Program: Sixth Symposium on Space Weather (89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting )

Sixth Symposium on Space Weather

Program Chairs: Robert McCoy , Office of Naval Research ; Genene Fisher , AMS

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Saturday, 10 January 2009

7:30 AM-10:00 AM: Saturday, 10 January 2009

Student Conference Badge Pick-up Only

Sunday, 11 January 2009

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 11 January 2009

Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 11 January 2009

Annual Meeting Registration Begins

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 11 January 2009

Weatherfest

Location: Northballroom A (Phoenix Convention Center)

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 11 January 2009

First-Time Attendee Briefing

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 11 January 2009

Annual Meeting Review and Fellows Awards

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Sunday, 11 January 2009

Fellows Reception

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Monday, 12 January 2009

7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009

Registration Open

8:30 AM-10:15 AM: Monday, 12 January 2009

Presidential Forum

Location: Ballroom ABC (Phoenix Convention Center)

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Monday, 12 January 2009

Coffee Break Reception - Sponsored by Ball Aerospace

Location: Room 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

Location: Phoenix Convention Center

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009

Space Weather Agency Updates

Location: Room 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Space Weather

Cochairs: Robert McCoy, Office of Naval Research; Genene Fisher, AMS

Papers:

10:45 AM

1.1

Status of NOAA's Space Weather Program

Dr. Jack Hayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

1.2

Air Force weather-presentation

Fred Lewis, AWS, Washington, DC

11:15 AM

1.3

NSF and new opportunities in space weather

Timothy L. Killeen, NSF, Arlington, VA; and R. Behnke

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

1.4

New Viewpoints and Vantages from recent NASA Missions

Richard Fisher, NASA / ESS, Washington, DC

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

1.5

The National Space Weather Program

Samuel P. Williamson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD; and M. R. Babcock

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (30.7 kB)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009

Economic and social impacts of space weather

Location: Room 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Space Weather

Chair: William J. Murtagh, NOAA/NWS/Space Weather Prediction

Papers:

1:30 PM

2.1

The economic and societal impacts of space weather

D. N. Baker, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

Moving towards space weather management

W. Kent Tobiska, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

2.3

Geomagnetically Induced Currents and Inadvertent Electricity Flows: The Case of the PJM Power Grid

Kevin F. Forbes, Catholic Univ., Washington, DC; and C. St Cyr

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

2.4

The development of space weather displays for the Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS) website

Thomas Nelson Hillyer, Christopher Newport University, Hampton, VA; and A. Dumont, G. Thompson, C. J. Mertens, J. A. Haynes, and J. J. Murray

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009

Coupling between the lower and upper atmosphere

Location: Room 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Space Weather

Chair: Geoff Crowley, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates

Papers:

4:00 PM

3.1

Investigating Energy and Momentum Coupling in Earth's Atmosphere and Ionosphere with the Neutral-Ion Coupling Explorer: NICE

Thomas J. Immel, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and S. B. Mende, H. U. Frey, R. A. Heelis, G. R. Swenson, G. Crowley, S. L. England, J. M. Forbes, J. D. Huba, F. Kamalabadi, P. M. Kintner Jr., J. J. Makela, and A. Stephan

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

3.2

Effect of waves from the lower atmosphere on the thermosphere and ionosphere

Robert W. Schunk, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and L. C. Gardner, L. Scherliess, D. C. Thompson, and J. J. Sojka

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

3.3

Coupling of meteorological disturbances up to the mesosphere and lower thermosphere

D. E. Siskind, NRL, Washington, DC; and S. Eckermann, L. Coy, and J. P. McCormack

4:45 PM

3.4

Observations and model simulations of the thermospheric density daily variations

Wenbin Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO ; and J. Lei, A. Burns, H. Liu, Q. Wu, S. Solomon, T. Killeen, and I. Azeem

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

3.5

Thermosphere and Ionosphere Variability due to Quasi-Two-Day Wave

Han-Li Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Wang and A. D. Richmond

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

3.6

Coupling between the lower and upper atmosphere as simulated by the Whole Atmosphere Model (WAM)

Rashid A. Akmaev, NOAA / SWPC, Boulder, CO; and T. J. Fuller-Rowell, F. Wu, H. Wang, H. M. H. Juang, S. Moorthi, Y. T. Hou, and M. D. Iredell

Recorded presentation

5:25 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009

Sessions Adjourn for the Day

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009

Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception

Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Tuesday, 13 January 2009

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009

New developments with physics-based forecast models

Location: Room 126B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Space Weather

Chair: Richard Behnke, NSF

Papers:

8:30 AM

4.1

Demonstrating the space weather nowcasting and forecasting capabilities of the phenomena-based environmental effects predictor (PBEEP)

James M. Griffin, AER, Lexington, MA; and R. Aschbrenner, T. Connor, W. Gallery, and H. E. Snell

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

4.2

Development of a physics-based coupled Whole Atmosphere and Ionosphere Plasmasphere Model (WAM-GIP) for ionospheric forecasting

Timothy J. Fuller-Rowell, NOAA / SEC and CIRES / Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. A. Akmaev, F. Wu, N. Maruyama, H. Wang, M. V. Codrescu, M. Iredell, and G. Millward

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

4.3

A TIME-GCM CAM Multi-executable Coupled Model Using ESMF And InterComm

Robert Oehmke, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Wiltberger, A. Sussman, W. Wang, and N. Lo

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

4.4

A Statistical Comparison of Vertical TEC from Three Ionospheric Models

McArthur Jones Jr., University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. Cordescu and J. Gannon

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (513.0 kB)

9:30 AM

4.5

Simulating Zonal and Meridional Winds on Mars' using Mars-GRAM and Accelerometer Data from the MRO Mission

Kimberly A. Zoldak, California Univ., California, PA

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Monday's program)

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Community Modeling and Data Assimilation

Location: Room 126B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Space Weather

Chair: Timothy J. Fuller-Rowell, NOAA / SEC and CIRES / Univ. of Colorado

Papers:

11:00 AM

5.1

Lessons learned for a community space weather modeling program - The CISM experience

W. Jeffrey Hughes, Boston University, Boston, MA; and J. Quinn

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

5.2

Community Modeling Program for Space Weather: A CCMC Perspective

Michael Hesse, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

5.3

The Challenges of Validating Global Assimilative Models of the Ionosphere

L. F. McNamara, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA; and G. J. Bishop, D. D. Decker, C. R. Baker, and J. A. Welsh

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

5.4

Ionosphere Data Assimilation Models for Specifications and Forecasts

Robert W. Schunk, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and L. Scherliess, J. J. Sojka, D. C. Thompson, and L. Zhu

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Exhibits Open

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009

New data sources and products

Location: Room 126B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Space Weather

Chair: W. Kent Tobiska, Utah State Univ.

Papers:

1:30 PM

6.1

Solar flares and subsurface vorticity measurements

Rudolf Komm, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ ; and F. Hill, R. Howe, R. Ferguson, G. Barnes, and K. D. Leka

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

6.2

Continual Solar Observations for Space Weather from GONG, a Ground-Based Network

Frank Hill, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ ; and R. Komm, G. Petrie, J. W. Harvey, and I. Gonzalez Hernandez

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

6.3

Comparisons of space-based GPS occultation ionospheric scintillation measurements with ground-based VHF measurements

Frank H. Ruggiero, Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA; and K. M. Groves, M. J. Starks, and T. L. Beach

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (371.9 kB)

2:15 PM

6.4

Ionospheric TEC mapping from GPS orbit using VHF radio receivers

David Michael Suszcynsky, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and E. Lay, S. Close, and M. Pongratz

2:30 PM

6.5

Understanding Ionospheric Effects for the LWA

Christopher Watts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; and M. Kuniyoshi and K. Dymond

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.4 MB)

2:45 PM

6.6

Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD)

Richard W. Eastes, Florida Space Institute, Kennedy Space Center, FL; and W. E. McClintock, A. Aksnes, D. N. Anderson, L. Andersson, S. A. Budzien, A. G. Burns, M. V. Codrescu, R. E. Daniell, K. F. Dymond, S. L. England, F. G. Eparvier, J. E. Harvey, T. J. Immel, A. Krywonos, M. R. Lankton, J. D. Lumpe, A. D. Richmond, D. W. Rusch, O. H. Siegmund, S. C. Solomon, D. J. Strickland, and T. N. Woods

Recorded presentation

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009

General space weather contributions

Location: Room 126B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Space Weather

Chair: William J. Murtagh, NOAA/NWS/Space Weather Prediction

Papers:

4:00 PM

7.1

Impacts of Ionospheric Scintillation on GPS Positioning Accuracy

Charles S. Carrano, ISR, Chestnut Hill, MA; and C. T. Bridgwood and K. M. Groves

4:15 PM

7.2

Space weather impacts on satellites: the near-Earth radiation environment

Richard A. Quinn, AER, Lexington, MA

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

7.3

Identifications and Climatology of Convective Sources for Generating Gravity Waves in the Ascent Rate Profiles in US High � Resolution Radiosonde Data

Jie Gong, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. Geller

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

7.4

Physics-Based Modeling of Space Weather in the Ionosphere and Thermosphere

Geoff Crowley, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, San Antonio, TX

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

7.5

Space Weather Applications of IDA4D

Gary S. Bust, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, San Antonio, TX; and G. Crowley

Recorded presentation

5:25 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Sessions Adjourn for the Day

Wednesday, 14 January 2009

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)

Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009

AMS Annual Awards Banquet

Location: Northballroom (Phoenix Convention Center)

Thursday, 15 January 2009

5:15 PM-5:20 PM: Thursday, 15 January 2009

AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns

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