air Quality Studies, University of Houston, Houston, TX; and F. Ngan, H. C. Kim, S. T. Kim, and D. Lee |
| 11:30 AM | J4.6 | NOAA-EPA's National Air Quality Forecast Capability: Recent Progress in Providing Guidance for Cities
Paula Davidson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. McQueen, R. Mathur, R. Draxler, R. A. Wayland, and I. Stajner |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Room 224AB
Joint Session 14 Improvements to Numerical Weather Prediction and Short-Term Forecasting (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, the 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R) |
Cochairs: Nancy L. Baker, NRL, Monterey, CA; Lars Peter Riishojgaard, JCSDA, Greenbelt, MD
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| 10:30 AM | J14.1 | Data assimilation experiments using quality controlled AIRS Version 5 temperature soundings
Joel Susskind, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD ; and O. Reale |
| 10:45 AM | J14.2 | Winter QPF Sensitivities to Snow Parameterizations and Comparisons to NASA CloudSat Observations
Andrew L. Molthan, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. M. Haynes, G. J. Jedlovec, and W. M. Lapenta |
| 11:00 AM | J14.3 | The importance of numerical weather prediction and data assimilation systems in the calibration and validation of current and future satellite sensor measurements sensitive to atmospheric temperature and humidity
Nancy L. Baker, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. D. Swadley, G. Poe, B. Ruston, and W. Bell |
| 11:15 AM | J14.4 | The benefits of increased use of the information content of hyperspectral observations in numerical weather prediction
John F. Le Marshall, Bureau of Meteorology, Docklands, Vic., Australia; and J. Jung |
| 11:30 AM | J14.5 | Use of satellite derived cloud products in a generalized cloud analysis package utilized within two regional assimilation systems, the Rapid Update Cycle and the Rapid Refresh
Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, S. G. Benjamin, P. Minnis, W. L. Smith, and D. Devenyi |
| 11:45 AM | J14.6 | Impact of satellite radiance data in the Rapid Refresh system and problems of regional satellite radiance assimilation
Dezso Devenyi, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, S. S. Weygandt, and S. G. Benjamin |
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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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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 224AB
Joint Panel Discussion 1 Meeting Future Urban Weather and Climate
Information Needs from Space - Panel Discussion (Joint between the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography) |
Cochairs: Gary McWilliams, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD; Michael L. Jamilkowski, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Silver Spring, MD; Rick Ohlemacher, Northrup Grumman, Arlington, VA; James J. Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD; Philip E. Ardanuy, Raytheon Information Solutions, Reston, VA; Wayne Feltz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Madison, WI
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| 12:00 PM | PD1.1 | Joint Panel Discussion
Gary McWilliams, NPOESS Intergrated Program Office/Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD |
| 12:15 PM | PD1.2 | Jedlovec Presentation for Luncheon
Gary J. Jedlovec, NASA/MSFC XD11, Huntsville, AL |
| 12:30 PM | PD1.3 | Shepherd Presentation for Luncheon
J. Marshall Shepherd, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |
| 12:45 PM | PD1.4 | Berchoff Presentation for Luncheon
Don Berchoff, United States Air Force, Arlington, VA |
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Joint Session 15 Advances in Natural Hazards Monitoring (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R) |
Cochairs: Wayne F. Feltz, CIMSS/University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Brian Hughes, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
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| 1:30 PM | J15.1 | New automated methods for detecting volcanic ash and retrieving its properties from infrared radiances
Michael J. Pavolonis, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and J. Sieglaff |
| 1:45 PM | J15.2 | Toward an end-to-end satellite-based convection nowcasting system
Kristopher M. Bedka, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. F. Feltz, J. Sieglaff, R. Rabin, M. J. Pavolonis, and J. C. Brunner |
| 2:00 PM | J15.3 | Early prediction of malaria in forest hills of Bangladesh using AVHRR based satellite data
Mohammad Nizamuddin, NOAA / CREST, New York, NY; and A. Rahman, L. Roytman, F. Kogan, and A. Powell |
| 2:15 PM | J15.4 | Geostationary detection of fires and the global and long-term datasets of the WF_ABBA
Christopher C. Schmidt, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. M. Prins, J. C. Brunner, J. P. Hoffman, S. S. Lindstrom, and J. M. Feltz |
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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
Joint Poster Session 5 Climate (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R) |
Cochairs: Mitchell D. Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA
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| | JP5.1 | A radar enhanced passive microwave rainfall algorithm (GPROF2008)
Christian D. Kummerow, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. Finn, J. Crook, and D. Randel |
| | JP5.2 | Exploration of Meteorology and Oceanography Data for Climate Monitoring and Studies through Giovanni
Suhung Shen, George Mason Univ., NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. G. Leptoukh, H. Rui, J. Pan, S. Berrick, and S. J. Kempler |
| | JP5.3 | Monitoring of IR Clear-sky Radiances over Oceans for SST (MICROS): Near-Real Time, Web-Based Tool for Monitoring CRTM—AVHRR Biases for Improved Cloud Mask and SST Retrievals
XingMing Liang, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Ignatov, Y. Kihai, and F. Xu |
| | JP5.4 | Validation of improved broadband shortwave and longwave fluxes derived from GOES
Mandana Khaiyer, SSAI, Hampton, VA ; and P. Minnis, D. R. Doelling, M. L. Nordeen, R. Palikonda, and Y. Yi |
| | JP5.5 | Seven year analysis of global aerosol radiative forcing over land using satellite measurements
Falguni Patadia, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. Christopher |
| | JP5.6 | Evaluating global annual atmospheric energy balance using satellite products
Bing Lin, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse, Y. X. Hu, P. Minnis, B. A. Wielicki, W. Sun, A. Fan, and L. M. Hinkelman |
| | JP5.7 | Possible solar influences observed in GOES and MODIS total precipitable water product data
Daniel Birkenheuer, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and S. Gutman, S. Sahm, and K. Holub |
| | JP5.8 | Intercalibration of the world's geostationary imagers with high spectral resolution data
Mathew M. Gunshor, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit, D. C. Tobin, and P. Menzel |
| | JP5.9 | Recent improvements in the HIRS outgoing longwave radiation climate data record
Hai-Tien Lee, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. Gruber |
| | JP5.10 | NOAA 9 wide-field-of-view radiometer data record
G. Louis Smith, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA; and T. Wong and R. B. Lee |
| | JP5.12 | An SSM/I—SSMI/S Application for Climate Research: the Extension of Hydrological Products Climate Records
Daniel A. Vila, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD; and R. R. Ferraro, J. F. Turk, and F. Weng |
| | JP5.11 | Eight Years of AMSU Derived Climate Products
Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and H. Meng and D. A. Vila |
| | JP5.13 | NetCDF SSM/I data publicly available: an improved and extended period of record
Hilawe Semunegus, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. J. Bates |
| | JP5.14 | The NVAP global water vapor climate data record: science results and plans for improvement and continuation
T. H. Vonder Haar, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. M. Forsythe |
| | JP5.15 | Characterization of a regional wind using SSM/I and QuikSCAT data
Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and K. Hilburn and F. J. Wentz |
| | JP5.16 | Area rain flagging: What is it and why is it necessary when using satellite microwave data?
Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and K. Hilburn and F. Wentz |
| | JP5.17 | Regional satellite climatologies for Central America from GOES
Bernadette H. Connell, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and L. G. Guirola |
| | JP5.18 | Statistical Structure of the Global Ocean Surface Current Speeds from Satellite Altimetry
Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA |
| | JP5.19 | PAPER WITHDRAWN
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| | JP5.20 | New Results from FLASHFlux: A Case Study of the Observed Radiative Anomalies In the Arctic for 2007 and 2008 Summer Seasons
Paul W. Stackhouse Jr., NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and S. Kato, D. P. Kratz, S. K. Gupta, A. C. Edwards, and A. C. Wilber |
| | JP5.24 | Quality assurance of GOES-R climate data
Robert H. Woodward, NOAA, Greenbelt, MD |
| | JP5.21 | The Response of Arctic Clouds to Surface Changes
Yinghui Liu, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Key, X. Wang, B. Maddux, and S. Ackerman |
| | JP5.22 | Long term spatial and temporal variation of vegetation associated with desertification over East Asia and its relation to climate variables
Hye-Sook Park, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Sohn |
| | JP5.23 | Cloud regime determined by reflectivities of Cloud Profiling Radar
Yong-Keun Lee, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Greenwald and H. L. Huang |
| | JP5.25 | A New El Nino Atmospheric Perspective via GPS Radio Occultation
Ana L. Kursinski, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and M. Evans, C. O. Ao, and E. R. Kursinski |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5
Joint Poster Session 6 Improvements to NWP and Short-term Forecasting (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R) |
Cochairs: Nancy Baker, NRL, Monterey, CA; Lars Peter Riishojgaard, JCSDA, Greenbelt, MD
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| | JP6.1 | Observation-based, Probabilistic Cloud Forecasting
Timothy J. Hall, The Aerospace Corporation, Chantilly, VA ; and C. N. Mutchler, G. J. Bloy, S. K. Gaffney, and J. J. Lareau |
| | JP6.2 | PAPER WITHDRAWN
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| | JP6.3 | Using satellite and in situ data to evaluate snow albedo schemes in weather and climate models
Zhuo Wang, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ ; and X. Zeng |
| | JP6.4 | Nowcasting Algorithms: A Ground Validation Approach using SEVIRI Data
Daniel A. Vila, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD; and R. J. Kuligowski |
| | JP6.5 | Microphysics schemes based on DSD-parameter constraints and their impact on convective storm forecasts
Charlotte E. Wainwright, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue, G. Zhang, and D. T. Dawson |
| | JP6.6 | Applications of FY-3A Sounding Data in NOAA Weather and Climate Research
Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and N. Lu and P. Zhang |
| | JP6.7 | Microwave Radiative Transfer at the Sub-Field-of-View
Thomas J. Kleespies, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD |
| | JP6.8 | Hourly Analyses with NAVDAS 3DVAR System for COAMPS-OS
Keith D. Sashegyi, NRL, Monterey, CA; and P. M. Pauley, M. D. Frost, and D. A. Geiszler |
| | JP6.9 | Recent developments in the Canadian Operational Network of Coupled Environmental PredicTion Systems (CONCEPTS)
Harold Ritchie, Environment Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and F. Davidson, G. M. Flato, Y. Lu, P. Pellerin, W. Renaud, M. Taillefer, K. Thompson, B. Topliss, and D. Wright |
| | JP6.10 | Upper-air forecast improvement utilizing radiance bias correction algorithms that account for forecast model bias
Young-Joon Kim, NRL, Monterey, CA; and W. F. Campbell and S. D. Swadley |
| | JP6.11 | Data assimilation and regional forecasts using Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) profiles
Shih-Hung Chou, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and B. Zavodsky and G. J. Jedlovec |
| | JP6.12 | Microburst windspeed potential assessment: progress and developments
Kenneth L. Pryor, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD |
| | JP6.13 | Using satellite observations to validate a large-scale high-resolution WRF model simulation
Jason Otkin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Sieglaff, T. Greenwald, and Y. K. Lee |
| | JP6.14 | Calibrating probabilistic multimodel ensemble pentad and weekly precipitation forecasts: a comparison of techniques
Dan C. Collins, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and T. M. Hopson and D. A. Unger |
| | | JP6.17 has been moved to Poster Session II in IIPS
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| | JP6.15 | An operational mesoscale ensemble data assimilation and prediction system: E-RTFDDA
Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Roux, M. Xu, T. Hopson, J. Hacker, J. Knievel, T. Warner, and S. Swerdlin |
| | JP6.16 | Global capability for AFWA's Diagnostic Cloud Forecast system
John M. Henderson, AER, Lexington, MA; and T. Nehrkorn, J. B. Eylander, and C. Carlson |
| | JP6.19 | A robust neural network ensemble approach for snowfall detection using AMSU data
Yajaira Mejia, NOAA/CREST at City College of New York, New York, NY; and H. Ghedira and D. R. Khanbilvardi |
| | JP6.18 | A technique for creating composite sea surface temperatures from NASA's MODIS instruments in order to improve numerical weather prediction
Daran L. Rife, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. N. Hahmann and J. C. Knievel |
| | JP6.20 | Impact of atmospheric infrared sounder (AIRS) and QuickSCAT satellite data on numerical simulations of tropical cyclone intensity changes
Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and L. Zhang |
| | JP6.21 | Sensitivity of short-term weather forecasts to assimilated AIRS data: Implications for NPOESS applications
Bradley T. Zavodsky, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. McCarty, S. H. Chou, and G. J. Jedlovec |
| | JP6.22 | An observing system simulation experiment to evaluate CrIS / ATMS observations in modeling a mesoscale weather event
Christopher M. Hill, Mississippi State Univ., Stennis Space Center, MS; and P. J. Fitzpatrick, X. Fan, V. Anantharaj, M. Masutani, L. P. Riishojgaard, and Y. Li |
| | JP6.23 | Assimilation of simulated GOES-R imager data in a generalized cloud analysis package within the hourly updated Rapid Refresh
Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, M. Hu, and D. Devenyi |
| | JP6.24 | Atmospheric Sounding Under Cloudy Atmospheric Conditions
Xu Liu, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and D. Zhou, A. Larar, W. L. Smith, P. Schluessel, S. A. Mango, and K. St. Germain |
| | JP6.26 | Evaluation of prediction with GOES radiance data assimilation in the WRF-ARW model over East Asia
Jianjun Xu, JCSDA/UCAR/AFWA, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Rugg |
| | JP6.25 | Improvements and plans for global and regional numerical weather prediction
Stephen J. Lord, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. C. Derber, J. Ward, and G. DiMego |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5
Joint Poster Session 7 Natural Hazards (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R) |
Cochairs: Wayne F. Feltz, CIMSS/University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Brian Hughes, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
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| | JP7.1 | Atmospheric instability and airmass parameters derived from MSG data using temperature and humidity information from IASI on Metop-A
Marianne Koenig, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, , Germany; and K. D. Klaes |
| | JP7.2 | Ongoing enhancements to satellite nowcasting of 0-1 hour convective initiation
John R. Mecikalski, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. M. MacKenzie, J. R. Walker, and C. Siewert |
| | JP7.3 | A new product to help forecast convective initiation in the 1-6 hour timeframe
John R. Walker, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski and W. M. MacKenzie |
| | JP7.4 | Optimizing the impact of GOES sounder products in very—short—range forecasts—recent results and future plans
Ralph A. Petersen, CIMSS/University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. M. Aune |
| | JP7.5 | Development of objective overshooting top and anvil temperature couplet detection algorithms for GOES-R ABI
Kristopher M. Bedka, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. C. Brunner and W. F. Feltz |
| | JP7.6 | Cloud model based interpretation of satellite observed IR features of enhanced-V and cold ring on top of severe thunderstorms
Pao K. Wang, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. Setvak, R. Rabin, and A. S. Bachmeier |
| | JP7.7 | Using geostationary imagers for convective and lightning initiation nowcasting
Justin Sieglaff, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and K. M. Bedka, W. F. Feltz, and M. J. Pavolonis |
| | JP7.8 | An Evaluation of a Convection Diagnosis Algorithm over the Gulf of Mexico Using NASA TRMM Observations
Michael Donovan, MIT, Lexington, MA; and E. R. Williams, C. Kessinger, N. Rehak, H. Cai, D. L. Megenhardt, R. L. Bankert, and J. D. Hawkins |
| | JP7.9 | WF_ABBA Version 6.5: An overview of the improvements and trend analyses of fires from 1995 to present over the western Hemisphere
Jason C. Brunner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and C. C. Schmidt, E. M. Prins, J. M. Feltz, J. P. Hoffman, and S. S. Lindstrom |
| | JP7.10 | Recent WF_ABBA fire detection and characterization algorithm validation efforts at CIMSS
Jay P. Hoffman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and C. C. Schmidt, E. M. Prins, S. S. Lindstrom, and J. C. Brunner |
| | JP7.11 | The Tropical Cyclone Structure (TCS-08) near real-time and science studies satellite product suite
Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA; and F. J. Turk, K. Richardson, R. Bankert, C. Mitrescu, C. Velden, D. C. Herndon, A. Wimmers, T. L. Olander, S. D. Miller, and J. E. Kent |
| | JP7.13 | Tropical cyclone applications of NPOESS and GOES-R
Mark DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO |
| | JP7.12 | Propagating patterns in 6.7 µm imagery in re-intensifying tropical-to extratropical cyclone transitions
John A. Knaff, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO |
| | JP7.14 | Unusual droughts around the globe in the new millennium detected and monitored from NOAA operational satellites
Felix Kogan, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD |
| | JP7.15 | The NOAA/NESDIS OMI volcanic SO2 cloud and Aerosol Index online, near-real-time distribution system
Gilberto A. Vicente, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD; and G. Serafino, A. Krueger, S. Carn, K. Yang, N. Krotkov, M. Guffanti, and P. Levell |
| | JP7.16 | Development and application of an automated atmospheric river detection procedure using passive microwave satellite data
Gary A. Wick, NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO |
| | JP7.17 | Nowcasting aircraft turbulence from tropopause folds operationally for GOES-R
Anthony Wimmers, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. Feltz |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5
Joint Poster Session 8 Operational Products and Transition from Research to Operations (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R) |
Cochairs: Christopher Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Jeffrey Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA
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| | JP8.1 | Web-based global quality control and monitoring of NESDIS AVHRR SST products for long term stability and cross-platform consistency in near real-time
Prasanjit Dash, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Ignatov, Y. Kihai, J. Sapper, and X. Liang |
| | JP8.2 | Assessment of objective satellite-based techniques as viable alternatives to subjective dvorak
Alan Schwartz, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Spampata, G. M. Gallina, and M. A. Turk |
| | JP8.3 | Estimating hurricane strength using multiple integrated satellite data sources
Christopher S. Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. C. Herndon, T. L. Olander, and A. Wimmers |
| | JP8.5 | Operational multi-satellite sea surface temperature analysis
Eileen Maturi, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Harris and J. Sapper |
| | | JP8.4 has been moved. New paper number J2.3A
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| | JP8.6 | Combined MODIS / AMSR-E composite SST data for regional weather applications
Gary J. Jedlovec, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and J. Vazquez, E. Armstrong, and S. L. Haines |
| | JP8.7 | GOES winter precipitation efficiency algorithm
Robert Rabin, NOAA / NSSL & Univ of Wisconsin / CIMSS, Madison, WI; and D. A. Sheffler and J. W. Hanna |
| | JP8.8 | Application of MODIS Data to Land Surface Modeling Systems as part of an Agricultural Decision Support System
William Myers, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Linden and F. Chen |
| | JP8.9 | NOAA-generated operational products available from the MetOp satellite
Stacy L. Bunin, Noblis, Falls Church, VA; and T. Schott |
| | JP8.11 | Cluster satellite processing at the Naval Research Laboratory
Kim Richardson, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. Manzano, F. J. Turk, S. D. Miller, J. D. Hawkins, and C. Mitrescu |
| | JP8.10 | Examining MODIS-derived aerosol optical thickness over the land vs ocean using AERONET measurements over East Asia
Hyunsung Jang, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Sohn |
| | JP8.12 | Increasing the land coverage of blended multisensor total precipitable water products for weather analysis
John Forsythe, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. Kidder, S. Kusselson, A. S. Jones, and T. H. Vonder Haar |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 224AB
Joint Session 16 Operational Products and the Transition from Research to Operations (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R) |
Cochairs: Christopher S. Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA
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| 4:00 PM | J16.1 | Preliminary Assessment of ASCAT Ocean Surface Vector Wind (OSVW) Retrievals at NOAA Ocean Prediction Center
Khalil. A. Ahmad, NOAA/NESDIS/StAR - Perot Systems Government Services, Camp Springs, MD; and J. M. Sienkiewicz, Z. Jelenak, and P. S. Chang |
| 4:15 PM | J16.2 | ATOVS Derived Soundings Using Noaa PROduct Validation System (NPROVS) Datasets for Computing First Guess and Sensor Bias Adjustments Independent of NWP
Anthony L. Reale, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and F. Tilley and S. A. Boukabara |
| 4:30 PM | J16.3A | Validation of the Ensemble Tropical Rainfall Potential (e-TRaP) for land-falling tropical cyclones
Elizabeth E. Ebert, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and A. E. Salemi, M. Turk, M. Spampata, and S. J. Kusselson |
| | J16.3 | Integrating non-baseline satellite datasets into operations
Doris A. Hood, NWS Spaceflight Meteorology Group, Houston, TX; and T. Oram and B. Hoeth |
| 4:45 PM | J16.4 | Monitoring the Saharan Air Layer with satellite-derived AOD algorithms
Arunas P. Kuciauskas, NRL, Monterey, CA; and K. Richardson and C. Hsu |
| 5:00 PM | J16.5 | Transitioning Satellite Products to National Weather Service Operations, and Future Directions for the GOES-R Era
Jordan Gerth, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. S. Bachmeier |
| 5:15 PM | | Closing Remarks
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| 5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday
Sessions Adjourn for the Day |
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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 127C
Joint Session 17 Remote Sensing Applications of GEOSS to the Hydrologic Cycle—I (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Hydrology and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography) |
Cochairs: Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 8:30 AM | J17.1 | (Invited Speaker) Contributions of TRMM and GPM to GEOSS
Arthur Y. Hou, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |
| 8:45 AM | J17.2 | Reducing bias in the real-time TMPA
George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, D. T. Bolvin, and E. J. Nelkin |
| 9:00 AM | J17.3 | Inter-comparing high resolution satellite precipitation estimates at different scales
Phillip A. Arkin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. R. P. Sapiano |
| 9:15 AM | J17.4 | CHOMPS: A new high resolution satellite derived precipitation data set for climate studies
Renu Joseph, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and T. Smith, M. R. P. Sapiano, and R. R. Ferraro |
| 9:30 AM | J17.5 | Uncertainties in oceanic rainfall retrievals from passive microwave observations
Thomas T. Wilheit, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX |
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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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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Hall 5
Joint Poster Session 9 Remote Sensing Applications of GEOSS to the Hydrologic Cycle (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology) |
Cochairs: Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| | JP9.1 | Improvement of Cold Season Land Precipitation Retrievals through the use of Field Campaign Data and High Frequency Microwave Radiative Transfer Model
Nai-Yu Wang, The Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies, College Park, MD; and R. R. Ferraro and K. Gopolan |
| | JP9.2 | Snowfall estimation from multi-spectral satellite-based information
Cecilia Hernandez, NOAA/CREST, New York, NY; and S. Mahani and R. Khanbilvardi |
| | JP9.3 | Potential reduction of uncertainty in passive microwave precipitation retrieval by the inclusion of dynamic and thermodynamic constraints as part of the cloud dynamics and radiation database approach
W. Y. Leung, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. V. Mehta, A. Mugnai, E. A. Smith, and G. J. Tripoli |
| | JP9.4 | The South American Land Data Assimilation System (SALDAS): the rainfall retrieval methodology
Daniel A. Vila, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD; and L. G. G. D. Goncalves |
| | JP9.5 | Tropical Rainfall-Surface Temperature Relations and 10-year Composite Rainfall Climatology from TRMM
Jian-Jian Wang, NASA/GSFC and GEST/Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Adler, G. Gu, and G. J. Huffman |
| | JP9.6 | How TRMM Precipitation Radar and Microwave Imager retrieved rain rates differ
Eun-Kyoung Seo, Kongju National University, Kongju, Chung Nam, South Korea; and G. Liu |
| | JP9.7 | Combined Radar-Radiometer Analysis of Global Rain and Cloud Microphysics
Stephen Joseph Munchak, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. Kummerow |
| | JP9.8 | Typhoon rainfall estimation by Bayesian approach from TMI observations over oceans around Taiwan
Wann-Jin Chen, Chung Cheng Institute of Technology / National Defense Univ., Tahsi, Taoyuan, Taiwan; and J. C. Hu, J. Y. C. Chiu, Y. C. Lin, and G. R. Liu |
| | JP9.9 | Evaluation of GPM-era satellite precipitation estimates for potential hydrological applications
F. J. Turk, NRL, Monterey, CA; and V. Anantharaj, G. Mostovoy, P. R. Houser, Q. Lu, and Y. Ling |
| | JP9.10 | Estimates of Terrestrial Freshwater Discharge Using Satellite Data
Alice Fan, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and B. Lin |
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| 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open |
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| 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, Room 127C
Joint Session 18 Remote Sensing Applications of GEOSS to the Hydrologic Cycle—II (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Hydrology and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography) |
Cochairs: Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD
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| 11:00 AM | J18.1 | Vertical profiling of cloud structure and light precipitation using CloudSat's 94 GHz radar data
Cristian Mitrescu, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. M. Haynes, T. Ellis, T. S. L'Ecuyer, S. D. Miller, and J. F. Turk |
| 11:15 AM | J18.2 | WindSat Land Surface Products as a Tool for the Analysis of 2003 European Heat Wave
Li Li, NRL, Washington, DC; and P. W. Gaiser |
| 11:30 AM | J18.3 | Closing the Water Cycle over the Ocean using a Constellation of Satellites
Kyle Hilburn, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and F. J. Wentz |
| | J18.4 | Application of a linearized land-atmosphere model to remote-sensing and hydrometeorology
Pierre Gentine, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and E. Schertzer, J. Polcher, and D. Entekhabi |
| 11:45 AM | J18.5 | NOAA Observation Requirement Assessment for Hydrologic Variables
Chandra Kondragunta, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and P. M. Taylor, E. Miller, M. Yapur, L. O'Connor, R. Mairs, and R. C. Reining |
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| 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, Room 126BC
Session 2 Climate Monitoring and Studies—II |
Cochairs: Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; Mitchell D. Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD
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| 11:00 AM | 2.1 | Climate calibration of the ISCCP visible imagers
Laura M. Hinkelman, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. Bishop, D. R. Doelling, S. Kato, J. C. Mikovitz, W. B. Rossow, P. W. Stackhouse, T. C. Stone, and B. A. Wielicki |
| 11:15 AM | 2.2 | Recalibrating Historical HIRS Visible Channel Measurements towards Creating Fundamental Climate Data Records
Likun Wang, Perot System Government Service, Camp Spring, MD ; and C. Cao |
| 11:30 AM | 2.3 | Version 3.2 of the Remote Sensing Systems MSU/AMSU datasets; construction and comparison with radiosondes
Carl A. Mears, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and F. Wentz |
| 11:45 AM | 2.4 | Reprocessing long-term satellite data for climate monitoring and reanalyses
cheng-Zhi Zou, ORA, Camp Springs, MD |
| 12:00 PM | 2.5 | The Development of an Improved Satellite Rainfall Dataset for Climate Applications
Wesley Berg, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. D. Kummerow |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall) |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, Room 121BC
Joint Session 19 Use of Virtual and Digital Globes for Visualizing Satellite Data and “Mashups" (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology) |
Cochairs: Gerald J. Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; Joseph F. Turk, NRL, Monterey, CA
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| 1:30 PM | | 4D Interactive Data Discovery and Analysis for Earth
Michael C. Lampel, Raytheon Company, Pasadena, CA; and K. Yau and P. P. Li |
| 1:45 PM | J19.2 | An improved dynamic global cloud layer for virtual globes
F. J. Turk, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. D. Miller and C. Castello |
| | J19.1 | The use of virtual globes to visualize non-imagery meteorological satellite data
Thomas J. Kleespies, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD |
| 2:00 PM | J19.3 | Development of a consumer oriented meteorological display system using web mapping services
Yaniv A. Zimet, Weather Underground, Inc., San Francisco, CA; and J. J. Celenza, T. Roche, M. T. Kallio, M. Beaver, and R. W. Carver |
| 2:15 PM | J19.4 | Innovative Strategies for NASA Satellite Data Visualization using Google Earth
Michael J. Garay, Raytheon Corporation, Pasadena, CA; and J. Burke |
| 2:30 PM | J19.5 | Design of web-based GIS tools to support routine quality monitoring of remote sensed products from next generation LEO and GEO missions
T. Scott Zaccheo, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA; and M. Sze, E. J. Kennelly, and D. B. Hogan |
| 2:45 PM | J19.6 | A tool for rapid assessment of renewable energy potential
Christian P. Sarason, 3TIER, Seattle, WA; and B. Nijssen |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday, Hall 4
Coffee Break and Exhibit Hall Raffle |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Room 126BC
Session 3 Special Session on Latest Developments in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing |
Chair: William L. Smith, Sr., Hampton University, Hampton, VA
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| 3:30 PM | 3.1 | Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (GIFTS): An advanced sounder offering two orders of magnitude improvement
Hank Revercomb, Univ. of Wisconsin/SSEC, Madison, WI; and B. Smith, G. A. Bingham, and C. Velden |
| 4:00 PM | 3.2 | Inferring convective weather characteristics with geostationary high spectral resolution IR window measurements: A look into the future
Justin Sieglaff, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit, P. Menzel, and S. Ackerman |
| 4:15 PM | 3.3 | Comparisons between GOES and LEO hyperspectral IR soundings over CONUS
Jun Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. Weisz, T. J. Schmit, J. P. Nelson, J. Li, and Z. Li |
| 4:30 PM | 3.4 | Five-year climatology of dry air intrusions as viewed by AIRS/Aqua
Sean P. F. Casey, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and A. E. Dessler and C. Schumacher |
| 4:45 PM | 3.5 | First results on IASI assimilation in the global Canadian forecast system
Sylvain Heilliette, EC, Dorval, QC , Canada; and L. Garand |
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| 5:15 PM-5:20 PM, Thursday
AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns |
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