89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Poster Session 1: Lightning Prediction and Operational Applications

Monday, 12 January 2009: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chair:  Nicholas W. Demetriades, Vaisala, Inc.
Papers:
 
P1.3
Evaluation of the lightning watch and warning program for NASA's Johnson Space Center

 
Lightning prediction by WFO Grand Junction using model data and graphical forecast editor smart tools
P. Frisbie, NOAA/NWSFO, Grand Junction, CO; and J. D. Colton and M. P. Meyers

Poster PDF (142.0 kB)
 
Lightning forecasting before the first strike
James J. Stagliano Jr., Propagation Research Associates, Inc., Marietta, GA; and B. Valant-Spaight, J. C. Kerce, G. M. Hall, R. D. Bock, E. J. Holder, and S. F. Dugas

Poster PDF (751.1 kB)
 
Predicting lightning potential on different time scales—a conceptual model and first results
Wiebke Deierling, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Kessinger and E. Nelson

Poster PDF (283.1 kB)
 
Using the perfect prognosis technique for predicting cloud-to-ground lightning in mainland Alaska
Phillip D. Bothwell, NOAA/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and D. Buckey

Poster PDF (694.0 kB)
 
Climatology of cloud-to-ground lightning in mainland Alaska
David Buckey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Poster PDF (249.5 kB)
 
An Operational Perspective of Total Lightning Information
David J. Nadler, NOAA/NWS, Huntsville, AL; and C. B. Darden, G. T. Stano, and D. Buechler

http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/sport/

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)
 
A Statistical Framework for the Development and Evaluation of a Lightning Jump Algorithm
Lawrence D. Carey, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen and C. J. Schultz

 
Real-time Processing and Display of Lightning Mapping Array Data
Harald E. Edens, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and W. Rison, S. J. Hunyady, R. J. Thomas, P. R. Krehbiel, and W. P. Winn